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The Evolution of the Jazz Trombone: Part Two, The Swing Era. Selected Discography

By David Wilken • March 01, 1997 • • 2 min read

Selected Discography

The following discography is far from definitive, but it should give the interested reader a place to start for albums that have the following trombonists featured as soloists.

Lawrence Brown
"Inspired Abandon" (Jasmine)
With Duke Ellington: "Duke Ellington: The Blanton-Webster Band" (RCA/Bluebird)
With Rex Stewart: "The Essencial Keynote Collection 5, The Fabulous Ellingtonians" (Mercury)

Tommy Dorsey
"Stardust" (RCA/Bluebird)
"The One and Only Tommy Dorsey" (RCA Special Products)
"Kings of Swing, Vl. 2" (Intersound)

Bill Harris
"Bill Harris and Friends" (Fantasy/OJC)
With Woody Herman: "Best of Woody Herman, 1945-7" (CBS)
With Woody Herman: "The Thundering Herds 1" (CBS)

Jimmy Harrison
With Fletcher Henderson: "Hocus Pocus" (RCA/Bluebird)
With Fletcher Henderson: "A Study in Frustration" (CBS)
With Fletcher Henderson: ""Developing an American Orchestra", 1923-1937" (Smithsonian/CBS)

Benny Morton
With Count Basie: "Swinging the Blues" (Affinity)
With Count Basie: "The Essential Count Basie, Vl. 1" (Columbia)

Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton
With Duke Ellington: "The Okey Ellington" (Columbia)
With Duke Ellington: "The Duke Ellington Carnegie Hall Concerts" (Prestige)
With Duke Eillington: "Cotton Club Days" (LaserLight Digital)

Jack Teagarden
"It's Time For T, Volume 1: 1941" (Jass Records)
"King of the Blues Trombone" (Columbia)
With Louis Armstrong: "The Hot Fives and Hot Sevens" (Columbia)

Juan Tizol
With Duke Ellington and Nat "King" Cole: "After Midnight" (EMI)
With Duke Ellington: "The Duke Ellington Carnegie Hall Concerts" (Prestige)
With Duke Ellington: "Kings of Swing, Vl. 1" (Intersound)

Dicky Wells
"Dicky Wells in Paris" (Prestige)
With Count Basie: "The Count and the President" (CBS)
With Count Basie: "The Essential Count Basie, Vl. 1" (Columbia)

Trummy Young
With Jimmie Lunceford: "The Complete Jimmie Lunceford" (CBS)
With Louis Armstrong: "Hello Dolly" (LABELGeroldswill)