First time on CD for the complete Trombones Inc session from 1958. Led by Bob Brookmeyer, Jimmy Cleveland and Frank Rosolino, these recordings feature 27 Jazz trombonists appearing together on the same sessions and arranged by Jay Jay Johnson and Marty Paich. Includes Barney Kessel, Hank Jones, Wendell Marshall, Mill Hinton, Osie Johnson and Mel Lewis. 12 tracks total. Lone Hill Jazz. 2006. Album Description
this is a great record and i am so glad that it was finally released - this means it hould also soon be aailable on amazon's mp3 store and iTunes etc - in this digital age it should never be unavailable again . .
this is a great album filled with great playing
October 27, 2008When I was a kid, my dad bought this on vinyl a week after it's release. We must of played it to death because didn't make it on our move out to California in 1973. Still, I didn't ever forget the tight slide work by some of the best trombone men in the business. West coast - East Coast - all stars. I won't waste words on trying to describe the songs, I will leave you with a challenge to find a better talent filled album/disc of trombone jazz virtuosity.
October 24, 2008 |  | Trombonist Reviews Trombones, Inc. |  |
I got this recording by asking Dick Nash for a copy. He asked Charlie Loper to make a dub for me. Once out in CD I ordered it. Some of these players are my friends. I've heard a great deal about how this recording was made and about how the players felt about it. They are generally very proud of this recording. I feel they should be. It is a unique one in the sense that two different approaches and two different groups of players made the two "sides" of this album. One side really features the writing of trombone great J.J. Johnson. The other is essentially a studio musician "tour de force" arranged and performed by studio heavies of the late 1950's and early sixties. The improvised soloing is of the absolute highest quality. The engineering is very good. Performances also very, very good. If you are a fan of jazz trombone, particularly in large trombone ensemble setting, you need to get this album. It is up there with "Tutti's Trombones" and "21 Trombones" and several of the Urbie Green recordings.
October 7, 2008| | | Still worth 5 stars 49 years later | |
This is one of my alltime favorite jazz albums. I bought it on vinyl when I was 13 years old and it knocked my socks off.
Ever since CDs were introduced - and that would be 25 years ago this month - I've been looking for a CD version of this album.
I had all but given up ever hearing it again, my vinyl copy having been destroyed in a flood, until I did a routine check for it last week on Amazon.com and discovered it had been reissued. My copy arrived today and I am ecstatic!
Old Devil Moon was always my favorite track and it still blows me away.
I had worried that the CD version, if there ever was one, might be poorly engineered or recorded from an LP instead of from the original source material. I needn't have worried.
The sound is crisp, punchy and vital and far better than I remember from the LP.
And if that weren't enough, they've added a track that wasn't on the original album.
Forty-nine years is a long time to wait for something like this, but now that it's here, I can tell you it was worth the wait.
August 24, 2007A veritable [....] of trombone players. Twenty-seven different trombonists, in two separate groups (one made of East Coast players, the other West Coast - it was popular back then to portray the two coasts as if they were at jazz war with each other), appear on the disc, which was originally released on Warner Brothers back in 1958. Anyone who had an affinity to modern jazz and blew the bone is here. With as many as 10 trombonists playing on a single track (backed by a rhythm section) the music can sometimes attain a "Music Man" feel to it; indeed LASSUS TROMBONE by the West Coasters starts off like a halftime show at the Rose Bowl. But thanks to some good arrangements by JJ Johnson, Marty Paich, and Warren Barker, the music actually swings, and swings pretty good, throughout the proceedings. The album is a lot of fun, and in keeping with the big, brassy nature of the trombone sound (multiplied) and the connection to football halftimes and team rivalry, Final Score: West Coast by a field goal in overtime.
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