Workin' the slide

[bluegargantua]

Hi,

So my nephew just had a birthday and he's also taking up the trombone at school this year. For people with more experience on these matters can you recommend a CD/artist who uses trombone in a prominent way -- besides marching band. Trombone is kind of an odd instrument and it'd be nice if there was someone using it in an exciting way for him to listen to and go "oh hey, practicing the scales today is good for this tomorrow" kinda deal.

I am also accepting recommendations for books and/or graphic novels for 11 year-olds. I'm leaning towards the first trade paperback collection of Invincible, but I'm open to all suggestions.

later
Tom

Comments

[bryant]

Fishbone. Not that I've listened to them since the 80s, but...

Ska is gonna be good for trombone, generally.

[desiringsubject.livejournal.com]

Lots and lots of latin music, 'specially caribbean: mambo, salsa, a fair bit of merengue... Eddie Pacheco? Hector Lavoe?


OH! And I love the horns in Urban Blight, try the track off of the Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego sound track!

[etherial.livejournal.com]

From my abortive attempts at studying music, the most important thing is to have a book of practice pieces that are actually fun. I had a piano book that had "When the Saints Go Marching In" for either hand, and I could play it for hours, switching between melody in the left and melody in the right, because it was just plain fun.

[foxtown.livejournal.com]

That was the only song I ever learned on the Sax. The only advantage of that work is that I can still whistle it pretty well.

You're right it really is a fun song.

[mazianni.livejournal.com]

I think when I was eleven I was reading the Hardy Boys, Tom Swift, and John Carter of Mars.

Obviously:

[avivasedai.livejournal.com]

Canadian Brass! I know when I was in band, we watched a video of Canadian Brass whenever the conductor had somewhere else to be... or maybe he was actually showing us how versatile and amazing brass instruments could be, who knows. Anyway, they have trombone as well as other instruments, and they're fantastic. (The trombonist has been the same guy for 35 years and is the one who started the group.) They record classical as well as contemporary music. You should definitely give them a listen.

[qedrakmar.livejournal.com]

Just Google for Trombone Quartets. Plus, you'll get stuff like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX5buvDsztQ :)

[twwombat.livejournal.com]

That's just awesome.

[brainiac69.livejournal.com]

Well, for jazz, probably the most famous trombone player was J.J. Johnson. His contemporary, Kai Winding, is your second most famous (although they played together quite a bit, J.J. seemed to get more cred). They're both around the big band and bebop eras...both very fluid and highly technical players.

Jumping a decade, Curtis Fuller played trombone with "Art Blakey's Jazz Messangers" in the 60s, which was generally a more high energy style of play. He's also a pretty nice guy...and I think he still lives in Massachusetts.

You can also check out the allmusic page on trombone...
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=77:801

[mikecap.livejournal.com]

Rocketo is a pretty great offbeat adventure comic that I think would work really well for 11 year old kids. Runaways in Manga format is also good for tweens and pre-teens (Ocean's 7 year old loves it).