Most of us are familiar with the modern trombone, the brass instrument with an extendible slide that has become a fixture in jazz ensembles and symphony orchestras. We're less familiar with the ...

Trombonist Joe Fielder offers up Joe Fielder's Big Sackbut—Live In Graz, the group's second recording, a follow-up to the 2012 eponymous Yellow Sound Label debut and 2013's Sackbut Stomp (Multiphonics ...

Just when a parent might be fearing that his pre-teen daughter will bring home an infatuation with Britney Spears’ “Greatest Hits” and the chart-topping “3”—a mewling disquisition on the joys of ...

Sonata à 3, Movements: No 1 in D minor Jörgen van Rijen, Sackbut Antonio Bertali, Composer Sonata à 3, Movements: No 3 in A minor Jörgen van Rijen, Sackbut Antonio Bertali, Composer Sonata quarto á 2 ...

Fabrice Millischer, trombonist with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken-Kaiserslautern, also pursues a busy solo career from early music to the 21st-century work. The repertoire on this ...

They are mostly strangers who don’t share a whit of practice time together until the day of their performance and haven’t had to go through a tryout. Each of the past seven years, trombone players — ...

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The funky sound of Fred Wesley's trombone landed on the World Beat desk this week courtesy of an album he released in 1974, with his band, Fred Wesley & the New JB's, called Breakin' Bread (originally ...

We've invited Troy Andrews — better known as Trombone Shorty — to answer three questions about instruments you've probably never heard of. Originally broadcast March 14, 2015. BILL KURTIS: From NPR ...