8 (+1) Examples of Trombonists in Action (for Jackie Kashian and THE DORK FORESTers): Saturday Music Club on Tuesday

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.

weekend jazz & a rebuttal: Bob Brookmeyer, Chuck Berry: Saturday Music Club on Sunday

Remembering Bob Brookmeyer and Chuck Berry...two men who helped change music for the better, and made it into their ninth decades...

The Life and Music of Bob Brookmeyer (a documentary)


Jazz on a Summer's Day opens with the Jimmy Giuffre 3, featuring Brookmeyer and Jim Hall, performing "The Train and the River"


The Gerry Mulligan Quartet on Jazz Casual (hosted by Ralph Gleason; NET/the National Educational Television network, predecessor to PBS)

Gerry Mulligan Quartet (July 18, 1962) - Jazz Casual 
Gerry Mulligan (baritone saxophone); Bob Brookmeyer (valve trombone); Wyatt Ruther (bass); Gus Johnson (drums). 
1. Four for Three 
2. Darn That Dream 
3. Open Country 
4. Utter Chaos

Anita O'Day with the Gary McFarland Orchestra (w/Brookmeyer): "A Woman Alone with the Blues"


The Clark Terry/Bob Brookmeyer Quintet on Jazz 625 (BBC-TV)


Bob Brookmeyer and Friends (with Tony Bennett): "Day Dream"


The Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra on Jazz Casual 

Thad Jones - Mel Lewis Orchestra (April 22, 1968) - Jazz Casual 
Thad Jones (cornet); Snooky Young, Richard Williams, Randy Brecker, Danny Moore (trumpets); Garnett Brown, Benny Powell, Jimmy Knepper, Bob Brookmeyer (trombones); Jerry Dodgion (alto saxophone); Jerome Richardson (alto and soprano saxophones); Seldon Powell, Eddie Daniels (tenor saxophone); Pepper Adams (baritone saxophone); Roland Hanna (piano); Richard Davis (bass); Mel Lewis (drums). 
1. Just Blues 
2. St. Louis Blues 
3. Kids Are Pretty People 
4. Don't Get Sassy

Bob Brookmeyer and Jim Hall Live at the Northsea Jazz Festival 1979

1. Skating in Central Park 
2. I Hear a Rhapsody 
3. My Funny Valentine 
4. Body and Soul 
5. In a Sentimental Mood 
6. Sweet Basil 
7. Darn That Dream 
8. St. Thomas

Bob Brookmeyer New Art Orchestra: "Boom Boom"


A Suite for Three (a documentary)


And a mild demurral from Chuck Berry, rest in glory:

Saturday Music Club: late shift

Thelonious Monk, Charlie Rouse, Larry Gales, Ben Riley: "Round Midnight"


The Duke Ellington Orchestra: Night Creature Second Movement: "Stalking Monster"


The Charles Mingus Band: "Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting"


Billie Holiday and The Sound of Jazz band: "Fine and Mellow"


Zero: "Mr. Broadway"


Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Joe Morello, Gene Wright: "Winter Ballad"


The Modern Jazz Quartet: "Softly, As In a Morning Sunrise"


Thelonious Monk/John Coltrane Quartet: "Crepuscule with Nellie"