Who’d-a-thunk: back in the day, George Duke attended the San Francisco Conservatory of Music – on a trombone scholarship:
“They had too many classical piano players. I didn’t have their chops. I couldn’t keep up with them,” Duke said of the applicants the year he applied. “But they also had a brass scholarship for trombone and they didn’t have any trombone players. So I knew I could get that one!”
Haha.
Barry just discovered US scholarships & music academia….. A world to explore.
Jazz soprano sax player ( shortly before he died) was nominated as prof in .. Texas.
Weird guitar comoser / player Fred Frith is still prof in Oakland.
For instance …..
I will ask him about it.
Isn’t he tromboning on Chunga’s Revenge, if memory serves?
Yep–and on 200 MOTELS as well. The 200 MOTELS Outtakes feature some extra trombone goodies, like the extra bridge to WWTEBMTM. And as a trombone player, I look up to him and (especially) Mr. Bruce Fowler.