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The TROMBONE (also sometimes called SLIDE TROMBONE ) has remained largely unchanged for over five centuries.
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Alumni of Gillespie's orchestras and new players convene in the Dizzy Gillespie All-Stars Big Band, with longtime Gillespie sidemen musical director Slide Hampton (trombone) and executive director John Lee (bass) running the show on New Year's Eve at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.
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The band, which just released its first album, MTO Volume One, combines the sounds of violin and banjo alongside trombone and slide trumpet.
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This can be done using either valves as on the French horn, trumpet, and tuba or a slide, as on the trombone.
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Trombone is Italian for "big trumpet": instrument makers in the fifteenth century created the trombone as a bigger, lower-pitched, and improved version of the slide trumpet.
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