Watching jazz trombonist Michael Dease improvise solos in front of a wailing big band is like watching a high-flying trapeze artist. He soars to great heights, takes huge risks, depends on the team ...

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 ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Bass trombonist Evan Clifton will be presenting a guest solo recital at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 13, in Western Michigan University's Dalton Center Recital Hall. The event is free and ...

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 ...

As people began to trickle into Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival Sunday morning, many stopped in their tracks after hearing the funky tunes of Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue on the main ...

In 1942, Ezra Wenner was a 15-year-old kid playing trombone in the then-Allentown High School band. Sitting in for the band’s regular director, who had left for military service at the outbreak of ...