Brian Allen is from Lake Jackson, Texas where part of this solo trombone album was recorded. He studied with some of the masters of avant-garde /free jazz such as Roswell Rudd and Ellery Eskelin. To ...

Though the vocalizing of jazz lines and effects on wind instruments is famously attributed to saxophones, cogent arguments can be made for trombones, as well. The large traditional trombone embouchure ...

For all of the progressive funk-meets-rock-meets-jazz-meets-blues fusion of Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue’s kinetic opening-night show at the Jazz Aspen Snowmass June Experience, the song that ...

When he’s not out on tour, which is rare, Trombone Shorty likes to cruise around his hometown of New Orleans. “Me and my cousin usually drive around the city for hours listening to old music with no ...

Jazz trombone great Wycliffe Gordon was a music student at Florida A&M University and member of the Marching 100 in 1987 when his life changed one day. New Orleans music legend Wynton Marsalis, who ...

He was a fixture on the New York jazz scene since shortly after his arrival in 1957. He also made his mark as a composer. By Giovanni Russonello Curtis Fuller, a trombonist and composer whose ...