Hello everybody!
Which are your favourite ballad recordings played by trombonists?
Jazz Trombone Ballads
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alberttrombone
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TromboneFox
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Re: Jazz Trombone Ballads
Hey!
Some of my favorites:
Carl Fontana on Polka Dots & Moonbeams. He's awesome. Great things to transcribe here.
Bill Watrous on Body & Soul. A heavy classic.
Urbie Green on Old Folks (a real nice, original buttery piece)
Rick Culver from the Pat Metheny Big Band on Dream of the Return (kind of a rock-ish newer 90s feel straight-eighths ballad)
Bill Watrous might be my favorite on a ballad, but Carl is great, too. Urbie is also good, but the musical complexity sometimes isn't there. Frank is a phenomenal musician, but sometimes his quick runs and hard tongue can be off-putting in a ballad, just personal preference though.
Some of my favorites:
Carl Fontana on Polka Dots & Moonbeams. He's awesome. Great things to transcribe here.
Bill Watrous on Body & Soul. A heavy classic.
Urbie Green on Old Folks (a real nice, original buttery piece)
Rick Culver from the Pat Metheny Big Band on Dream of the Return (kind of a rock-ish newer 90s feel straight-eighths ballad)
Bill Watrous might be my favorite on a ballad, but Carl is great, too. Urbie is also good, but the musical complexity sometimes isn't there. Frank is a phenomenal musician, but sometimes his quick runs and hard tongue can be off-putting in a ballad, just personal preference though.
"You play pretty good for not taking in any air"
"Wow, it almost sounds like you like that piece"
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"Wow, it almost sounds like you like that piece"
"There are two kinds of music, the flowy kind and the digging-in kind. You're much better at the digging-in kind."
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Jnoxon
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Re: Jazz Trombone Ballads
Most anything with Dick Nash! Hatari Theme, I cover the WaterFront and many more!
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Pre59
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Re: Jazz Trombone Ballads
Charlie Small.
Pick something out of this lot. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... l+trombone
Pick something out of this lot. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... l+trombone
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Grah
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Re: Jazz Trombone Ballads
Any ballad played by Tommy Dorsey. In fact, his whole band was the best at playing ballads, with the best ballad vocalists. And Tommy had such a wonderful tone for ballads.
Grah
(Transcribing jazz solos is fraught with difficulties because exact rhythmic notation is well-nigh impossible. So listen carefully because it's the only way to learn how to play jazz trombone so that we can return to the Golden Age.)
(Transcribing jazz solos is fraught with difficulties because exact rhythmic notation is well-nigh impossible. So listen carefully because it's the only way to learn how to play jazz trombone so that we can return to the Golden Age.)
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jthomas105
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Re: Jazz Trombone Ballads
Lots of favorites including the ones already mentioned but Kai Winding is one of my big favorites for ballads.
Crazy She Calls Me
The Boy Next Door
That's Him
Lonely Town
Also, from the Woody Herman Band, Bob Burgess, Alone Again, Naturally
and Birch Johnson also with Woody, What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life, also on the Woody Herman Thundering Herd LP
Crazy She Calls Me
The Boy Next Door
That's Him
Lonely Town
Also, from the Woody Herman Band, Bob Burgess, Alone Again, Naturally
and Birch Johnson also with Woody, What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life, also on the Woody Herman Thundering Herd LP
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Bach5G
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Re: Jazz Trombone Ballads
A standby is A Time for Love from the Watrous book.
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Posaunus
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Re: Jazz Trombone Ballads
jthomas105 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 07, 2018 1:41 pm Lots of favorites including the ones already mentioned but Kai Winding is one of my big favorites for ballads.
Crazy She Calls Me
Since when did Kai Winding play left-handed? Couldn't the record company have used a non-mirror image photo for this album cover?
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Jimkinkella
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Re: Jazz Trombone Ballads
Urbie - At Last
Jimmy Knepper - Where Flamingos Fly
Jimmy Knepper - Where Flamingos Fly
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Grah
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Re: Jazz Trombone Ballads
I would like to submit another name, that of Jimmy Cleveland, for his skill in playing ballads. He was also one of the most technically skilled of the bop-based trombonists, whilst retaining the wonderful characteristics of old-style jazz trombone playing:
Grah
(Transcribing jazz solos is fraught with difficulties because exact rhythmic notation is well-nigh impossible. So listen carefully because it's the only way to learn how to play jazz trombone so that we can return to the Golden Age.)
(Transcribing jazz solos is fraught with difficulties because exact rhythmic notation is well-nigh impossible. So listen carefully because it's the only way to learn how to play jazz trombone so that we can return to the Golden Age.)
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Vegasbound
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Re: Jazz Trombone Ballads
As well as those already mentioned other great ballad players
Don Lusher too numerous to list but some of the best are on you tube
Buddy Morrow. Golden trombone a complete lp of ballads again on YouTube
Bart van Lier
Too name but three
Don Lusher too numerous to list but some of the best are on you tube
Buddy Morrow. Golden trombone a complete lp of ballads again on YouTube
Bart van Lier
Too name but three
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Vinbone
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Re: Jazz Trombone Ballads
Bill Watrous, one of the best, is smoother than butter. This recording is fantastic.
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DakoJack
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Re: Jazz Trombone Ballads
Curtis always gets me, hard to pick one but definitly one of my favorites.
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DakoJack
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Re: Jazz Trombone Ballads
Wasn't familiar with this guy, thank you this really beautiful stuff.Pre59 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 05, 2018 3:06 pm Charlie Small.
Pick something out of this lot. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... l+trombone
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bigbandbone
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Re: Jazz Trombone Ballads
George Roberts with Stan Kenton. Bass bone at it's best.
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BrassedOn
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Re: Jazz Trombone Ballads
John Allred’s “Eveline” on his album In the Beginning
And “Spring can Really Hang You Up the Most” on his Focused
And “Spring can Really Hang You Up the Most” on his Focused
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