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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.

A favorite: Frank Rosolino “Violets”

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

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

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

Nothing beats a nice melody with strings

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Dick Nash, "My One and Only Love"

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

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

AndrewMeronek wrote: Sun Feb 25, 2024 2:54 pm 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.

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

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

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

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

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

Any from an alto?