[Trombone-l] Acccompaniment CDs

[Richardson, Timothy Mr. DAC USAG Franconia DPW]

 I just finished a week's vacation on the southern coast of Spain.  The
beaches of Malaga were fun, a little cool for swimming but plenty of sun.

There was entertainment each night in the hotel lounge.  They had a good
sound system, very clean, and loud but not overpowering.  Each night had
some different performance:  an Irish singer covering Sinatra standards, a
soprano singing Broadway, flamenco dancers, etc.

In all cases they used a CD for the orchestra.  I suppose this is standard
now but I wanted to gripe about it anyway.  I now think I would rather hear
a cheap Casio keyboard playing the trombone part live than a perfect CD for
background.  And I've griped plenty about bad synthesized instruments.  

The Irish singer did something interesting.  He stopped singing in the
middle of a Sinatra track and called attention to the trombone solo coming
up, said it was one of Frank Rosolino's last and that he had committed
suicide two weeks after the recording, then he turned up the volume so we
could hear it.  I would think it was pretty rare for the vocalist to know a
detail like that.  I also wondered how they stripped Sinatra's voice so
well, I guess you can buy singalong CDs somewhere.  

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