Trombone duo recordings

PeterDahlgren · by **PeterDahlgren** » 2023-12-17 8:32 a.m.

Hi all, looking for jazz duo recordings by trombonists + another instrument. I found an interesting one by Albert Mangelsdorff and Lee Konitz called "Art of the duo".

I know J.J. did a record with Joe Pass. Any other suggestions?

EriKon · by **EriKon** » 2023-12-17 9:23 a.m.

Bob Brookmeyer & Jim Hall - Live at North Sea

Bob Brookmeyer & Mads Vinding

Albert Mangelsdorff and his friends (album with different duo line-ups including Don Cherry, Elvin Jones....)

Nils Wogram - Housewarming (with pianist Bojan Z)

Nils Wogram - Freies Geröll (with guitarist Joe Sachse)

There's also a recording of George Lewis with a sax player. I think Anthony Braxton. But not 100% sure.

Art of the Duo is an incredible album as nearly every Mangelsdorff record.

I'm going to release a duo record with vibraphone next year. We recorded this a month or two ago, really happy with the results, looking forward to the release.

tjonz · by **tjonz** » 2023-12-17 10:27 a.m.

Search your preferred streaming music service for "Carl Fontana Live at the Royal Palms Inn" and you'll find several albums of Fontana playing duos with trumpet players Buddy Childers, Conte Candoli, and Steve Huffsteter.

PeterDahlgren · by **PeterDahlgren** » 2023-12-18 5:05 a.m.

[quote="EriKon"]Bob Brookmeyer & Jim Hall - Live at North Sea

Bob Brookmeyer & Mads Vinding

Albert Mangelsdorff and his friends (album with different duo line-ups including Don Cherry, Elvin Jones....)

Nils Wogram - Housewarming (with pianist Bojan Z)

Nils Wogram - Freies Geröll (with guitarist Joe Sachse)

There's also a recording of George Lewis with a sax player. I think Anthony Braxton. But not 100% sure.

Art of the Duo is an incredible album as nearly every Mangelsdorff record.

I'm going to release a duo record with vibraphone next year. We recorded this a month or two ago, really happy with the results, looking forward to the release.[/quote]

Thanks for the tips! Looking forward to hear your recording!

PeterDahlgren · by **PeterDahlgren** » 2023-12-18 5:07 a.m.

[quote="tjonz"]Search your preferred streaming music service for "Carl Fontana Live at the Royal Palms Inn" and you'll find several albums of Fontana playing duos with trumpet players Buddy Childers, Conte Candoli, and Steve Huffsteter.[/quote]

Thanks! I meant duos with only two musicians, but this is really great stuff!

Enelson · by **Enelson** » 2023-12-19 1:23 a.m.

Hi Peter!

This track of Jiggs Whigham and John Clayton came to mind immediately. Doug Elliott introduced me to this CD.

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Best regards,

Everett

bwgunia · by **bwgunia** » 2023-12-19 4:12 p.m.

Phil Wilson and Paul Schmeling - Ac-cen-tchu-ate The Positive

Jiggs Whigam and Gene Bertoncini (2) The Soul of Hoagy Carmichael Jiggs and Gene

jacobgarchik · by **jacobgarchik** » 2023-12-21 8:02 p.m.

Here's something I did.

<VIMEO id="11195392">https://vimeo.com/11195392</VIMEO>

jacobgarchik · by **jacobgarchik** » 2023-12-22 2:17 p.m.

Wycliffe Gordon and Eric Reed have a gospel album.

Marshall Brown and Lee Konitz on "Duets".

jacobgarchik · by **jacobgarchik** » 2023-12-22 2:27 p.m.

This is a duo with drummer Dan Weiss that I did on my first record, Abstracts, 2005.

http://jacobgarchik.com/sounds/Abstract6excerpt.mp3

GGJazz · by **GGJazz** » 2023-12-25 9:00 p.m.

Hello all.

There is also a live recording , done in 1982 in Boston , by Phil Wilson (trbn) and Makoto Ozone (piano) .

Here one of the tracks : "These are the days"

<YOUTUBE id="AXcYir_kotA">https://youtu.be/AXcYir_kotA?si=zPmp32b491EMIVud</YOUTUBE>

Regards

Giancarlo

jacobgarchik · by **jacobgarchik** » 2025-12-04 8:18 p.m.

Ralph Sutton and vic dickenson

<YOUTUBE id="pE1F6aPq5Go">https://youtu.be/pE1F6aPq5Go?si=HBafiaBaB9z55eeK</YOUTUBE>

jacobgarchik · by **jacobgarchik** » 2025-12-04 8:48 p.m.

George Lewis has a lot of duo records. two with braxton, others with Evan Parker, bertram turetzky, Douglas Ewart, Miya Masaoka, Joëlle Léandre, and Roscoe Mitchell. Probly the king of trombone duos!

Ray Anderson has one with Mark Dresser.

Roswell has one with Mark Dresser. Roswell has one with guitar player Duck Baker.

EriKon · 2025-12-05 7:03 a.m.

To add this here, here's something I put out on Nils Wogram's label 2 months ago from my duo's debut album (trombone and vibraphone):

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Full album:

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VJOFan · by **VJOFan** » 2025-12-05 11:19 a.m.

Valve trombone but great- Rob McConnel did an album called "Mutual Street" with the guitarist from the Boss Brass at the time, Ed Bickert. Just a very tasty in the pocket run through mostly standards.

jacobgarchik · by **jacobgarchik** » 2025-12-07 8:36 a.m.

[quote="EriKon"]To add this here, here's something I put out on Nils Wogram's label 2 months ago from my duo's debut album:

<YOUTUBE id="VMpuGBnm6Is">https://youtu.be/VMpuGBnm6Is?si=Vk6HAzGqzIpmguOL</YOUTUBE>

Full album:

<YOUTUBE list="OLAK5uy_lGxBdYX9yocIdcOR9g-8vhHmQMqUuPpEc"><LINK_TEXT text="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5 ... 4DOxmTbgZY">https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lGxBdYX9yocIdcOR9g-8vhHmQMqUuPpEc&si=RmzIei4DOxmTbgZY</LINK_TEXT></YOUTUBE>[/quote]

Nice!

EriKon · by **EriKon** » 2025-12-07 9:26 a.m.

[quote="jacobgarchik"]<QUOTE author="EriKon" post_id="290148" time="1764936236" user_id="15077">
To add this here, here's something I put out on Nils Wogram's label 2 months ago from my duo's debut album:

<YOUTUBE id="VMpuGBnm6Is">https://youtu.be/VMpuGBnm6Is?si=Vk6HAzGqzIpmguOL</YOUTUBE>

Full album:

<YOUTUBE list="OLAK5uy_lGxBdYX9yocIdcOR9g-8vhHmQMqUuPpEc"><LINK_TEXT text="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5 ... 4DOxmTbgZY">https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lGxBdYX9yocIdcOR9g-8vhHmQMqUuPpEc&si=RmzIei4DOxmTbgZY</LINK_TEXT></YOUTUBE>[/quote]

Nice!
</QUOTE>

Thanks, Jacob!!! <EMOJI seq="1f64f" tseq="1f64f">🙏</EMOJI>

Brady · by **Brady** » 2025-12-07 7:02 p.m.

A couple more albums to check out:

Curtis Fuller - Blues-Ette, with Benny Golson

<YOUTUBE id="K83xM6gOp74" list="PLvxWibFr0wiK-x6v7d2MKITfxCCj1UVuq"><LINK_TEXT text="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K83xM6g ... uq&index=6">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K83xM6gOp74&list=PLvxWibFr0wiK-x6v7d2MKITfxCCj1UVuq&index=6</LINK_TEXT></YOUTUBE>

Stan Getz and J.J. Johnson at the Opera House

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EriKon · by **EriKon** » 2025-12-08 11:07 a.m.

[quote="Brady"]A couple more albums to check out:

Curtis Fuller - Blues-Ette, with Benny Golson

<YOUTUBE id="K83xM6gOp74" list="PLvxWibFr0wiK-x6v7d2MKITfxCCj1UVuq"><LINK_TEXT text="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K83xM6g ... uq&index=6">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K83xM6gOp74&list=PLvxWibFr0wiK-x6v7d2MKITfxCCj1UVuq&index=6</LINK_TEXT></YOUTUBE>

Stan Getz and J.J. Johnson at the Opera House

<YOUTUBE id="hIHbV9m0Vvs" list="PLKjjIa7cwTkJTEFeoUMrD8woI5T8wYA_e"><LINK_TEXT text="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIHbV9m ... oI5T8wYA_e">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIHbV9m0Vvs&list=PLKjjIa7cwTkJTEFeoUMrD8woI5T8wYA_e</LINK_TEXT></YOUTUBE>[/quote]

That's not what this thread is about unfortunately.

cmcslide · by **cmcslide** » 2025-12-09 10:21 a.m.

There was a recent post of Natalie Cressman playing duo with a Brazilian guitarist; they have four albums together. They also both sing. The music is great!

<LINK_TEXT text="viewtopic.php?t=42396">https://trombonechat.com/viewtopic.php?t=42396</LINK_TEXT>

dbwhitaker · by **dbwhitaker** » 2025-12-09 12:49 p.m.

[quote="cmcslide"]There was a recent post of Natalie Cressman playing duo with a Brazilian guitarist; they have four albums together. They also both sing. The music is great!

<LINK_TEXT text="viewtopic.php?t=42396">https://trombonechat.com/viewtopic.php?t=42396</LINK_TEXT>[/quote]
Just in time for Christmas they have released a duo version of the Nutcracker. <YOUTUBE id="KlJJh1jQQOY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlJJh1jQQOY</YOUTUBE>

jacobgarchik · by **jacobgarchik** » 2026-01-05 10:22 a.m.

hmmm pretty famous guys on a pretty unknown recording (recorded 1982, came out in 2022)

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jorymil · by **jorymil** » 2026-01-05 12:40 p.m.

This is a gold mine of a thread. There's tons of albums with trombone + X as the front line, but y'all have mentioned most of the ones I know about. The only thing I can think of now is the duet track on JJ's _Quintergy_ album with JJ and Wynton playing "For Dancers Only."

jorymil · 2026-01-05 1:01 p.m.

Found another track: "Union 2: Brotherly Love" off Robin Eubanks' _Mental Images_ album. Anyone else know of other Robin/Kevin duet tracks?

If anyone knows where this can be streamed/purchased these days, let me know. I got my copy from a used record store back when I was in college, then ripped it to WAV/FLAC/MP3.

jorymil · by **jorymil** » 2026-01-05 1:18 p.m.

I'll also see if I can dig up my copies of Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz with Steve Turre and with J.J. Johnson. Most of the cuts are with a rhythm section (Rufus Reid or Gary Mazzaroppi on bass), but I believe there are some duet numbers. If anyone knows how to find a reliable episode listing, let me know: I just have the episodes I was able to pull off the radio while the show was airing.

mikerspencer · by **mikerspencer** » 2026-01-05 2:49 p.m.

Trombone and cello: <BANDCAMP album_id="675473485">https://filippovignato.bandcamp.com/album/adagio-2</BANDCAMP>

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