The best trombone ballad you've ever heard

[tbdana]

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

Please post a link to a sound or video file, so we can all listen.

[Slydeguy]

A favorite: Frank Rosolino “Violets”

https://youtu.be/y_jmTqMGFKg?si=lmxTQ3AqcneBZPg5

[tbdana]

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.

https://youtu.be/pvudYgjh7So?si=dX1fNF5JSeOOz96b

[Nolankberk]

https://youtu.be/PjNMeR9T7UU?si=9K57oWvmRWEv_lGR

Nothing beats a nice melody with strings

[Nolankberk]

https://youtu.be/ricVfprV0Lo?si=hq0ueS3tqAfUxZU8
This one too!

[GGJazz]

Hi all .

Here two among my favourites:

J. J. Johnson "My Old Flame" ( 1958)
https://youtu.be/8iGHuYDiS1g?si=CwfxF31ZnIUr5hVR

Jack Jenney "Stardust" (1939)
https://youtu.be/uC-kWPfBc1Q?si=PM39a-75xErhIVQC

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

Regards
Giancarlo

[EriKon]

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.

https://youtu.be/dSiyBzmNcZQ?si=EyQYIgbZF326ZdL3

[harrisonreed]

https://youtu.be/pjfXaXJuEFo?feature=shared

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.

[harrisonreed]

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

https://youtu.be/YPHRJdKrcd4?feature=shared

[jej]

Dick Nash, "My One and Only Love"

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

[AndrewMeronek]

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:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ57WpnM7tk

[harrisonreed]

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:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ57WpnM7tk

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.

[KWL]

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IHzPfD ... cini-Topic

[LetItSlide]

Not the best recording ever, but Urbie making E-flat in the fifth octave sound easy, and generally sounding smooth as silk.
https://youtu.be/G_KcabmAEKs?si=WLEwJ7AFSr6hoYZE

[TheConnArtist70H]

For me, Bill and his amazing rendition of " Times " by the one and only Mr Patrick Williams, also featuring the amazing Tom Scott on Sax..... To me this just goes to show how a mix of talented musicians can make it sound Sooooo easy, effortless..... and good

https://youtu.be/V_XlYnldXYE?feature=shared

Wow ! Thanks Bill & Pat

[JTeagarden]

Lawrence Brown's Golden Cress is pretty nice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjq5zb9pB2w

Jack Teagarden, Love Lies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7zncerlCio

[dershem]

https://youtu.be/XRlyDo-YG64?feature=shared

[Fidbone]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emVsrjJRc8Y

[VJOFan]

https://youtu.be/MidWs8wlZ6g?si=R4-AKKAGNt8j9sMG

[Bach5G]

I’m fond of McChesney’s The First Time.

[geseco]

Any from an alto?