J.J. Johnson News

Third Stream, an attempt to meld aspects of jazz and European classical and world musics, as a term may have gone away, but that can't be said for the musical movement of that name that flourished at the mid-point of the 20th Century.

Brett Sroka is a native of Lexington, Massachusetts and began playing the trombone at age ten.

THERE was a time when Papo Vazquez, an Afro-Puerto Rican trombonist, did not understand jazz.

THERE was a time when Papo Vazquez, an Afro-Puerto Rican trombonist, did not understand jazz.

THERE was a time when Papo Vazquez, an Afro-Puerto Rican trombonist, did not understand jazz.

THERE was a time when Papo Vazquez, an Afro-Puerto Rican trombonist, did not understand jazz.

THERE was a time when Papo Vazquez, an Afro-Puerto Rican trombonist, did not understand jazz.

"If the sum of a jazz artist is his musical innovation and integrity, then Glover has reached his pinnacle in this astounding CD" - Chuck Workman, NUVO Newsweekly, from his review of Politico Frank Glover's new Owl Studios CD, Politico features the award-winning jazz clarinetist/composer in quartet, orchestra and string ensemble contexts.

AccuJazz Internet radio continues its weekly roll-out of new creatively programmed jazz channels today with the launch of 'Trombone Jazz," a streaming jazz channel highlighting one of the most under-appreciated instruments in jazz, the trombone.

Saxophonist Hadley Caliman, bassist John Heard, drummer Eddie Marshall, trombonist Julian Priester, and pianist Larry Vuckovich have a combined playing history of about 275 years a ' which includes gigs with one another in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The trombone is a sorely overlooked instrument in the world of jazz. With a few notable exceptions, like Glenn Miller, J.J. Johnson, Kai Winding and Curtis Fuller, many fine performers who play this versatile instrument never got a chance to be a bandleader.

Jazz, as we once knew it, has become a thing of the past. For a lot of years clubs and promoters have been saying that this music is dead.

Born: September 9, 1927 Died: May 18, 2004 When Elvin Ray Jones moved from his hometown in Michigan to New York City in 1956, the jazz-listening world wasn't quite ready for the drummer's outer-space conception.