[Trombone-l] tromobne players who influneced your playing

[d.sleeman]

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From: "robert riddle" <bobriddlemusic at yahoo.com>
To: <Trombone-l at server5.samford.edu>
Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 4:07 PM
Subject: [Trombone-l] tromobne players who influneced your playing

>   Carl Fontana,Harold Betters,Randy Purcell,Trummy Young ,Jimmy Knepper,Jim Pugh,
>   Sy Zentner,Dick Nash,Joe Howard,Warren Covington,Jeff Budin,Pete Sullivan,Bob Hammerick,Murray Crewe,Joe Dallas,Kai Winding,Pepper Vasquez,Conrad Herwig,
>   Matty Shiner,Bob Flannigan,Dick Shearer,Billy Graham,Jerry Johnson,Birch Johnson,
>   Dave Taylor,Bill Riechenbach,Albert Magelsdorff,George Roberts,Ashley Alexander,Mynard Ferguson,Abe Lincoln,Julian Priester,and many many more...

AT LAST!! Somebody names my favourite "tromobnist" (see the subject line :-)) 

>>> Abram "Abe" Lincoln! <<<

And is it appropriate to name somebody still alive (and kicking)? Like 'our own' Adrian Drover?

Dick Sleeman, Lelystad, Holland. <d.sleeman at hccnet.nl>

"...Of all the musical instruments in use today, the trombone is one of,
 if not THE most difficult of instruments. I know, 'cause I have one..."

  (Dewsnap in "THE TROMBONE", December 10, 2002)