[Trombone-l] Bolero

Howard Weiner h.weiner at online.de
Tue Jan 9 14:31:24 CST 2007


At 12:23 09.01.2007 -0500, Samuel Keyser wrote:
>In Richard Sudhalter's Lost Chords, he writes that Toscanini always
>hired Miff Mole when he was doing Bolero because Mole was the only
>trombone player he could trust to nail the high B-flat every time
>without fail.
>
>Mole was one of the great and innovative swing players whose role in
>trombone history has slipped (pun intended) off the screen

Actually, Miff Mole is mentioned a number of times in Trevor 
Herbert's "The Trombone."

Howard


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