Subject: Trombone-l Digest, Vol 12, Issue 7 Date: Saturday, January 7, 2006 12:00 PM From: trombone-l-request@samford.edu Reply-To: trombone-l@samford.edu To: Conversation: Trombone-l Digest, Vol 12, Issue 7 Send Trombone-l mailing list submissions to trombone-l@maillists.samford.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://maillists.samford.edu/mailman/listinfo/trombone-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to trombone-l-request@maillists.samford.edu You can reach the person managing the list at trombone-l-owner@maillists.samford.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Trombone-l digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Lou Rawls Passes Away at 72 (Bill Dinwiddie) 2. Tommy Pederson (conn60h) 3. Tommy Pederson (Bill Dinwiddie) 4. Re: Lou Rawls passes Away at 72 (Bill Dinwiddie) 5. Re: Tommy Pederson (Phil Burton) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 16:43:49 -0600 From: "Bill Dinwiddie" Subject: [Trombone-l] Lou Rawls Passes Away at 72 To: "List Trombone" Message-ID: <002d01c61312$a97c1be0$0a00a8c0@av> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original The gritty sound of Chicago By Howard Reich Tribune arts critic Published January 6, 2006, 1:32 PM CST If any singer ever epitomized the sound of Chicago, it was Lou Rawls. Because of the man's remarkable stylistic versatility, he summed up entire musical traditions created or nurtured on the South Side of Chicago, where he was born and raised. >From the city's African-American churches, he learned as a child the declamatory style that always distinguished Chicago gospel singers. >From commercial venues such as the old Regal Theater and Metropolitan Theater at 47th Street and South King Drive (then South Parkway), Rawls absorbed the jazz idioms that were at their popular height in the 1930s and '40s. And from the neighborhood blues clubs that flourished as he was coming of age as a musician in the 1940s and early '50s, he mastered the lamenting blues phrasings that shaped his vocals. All of these musical influences and others (including doo-wop and soul) converged in Rawls' work, which transcended any specific genre. What made this stylistically far-flung approach successful was the uniquely gravelly timbre of Rawls' voice and the man's seemingly nonchalant, disarming way of approaching a song. Never given to histrionic display or thundering climaxes, Rawls managed to sing a tune almost as if he were speaking it, making even the most complex series of notes sound conversational. And the seductive quality of his baritone -- deep, dark, resonant -- enveloped any song he performed. Whether taking on a light pop tune ("You'll Never Find Another Love") or a surging urban anthem ("Dead End Street") or a soul-tinged ballad ("Love Is a Hurtin' Thing"), Rawls enabled listeners to luxuriate in the seemingly bottomless well of sound he could produce. In the end, though, every phrase he sang amounted to an autobiography of musical Chicago, for his work was built on the distinct, black musical languages that most famously have defined the sound of the city. Copyright ? 2006, Chicago Tribune Forwarded by Bill Dinwiddie ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 16:53:03 -0600 From: "conn60h" Subject: [Trombone-l] Tommy Pederson To: Message-ID: <002a01c61313$f36337b0$1c7662d1@WORKSTATION2> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Ever since a good friend of mine gave me the album "All My Friends Are Trombone Players" by Tommy Pederson, my life was changed. Egads!! These guys brought tears to me. The vibrato and studio polish opened my eyes to what could be done with a lowly trombone. George Roberts blew me away on "Josephine". That album solely made me change to bass trombone. Exactly, who was Tommy Pederson? Who were his teachers? Who were his pupils? How could this guy get the best LA studio trombonists together to record this album? To this day this is the best section trombone playing I've ever heard. ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 17:10:37 -0600 From: "Bill Dinwiddie" Subject: [Trombone-l] Tommy Pederson To: "List Trombone" Message-ID: <000501c61316$67da5d10$0a00a8c0@av> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original >From "the Trombone Page of the World": The name Tommy Pederson means great trombone music. Tommy has written hundreds of arrangements and original compositions not only for "All My Friends are Trombone Players" album, but for the "Hollywood Trombones" Christmas album and countless others. His arrangements for the trombone ensemble known as "Hoyt's Garage" (named for Hoyt Bohanan's garage) are many and those fortunate enough to have participated in those frequent sessions at Hoyt's house know what a genius Tommy Pederson is, both as an arranger and as a trombonist. Tommy was a complete musician; a fantastic trombone player and a serious student of composition; having been playing, writing and studying since he was four years old. Prior to that, he was a complete wastrel." Tommy began his professional career traveling with the bands of such luminaries as Gene Krupa and Tommy Dorsey while still in his teens. After World War Two, he came to Hollywood and started his own band. The "Tommy Pederson Orchestra" was soon a fixture at such venues as the Hollywood Palladium and the Brown Derby. As his reputation grew, so did the demands on his time. From the early 1950's, and continuing well into the 1970's, Tommy Pederson was THE trombone player in Hollywood. He was featured in literally thousands of movie soundtracks, television and radio shows, and recordings. As busy as he was (sometimes playing as many as six "sessions" a day) Tommy always found the time for his true passion: composition. The stories concerning those rehearsals in "The Garage" have reached almost legendary proportions . . . and they're true! The best players in Hollywood would stop in to play some of the most challenging yet satisfying music ever written for the trombone. Forwarded by Bill Dinwiddie ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 23:25:39 -0600 From: "Bill Dinwiddie" Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Lou Rawls passes Away at 72 To: "List Trombone" Message-ID: <000d01c6134a$cc4e0290$0a00a8c0@av> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original I was asked by Bob Koester to post the following to the list, as he encountered some difficulty posting, and he wanted everyone to know how he felt about Lou. ******************************************************************************************** Bill, If it's OK I may ask you to post something to the list since I seem to have trouble doing that. I worked Lou in Springfield, Mo, and here in KC in December. He was very sick. The guys on the list should know what a pro he was as his last few shows clearly demonstrated. Best, Bob ******************************************************************************************** Forwarded by Bill Dinwiddie ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 07:00:05 -0700 From: Phil Burton Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Tommy Pederson To: trombone-l@server5.samford.edu Message-ID: <43BFC965.6080603@bigsky.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed I recommend All My Concertos available for $15.00 at: http://cdbaby.com/cd/pederson conn60h wrote: >Ever since a good friend of mine gave me the album "All My Friends Are Trombone Players" by Tommy Pederson, my life was changed. Egads!! These guys brought tears to me. The vibrato and studio polish opened my eyes to what could be done with a lowly trombone. George Roberts blew me away on "Josephine". That album solely made me change to bass trombone. > >Exactly, who was Tommy Pederson? Who were his teachers? Who were his pupils? How could this guy get the best LA studio trombonists together to record this album? To this day this is the best section trombone playing I've ever heard. >_______________________________________________ >Trombone-l mailing list >Trombone-l@maillists.samford.edu >http://maillists.samford.edu/mailman/listinfo/trombone-l > > > > ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Trombone-l mailing list Trombone-l@maillists.samford.edu http://maillists.samford.edu/mailman/listinfo/trombone-l End of Trombone-l Digest, Vol 12, Issue 7 *****************************************