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Originally Posted by Eugene Church
My goodness, jg2977, you are certainly a talented guy... I would love to be able to play a piano or a guiter... it must really be great to be able to play like you do.
Who is the best trombonist?... Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey... or someone else from the later years?
Actually, Miller and Dorsey are the only two I know well... I think I have one song with Trombone Shorty playing on it... it's an album cut by the Zac Brown Band.
Was Kai Winding a good one?... he had a number one song on the pop charts in the early 60s... "More"... I think Kai Winding was a jazz trombonist.
Glenn Miller is my favorite Big Band... Moonlight Serenade, Chattanoogo Choo Choo, String of Pearls, Stardust, In the Mood.
I also really like Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys... songs like San Antonio Rose... South of the Border... and Across the Alley from the Alamo... a western swing band in the 30s and 40s... Bob Wills mixed country music and Big Band music and created a wonderful dance band.
Before the pandemic, I played music at Nursing Homes... I did it for the last four years... I have a nice Peavey PA System... twice a week I would play for an hour and a half... would also dance with them even those most were in wheelchairs... Blueberry Hill by Fats Domino was the most popular song I played... Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain... You Are My Sunshine... Jambalaya... Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime... they loved the great old songs... Glenn Miller had the first hit of Blueberry Hill in the early 40s... Gene Autry also did it in the late 30s.
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There have been and currently are many great jazz trombonists! You mentioned Kai Winding, and indeed he was great. The most famous jazz trombonist from the bebop era was J.J. Johnson. As a matter of fact you should look for an album called J & K plus 6, it's phenomenal and you would love it! Another trombonist you can check out from that era is Curtis Fuller. He's famous as a sideman on John Coltrane's Blue Trane album. Try to find some old Eddie Bert stuff as well, he killed it back then! You'd really like Jack Teagarden as well, I think he was around in the 1930s.
If you go into the 60s and 70s some trombonists to check out are Frank Rosolino, Carl Fontana and Bill Watrous (who sadly just passed away last year). Also Urbie Green, Slide Hampton and Jiggs Whigham whose careers spanned many decades.
Currently there are many great jazz trombonists. Among my favorites are Conrad Herwig, Steve Davis, Michael Dease, Michael Davis, Steve Turre, Andy Martin, Wycliffe Gordon, John Allred, and John Fedchock