To show I have the very slightest amount of legit chops, here’s an orchestral excerpt of the second trombone solo from Mozart’s Requiem.
Take a little plunger, add a little B-flat blues, and here you get my best Al Grey imitation.
Who doesn’t love a waltz? Better yet, who doesn’t love a jazz waltz?
Sometimes you just need to cheese it up and play (as my former teacher Larry Hoepfinger used to say) “schmaltzy”.
How sad can you be while playing trombone? I’m not sure what the correct answer to that question is, but here I was trying to sound pretty sad.