A: Only one. But he takes an hour deciding which position to use. Get it? If not, chances are you are not a trombone player. The brass instrument, ubiquitous in summer parade marching bands, attracts ...

I wish my friend Bill Swanson were alive to hear this. Bill loved the trombone, and would have greatly admired this picturesque performance by Slide Hampton’s World of Trombones in concert at the ...

When a young girl is choosing an instrument to be her primary musical focus, the slide trombone is far down the list of possibilities — ahead of the tuba but not much else. Having been down that path ...

Ask any lay listener to list the most influential jazz saxophonists of the 20th Century and you're likely to come up with a short list including Coltrane, Bird and a few others. But, ask an educated ...

Claim: A band musician received a fatal head injury from a trombone slide. say the tragedy occurred as the Gratzfeld College band was rehearsing the spirited American jazz classic, "When the Saints Go ...

I would have liked Claude Shannon even if he couldn't juggle, ride a unicycle and hadn't invented a slide trombone flamethrower. Shannon, born in Gaylord in 1916, is the subject of the book "A Mind at ...

Say “trombone” and what comes to mind? Kids in red-and-gold uniforms and plumed hats, high-stepping along with their 76 gleaming instruments in “The Music Man.” Or maybe the back row of players in a ...

He began playing professionally as a child, worked with some of jazz’s biggest names in the 1950s and was a leading figure in the music for the next 60 years. By Clay Risen Slide Hampton, a jazz ...

Dubbed Holiday Slides, the annual trombone concert features a couple of dozen tromboners (what would you call them?) playing Christmas classics to an audience just outside the main doors of the ...