Trees

Trees

Ah the sweet sound of trombone—no really, trombone. Every now and again we need reminded that the trombone can be sultry, even beautiful: they‚re not just the jackhammers that Berlioz and Mahler used to built their sonic skyscrapers. They may be the laughingstock of high school marching bands everywhere, but with Ed Neumeister at the… Read more »

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Ah the sweet sound of trombone—no really, trombone. Every now and again we need reminded that the trombone can be sultry, even beautiful: they‚re not just the jackhammers that Berlioz and Mahler used to built their sonic skyscrapers. They may be the laughingstock of high school marching bands everywhere, but with Ed Neumeister at the helm of the slide mechanism, the instrument sings strong and lyrically. Joined by John Hollenbeck (drums and percussion), Drew Gress (bass), and Fritz Pauer (piano), Neumeister’s quartet weaves complex melodic tapestries with a laidback vide. This disc goes better with the Sunday paper than coffee.

—RN