Subject: TROMBONE-L Digest - 31 Jan 2004 to 1 Feb 2004 (#2004-33) Date: Monday, February 2, 2004 12:00 AM From: Automatic digest processor Reply-To: "Trombones and related issues forum." To: Recipients of TROMBONE-L digests There are 5 messages totalling 256 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. New jazz CD (2) 2. Janacek 3. Peter Ellefson in Chicago Tribune 4. Annotated Guide call to arms ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 13:14:05 -0800 From: alex iles Subject: New jazz CD Hi All, Forwarding this along for Roger. This is duo recording is straight ahead jazz trombone at its FINEST!! A long overdue addition to the list of super melodic, swinging jazz trombone recordings! Get it!! Best wishes, Alex > Greetings, all! > > I have a new CD just released that some of you may be interested in > purchasing. It is a jazz duo, consisting of myself on trombone and > Ben Di Tosti on piano, and the music ranges from ballads to swing > to jazz waltzes. Most of the 13 songs are standards such as "It's > Been a Long, Long Time," "Sweet Georgia Brown," "Stardust," and > the like, but one of the pieces is a takeoff on "The Swan" from > Saint-Saens' "Carnival of the Animals," and another is my original, > "The Hazards of Loving You." > > To read more about the CD, including endorsements from people > such as Dave Brubeck and Bill Watrous, and to hear some brief > audio clips from the CD, go to this web address: > > www.gemtone.com > > and click on the link for Ben Di Tosti and Roger Bissell or on the > link for The Art of the Duo. > > The website accepts only credit cards through PayPal, so if you > want to order the CD but would rather save several dollars and > send me a check or money order, let me know via email, and > we'll work out the details. > > Best to all, > Roger > > Roger Bissell, musician-writer > P.O. Box 5193, Orange, CA 92863 > http://members.aol.com/REBissell/index.html > ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 14:15:27 -0600 From: Barry Green Subject: Re: New jazz CD Hey, Thought I'd chime in, Roger Bissell is an excellent trombonist who lived here in Nashville for many years, his presence is missed greatly by many, myself included. This cd is great. Barry Green ----- Original Message ----- From: "alex iles" To: Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 3:14 PM Subject: [TBN-L] New jazz CD > Hi All, > > Forwarding this along for Roger. This is duo recording is straight ahead > jazz trombone at its FINEST!! A long overdue addition to the list of > super melodic, swinging jazz trombone recordings! Get it!! > > Best wishes, > > Alex > > > Greetings, all! > > > > I have a new CD just released that some of you may be interested in > > purchasing. It is a jazz duo, consisting of myself on trombone and > > Ben Di Tosti on piano, and the music ranges from ballads to swing > > to jazz waltzes. Most of the 13 songs are standards such as "It's > > Been a Long, Long Time," "Sweet Georgia Brown," "Stardust," and > > the like, but one of the pieces is a takeoff on "The Swan" from > > Saint-Saens' "Carnival of the Animals," and another is my original, > > "The Hazards of Loving You." > > > > To read more about the CD, including endorsements from people > > such as Dave Brubeck and Bill Watrous, and to hear some brief > > audio clips from the CD, go to this web address: > > > > www.gemtone.com > > > > and click on the link for Ben Di Tosti and Roger Bissell or on the > > link for The Art of the Duo. > > > > The website accepts only credit cards through PayPal, so if you > > want to order the CD but would rather save several dollars and > > send me a check or money order, let me know via email, and > > we'll work out the details. > > > > Best to all, > > Roger > > > > Roger Bissell, musician-writer > > P.O. Box 5193, Orange, CA 92863 > > http://members.aol.com/REBissell/index.html > > > ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 15:28:07 -0600 From: David Pozos Subject: Janacek I just got done reading "Janacek«s uncollected Essays On Music, Selected, Edited and Translated by Mirka Zemenov‡".I think that the guy was a bit crazy. My colleague is from the Czech Republic and says the same thing. The guy was out there. Personally I don«t think the guy knew what he wanted. Perhaps make an arrangement that works for you. We used 4 trombones but yes, it could have been done with 3. This answers nothing I«m sure. David Pozos Principal de Trombones Orquesta Sinf—nica de Xalapa www.sinfonicadexalapa.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 20:07:35 -0500 From: Dale Cruse Subject: Peter Ellefson in Chicago Tribune --Apple-Mail-1-740091729 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Trombone professor Peter Ellefson of Indiana University was quoted in today's Chicago Tribune in an article about owning and listening to music on portable devices like iPods. Check it out: http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/arts/chi -0402010529feb01,1,2075121.story?coll=chi-techtopheds-hed (free registration required) ---- Dale Cruse www.dalecruse.com Setting you up for success. --Apple-Mail-1-740091729 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=US-ASCII Trombone professor Peter Ellefson of Indiana University was quoted in today's Chicago Tribune in an article about owning and listening to music on portable devices like iPods. Check it out: http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/arts/chi-0402010529feb01,1,2075121.story?coll=chi-techtopheds-hed (free registration required) Lucida Grande---- Dale Cruse www.dalecruse.com Setting you up for success. --Apple-Mail-1-740091729-- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 21:51:52 -0500 From: Dale Cruse Subject: Annotated Guide call to arms I am posting this from bass trombonist Matthew Guilford of the National Symphony Orchestra. This is posted on his online weblog at: http://radio.weblogs.com/0131158 CALLING ALL INTREPID BASS TROMBONE DMA STUDENTS AND TROMBONE RESEARCHERS WORLDWIDE Are you: ð Searching for a DMA project? ð Looking for a sure-fire way to impress your tenure review committee? ð Hoping to create an on-line presence while assisting thousands of trombonists in the process? ð Praying that you can find the correct information regarding bass trombone literature on the web? Trombonists have used and trusted the Annotated Guide to Bass Trombone Literature by Thomas G. Everett for three decades. First published in 1973, this excellent guide lists all material published for the bass trombone with comprehensive notes about each entry. The third and final edition of the Annotated Guide to Bass Trombone Literature was published in 1985 by The Brass Press, and has since changed publishing houses to Editions BIM, owned by Jean-Pierre Mathez. It is an understatement to say that the landscape of bass trombone literature has changed in the ensuing nearly 19 years of this final edition. Just think of all the Eric Ewazen works, the Zwillich Concerto, the Brubeck Concerto just to name a few. There is currently no repository of information on these works or the thousands of others written since 1985. This situation needs to be changed. A few years back, as a literature project for one of my DMA students at the University of Maryland, I made an assignment for him to list and categorize every known work published for the bass trombone, without annotation, including works which are no longer in print. After all, Tom Everett has already paved the way with his guide, plus the Internet can now call up almost any information one may need for such an assignment. Also, the Library of Congress is just a few miles from campus and can help to fill in the gaps. Well, this project faltered for various reasons, but it got me thinking about a comprehensive update of all literature written for the bass trombone since it was invented. Why not? My web designer, trombonist Dale Cruse, alerted me to the fact that the Annotated Guide to Bass Trombone Literature is languishing at Editions BIM without update for nearly two decades. Why not create an online guide of all bass trombone literature ever written with annotation? DMA students need projects. Professors need to be published. The need is obvious for the bass trombone playing public. Who is up to the task? How shall it start? Who will oversee the project? There will need to be contributors, editors, web expertise, and sponsors. Sounds like a group effort to me, and it should be because we are talking about a massive undertaking. Let the discussion begin. ---- Dale Cruse www.dalecruse.com Setting you up for success. ------------------------------ End of TROMBONE-L Digest - 31 Jan 2004 to 1 Feb 2004 (#2004-33) ***************************************************************