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The caption below the image reads "We will not allow ourselves to be made into monkeys!" Riley Black, writing for Scientific American , argues that the idea of a "march of progress", as depicted in the 1965 Time-Life illustration, dates back to the medieval great chain of being and the 19th century idea of the " missing link " in the fossil ...
It was a typical New Orleans jazz band in instrumentation, consisting of trumpet, clarinet, and trombone backed by a rhythm section. The original New Orleans jazz style leaned heavily on collective improvisation , in which the three horns together played the lead: the trumpet played the main melody , and the clarinet and trombone played ...
Susan "Sue" Addison (born 1955) is an English performer and professor of the sackbut, tenor trombone, and other early trombones. She specializes in playing historical music using authentic instruments of the age. She was a founding member and performed as the principal trombone player for the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
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 ...
Trombone player, studio musician Musical artist Tyree Glenn , born William Tyree Glenn (November 23, 1912, Corsicana , Texas , United States, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] – May 18, 1974, [ 1 ] Englewood, New Jersey ), was an American trombone and vibraphone player.
Ed Byrne was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, in 1946. [2]Since the 1970s, Byrne played trombone as a sideman alongside many of the New York jazz scene's most well-known jazz artists (e.g., Chet Baker, Joe Henderson, Herbie Hancock, Charlie Mingus, Eddie Palmieri, Willie Colon, Manu Dibango, and many others).
Mike Vax, lead trumpeter of the Stan Kenton Orchestra, said, "Dick Shearer was the most important person on the band. I think that Stan felt about him like a son...the way Dick played trombone, that was the Kenton sound. Dick's trombone was derivative of all the great Kenton lead players, going all the way back to Kai Winding.
McDougall was born in Calgary, and grew up in Victoria.At the age of 11, he joined the Victoria Boy’s Band, wanting to be a drummer. Disappointed at not playing a full drum kit, he thought he'd like to try trumpet instead, but his father intervened: "Play the trombone, son, because a good trombone player is never out of work."