Word: trombonist
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...those involved with the Palau believe they're onto something big. Richard Casero, a trombonist and native Valencian who, with his wife, flutist Magdalena Martínez, was reluctant to return to his hometown after working with better-known opera companies in London and Paris, says: "I was won over by the commitment to the quality of the musical performance. In the opera world, Valencia is a city of the future...
...Evans. They assembled an unusual nonet, including a tuba and French horn, and began experimenting with a new kind of writing. The goals: dense, rich sonorities, a "cool," vibrato-free style of playing and a tight meshing of the charts and soloists (among them baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan and trombonist J.J. Johnson). Result: a reshaping of the modern jazz aesthetic...
...nice to get to play something a little different,” said trombonist Brett G.B. Wostzman ’06, adding that the band’s repertoire tends to be repetitive. “I thought it was a really interesting opportunity...
...DIED. RAY CONNIFF, 85, bandleader, trombonist and composer of light music for the stereophonic set; in Los Angeles. Conniff's more than 100 recordings, including chart-topping hits 'S Wonderful! and Somewhere My Love, sold more than 70 million copies. His orchestra's unmistakable sound was a melange of instrumental and choral voicings replete with oooos, ahs and his signature...
...Harlem society in the 1920s and 1930s, she and her sister, Isabelle, were legendary beauties, hotly pursued and discussed." Washington's light-skinned beauty both enhanced and abridged her showbiz career; but her exotic outsider status pursued her, defined her, wherever she went. Her husband, Lawrence Brown, was a trombonist with Duke Ellington, and in the 30s she would occasionally accompany the orchestra on dates in the American South. Josephine Baker's adopted son Jean-Claude has said that the black musicians "could not go into ice cream parlors, so she would go in and buy the ice cream, then...