Recommended Jazz Trombonists
Jazz is a quintessentially aural art form, and listening to recordings is among the most important things you can do to really understand the style(s). I frequently get requests from students for recommended jazz trombonists. Here is my non-comprehensive, admittedly-biased list:
J.J. Johnson
Bill Watrous (especially ballads)
Conrad Herwig
Ray Anderson
Andy Martin
Steve Turré
Wycliff Gordon
Carl Fontana
Frank Rosolino
Urbie Green
Curtis Fuller
Bob Brookmeyer (valve)
Kid Ory (Dixieland)
Al Grey (plunger)
Slide Hampton
Heya, Dr. Kimball, it’s one of your old students, Stephen Grady! I didn’t end up going into music as a career but I am a HUGE jazz fan and have some recommendations myself.
Dicky Wells is a much lesser known trombone player but his playing has an amazing vocal, almost conversational, quality about it. Wonderful.
A really important and influential (but also lesser known) jazz trombonist is Lawrence Brown. He has a smooth style that bears some similarities to something like Tommy Dorsey. However, his was definitely jazz music and he is almost entirely known for his work with the Duke Ellington Orchestra.
One of my personal favorite players is Jack Teagarden. His solos in terms of notes played are somewhat simplistic. However, like Dicky Wells he has an interestingly vocal sound. His sound is unorthodox, almost nasal and his playing has an exhilarating freedom and effortless sound to it. It would be hard to hold Teagarden up to comparison to other players because his sound, he stage presence and his style are very distinctive. I certainly suggest giving him a listen.
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I recomended to my students the etudes number 13 from Rochut that you have on “you tube”.
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I recommend not a Jazz Trombonist exclusive:
Fred Wesley, trombonist and horn arregement for James Brown.
Nils Landgren.
Walt Fowler.
For Argentina trombone quartet: http://www.vientosurtrombones.com
Enjoy.