Trombone History: Added a new page, Alto in Treatises, that gives quotations from more than 45 treatises, dictionaries, and methods, most of them primary sources. It is arranged chronologically and spans from 1600 through the first quarter of the 20th…
Month: July 2009
Robin Eubanks on "Electric Trombone"
Robin Eubanks is doing some interesting things with electronics and trombone. The techniques are not really new, but he has made this type of playing a specialty. He calls this tune “Blues for Jimi Hendrix.”
Trombone History: Marguerite Dufay, Parisian Music Hall Trombonist
In 1899, Louis Anquetin (1861-1932), a respected anti-Impressionist artist, published this lithograph of trombonist Marguerite Dufay. Part of the “Les Maitre de L’Affiches” series, it portrays a woman categorized among comique excentrique entertainers of the popular Parisian music cafes. Marguerite Dufay…