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Bob Sanders' Trombone (mostly) Stuff

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I did not do a lot of these; here are a few cuts:

  • I was lucky enough to be included in The Hollywood Trombones Christmas Album. Don Waldrop organized this. I was starting to break into the biz, someone had dropped out, and I suspect Jeff Reynolds and Roy Main lobbied for me to fill in.
  • This duet, The Orators, from 2003 with my friend, Bill Booth, is available on the JDM Records CD, All My Concertos by Tommy Pederson.
  • Here’s me and some of my Pacific Symphony pals (Burnette Dillon, Tony Ellis, Bill Booth, and John Reynolds) in a brass quintet accompanying Jim Self back in 1995 on the Capuzzi Rondo on his CD, Changing Colors. The Summit Records CD is available here and various other places. (In case one delves into the personnel listed hither and yon on the interwebs for this CD, Robert Levine Sanders did NOT play bass trombone on this project. He did write a great trombone quartet, though. An amusing case of mistaken identity.)
  • In 1987, I had the privilege of recording the Janáček Sinfonietta with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Since there was “no crossover between the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra,” and the HBO started in 1990, this was one of the last opportunities I had to work with that great section and sit next to my friend, colleague, and teacher, Jeff Reynolds along with Ralph Sauer, Sonny Ausman and Norm Pearson on tuba. The trombones sound cool throughout. Check out the third movement. Ralph has an elegant solo at 3:11 and I’ve got the same lick down low at 4:02 with the low strings; it may not be as elegant in our hands, but Jeff gave me a thumbs up.
  • In 1995, Pacific Symphony commissioned and recorded Elliott Goldethal’s Fire Water Paper: A Vietnam Oratorio.
  • In 2002, Pacific Symphony recorded Richard Danielpour’s An American Requiem.
  • In 2012, Pacific Symphony recorded Philip Glass’s – The Passion of Ramakrishna.
  • In 2013, Pacific Symphony recorded three works by Michael Daugherty: Mount Rushmore, Radio City & The Gospel According to Sister Aimee. Here is the 3rd movement of Radio City, On the Air.
  • Very early in my career. The David Diggs Big Band, First Flight,
  • Les Hooper, Raisin’ the Roof, Because I had a movie call the day of the 2nd session, half the tunes on the album are me, half are my friend, the great John Leys. This tune is me. Dave Stone (RIP) sounds great on bass!
  • Jack Sheldon, Jack is Back, 1992.
  • Anita O’Day, Rules of the Road, 1993.
  • This is a WBEZ Chicago broadcast of the Toshiko Akioshi – Lew Tabackin Bid Band at the Chicago Jazz Festival on September 3, 1982. I was fortunate enough to be subbing for Phil Teele on that tour. The band sounds great! It’s a pretty good mix for a live broadcast. Enjoy!
  • Jim Fox’s The City the Wind Swept Away sets a very different mood from everything else here; but the four trombones, Alex Iles, Jeannie Little, Dave Stetson, and I, are half the ensemble. Bryan Pezzone’s touch on the piano is exquisite.
  • While not really a trombone feature, Jeremy Lubbock’s arrangement of A Change is Gonna Come for Wayne Brady was cool to be a part of.