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The serpent is a low-pitched early wind instrument in the lip-reed family, developed in the Renaissance era. It has a trombone-like mouthpiece, with six tone holes arranged in two groups of three fingered by each hand.
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.
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.
Bob McChesney is an LA based jazz and studio trombonist, famous for his use and mastery of the 'doodle - tongue,' a method of articulation on the trombone as well as his ultra fast and melodic solos. He currently teaches in the music department at California State University, Northridge .
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.
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 ...
Brantley joined the chamber ensemble Rhythm & Brass [2] in 1995 and continues to tour and record with the group. He appears on many Rhythm & Brass recordings, including Ellington Explorations (1998), which upon release was named the New York Times Album of the Week, [3] Sitting in An English Garden (2001), and Inside the Blue Suitcase (2005).