My Choice of All-Time Favorite Jazz Trombonists ❤
I have a habit of sharing music with friends on social media and sometimes I receive real good playlist from them too. I do not limit myself by listening to only selected genres, but what I enjoy most is jazz music like big band, instrumental solo, jazz vocal, barbershop quartet, lo-fi, blues, electronic jazz, Afro-Cuban, and Brazilian jazz music.
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Alongside my studies in jazz trombone, I complied with my favorite jazz trombone music into a Spotify playlist which makes me feel inspired whenever I listen. Aside from giants like J.J. Johnson, Carl Fontana, Slide Hampton, Jiggs Whigham, Curtis Fuller, Frank Rosolino, and Urbie Green, I listen to contemporary trombonists in the Brazilian jazz trombone groups with an obsession with the limitless musical capabilities of this instrument.
1. Mark Nightingale
All-rounder English trombonist/composer/arranger. Nightingale is not only an internationally acclaimed jazz soloist, but also a UK's high demand studio musician, and a highly respected writer. He was leading a trombone quintet called Bonestructure and various sized groups from quartets and quintets to big band featuring his own compositions and arrangements. He holds a professor of trombone position at the Royal Academy of Music.
Urbieplicity - 21 trombones (New Trombone Collective & friends) with Mark Nightingale
Urbieplicity - 21 trombones (New Trombone Collective & friends) with Mark Nightingale
The bones from Brazil
2. Bill Watrous ❤
One of the all-time greatest American jazz trombonists. Well known for his mellifluous tone and lyrical style of trombone playing, with remarkable techniques and range on this instrument. Watrous attended some formal musical tuition and also learned trombone from his father, he was largely self-taught. In the 1970s he led a jazz-rock big band, Manhattan Wildlife Refuge, which released two albums on Columbia Records. Watrous passed away at 79, in the year 2018.
Bill Watrous and Carl Fontana trombone duet Baby it's Cold Outside 1984
Bill Watrous - No More Blues
3. Andy Hunter (WDR Big Band)
As a big fan of the trombone section from WDR Big Band which includes Marshall Gilkes and Mattis Cederberg, I also admire their individual musical style. Hunter was a regular member of the Mingus Big Band, Toshiko Akiyoshi Big Bands, and Cuban groups, he recording credits include albums with Snarky Puppy and WDR Big Band. Current highlight projects include Europe-based Latin Jazz Quintet Viento Terral, salsa band Marcando, NYC jazz quartet SPOKE, and many more. River Records was established in 2012 by trombonist and composer Andy Hunter to promote organic improvised music from the Jazz, Latin, and World music community.
Sofrito Andy Hunter Trombone Solo with Mambísimo Big Band
Andy Hunter - Trombone, with Richard Bona and WDR Big Band
4. Nils Landgren
Swedish R&B, funk, and jazz trombonist. Landgren studied classical trombone and started to improvise and develop his own sound and approach to music after meeting the Swedish folk-jazz pioneer Bengt-Arne Wallin and trombonist Eje Thelin. Landgren has worked in many genres including jazz, rock, soul, hip hop, and big band, which he has contributed to at least 500 albums by such international stars as ABBA, The Crusaders, Eddie Harris, Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, Wyclef Jean, and Herbie Hancock. In the early 1990s, he started Nils Landgren Funk Unit.
Nils Landgren & NDR Bigband - Silent Way
Nils Landgren Funk Unit - Funk for Life
5. Steve Turre
One of the world's preeminent jazz innovators, trombonist, and seashellist. Turre was born to Mexican-American parents and grew up in the San Francisco Bay area where he absorbed daily doses of mariachi, blues, and jazz. His career picked up momentum when Ray Charles hired him to go on tour. He worked with musicians from the jazz, Latin, and pop worlds, including Dizzy Gillespie, McCoy Tyner, J.J. Johnson, Herbie Hancock, Lester Bowie, Mongo Santamaria, and more. Steve Turre continually evolves as a musician and arranger. He has a strong command of all music genres and when it comes to his distinct brand of jazz, he always keeps one foot in the past and on in the future.
Steve Turre & Group - All Blues * - Chivas Jazz Festival 2001
Steve Turre Trombone Solo
More listening:
Mattis Cederberg, Marshall Gilkes, Michael Davis, Kai Winding, Nick Finzer, Tommy Dorsey, Trombone Shorty, Delfeayo Marsalis, Arthur Pryor, Raul de Souza, Wycliffe Gordon
Female trombonists: Rita Payes, Carol Jarvis, Gunhild Carling, Helen Jones Woods (International Sweethearts of Rhythm), Aubrey Logan, Melba Liston, Bones Apart Trombone Quartet
"Trombonists, they're special people. For the trombone is an instrument you have to work hard on and work on together. That's a special thing. Trombonists always look for a link, have an open mind, and provide as a collective a solid base in orchestras. The collective, that is the highest goal for trombonists and maybe that's also the difference with other instrumentalists...who are traditionally the soloists."
- New Trombone Collective
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