jazz trombone

Oops, voted for Wycliffe before seeing Trombone Shorty

voted curtis fuller but props to miff mole and grachan moncur iii as well

and well all the rest of them that i've heard!

Very tough choices, as I'm a big fan of the jazz trombone, whether it's swing or Euro improv... but the first trombone solo that pops into my head is Roswell Rudd at the start of the first Liberation Music Ensemble, so he gets my vote.

voted george lewis, but rudd was a star as well.

this is jack teagarden (trombone and vocals). the glass
mute on the second solo is all time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyH2ez3io7Y

Write-in vote for George Chisholm!

Gave a courtesy vote to Bob Brookmeyer. I bought a few 20th c 'classical' LPs on Discogs that came from his collection. He was teaching in my state at the end of his life.

write in vote for ray anderson

wow is ray anderson really your favorite trombonist ? what’s a good place to start in his catalogue ?

The trombone is an instrument of power imo, and bop/post-bop often sells it short. My favorite trombonists are either from New Orleans (Corey Henry, Stafford Agee, etc), Willie Colon, or like North Carolina shout choir musicians whose names I don't know.

Tough choice between George Lewis ("Homage to Charles Parker" is one of my alltime favorite pieces of music) and Jeb Bishop (imo he buried a bunch of very heavy hitters at the Brotzmann Tentet +2 show I saw in SF).

can I just recommend any trombone fans to check out Don Drummond? I usually don't fuck with ska but he is amazing.

Fuller is without a doubt the secret weapon in the Blue Note arsenal.

ray anderson on braxton's performance(quartet)1978 or seven compositions 1978, or any of the bass drum bone stuff.

cool, thanks

Julian Priester is someone I know nowt about but he played on Duke Ellington's New Orleans Suite. I dearly dearly love that album.

Try Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi albums - Mwandishi, Crossings and Sextant - to hear Priester. He's also got a great early '70s album of his own, Love, Love, on ECM.

^ yes.

phil who gets yr vote ?

I like Wycliffe Gordon because of his sense of humor, he can play anything but sometimes it's just animal noises.

There's a trombonist named John Allred who used to play in Harry Connick Jr's band, he's great, just always in total control. The two of the made a record that's pretty fun for trombone heads:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neCMuC3rhIE

Here's some Wycliffe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeHmKo3W_Fw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xR7x04EhL0

xp calz thanks for inspiring me to spin the duke rec
been a while
last track is just killing me

Hands down, J.J.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71qsw15typL._SL1300_.jpg

exceptional

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOhhx96udUY

grachan! highly recommend this two-fer. arguably my favorite of any of the byg stuff i've heard.

my second choice after ray anderson would be michael dessen

Here's some United House of Prayer trombone for you:
https://youtu.be/DA8VqgwbqAo?t=144

Ok I'd forgotten how stunning the band is on 'Evolution'

xp because this is a poll about jazz trombone i didn’t make room for the art music / avant-garde / academic types like stuart dempster or michael dessen

although it’s true that there are hundreds of amazingly talented trombonists and these polls can only accommodate 50 options

also Jordan yeah the “evolution” band rips

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