Brooklyn-based Jacob Garchik's The Heavens (The Atheist Gospel Trombone Album) recalls the prose of author James Weldon Johnson's famous 1927 book of poetry, God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in ...

Glen David Andrews performs Friday, May 1, 2009 at the New Orleans Jazz Festival. "CAN WE GET EVERYBODY UP!" shouted Glen David Andrews, stretching his arms towards the audience in the Gospel Tent at ...

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Trombone choirs play a part in more styles of music than you can shake a slide at: classical, jazz, gospel and pop. The oldest continuously performing musical ensemble in America is a trombone choir.

There’s a lot about Jacob Garchik’s solo brass album that probably shouldn’t work. First comes that subtitle, a vivid contradiction that reads a little like a Stephen Wright joke. But then there’s its ...