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TROMBONE PLAYING - MAIN PAGE
Parts of the Trombone Fingerings Tips History of the Trombone Duets Trombone Repertoire
The Greatest Classical Trombone Players The Greatest Jazz Trombone Players


Below are tips and videos related to becoming the best Trombone player you can be!:

PARTS OF THE TROMBONE:
Check out this page showing the parts of the Trombone


SLIDE POSITION CHARTS:
Check out this page showing the slide positions of the Trombone


Trombone Tips (technical, etc.):
Holding your horn, Playing your first notes and more
(Page with linked video images, not embedded videos)

Trombone Technique (Denis Wick)

Trombone Page of the World


Theory Related and More
Key Signatures: Learning Key Signatures (.pdf file)
One Minute Club: One Minute Club - Study Sheet (.pdf file)
One Minute Club: Flash Cards (to print) (.pdf file)
More: Dynamic Levels in Music; Modes of Music (Bass clef, .pdf file); 4 Basic Chord Types (.pdf file); Chords and Their Positions (.pdf file); Circle of Fifths (.pdf file); Instrument Ranges (.pdf file); Learning Intervals (.pdf file); Main Scale Types (.pdf file); How to Read Ledger Lines (.pdf file); Ornaments (.pdf file); Roman Numeral Chords (.jpg file); Scales to Triads (Bass Clef) (.pdf file); So There! (plagal, half, authentic, deceptive) (.pdf file); Songs for interval recognition (.pdf file); Triads in Groups - Major (Bass Clef) (.pdf file); Working Transition Spots (.jpg file, .pdf file)

Patterns for all Major Scales (bass clef) (.pdf file)


Trombone Duets:
Great duets for 2 Trombones!

Trombone History:
History of the Trombone (per Standard of Excellence, Book 1)
History of the Trombone (per theinstrumentplace.com)
Trombone (per wikipedia.org)

A Trombonist on a Mission to Break Barriers in Classical Music: Hillary Simms is the first woman to become a member of the American Brass Quintet. She says the field needs more role models. (per nytimes.com)



Trombone Repertoire:
TECHNICAL:

Scales - all Majors (with slide positions)

Scales - all Majors, up one key down the next

Scales - Chromatic (one octave, all keys)

Standard of Excellence (recommended pages)


PERFORMANCE:

Belwin Master Solos - Easy, Intermediate, Advanced (audio)

First Solos for the Trombone (or Baritone) Player (audio)

Time Pieces for Trombone (Music through the Ages) (audio)

Rubank Soloist Folio (audio)

Rubank Easy to Intermediate Solos (audio)


Certificate of Merit
(Evaluation Requirements)
(Technique charts)
(Repetoire):		 Level 1 Pieces for Trombone and Piano (audio)
Level 2 Pieces for Trombone and Piano (audio)
Level 3 Pieces for Trombone and Piano (audio)
Level 4 Pieces for Trombone and Piano (audio)
Level 5 Pieces for Trombone and Piano (audio)
Level 6 Pieces for Trombone and Piano (audio)
Level 7 Pieces for Trombone and Piano (audio)
Level 8 Pieces for Trombone and Piano (audio)
Level 9 Pieces for Trombone and Piano (audio)
Advanced Level Pieces for Trombone and Piano (audio)
 Level 1 Pieces (jazz) for Trombone and CD accomp. (audio)
Level 2 Pieces (jazz) for Trombone and CD accomp. (audio)
Level 3 Pieces (jazz) for Trombone and CD accomp. (audio)
Level 4 Pieces (jazz) for Trombone and CD accomp. (audio)
Level 5 Pieces (jazz) for Trombone and CD accomp. (audio)
Level 6 Pieces (jazz) for Trombone and CD accomp. (audio)
Level 7 Pieces (jazz) for Trombone and CD accomp. (audio)
Level 8 Pieces (jazz) for Trombone and CD accomp. (audio)
Level 9 Pieces (jazz) for Trombone and CD accomp. (audio)
Level Adv Pieces (jazz) for Trombone and CD accomp. (audio)

Stanard Repertoire (as compiled by Jeremy Wilson):
Albert: Wind Tides
Barat: Andante et Allegro
Bozza: Ballade
Casterede: Sonatine for Trombone
Gaubert: Morceau Symphonique
Gotkovsky: Romance
Grøndahl: Concerto, Mvt. 1, Mvt. 2, Mvt. 3
Guilmant: Morceau Symphonique
Hindemith, Paul: Sonata for Trombone and Piano (Jeremy Wilson, Trombone) (smusic)
      1st Movement, 2nd Movement, 3rd Movement, 4th Movement
      Youtube video with score Jørgensen: Romance
Massenet: Meditation from Thaïs, arr. Hartman
Mutter: Ages
Raum: Fantasy
Ropartz: Piece in E-flat minor
Rousseau: Piece Concertante
Saint-Saëns: Cavatine
Salzedo: Piece Concertante, op. 27
Serocki: Sonatina Mvt. 1: Allegro, Mvt. 2: Andante molto sostenuto, Mvt. 3: Allegro vivace
Stojowski: Fantasy
Sulek: Sonata Vox Gabrieli
Weber: Romance
Great Trombone Players! (Classical):
List of Classical Trombonists (wikipedia):

Name Orchestral Timespan Primary Affiliation
Susan Addison Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century
Joseph Alessi Since 1985 New York Philharmonic
Ian Bousfield 2000-2012 Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Gordon W. Bowie 1985-1997 Bangor Symphony Orchestra
Dudley Bright2001-2018London Symphony Orchestra
Abbie Conant1980-1993Munich Philharmonic Orchestra
Eric CreesSince 2000Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Jay FriedmanSince 1962Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Byron FulcherSince 1970Philharmonia Orchestra
Robert GaleChamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Opera Company of Philadelphia
Nitzan HarozSince 2012Philadelphia Orchestra
Megumi KandaSince 2002Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
Mark KelloggSince 1989Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
Robert Marsteller?-1975Los Angeles Philharmonic
James OlinSince 1976Baltimore Symphony
Jörgen van RijenSince 1997Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Charles VernonSince 1986Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Helen VollamSince 2004London Symphony Orchestra
Helen VollamSince 2011Chamber Orchestra of Europe

Retired orchestral trombonists [edit]

NameOrchestral TimespanPrimary Affiliation
James DeSano1970-2003Cleveland Orchestra
Mark Lawrence1974-2007San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Aline Nistad1979-2016Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra[1]
Maisie Ringham1944-1955The Hallé
Ralph Sauer1974-2006Los Angeles Philharmonic
Douglas Yeo1985-2012Boston Symphony Orchestra
Dorothy Ziegler1944-1958St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

Soloists and chamber trombonists[edit]

NameRecording TimespanPrimary Affiliation
Abbie ConantSince 1980Munich Philharmonic
Stuart DempsterSince 1964University of Washington
Vinko GlobokarSince 1965IRCAM
Mark HetzlerEmpire Brass Quintet
Christian LindbergSince 1984





The Greatest Jazz Trombone Players!:
Best Jazz Trombone Players Ever

Short List:

Kid Ory (1886-1973)
Miff Mole (1898-1961)
Glenn Miller (1904-1944)
Tricky Sam Nanton (1904-1946)
Tommy Dorsey (1905-1956)
Jack Teagarden (1905-1964)
Vic Dickens (1906-1984)
Lawrence Brown (1907-1988)
Kai Winding (1922-1983)
Bennie Green (1923-1977)
J.J. Johnson (1924-2001)
Al Grey (1925-2000)
Frank Rosolino (1926-1978)
Melba Liston (1926-1999)
Jimmy Cleveland (1926-2008)
Urbie Green (1926-2018)
Jimmy Knepper (1927-2003)
Carl Fontana (1928-2003)
Bob Brookmeyer (1929-2011)
Curtis Fuller (1932-2021)
Slide Hampton (1932-    )
Julian Priester (1935-    )
Bill Watrous (1939-2018)
Steve Turre (1948-    )
Wycliffe Gordon (1967-    )
Trombone Shorty (1986-    )


Best Jazz Trombone Players Ever
Some of the Best Jazz Trombone players as Composers
Jazz Trombone Solos - Audio Links (for my several books of jazz trombone solo transcriptions, and for more transcriptions I have not in those books!)


Playing Lead Trombone: Information on Playing Lead Trombone
     (including: Aspects of Playing Lead Trombone (via Eddie Lewis), list of the greatest lead players, and more)
Greatest Lead Trombone Players: Page listing some of the greatest lead trombone players and their associated bands


12-Bar Blues: List of Blues Heads (in Bass clef, sorted by concert key, .pdf file) ***
Jazz Standards: Sample Jazz Standard List (Bass clef parts)


Jazz Listening Worksheet (online form)
Jazz Listening Worksheet (.pdf file)





































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