Miscellaneous CD's, LP's, etc.
I did not do a lot of records; here are a few cuts.
I was lucky enough to be included in this project. Don Waldrop organized this. I was starting to break in to the biz, someone had dropped out, and I suspect Jeff Reynolds and Roy Main lobbied for me to fill in.
This duet from 2003 with my friend, Bill Booth, is available on the JDM Records CD, All My Concertos by Tommy Pederson. More info and pics here. The CD is out of print, but is available as an mp3 album at Apple Music and Amazon.
Here's me and some of my Pacific Symphony pals 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 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 Michael Daugherty’s Mount Rushmore, Radio City & The Gospel According to Sister Aimee.
Very early in my career. The David Diggs Big Band, First Flight, 1973.
Les Hooper, Raisin' the Roof, 1982. 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 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!
In 2002, Bill Elliott released Farkle and Friends, which included John Lithgow's The Remarkable Farkle McBride, his take on a young person’s guide to the orchestra – or the evolution of a maestro. It was a lot of fun. Elliott’s score is excellent, and many of my pals sound great; in particular, Bruce Otto’s trombone solos and Doug Tornquist’s tuba solos.
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.