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Which are your favourite ballad recordings played by trombonists?

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Some of my favorites:
Carl Fontana on Polka Dots & Moonbeams. He's awesome. Great things to transcribe here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7er7pUEnM4

Bill Watrous on Body & Soul. A heavy classic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0YUHLtWd0E

Urbie Green on Old Folks (a real nice, original buttery piece) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmqefKn2dVU

Rick Culver from the Pat Metheny Big Band on Dream of the Return (kind of a rock-ish newer 90s feel straight-eighths ballad) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FJlQaveagA

Bill Watrous might be my favorite on a ballad, but Carl is great, too. Urbie is also good, but the musical complexity sometimes isn't there. Frank is a phenomenal musician, but sometimes his quick runs and hard tongue can be off-putting in a ballad, just personal preference though.

Most anything with Dick Nash! Hatari Theme, I cover the WaterFront and many more!

Charlie Small.
Pick something out of this lot. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... l+trombone

Any ballad played by Tommy Dorsey. In fact, his whole band was the best at playing ballads, with the best ballad vocalists. And Tommy had such a wonderful tone for ballads.

Lots of favorites including the ones already mentioned but Kai Winding is one of my big favorites for ballads.
Crazy She Calls Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7BiLtU ... k-_biEsD56
The Boy Next Door
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_xUNxu ... 56&index=2

That's Him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcHqBuH ... 56&index=3
Lonely Town
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqhkYGD ... k-_biEsD56

Also, from the Woody Herman Band, Bob Burgess, Alone Again, Naturally
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TIWJdeRBwQ

and Birch Johnson also with Woody, What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life, also on the Woody Herman Thundering Herd LP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SygyjGiA5v0

A standby is A Time for Love from the Watrous book.

jthomas105 wrote: Fri Dec 07, 2018 1:41 pm Lots of favorites including the ones already mentioned but Kai Winding is one of my big favorites for ballads.
Crazy She Calls Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7BiLtU ... k-_biEsD56

Since when did Kai Winding play left-handed? Couldn't the record company have used a non-mirror image photo for this album cover?

Urbie - At Last
Jimmy Knepper - Where Flamingos Fly

How's this - Dave Steinmeyer, And We Will Love Again.

https://youtu.be/gYHzp6yctsI

I would like to submit another name, that of Jimmy Cleveland, for his skill in playing ballads. He was also one of the most technically skilled of the bop-based trombonists, whilst retaining the wonderful characteristics of old-style jazz trombone playing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpUd1sYJ-d8

As well as those already mentioned other great ballad players

Don Lusher too numerous to list but some of the best are on you tube

Buddy Morrow. Golden trombone a complete lp of ballads again on YouTube

Bart van Lier

Too name but three

Bill Watrous, one of the best, is smoother than butter. This recording is fantastic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRlyDo-YG64

Curtis always gets me, hard to pick one but definitly one of my favorites.
https://youtu.be/yHkH5OUgoKk

Pre59 wrote: Wed Dec 05, 2018 3:06 pm Charlie Small.
Pick something out of this lot. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... l+trombone

Wasn't familiar with this guy, thank you this really beautiful stuff.

George Roberts with Stan Kenton. Bass bone at it's best.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYbnOfRIqgU

John Allred’s “Eveline” on his album In the Beginning
And “Spring can Really Hang You Up the Most” on his Focused