I am a university student studying music education. I'm actually a trumpet player but trombone is my secondary instrument.

Looking for a little help from y'all - what are some definitive or "must have" recordings for trombone? Could be classical, jazz, concerto style, whatever. Thank you in advance!

Here's just a few you can pick up in almost any used record store for a few bucks, or on eBay. Some as a leader, some as a sideman:

Tyree Glenn At The Roundtable

Bill Watrous and the Manhattan Wlidlife Refuge- The Tiger of San Pedro

Ten Greats of Jazz/Jazz in the Troc/Colorado Jazz Festival (w/Carl Fontana)

San Diego Jazz Club Plays the Sound of Jazz (w/ Carl Fontana)

Odessa Sound of Jazz (w/ Carl Fontana)

Jack Teagarden at the Roundtable

Mardi Gras in Dixie (Coronet Records)

Lloyd Ellis Quintet with Carl Fontana

Concerto For Herd, Woody Herman and the Thundering Herd at the Monterey Jazz Festival (w/ Carl Fontana)

Dukes of Dixieland Vol. 1-10 (any)

Jack Teagarden and Orchestra, The Blues and Dixie

Four Horns and a Lush Life (w/ Frank Rosolino)

Bill Watrous Quintet, Funk'n Fun

Rosolino-Candoli, Just Friends

Bill Watrous in London

Jack Teagarden Sextet featuring Don Ewell

The World's Greatest Jazz Band albums from the 70's

any Supersax album w/ Rosolino or Fontana

Rampart Street Paraders, Rampart and Vine (Abe Lincoln!)

Trummy Young, Struttin' with Some Barbecue

any generic Dixieland album that has Will Bradley

Trummy Young, Yours Truly

Shades of New Orleans (w/ Walden "Frog" Joseph)

Charlie Ventura in concert with Jackie Cain, Roy Kral (w/ Benny Green)

The Dixie Rebels, The Dixie Rebels strike back with true Dixieland Sound (Command Records)

Frank Rosolino, 4 Jazz Confronto

Wallace Davenport, Jazz From New Orleans (w/ Freddie Lonzo)

Kings of Dixieland (Bright Orange)

Buck Clayton Jam Session (w/ Urbie Green)

Cecil Lloyd Quintet, I Cover The Waterfront (w/ Don Drummond)

Christian Lindberg:

(These are the most useful of his albums)

1. The Criminal Trombone (trombone + piano)

2. Romantic Trombone Concertos (w/ orchestra, probably his best standalone album. Also one of the first albums with trombone and a full orchestra. The Grondahl recording is miraculous)

3. Windpower! (W/ band)

Joseph Alessi:

Return to Sorrento (easy listening )

Illuminations

Hakan Bjorkman:

Mandrake in the Corner (w/ brass band)

Here is the album that convinced me it was time to learn to play trombone:

Bill Watrous, Bone-ified

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I listen to several of the selections on this CD 3-6 times a week, while I'm exercising or when I'm driving. There isn't a note he plays that I don't wish I could play. Or, to put it another way, he plays all the notes I want to play! (Also, the pianist, Shelly Berg, is a master.) The Youtube videos of Bill performing or in discussion with Paul the Trombonist and others are priceless. RIP Bill.

Anything by Urbie Green

Check out Slide Hampton on the Barry Harris record, "Luminescence".

"Four of a Kind" is a fine quartet album with Joe Alessi, Scott Hartman, Mark Lawrence and Blair Bollinger playing a lot of the standard trombone quartet repertoire - some of the music here is stuff that a good high school quartet can play.

Everything Urbie ever recorded

Fede e Amor - Alex Potter (countertenor), Simen van Mechelen, Catherine Motuz (trombones), Carles Cristobal (bassoon) and Ensemble La Fontaine, Ramée 2013

Starting points to explore these two greats:

J.J. Johnson - J.J. In Person

Marshall Gilkes - Edenderry