TromboneChat

OK, this has to be shared.



I definitely need to find this album.

Mel Brooks is a comic genius.

Need to use this as background music some time to just watch people try to figure out what the tune is.

Cheers,
Andy

That bass is cranked up a bit in that recording. Call me crazy: is that a bass trombone or a cimbasso?

AndrewMeronek wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2024 3:49 pm That bass is cranked up a bit in that recording. Call me crazy: is that a bass trombone or a cimbasso?

Contra?

four trombones, two tubas

https://www.discogs.com/release/6962557 ... ry-Mancini

ithinknot wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2024 4:21 pm four trombones, two tubas

https://www.discogs.com/release/6962557 ... ry-Mancini

That explains it!

One of who was Tommy Johnson, who also played cimbasso and contrabass trombone.

Wow, the personnel listed there for that album is ridiculous!

AndrewMeronek wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2024 4:35 pm Wow, the personnel listed there for that album is ridiculous!

Gotta figure that Mancini's sessions were a big deal; if the opportunity came up to play for one, you made room in your schedule.

A lot of those guys were the typical line-up with many Mancini recordings. Like Dick Nash played basically everything that Mancini had written. Lloyd Ulyate as well as far as I know.

AndrewMeronek wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2024 3:49 pm That bass is cranked up a bit in that recording. Call me crazy: is that a bass trombone or a cimbasso?

Terry Woodson plays on that cut, and he was almost certainly playing bass trombone. Terry went from Don Ellis's band in the late 60s to being Mancini's first call bass trombonist and his music librarian/copyist.

Dammit, now my Cheerios are all over the breakfast table.

Can we / should we samba / salsa to that?