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The trombone in Jazz and Popular Music Free
No. 50 • 1985 Digitized

Part 1

The trombone in Jazz and Popular Music

Jazz did not invent the modern trombone: early virtuosos, New Orleans players and changing techniques reveal a more complex path toward flexibility and legato.

By Michel Laplace

History Technique Jazz Articulation
No. 95 • 1996 Awaiting digitization

Branimir Slokar

A happy trombonist

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters
The Trombone in the Sacred Works of W. A. Mozart Free
No. 46 • 1984 Digitized

The Trombone in the Sacred Works of W. A. Mozart

In Mozart’s sacred music, the trombone moved beyond choral reinforcement to striking solo roles that preserve the sound and practice of eighteenth-century Salzburg.

By Benny Sluchin

Repertoire History Interpretation
No. 80 • 1992 Awaiting digitization

Rudolf Josel

Austrian trombone master

By Wolfgang Suppan

Encounters
No. 89 • 1995 Awaiting digitization

Porcia 1994

International Trombone Competition

By Benny Sluchin

Competition
Vladislav Mykhaylovich Blazhevich (1881-1942) Free
No. 38 • 1982 Digitized

Vladislav Mykhaylovich Blazhevich (1881-1942)

Trombonist, Composer and Teacher

From village band to the Moscow Conservatoire and the Bolshoi, a lifelong commitment to performance, teaching and wind music shaped Soviet trombone tradition.

By Viktor Sumerkin

History Teaching Russian school Orchestral playing Brass Ensemble
No. 99 • 1997 Awaiting digitization

Prague 1997 celebration of young talents?

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Competition
No. 117 • 2002 Awaiting digitization

Carl Traugott Queisser

God of the trombone

By Sebastian Krause

History
No. 77 • 1992 Awaiting digitization

Part 1

The 18th Century Trombone

Rumors of its death were premature

By J. Richard Raum

History
No. 66 • 1989 Awaiting digitization

Palmer Traulsen

One of the great masters of the Scandinavian trombone school

By Michael Lind

History Encounters
Joannès Rochut (1881-1952)
No. 50 • 1985 Digitized

Joannès Rochut (1881-1952)

Trombonist of the Boston symphony Orchestra

Behind a cornerstone of trombone teaching lies Rochut’s path between Paris and Boston, lost manuscripts, orchestral life and the enduring Bordogni legacy.

By David Fetter

History
Trombone workshops Free
No. 52 • 1985 Digitized

Trombone workshops

In Nashville, Copenhagen and Metz, trombone workshops took strikingly different forms, exposing the artistic ambitions and practical tensions behind a growing movement.

By Benny Sluchin

Report Event
No. 113 • 2001 Awaiting digitization

Frank Martin, The Ballade for trombone and piano

By Roland Schnohrk

Repertoire
Anton Hansen (1877-1947) Free
No. 27 • 1979 Digitized

Part 1

Anton Hansen (1877-1947)

Father of trombone playing in Scandinavia

From Nørrebro cafés to the Royal Orchestra, Anton Hansen’s early years reveal the shift from valve to slide trombone in Scandinavian orchestras.

By Per Gade

History Professional life Orchestral playing Auditions
No. 108 • 1999 Awaiting digitization

Ivan Meylemans, a trombone from out of the blue

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters
Glenn Ferris - Profile
No. 23 • 1978 Digitized

Glenn Ferris - Profile

Beyond fame and labels: Glenn Ferris rejects the music business game—defining a raw, uncompromising vision of creativity, freedom, and what it means to truly play.

By Lee Underwood

Encounters Professional life Freelance Jazz
On the Sackbut or Harmonic Trumpet
No. 45 • 1984 Digitized

On the Sackbut or Harmonic Trumpet

From Pierre Trichet’s Traité des Instruments de Musique (c. 1640)

A seventeenth-century description of the sackbut captures its moving slide, chromatic freedom and bass role at a moment when the instrument was still being defined.

By Pierre Trichet

History Equipment Historical instruments
No. 107 • 1999 Awaiting digitization

Part 2

The trombone according to orchestration treatises (France 1700-1914)

By Raymond Lapie

History
No. 91 • 1995 Awaiting digitization

Toulon 1995

International trombone competition

By Roland Schnohrk

Competition
Science and Technology in Trombone Teaching Free
No. 41 • 1983 Digitized

Science and Technology in Trombone Teaching

What if tone production depended less on instinct than on understanding how the instrument, the lips and the air function as one interconnected system?

By Sergej Gorovoj

Teaching Acoustics Sound Breathing Tongue
Reminiscence of trombonists of the past Free
No. 22 • 1978 Digitized

Reminiscence of trombonists of the past

Echoes of the past: Werner Beyer traces great trombonists from the 17th century to Wagner’s era—revealing how tradition, players, and instruments shaped the modern orchestra.

By Werner Beyer

History Orchestral playing Historical instruments
No. 121 • 2003 Awaiting digitization

Anatoly Skobelev - Russian Grand Master of the trombone

By Victor Batashev

Encounters
No. 109 • 2000 Awaiting digitization

The ingenious Free-Flow rotary valve of René Hagmann

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Equipment
No. 101 • 1998 Awaiting digitization

John Smithies, trombonist & enigma

By John Humphries

History Encounters
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