The TROMBONE (also sometimes called SLIDE TROMBONE ) has remained largely unchanged for over five centuries.
"The thing with the trombone, actually, is the range is quite severe, " Mr. Muhly said.
At the time, the trombone was a more refined instrument than either the trumpet or the horn.
This "slide trumpet" survived in specialized roles for several centuries, but it's mainly remembered now as the precursor of the trombone.
This can be done using either valves as on the French horn, trumpet, and tuba or a slide, as on the trombone.
During the Renaissance, musicians played the trombone in town bands, royal ceremonial bands, and in mixed ensembles with string and keyboard instruments and voices.
The trumpet would be four to five and a half feet, the trombone nine to thirteen feet, and the tuba sixteen to twenty-six feet.
Knepper is a crucial voice on "Mingus Ah Um, " mixing gut-bucket swoops worthy of Kid Ory with dextrous Charlie Parkerisms translated to 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.
The standard orchestral trombone is known as the tenor trombone.
Like the trombone, the tuba comes in several different sizes.
There are relatively few solo compositions for trombone, and the trombone is rarely featured in chamber music, although the French composer Francis Poulenc wrote an excellent trio for trombone, trumpet, and horn (1922).
It was not until the late 1700s that the trombone was employed in the opera orchestra with any regularity, and then its primary function was to evoke feelings of awe in scenes involving the spiritual or the supernatural.
The tenor-bass trombone is approximately the size of a tenor trombone, but for notes in the low register the bass trombone register it has an extra length of coiled tubing that can be engaged by pressing a valve.
Much orchestral music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries also calls for bass trombone, but since the true bass trombone is a very long, very unwieldy instrument, most bass trombone parts are played today on a hybrid instrument called the tenor-bass trombone.
But on the contrabass trombone, you get this huge wall of sound .
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In an interview with DownBeat published in February 1975, Mingus praised Jimmy Knepper as "probably the greatest trombone player who ever lived, " and lamented how long it had been since they had worked together.
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From the first throbbing bass notes by Boris Koslov in "Gunslinging Birds" to the animated trombone and vocals of Ku-umba Frank Lacy in "E's Flat, Ah's Flat Too, " and the roaring full-band choruses that close out "Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting, " the Mingus Big Band was on.
Drummer Daryl Warren works in highway maintenance while Chris Spreadbury who plays the keyboard and trombone is, like David, a music teacher.
Two sips of a tart lemon balm martini brought back the blurred headlights of taxicabs on a rainy street and the shriek of a trombone in a ballroom.
Up until the eighteenth century, the lovely English name for trombone was sackbut, a word of Old French or possibly Spanish derivation.
Booker began playing his family's piano, but later moved on to other instruments, playing the clarinet, oboe, trombone and saxophone in high school.
But when Vayenas is not playing in the young entertainer's trombone section (or lampooning him during an onstage skit), he's writing his own futuristic-sounding instrumental jazz.
In the "Ring, " four Wagner tubas join an enlarged brass section that includes other orchestral rarities like the bass trumpet, contrabass trombone and contrabass tuba, creating "choirs" of gleaming brass.
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To tour the Orbit, visitors gather under its base, a red fibreglass canopy that resembles the mouth of a gigantic red trombone.
On "Voyager, " Vayenas takes a valve trombone solo that departs the Delta Quadrant, while drummer Kendrick Scott propels the ship through space.
The band, which just released its first album, MTO Volume One, combines the sounds of violin and banjo alongside trombone and slide trumpet.
Drummer Jahphet Landis and trombone player David Smith buttressed the sound.
Starting in 1955, Brubeck ended up playing the Newport festival more than any other musician, and the celebration ended with trumpeter Jon Faddis and Chris Brubeck on trombone blowing up a storm on "Blues For Newport, " a tune Brubeck composed backstage at the festival.
The film also reveals how the composer used to walk from London to Cheltenham with a trombone slung over his back.
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