Instruments
Trombone
The trombone is a brass instrument, a variant of the trumpet whose distinguishing characteristic is that the length of the tube in which sound is produced can be altered by means of a slide--a U-shaped telescoping section that recedes into the main body of the tube like a section of a radio antenna. Hence the instrument is colloquially called a slide trombone. The trombone first appears in pictorial representations around 1490, and in the repertoire of the Renaissance and Baroque its most striking appearances came in the works of Venetian composers such as Giovanni Gabrieli and their German followers. The trombone first became part of the symphony orchestra in the late eighteenth century, when it famously appeared in Mozart's opera Don Giovanni. In the large Romantic orchestra, the trombone was exploited for its tremendous power, its ability to produce, unamplified, loud sounds near the safe endurance limit of the human ear. That power also made the trombone a crucial component of the primarily outdoor-oriented jazz band, and it remains an important solo and ensemble instrument in jazz of various kinds.
Artist Highlights
| Artist |
Active |
Styles |
| Jack Teagarden
|
1920s - 1960s |
Dixieland, Show/Musical, Swing, Big Band, Early Jazz, Mainstream Jazz |
| J.J. Johnson
|
1940s - 1990s |
Bop, Cool, Hard Bop, Third Stream, West Coast Jazz, Film Score, Jazz Instrument, Modern Big Band, Trombone Jazz |
| Julian Priester
|
1950s - 2020s |
Avant-Garde Jazz, Film Score, Post-Bop, Fusion, Jazz-Funk, Hard Bop, Jazz Instrument, Trombone Jazz, Modern Creative |
| Willie Colón
|
1960s - 2020s |
New York Salsa, Salsa, Global Jazz, Latin Jazz, Boogaloo, Latin Soul, Puerto Rican Traditions, Tropical |
| Eddie Durham
|
1920s - 1980s |
Swing, Mainstream Jazz |
| Glenn Miller
|
1920s - 1940s |
Big Band, Sweet Bands, Swing |
| Kid Ory
|
1910s - 1960s |
Dixieland, New Orleans Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Swing, Trombone Jazz |
| Johnny Mandel
|
1930s - 2020s |
Film Music, Soundtracks, Standards, Traditional Pop, American Popular Song, Film Score, Vocal Music |
| Steve Turre
|
1970s - 2020s |
Latin Jazz, Post-Bop, Cuban Traditions, Afro-Cuban, Afro-Cuban Jazz, Global Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Mainstream Jazz, Neo-Bop, Trombone Jazz |
| Lawrence Brown
|
1920s - 1970s |
Big Band, Mainstream Jazz, Swing, Standards, Jazz Instrument, Saxophone Jazz |
| Kai Winding
|
1940s - 1980s |
Bop, Cool, Hard Bop, Jazz Instrument, Trombone Jazz |
| Dicky Wells
|
1920s - 1980s |
Mainstream Jazz, Swing, Continental Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Trumpet Jazz |
| Slide Hampton
|
1950s - 2020s |
Bop, Hard Bop, Mainstream Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Modern Big Band, Post-Bop, Trombone Jazz |
| Jimmy Cleveland
|
1950s - 2000s |
Bop, Hard Bop |
| Bennie Green
|
1940s - 1970s |
Bop, Swing, Jazz Instrument, Trombone Jazz |
| Trummy Young
|
1920s - 1960s |
Mainstream Jazz, Swing, Dixieland, Bop, Jazz Instrument, Trombone Jazz |
| Curtis Fuller
|
1950s - 2020s |
Hard Bop, Jazz Instrument, Straight-Ahead Jazz, Trombone Jazz |
| Claude Jones
|
1920s - 1950s |
Early Jazz, Swing |
| Tommy Dorsey
|
1920s - 1950s |
Big Band, Sweet Bands, Swing |
| William Frank "Bill" Reichenbach Jr.
|
1970s - 1980s |
Hard Bop, Neo-Bop, Film Score, Guitar Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Choral, Fusion, Post-Bop |