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What is the best trombone ballad you've ever heard?

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A favorite: Frank Rosolino “Violets”

Oh, that's a GREAT one! Thank you.

My favorite ballad of Frank's is I Just Don't Want To Run Around Anymore. So much soul, so much anguish, so urgent. Even the note he airballs adds to the angst. This one just slays me.

Nothing beats a nice melody with strings

This one too!

Hi all .

Here two among my favourites:

J. J. Johnson "My Old Flame" ( 1958)


Jack Jenney "Stardust" (1939)


Again , after so many years of listening , I love they madly ..!

Regards
Giancarlo

I really like both of those Rosolino ballads mentioned above. Also some great Stardust recordings out there. But I think my favorite is this one, played by Watrous.

Not exactly a ballad. But .... Pretty much a really long ballad. This piece always intrigues me. Good luck getting the score though...

I wish I could hear this one played by someone with Frank's approach he took in Violets.

Again, not a jazz Ballad. But ballad playing by a really young player:

Dick Nash, "My One and Only Love"

I don't really have a "best" ballad but thinking about this question, I did some thinking of a potential trombonist who is in my list of favorite ballad players, and then I did some sleuthing and found this gem:

AndrewMeronek wrote: ↑Sun Feb 25, 2024 2:54 pm I don't really have a "best" ballad but thinking about this question, I did some thinking of a potential trombonist who is in my list of favorite ballad players, and then I did some sleuthing and found this gem:

For all the players who keep thinking ribbon mics are the only way to go, listen to that U87 (or possibly M269). That recording sounds awesome.

The most influential for me was Dick Nash playing "Joanna" in the Henry Mancini album "More Music from Peter Gunn" my sister brought home when I was about thirteen years old. I still have that album. According to the liner notes it was recorded on February 17, and March 5 and 6, 1959.