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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For 22 years the ablest associate of the late Evangelist William Ashley (“Billy”) Sunday was Homer Alvan Rodeheaver, who played an old slide trombone which he bought for $4.50 while at Ohio Wesleyan ...

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 ...

The U.S. Army Band "Pershing's Own" hosted its annual Eastern Trombone Workshop March 16 through 19 in Brucker Hall on Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall. "The Army Band has run this festival for over 20 ...

Trombone Shorty’s new album, “Say That to Say This,” released in September has already made history. It brought together the members of the seminal New Orleans band, the Meters, to record for the ...