Glenn Miller
Urbie Green
Bill Watrous
JJ Johnson plays "Like Someone In Love"
Megumi Kanda began playing trombone at the age of 10 in Tokyo, Japan, and attended the Toho High School of Music, where she won first prize in a Japanese national competition. After high school, she moved to the United States and earned a Bachelor of Music from the Cleveland Institute of Music where she studied with James DeSano, principal trombone of the Cleveland Orchestra. She was first hired as a professional trombonist by the Albany Symphony Orchestra in 1997, and then worked for the Rochester Philharmonic.
Urbie Green
Bill Watrous
Wycliffe Gordon
Joseph Alessi plays "Fantasy"
Joseph Alessi plays "Fantasy"
JJ Johnson plays "Like Someone In Love"
Megumi Kanda began playing trombone at the age of 10 in Tokyo, Japan, and attended the Toho High School of Music, where she won first prize in a Japanese national competition. After high school, she moved to the United States and earned a Bachelor of Music from the Cleveland Institute of Music where she studied with James DeSano, principal trombone of the Cleveland Orchestra. She was first hired as a professional trombonist by the Albany Symphony Orchestra in 1997, and then worked for the Rochester Philharmonic.
Kanda is currently the principal
trombonist with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra (MSO) in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, a position she won in 2002 (out of a field of 76
applicants for the position, only seven of whom were female).
Trombone Shorty at age 13
His solo begins at the 1min30second mark
