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Jack’s early exposure to music came from his family. His father, Charles, worked in the oil fields and played cornet part-time, while his mother, Helen, was a semi-professional pianist. His family played music together, with his mother teaching all of her children music. These moments of family unity fostered his deep love for music.
Two of those eighty songs are "In the Blue of Evening" [20] and "This Love of Mine". [22] Sinatra achieved his first great success as a vocalist in the Dorsey band and claimed he learned breath control from watching Dorsey play trombone. [13] Sy Oliver and Sinatra did a posthumous tribute album to Dorsey on Sinatra's Reprise records.
The first performance in England was probably 70 years later, at W. E. Gladstone's funeral at Westminster Abbey on 28 May 1898, [3] [n] by the London Trombone Quartet, at the suggestion of their alto player, George Case. [3] The four trombone players—two altos, a tenor and a bass—were stationed in the chantry of Henry V, above the high ...
The Song of Life, a 1920 book by W. H. Davies; The Song of Life, a 1913 short story by William J. Locke; The Song of Life and Other Poems, a book by Vinayaka Krishna Gokak; see 1947 in poetry; Cîntul vieții (The Song of Life), a 1950 book by Alexandru Toma; Ernst von Dohnányi: A Song of Life, a biography of Ernst von Dohnányi by Iona von ...
Vladislav Mikhailovitch Blazhevich [n 1], (3 August 1881 – 10 April 1942) was a Soviet-era Russian composer, conductor, trombonist, and pedagogue. [1] A highly skilled trombonist, euphonist and tubist, Blazhevich played in various orchestras and bands and was a professor of trombone at Moscow Conservatory.
Johnson's work in the 1940s and 1950s demonstrated that the slide trombone could be played in the bebop style; as trombonist Steve Turre has summarized, "J. J. did for the trombone what Charlie Parker did for the saxophone. And all of us that are playing today wouldn't be playing the way we're playing if it wasn't for what he did.
In 1971, after publication of her book, “Barefoot in the Smokies,” Ella Costner was named Poet Laureate of the Smokies by the Tennessee legislature.
He first played the trombone, then moved to the percussion section. [7] After graduating from high school in 1965, Henley attended Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, then North Texas State University in Denton from 1967 to 1969. He left school to spend time with his father, who was dying of heart and arterial disease. [8]