Jack Dostal aka Antonio Portela was the guest on Jackie Kashian's 2 August 2022 podcast episode of The Dork Forest, discussing his adventures in the trombone trade, as a performer with and repairer of (instruments including) trombones. Jackie will take a samples list of eight examples of a music she is unfamiliar with (like many people who played in high-school bands, she has never become enamored of music as a whole nor even beyond certain examples), and much of her series is about being informed about one area or another of obsession or fascination by her guests, as well as by other manqués such as myself who are just enthusiastic and importunate (and was the world's third worst trombonist in 8th, 9th and 11th grades--the interregnum didn't help, as didn't the change of venue and instructor, from New Hampshire with Andrew Souci (and David ?something on the classical side) and Hawaii with Don Morosic--and as I used to note at the time...I knew the two worse ones, and they weren't good, either). Here are Dostal's eight and below are mine--some of mine seek to supplement the choices put forward by Dostal, and are not as keyed to virtuosity nor historical importance as they might be, so much as examples of those who might well be unknown to the casual music or even trombone fan:
The J.J. Johnson and Kai Winding Band: "Blue Monk"
Toshiko Akiyoshi and the SWR Big Band: "Harlequin's Tear"
Trombonists: Ernst Hutter, Georg Maus, Ian Cummings, Marc Godfroid; not sure which took the solo as yet (probably Hutter).
Melba Liston and the Quincy Jones Orchestra: "My Reverie"
The Duke Ellington Orchestra featuring Juan Tizol: "Caravan"
The University of Maryland Brass Trio: Three Fantasies for Brass Trio (Alan Hovanhess)
The Teo Macero Ensemble: "Neally"
trombonist: Eddie Bert
Don Drummond and the Skatalites: "Man in the Street"
Greg Boyer: go-go jam excerpt, 2013; unknown band, apparently playing Parliament-Funkadelic's "Thumpasaurus"
The Gerry Mulligan (Bob Brookmeyer/Wyatt Ruther/Gus Johnson) Quartet: on Jazz Casual
(July 18, 1962)
Gerry Mulligan (baritone saxophone); Bob Brookmeyer (valve tromone); Wyatt Ruther (bass); Gus Johnson (drums).
1. Four for Three
Mulligan interviewed
2. Darn That Dream
3. Open Country
4. Utter Chaos
And a late addition...the National Educational Television (PBS before PBS in the US) series Jazz Casual, put together at KQED San Francisco with Ralph Gleason as on-screen interviewer. This episode at the current link has been uploaded at not the best audio level, causing trombonist Brookmeyer's tone to be distorted audibly at times...but useful to be seen and heard as not piecemeal, including Mulligan somewhat typically grumpy in his interview about the emerging tendencies in jazz in the early '60s--not too sanguine about third stream, free jazz, hard bop, nor early, relatively funky proto-fusion.
playlist partially selected by her cousin, April Landrum Diane Monroe's selected media tracks Further audio tracks The Max Roach Double Quartet in Stuttgart, 1990 Max Roach, drums Cecil Bridgewater, trumpet Odean Pope, saxophone Tyrone Brown, bass Diane Monroe, violin Lesa Terry, violin Maxine Roach, viola and Eileen Folson, cello: The Max Roach Quartet and the Uptown String Quartet The Uptown String Quartet at Duke University, 1993 The Uptown String Quartet: "Overture" (Odean Pope) The Diane Monroe Quartet: "Irish Monk" Diane Monroe - Violin
Tony Miceli - Vibes
Tony Marino - Bass
Todd Isler - Percussion The Diane Monroe Quartet: "Blues for Miles" The Diane Monroe Collective: "Du Bois Diddy" Diane Monroe and Tony Miceli: "Bachians Brazilieras #5" (Heitor Villa-Lobos) Diane Monroe, featured soloist, Orchestra 2001: Canto di Ritorno (Concerto for Violin and Small Orchestra) (Andrew Rudin)
Diane Monroe and Tony Miceli: At Rittenhouse Soundworks, Philadelphia, 22 May 2017 Jose Bowen and Diane Monroe: "After You've Gone" Melody Gardot (featuring Diane Monroe): "Gone" Diane Monroe and the Z Big Band: "Funk" (from Concerto for Violin and Big Band by Evan Solot) ...includes nearly four minutes of spoken introduction by others. Diane Monroe interview: 19 December 2018
Nellie McKay, Helen and Nick Forster, the eTones: "Unknown Reggae" Cleo Brown: "Boogie Woogie" Carmen McRae, Dave Brubeck, Randy Jones, Chris Brubeck: "New York State of Mind"
Max Roach, Tyrone Brown, Cecil Bridgewater, Odean Pope: "Perdido" (in East Berlin, 1984) The Gene Krupa Orchestra (arrangement by Gerry Mulligan): "How High the Moon"
Teo Macero, Charles Mingus, Orlando di Girolamo, Ed Shaughnessy: "How Low the Earth"
Chamber Orchestra of Europe: Alfred Schnittke: "Concerto Grosso No. 1" The Playground Ensemble: Henryk Gorecki: "Quasi una Fantasia" String Quartet no. 2, Op. 64 Steffen Schleiermacher: Henry Cowell: "Three Irish Legends" Ennio Morricone Orchestra: "Per Qualche Dollari In Piu" (3rd Cue)
Live performance The Gary McFarland Orchestra featuring Bill Evans
John Lewis Orchestra: "Two Degrees East, Three Degrees West"
Gil Evans Orchestra featuring Miles Davis: "The Duke"; "Blues for Pablo"; "New Rhumba"
Toshiko Akiyoshi/Lew Tabackin Big Band: "Children in the Temple Ground"
Orchestra U.S.A. featuring Coleman Hawkins: "A Portrait of Coleman Hawkins"
Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra featuring Randy Weston: "African Sunrise Suite"
John Lewis Orchestra: "Afternoon in Paris"
The Brubeck Quartet and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra: Dialogues (for Jazz Combo and Orchestra), composed by Howard Brubeck, followed by DBQ recordings of Leonard Bernstein showtunes *Since the first playlist I linked to here has been corrupted, a relink..with a bonus link below...
Chico Hamilton, Buddy Colette, Fred Katz, Steve Turre, Barry Finnerty: "My Funny Valentine" (comp. Richard Rodgers) and "Buddy Boo" (comp. Chico Hamilton) Rather cheesy 1970s tv introduction. John Lewis and Jim Hall: "Two Lyric Pieces: Pierrot; Colombine" (comp. John Lewis John Lewis playing Bach The Sextet of Orchestra U.S.A: "The Stranger" (comp Arif Marden) Eric Dolphy, saxophone John Lewis, piano Benny Golson, trumpet Gunther Schuller, French horn Jim Hall, guitar George Duvivier, bass Svetlana Gorokhovich and Irina Portenko: "Points on Jazz (for Two Pianos): Prelude" (comp. Dave Brubeck) Anthony and Joseph Paratore: the complete "Points on Jazz" Orchestre national de France, conducted by Leonard Bernstein: "La creation du monde" (comp. Darius Mihaud) The piece has six movements (including the Overture) : Overture 0:00 I. The Chaos before Creation 3:55 II. The slowly lifting darkness, the creation of trees, plants, insects, birds and beasts 5:32 III. Man and woman created 8:48 IV. The desire of man and woman 10:48 V. The man and woman kiss (Coda) 14:54 Anne Mette Iversen and John Ellis: "Milo Man" (comp. Anne Mette Iversen) Joe Morello with the Buddy Rich Big Band: "Take the 'A' Train" (comp. Strayhorn and Ellington)
***Some probably NSFW imagery here, as you might expect...
Sometimes, a cover photo concept, whether high or low, just doesn't come off...
The tiny composer portrait clearly disapproves...
And one which would almost be kinda sorta tasteful/appropriate...if not for the Hercules/Tarzan costume on the guy:
And then there's the default attempt to make sexpots of every female classical performer:
Some take to it more enthusiastically than...well...anyone else...
...though not for the lack of trying on the part of some others:
...while some are just trying to keep up...
Below, the typical glamming up required of women in classical music, though I can sympathize with Benedetti's more blatant lack of enthusiasm than is usual in such situations...
But, then, some sleeve images can make one glad that one is about to enjoy an exclusively audio recording...
The Westminster Gold line is a prominent contributor to everyone's collection of this kind of bad packaging, though for what it's worth (not so very much), they were trying to be cute. Trying very hard. Sometimes more successfully than in the examples below, and their collection of recordings was pretty good...kind of a pity about (particularly) some of these early sleeves...
See if you can spot the flute or harpsichord in the photo below. Feel the saucy hilarity wash over you, much as it did the young women above.
It's the (1970s porn cliche) black socks that make it particularly...cheeky...
Scheherazade also comprises its own subcategory of bad classical album art, given the opportunity for cheap "naughty" exotica the covers offer. From remarkably bad makeup to employment of model Barb McCornfed, fresh from cheerleader practice, there are lots of ways to go wrong with this one. Including at least twice for the recording by the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Ormandy.
Arguably, a rather more adept attempt at putting forth exoticized sexualization...if still rather blatant...and how young is this apparent kid?
