Best Jazz Trombonist ever

[OLDUDE]

There have been many greats. Who is your top trombonist of all time.

 

[Corno Dolce]

If I may humbly add - Larry O'Brien:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=40LQ60XDoDQ

 

[OLDUDE]

Hi C.D.,
Sorry! I hav'nt heard this player and cant locate any tracks on Spotify or Last.fm.
However he is referenced in Wikipedia as current leader and trombonist with the
go-on-forever Glen Miller Orch.
Can you or anyone out there point me to a source of his music to listen to?

Cheers John

 

[OLDUDE]

Hi all you trombone jazz lovers,
Little response so I thought I'd get my own views on display. There are a lot of greats out there but I list some of my favourites without at the moment trying too hard to give a no.1.
Big "T" (Jack Teagarden); Kid Ory; Kai Winding; J.J.Johnson; Milt Bernhart; Bob Brookmeyer(Valve).
Who can add others?
Cheers John

 

[Latona]

These days my favourite trombone players, and the ones I listen to most, would be Curtis Fuller and JJ Johnson. Wonderful musicians who add so much depth and colour to any date they're on.

 

[Dorsetmike]

I'm not familiar with Curtis Fuller, must have a browse on Youtube, but will agree with JJ, and add Kai Winding, Bob Brookmeyer, George Chisholm, Don Lusher and a few others

 

[teddy]

John, you started this thread one month before I joined the forum, otherwise I would have posted this

http://youtu.be/j9udjEXDpAg

teddy

 

[OLDUDE]

Thanks Latona for waking this thread up. (I thought it was long dead with such a
surprising lack of interest when i first posted it).
Hi teddy, i should have known that you wouldn't have missed a chance to give Big T
a run.

 

[OLDUDE]

Hi teddy,
I finally found out who Larry O'Brian was
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=9J99Wcya1nA

 

[Latona]

I'm not familiar with Curtis Fuller, must have a browse on Youtube, but will agree with JJ, and add Kai Winding, Bob Brookmeyer, George Chisholm, Don Lusher and a few others

Man, there are a heap of great Curtis Fuller dates I could recommend to you, Dorsetmike! Quite apart from the great albums he was a sideman on - Trane's 'Blue Train', Art Blakey's 'Indestructible (for which Fuller wrote some of the tunes) and Golson/Farmer's 'Meet The Jazztet' - he had lots of fine records as a leader, like 'The Opener', 'Blues-ette' and 'Soul Trombone' for starters.

Here are some links -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGnlKAsDVss

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRuwcOvhUrw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLnB1OQvqIQ

 

[stu]

Impossible for me to name a favourite from so many. All have their own sound and bring their own goodies to the music player.
When I caught the jazz bug way back it was Bill Harris who hit the spot (a sort of blasting, bleating, stuttering hectoring style with Woody and when burning it up on a JATP jam) then I thought best to check back in time and hear what had went before. I then dug J C Higganbotham, then Jack Teagarden, and of course Dicky Wells (who was with Basie) who recorded classic sides in Paris (1937). Then the laid back style of Vic Dickenson, be bopping with J J Johnson, and Kai Winding, while then digesting the guys who were busting through in the fifties,Frank Rosolino, Carl Fontana, Jimmy Cleveland, Curtis Fuller, valve trombonists Bob Brookmeyer, Bob Enevoldsen, and (with Basie and Duke) Lawrence Brown, Quentin Jackson, Al Grey. Also Roy Williams (UK) James Morrison (Australia, multi instrumentalist), Al Mangelsdorff (mainstream, avant garde and various styles, Germany), Glenn Ferris (USA, moved to France in 1980, recorded with numerous big names)...just some of the many who make me sit up and take notice.

 

[teddy]

When it comes to big T John, you know me so well. As to the rest, there is enough here to keepm me busy listening and learning for a while.

teddy