The Jazzbone's Connected To The Trombone - Bobby Byrne

Wild Bones

The Jazzbone's Connected To The Trombone
Bobby Byrne
Joins With Four Other Great Trombonists
And An All-Star Rhythm Sections
To Present Exciting Jazz Moods
Produced and Originated by Enoch Light
Cover Painting For The Grand Awards Collection by Irwin Rosenhouse
Grand Award Record Company
G.A.33-416
1959

From the back cover: If any single musician can fill the gap left in the top ranks of trombone virtuosos by the death of Tommy Dorsey, that musician is Bobby Byrne. From the ultra-smooth, singing tone on ballads to the rough, lusty jazz attack, Bobby's playing parallels the remarkable scope of the great T. D. And it is not presumptuous to speak of Bobby Byrne filling Tommy Dorsey's shoes because Bobby has done it before – when Tommy was alive and Bobby was only 17.

It happened in 1935 when young Bobby was a member of the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra. In the Spring of that year came the celebrated argument that broke up the Dorsey Brothers band – when Tommy accused Jimmy of setting the tempos too fast and then stalked off the stand to start a band of his own. Jimmy moved Bobby Byrne into Tommy's chair, gave him all of Tommy's parts to play. And Bobby took over so completely and so well that, instead of being lost in the shadow of the great trombonist he had replaced, he became such a musical personality in his own right that within four years he was able to launch a highly successful band of his own.

Today Bobby Byrne is not only an unusually brilliant and polished trombonist but he is a musician with ideas. In this album he explores the excitingly rich and varied musical sounds that can be drawn from a full trombone ensemble. He has brought together three different groups of top trombonists for these pieces, groups which include Lou McGarity, a master of an exuberant, rough-and-tumble trombone style; Urbie Green, who has ranged from suave to swing with Woody Herman, Benny Goodman and other great bandleaders; Frank Rehak, one of the brightest new jazz trombone stars; Bob Alexander, who followed Bobby Byrne in Jimmy Dorsey's trombone section; and bass trombonists Tommy Mitchell, Dick Leib and Dick Hixon. The Rhythm section that supports the trombone ensembles has been chosen with the same care. It is made up of four remarkably imaginative and flexible musicians – Moe Wechsler, piano, Tony Mottola, Guitar, Jack Lesberg, bass, and Terry Synder, drums – who have worked together so frequently that they contribute to each piece as closely knit unit as well as individual stars.

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