Who’d-a-thunk: back in the day, George Duke attended the San Francisco Conservatory of Music - on a trombone scholarship:
“They had too many classical piano players. I didn’t have their chops. I couldn’t keep up with them,” Duke said of the applicants the year he applied. “But they also had a brass scholarship for trombone and they didn’t have any trombone players. So I knew I could get that one!”
February 23rd, 2006 at 7:53 pm »
Haha.
Barry just discovered US scholarships & music academia….. A world to explore.
Jazz soprano sax player ( shortly before he died) was nominated as prof in .. Texas.
Weird guitar comoser / player Fred Frith is still prof in Oakland.
For instance …..
February 23rd, 2006 at 10:20 pm »
I will ask him about it.
February 24th, 2006 at 12:44 am »
Isn’t he tromboning on Chunga’s Revenge, if memory serves?
February 24th, 2006 at 5:02 am »
Yep–and on 200 MOTELS as well. The 200 MOTELS Outtakes feature some extra trombone goodies, like the extra bridge to WWTEBMTM. And as a trombone player, I look up to him and (especially) Mr. Bruce Fowler.