[Trombone-l] Don Lusher

[David W. Buckley]

Thank you so much for passing this sad news along Derrick. Don truly was an
original gentleman in all respects. Despite his great skill he was humble
and friendly to all. You may remember his story at Nashville of taking
refesher lessons from Denis Wick annually. How many top trombone players of
any age do anything similar?

I first met Don in the spring of 1980 when he was the guest of the Hamilton
Temple Salvation Army Band at our annual festival in Hamilton Place. We
accompanied him in the Gordon Langford and in Erik Leidzen's Concertina, a
solo which I premiered in canada in 1955. What a thrill! He also graciously
agreed to play a Bruce Broughton quartette with Bob Merritt, Doug Burden and
myself and much to my discomfort, deferred to me on how it should be played.

It was heart warming to see his obvious joy in finding Diana after the
tragic loss of his first wife.

Please pass along my condolences to Diana.

Don will be greatly missed and we are all saddened today.

Dave Buckley.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Derrick Parker" <mail at derrickparker.co.uk>
To: <trombone-l at server5.samford.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 10:47 AM
Subject: [Trombone-l] Don Lusher


> Sadly Don Lusher passed away today. Don was one of Britain's finest
> ambassadors for the trombone as well as being a great lead trombone player
> both with the Ted Heath Orchestra and his own Don Lusher Orchestra. He is
> internationally known by trombonists and perhaps more importantly by the
man
> in the street. He could be seen and heard regularly with sessions bands on
> TV and Radio.
>
> He was deeply committed to the trombone in all its aspects being a member
of
> Board of Advisors of the International Trombone
> Association<http://www.niu.edu/acad/music/ita>and a past president of
> the British Trombone Society and was a significant
> influence to many jazz and straight trombonists the world over.
>
> I'm sure there will be many tributes to Don in future days put more
> eloquently than this note but having known him through the BTS I felt it
> important to let you, his friends and colleagues, know of his sad passing.
>
> For those not familiar with Don then see his web site - donlusher.com
>
> Derrick
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