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In the past few years I have listened to a lot of jazz and like a lot of different styles of it for the most part, but mostly I listen to pretty common stuff (Coltrane, Wynton Marsalis, Miles Davis, dave brubeck, bill evans, etc). I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for really good jazz trombonists. I mean obviously glenn miller and tommy dorsey, but I just don't get into their music as much. Also if theres any jazz tuba suggestions I'd love to hear em. Also, more recently I have started listening to a lot of stuff like tower of power, so if anyone has any suggestions of similar bands to check out I would love to hear them.

Frank Rosolino
Carl Fontana
Michael Davis
Wycliffe Gordon

here is a wiki entry on Jazz Trombonists:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_jazz_trombonists

enjoy,
Bill

mTaUrBkA wrote: if theres any jazz tuba suggestions I'd love to hear em.

Rich Matteson
Marty Erickson
Sam Pilafian
MJT (Modern Jazz Tuba) Project
Jim Self

and others...

tekknofieber wrote:J.J. Johnson for sure, he's one of the greats. Bill Watrous is also pretty amazing.

A bunch of the music from Johnson can be found here:

http://www.alessipublications.com/

Take care,

Try Jimmy Knepper on recordings with charley mingus, especially "blues and roots", "oh yeah", and "Ah Um".

Funny you should post this. Just yesterday I was listening to a shuffle of CD's which included Bob Stewart ("Then and Now", includes TaJ Mahal singing 'Fishin Blues') , a CD I got off eBay called Kingcake, Leon Redbone ("Double Time") and Pete Fountain. Another (for me) local group is called Hot House, consisting of tuba, banjo/vocal, and clarinet. For more traditional stuff, there's always the Dukes of Dixieland. I guess "tuba jazz" tends to be more on the traditional side, as it is usually a rhythm instrument in this format.

Kai Winding has a good reputation.
http://bjbear71.com/Winding/interview-2.html

Conrad Herwig
John Fedchock

Dave Bargeron plays both trombone and tuba.

Try to find recordings of any big band or solo albums that Andy Martin plays on. The two bands that I know of are the Bill Holman Band and Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band. Most people may know him as the guy who plays on the title song to the movie "Monsters, Inc."

Mark Dickman has at least one cd out-good stuff
also the old matteson-phillips tubajazz consort recordings are excellent they are basically the precursor to the modern jazz tuba project which has already been mentioned

also check out the airmen of note recordings with Dave Steinmeyer as leader he is an amazing jazz bone player acutally any recording with him in the band will be worth hearing '65(?)-'89 he was the leader from '79-'89

i don't like editing but i forgot to add Buddy Baker and
Bob Mcchesney also great jazz bones

Wycliffe Gordon is the man, I got the chance to see him in person at All-State a few years ago...man, he's got some mean chops.

Also, Tony Baker (not just b/c he's from UCA), he's got some pretty good chops too.

As for tuba players: Marty Erikson, Hank Feldman and Sly, Jon Sass and Nat McIntosh

My recommendations have already been said...J.J. Johnson and Kai Winding for bone, Jim Self on Tuba.

Tom Ball is great on both trombone and euphonium.

EQueg wrote:Mark Dickman has at least one cd out-good stuff
also the old matteson-phillips tubajazz consort recordings are excellent they are basically the precursor to the modern jazz tuba project which has already been mentioned

Damn, I still listen to MPTC. Does that mean I'm old too?

Surprised no one has mentioned:

One of the best sounding big band jazz trombonists ever - Jack Teegarden. I worked with one of his relatives.

Also Urbie Green is another great jazz trombonists. Was fortunate to meet him with my jazz teacher at the Gaslight Club in Chicago in the early '70s.

Another fabulous jazz trombonist not mentioned is Phil Wilson.

Last year got to play with Harry Waters and he is simply a superb jazz trombonist. Really worth hearing and a really nice guy.

dave taylor
miff mole

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Bill Allred and his son John are fine trombonists. John also plays a mean euphonium. On tuba don't forget Howard Johnson in NY, Eli Newberger in Boston, Red Lehr in St. Louis and Matt Perrine in New Orleans. There's also some guy who plays tuba in the Galvanized Jazz Band...