Word: trombonist
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...most noble, most formidable of the brasses, the B-Flat Sousaphone, named after the distinguished composer and band master, John Philip Sousa. Had you termed the instrument a tuba, I would have been satisfied, as the distinction is not one that the uninitiated often grasp; but classification as a trombonist is more than I can reasonably stomach...
...wasn't long before Blades joined the roster of young Latin musicians at Fania records, the leading salsa label. In 1978 he and trombonist Willie Colon recorded the album Siembra (Seed), which went on to become one of the best- selling salsa albums of all time. Meanwhile Blades had begun to tinker with the salsa formula, replacing the horns with synthesizers and augmenting the basic Afro-Cuban beat with strains of jazz, '50s doo-wop and rock...
...string quartet of Crimes and Misdemeanors, which premiered last week. For the sound track of Sleeper, Woody even went to New Orleans in 1973 and recorded himself playing with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. (The old musicians there had never heard of Woody's films, and one of them, trombonist Jim Robinson, called him Willard.) He hopes one day to devote a whole film to "the birth of jazz...
...been the scene of more than a few light moments. When the Mets were in the 1986 World Series, sports-junkie Woody showed up with a tiny transistor television and propped it up on his music stand so he could watch the game while he played. Trombonist Dick Dreiwitz and his wife Barbara, the tuba player, tell of a surprise visit by Groucho Marx. "After one of Woody's solos," says Barbara, "Groucho reached up and handed him a few pennies as a tip." Psychiatrist Ron Brady, a friend of Woody's, recalls the time a man claiming...
...from its opening recitative to its blazing vivo finale; it got an otherworldly performance from Soloist Sergei Stadler, a baby-faced firebrand who shared first prize in the 1982 Tchaikovsky Competition with Viktoria Mullova. Sergei Slonimsky's sprightly two-minute Novgorod Dance -- hellzapoppin', cossack- style, ending with the clarinetist, trombonist, cellist, pianist and conductor all merrily hoofing it around the stage -- bespeaks a composer with both an ear and a sense of humor. Best of all is Schnittke's silvery Three Scenes for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble (1981), a theater piece for percussionists, soprano and conductor that apes a funeral...