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Ray Brown

by Rachel on August 26, 2009

I realized the other day that even though I’ve been playing in a jazz rhythm section for over two years, the three other instruments of this section (bass, drums, guitar) are probably the ones that I’m the most unfamiliar with. So I consulted our jazz band’s current bass player, Brandon Canada, for a good bass [...]

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J. J. Johnson

by Rachel on August 25, 2009

If there’s one jazz instrument that doesn’t get as much attention as it deserves, it’s the trombone. Even though it’s a pretty big instrument, the trombone has a soft, mellow sound; and the fact that it hangs out right in the middle of the standard big band — saxophones in front of them, trumpets behind [...]

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