Jazz giant or tiny trombone? Well, both actually ... After a hugely virtuosic 32-bar solo break, the band joins with a thundering fast swing. Gordon’s improvisation shows off the range and timbral ...

Through the testimonials of family, friends and devoted fellow musicians of all ages, Wham-Re-Bop-Boom-Bam: The Swing Jazz ... and to take this music that had great solos, but that the written ...

Veteran trombonist, educator and bandleader Robert Edwards is a fixture of New York City jazz ... trombone sing and dance all over the place, a blues-styled tune and tip of the hat to pianist Horace ...

By Giovanni Russonello Curtis Fuller, a trombonist and composer whose expansive sound and powerful sense of swing ... timeless solos. On the title track, now a jazz standard, his trombone plays ...

Each band had its own arranger, who wrote the music. Although there were still some improvised solos in swing music, playing the parts that were written by the arranger was very important.

Johnson went on to a stellar career as a solo session musician and a composer of classical-jazz collaborations; and he also wrote Hollywood soundtracks -- a real renaissance man. Trombone players ...