Daughter’s friend is learning grade 2 trombone and is a bit bored with playing along with classical & big-band stuff.
I can think of Dexys and Specials (or anything else with Rico on). Can you suggest any more? I know you can…
ATM: the popular trombone
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Ten Walls – Walking With Elephants
Groove Armada – At The River
I believe Frozen is popular with the younglings.
WARNING: This footage may make you dizzy.
And some Willie Colon!
La Murga
With a name like that he oughta have been a urologist, I thangyewwww
Zappa and late Beefheart spring to mind.
Tropical Hot Dog Night perchance?
Suction Prints has the real Tromboning action on there (fnarr)
Can I refer the right honourable gentleman to….
Played this just last night. David Thomas approaches the trombone as I approach the piano – ie with tremendous confidence but no actual playing ability whatsoever. Well done that man.
“George had a hat, but it wasn’t where it wasn’t at” – a lesson for us all there.
Bruce Fowler was the man who switched between Zappa and Beefheart. Heard to great effect on some bootleg albums also.
You’ve come to the right place, Fento…
I hope this might be of interest to your pal: Chris Spedding’s all-instrumental ‘Songs Without Words’ LP, recorded in Abbey Road, January 1970, with a one off five piece band including British avant-garde jazz icon Paul Rutherford on trombone.
This was almost the only ‘tonal’ record Paul was involved with. The LP itself was shelved at the time (slipping out only in Japan) but I’ve been involved in a Spedding-approved reissue, due in a couple of months via Hux Records. 6000 word essay, six unpublished Val Wilmer pics from the session, a period unreleased bonus track and new edit of the original LP created by Chris. It looks and sounds great. It’s at the accessible end of British jazz-rock. Anyone who likes the early Nucleus albums will love it.
Here’s a track (taken from the rare Japanese release):
The jolly good Barely Works, with Richard Avison on trombone.
Also looked for some vintage Commander Cody/’We’ve got a live one’ era when Andy Stein’s sax was augmented by Bill Kirchen and Norton Buffalo, both on trombones, aka the Ozone Brass
A couple from Thomas Dolby’s ‘The Flat Earth’. I think the trombonist is Pete Thoms on both tracks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKlBPHkZpW0
And doubling up on the Groove Armada – a live version of At The River.
Don Drummond and the Skatalites
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GsTxl6urVM
….anything with Annie Whitehead on it…..
….in fact, I can’t think of a better role model for a young trombonist…..
Big bands are probably the best settings to hear trombones in action, so you might as well pick a funky one.
(Jazz Jamaica All Stars – Theme From “The Godfather”/Al Capone)
Oh yes, I’d forgotten I’ve got that. I also have an album by Dennis Rollins’ Bandbone & Co.
As James Brown says n the intro: “to ma happiness is Fred Wesley playing hs horn”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mISfjm_TEGM
How about some J J Johnson?
Some good trombone (well I like it anyway) at the start and end of this live track by Kid Creole and the Coconuts, Don’t Take My Coconuts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM7HlfrqHH4
Bellowhead or their forerunner, Brass Monkey. The mighty ‘Torch’ by Soft Cell has a nice trombone motif IIRC.
Move to New Orleans.
Bonerama – three trombone front line!
And the quite famous Trombone Shorty (I first saw him when he was around 6 years old)
There ain’t much ‘bone in that Shorty clip mind you…….
The canonical example: IGYUMS by Frank
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XCVnV5CGh0
I suspect you have to be a grizzled 40 year veteran of the trombone to achieve the proper feel but nevertheless incongruously brilliant. The fabulous Rico.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsXD8S0l-BE
(Rico Rodriguez – Work Song)
Ace. Thank you all.