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Sunday, June 28th, 2009

Brookmeyer Interview at Jazz Wax

On the web, there are lots of things to read, see, and hear. Consequently, there are a lot of things one might miss. One good thing I missed was this Bob Brookmeyer interview. Jazz Wax, the home of the interview, is run by Marc Myers, a New York journalist, and was linked from NPR’s new jazz blog, A Blog Supreme.

Incidentally, you might wonder how NPR came up with the great title, “A Blog Supreme.” Well, they had a contest to name the blog, but they conducted the contest after they had already come up with the obviously-fantastic “A Blog Supreme” name. Go figure.

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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

Don Hough, ITA Humfeld Award Winner

During a period that included the 1982 World’s Fair, I spent my undergraduate days at the University of Tennessee. Importantly for me, Don Hough was my trombone teacher at UTK. I have plenty of great memories from that time, many of which do not include the World’s Fair Sunsphere. Many of these good memories do, however, include Don Hough, who recently won an ITA Humfeld teaching award. You can see the award announcement, and read about Don’s ongoing musical activities here.

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About Trombones...
- Douglas Yeo’s website is one of the oldest and best trombone related sites on the web, full of good information and advice.
- The International Trombone Association is the place where trombonists of the world unite.
- Trombone Page of the World René Laanen’s creation, a site which features information about trombonists all over the world.
- Sackbut Links Since 1996! John Groves’ page chock full o’ trombone links.
- Bob Brookmeyer Want opinions? Brookmeyer’s got ‘em.
- Robin Eubanks Robin’s impressive website.
- Steve Turre He’s the dynamic jazz trombonist who also happens to play in the Saturday Night Live band.
- Trombone dot org The Online Trombone Journal. A well respected online trombone publication with numerous departments.
- Jiggs Whigham
- Kai Winding is perhaps best known as half of J & K, but certainly there’s much more to the career of this remarkable trombone playing jazzman…
- Dennis Rollins Funky trombonist from the UK.
- Joe Allessi Principle Trombone • Soloist • Master Teacher.
- Steve Davis masterful jazz trombonist and composer.
- Bill Watrous, jazz trombonist.