That¹s exactly what I set out to do. I went out looking for a job one day and passed by Capitol Records. Never. Of course, I played the violent shark scenes, too, but those soft long tones, early on the movie were the most dramatic. She was a good friend of mine, bless her heart. I have just modified one external link on George Roberts (trombonist). It shouldn¹t sound like a baritone or a tuba. I asked the receptionist if I could see Lee Gillette and she said, let me call Mr. Gillette¹s office and see if he is available. I finally went out one day and walked through the building, asking if Zig was there. That isn¹t going to change ever, I don¹t think. George is perhaps the most famous bass trombonist who has ever lived, and he can take credit for shooting the bass trombone into orbit as a viable solo instrument. What do you see in the future of big bands and live orchestras? I said, what? You don¹t forget that ­ it¹s a sound you want to be around all your life. When somebody hands me a double trigger, I get about half way through the material and I have to put the horn down and shake my hand to get the blood back into it. Bob Fitzpatrick and Mel Burne were the two friends who got me into that band. My dream bands were Woody Herman and Kenton. There isn¹t much chance of moving from one band to another like there used to be. From one to thousands! Roberts died from pneumonia on September 28, 2014, at the age of 86 in Fallbrook, California. So, fine ­ I switched to bass trombone and one night Gene said, George, I¹ve never heard you play. Well, it¹s that same group of people I just mentioned. Urbie Green is a heck of a better trombone player than I am. I told dad that since he didn't love me, I was running away from home! I thank Urbie in so many different directions for that time I came back after playing my solo, for telling me that I'm the only one who plays the bass trombone like a trombone. When did you make the switch to bass trombone? I said, Urbie, what the heck am I going to do with all of this photo equipment you sold me! Some of the players convinced Helfer to ³try the new kid² (me). Now, you listen to Doug Yeo, who can instantly transition from symphony playing to a big band style just as easily as anything. This way, you get a great sound before moving onto anything else. Nelson had an identity, a voice. That¹s what I worked toward for a long time. If you play an Eb pedal tone like velvet, they¹ll eat you alive! What sort of warm-up routine do you use to get ready for a performance? So, I would go outside and practice long tones and stuff. Anyway, I was told, get back there, sit down, and play. He said, I¹m giving you a new horn and oil to put on the slide, a plastic mouthpiece, and gloves. I would get a kick out of the strings, complaining that they had to work their tails off and all I had to play was one note and go home! What are your thoughts about double valve and single valve bass trombones? After a year in Reno playing show bands, I got the call from Kenton to see if I would come out to LA. I know some people do but I don¹t. George Roberts. I am really proud of Doug for getting in there and doing that. I am honored to have the opportunity to interview George Roberts, Mr. Bass Trombone, who has figured so prominently in many OTJ Forum conversations and topics. Time. I like all of the Jaws pictures, except when the shark got up on deck of the boat and started eating people! I¹ll say, oh look, here comes an F above the staff and I just play ³baaahhh², you know. All of a sudden, things started changing. Please take a moment to review my edit. You kind of feel, in your chair, that something is about to happen. They knew that I could play because they knew me when I was with Krupa and Urbie. GEORGE ROBERTS - March 22, 1928 - Sept. 28, 2014 Anyway, I waited 60 years to meet Robert Isele, so when we got up to leave, I turned to him and said, Robert, you don¹t know how much this means to me, and I gave him a big hug. Well, he saw me walk by and he got up and said, George, my office is back here. Those opportunities have pretty much dried up. The audience always loved my ballads. They were wonderful vocalists but the key guys were Frank and Tony. I was with the Ray Robbins Band in Milwaukee when I got a call from Gene Krupa's Band in Chicago. Zig said, I¹ve copied everything else for you, so I might as well make the mouthpiece, too! My young friend down at North Texas State told me that he couldn¹t get big band jobs for his best students, like he used to. So, I started preparing myself by memorizing about six or seven of Kenton¹s tunes. I used to get an absolute thrill in a 90-piece orchestra, coming in on a low C. You know, Baahhh! People want to start families and have normal livesŠ. Well, John Williams was the piano player on that album. Go down front and play something. Smile and be happy when you play and love what you¹re doing! What am I doing now? In an excerpt from the book, September in the Rain: The Life of Nelson Riddle, it is stated, ³Almost immediately, Nelson began to make use of Roberts¹ unique sound on Nat Cole recording dates. I have always felt and thought that Frank Sinatra was one of the greatest trombone teachers who ever lived. This publication includes Feelin' Low, Hall of the Mountain King and Stella by Starlight all for Bass Trombone with Brass Band. We don¹t have the big names standing down in front of big bands any more. Tough. He said, no, go right ahead, we¹re going to Texas where Urbie¹s brother lives and we can get out some old George Williams charts and some of the Stravinsky stuff that¹s so good with four trombones. I had my mother send my old, beat-up valve trombone and I put together a little band that played at the Officer¹s Club on Guam. I've got to have a trombone! We used to mess with our photo equipment at night on the road. Lloyd was such a dear friend of mine. Joe Howard, Lloyd Ulyate, Dick Nash, Eddie Cusby, Dick Noel, I can go on down the line of guys that I worked with when I first came out to LA. That¹s been my whole act for so long and I love to do that with phones and get right inside the orchestra. I wanted to play trombone! About eight years later, Nelson did The Joy of Living album. My hand would never last. What I really like is black and white photography. Of all the sound tracks on which you¹ve played, what is your favorite? Eddie Cusby: sound player. You know, the audience used to stand around the band, right up front. He is one of the dearest friends that I have. I started working with different companies. Any hobbies? Roberts opted to stay in Los Angeles rather than go with Kenton on his 1953 European tour. Make a song out of your long tones. You know ­ just kidding! You have discussed the importance of long tones and lip slurs in your developmental years. I just got a sheet the other day that said I had played on over 6000 recordings over 50 years. When I first started attending the ITA¹s, years and years ago, I played ³Send in the Clowns², which is a Sinatra thing. How do you approach the tune? George Roberts. Way to go! I haven¹t really had time to get totally involved with it very much any more but, boy, I really love photography ­ it¹s a great art form. Starting from: £29.99 Add to cart My brother-in-law, Vern Grant, had a little band. I looked for B naturals. When the date was over everybody was saying, George, great! George Roberts, who died last month, was possibly the most influential bass trombonist in popular music, and was widely admired by classical instrumentalists as well. Reg felt that if a name player would help him build a bass trombone, that he could break into the pro line. From Milwaukee, I got the offer from Krupa. Jaws. George has been interviewed innumerable times by many different journals and magazines. What Nelson Riddle opened up was the sound, the melody ­ being a time player, a melody player was the thing that opened up the music business for bass trombonists. Sometimes, you have to accommodate. I said, are you serious ­ I've been wanting to meet you for 60 years! So we marched out there and my hands were just freezing to death. That one of the young players took over one of the old-timer¹s, stronghold chairs. I said, well, Sue is having a baby and I didn¹t want to be on the road with the band with a baby on the way, so I came home to see if I could make it in LA. The bass trombone, by the way, is the most beautiful ballad instrument in the world. The horn is light and I can last all night! So, finally, one day, I went into downtown Des Moines to the basement of this music store and up on the top shelf, was this old, dusty, beat-up trombone. That was the first time I had ever been in front of a big band audience. That¹s basically why I didn¹t do thatŠ. I sit there and think about the song and emulate the voice. I thought, my low notes are pretty good and my pedal tones are better than Urbie¹s. Zig saw me and said, George, wait a minute! I know my weaknesses better than anybody. Are they going to write more mechanically now than they were before? A lot of the playing on a single trigger horn is physical. I had to be able to bend because, when you play a date and have four trombones, they¹re going to rotate the lead parts amongst themselves. I did the whole business, everything that I¹ve ever played on a single trigger bass trombone. Anyway, I ended up playing clarinet in the school band for two years. I thought, if I'm going to play tenor trombone, I¹ve got a lot of work to do because I don't play like Urbie Green. Everybody else does, why not bass trombone? A studio veteran with more than 6000 movie and recording credits, George is single-handedly responsible for bringing the bass trombone from "last chair" to solo voice with his lyrical and expressive playing. Lee said, come in, I¹ve got somebody I want you to meet: Nelson (Riddle), this is George Roberts. My father said, get in the living room and sit down; I want to talk to you. You can actually take your handslide and, with hardly any motion, replicate the truly great vocalists, completely in character. When I pick up a double trigger, I fall over on my side. Urbie Green, Gene Mulluns, and myself. There is one exercise in the back of the book that came from Frank Comstock¹s Pattern album. I told my mother that I would love to play one of those things that ³goes up and down with your hands². He was always a dream for me of what a trombone player should be. I started to tell Mr. Isele about myself and Jim Erdman broke in to inform me, George, he knows who you are ­ he knows everything that you have ever done and he is a great fan of yours. The Online Trombone Journal readership is most appreciative of this opportunity to read your thoughts and get to know you better. Play slowly and precisely with great accuracy and focused sound. He would wait for a couple of takes, and throw two pieces under my chair. The next morning, I was in the draft for Guam, so I spent two years on Guam! I thought, good Lord. You have to have a great sound. I like a horn that projects. Oh, boy! You know, we planted coconut trees and stuff like thatŠ. At the same time he as devoted his extra time to clinics, concerts and soloing with symphonic orchestras and trombone choirs across the country. So, I played and he came up afterward and asked to try my horn. I don¹t like ultra-dark sounds. On the way home, I started thinking about Helfer, Igor Stravinsky, and the music business and I started shaking in the car. I thought, if you can sing to what Irv¹s got, you can play to it. What's an A & R man? I have a mouthpiece that Burt Herrick made for me years and years ago. When you pick the horn up and play, you¹ll find out real fast. I haven¹t played a horn that plays like the Kanstul horn for years and they are excellent, excellent horns. What I¹ve seen happening is that composers and arrangers are attempting to make the music meet the technical capabilities of the instrument and it simply means that they are plugging more (low) B naturals into the music. We¹d hang out once in awhile. If I could say anything to bass trombone players, they should try his horns ­ he¹s got single triggers and double triggers and everything like that. That was really very funny. Like, somebody would write something really hard for bass trombone, which meant they were going to have to hire a bass trombone player, not just a doubler. His greatest asset has been this ability to play for and meet with the young people who attend, who are so vitally important to him. My new Kanstul is very light and responsive. Anyway, I saw this horn and went to talk to the shop owner and asked how much he would sell that trombone for. Where are those trumpet players today? Evidently, he ordered one, too. You don¹t get up and walk out, no matter how good you think you are. Jack was a baritone player, too, and had the greatest baritone sound that you ever heard in your life! Not smart to do but we¹ve been doing that for years. You can just scream - Mancini said, that¹s what I want! Lloyd Ulyate, my dearest friend (who passed away just recently) and I were playing a date. You should never say, I don¹t want to play this style because that¹s the only thing that I like. Roberts, der an Multipler Sklerose erkrankt war, starb Ende September 2014 im Alter von 86 Jahren an den Folgen einer Lungenentzündung. You can enlarge a negative and get eight or nine different pictures from that blow-up, especially if you have good negatives. That is the bass trombone lyrical range. I'd love to do that! Real soft. Before retiring, he had performed on over 6000 recordings. There¹s only 5% of this business that¹s stark terror. Helfer was just frowning, furious, sitting against the wall. Well, the contractor is not very happy and says, you guys are going to stay here until that mess is cleaned up! And that¹s exactly what he was. I¹m very proud of that! I worked for Bobby Helfer from that day forward. Nobody knew that before and they should know about it because he¹s got a great product. Try to get the greatest sound that you can and learn how to play tunes. (Let¹s Play Bass Trombone). So, I pivot off the bottom lip and get more of my top lip into the mouthpiece and then I use a crossover thing where I can play from Eb pedal tone to G and am able to play a Bb pedal (up or down), AA, AAb, and the rest of the way down. I thanked Nelson for the compliment and repeated that bass trombone really is the best melody horn in the world. The man whose sound we so easily recognize in movies, records and television, is also the man who virtually single-handedly brought the Bass Trombone from its last low trombone status, to the forefront as a solo instrument which could stand alone and sound wonderful. You never know when that¹s coming but if you¹re a master of simplicity, you will do just fine. George Robert's new trombone: also see: Kanstul Musical Instruments. We really do! Now, dad paid every month for that trombone, he couldn¹t afford it but he did it out of his love for me. George Roberts, " Mr. Bass Trombone" was one of the most beloved personalities in the music world. George Roberts died on September 28, 2014, at the age of 86 in Fallbrook, CA, from pneumonia. I started playing trombone when I was twelve. Dad took me down to the Shrine Auditorium in Des Moines, Iowa, where the U.S. Marine Band, The President¹s Own, was playing. It looks like the old 70H but I think really down deep it¹s more of a single trigger 62H. Talk about astounded! Thanks, George! I pray for all of the young people that the big bands will come back some day but it will have to be the young people who bring them back. This explanation really works with kids because, if they exhale before playing, they have nothing. The main trombone soloist was Robert Isele. He wouldn¹t really hire me at the very beginning because I was a jazzer. I played tenor trombone and was in a conservatory out here in LA. sponsored by For trombonists ages 20 and under (birth date of January 1, 2000 or later) First Prize – TBD. I ran and got my stuff and put it in the car and I was there in 30 minutes! It¹s a matter of opinion, you know, whether you like dark sounds or light sounds or what sound you¹re being paid to produce. I thought, hey, this is really great! Lee used to come out and record us on the road and he liked me. If you loved the leader, you loved their band. Well, Lee Gillette was the biggest A & R man at Capitol at the time. I got about halfway up the alley and it was getting dark and spooky, so I thought that maybe I would put off this running away idea until the next morning. Oh, he thought that a jazzer couldn¹t play legitimate or semi-legit, like they do on motion pictures. So I went down and looked at Norm Schnell, the piano player and asked him to play "Where or When", I start on a low Eb. If nobody knows what it does, then, where are you? My leadpipe wasn¹t that different but I didn¹t want to feel alienated with a new leadpipe. Anyway, I came home through the back door, not the front door. So, Doug came up and started playing a real pretty song and I said, give me the horn! I made the following changes: I mentioned to some of them that all my life, I had wanted to meet Robert Isele. Should I be doing this more? A Quiet Place - The Rich Trombone Of Bill Pearce, Vinyl LP, … That¹s key for the bottom of the trombone section, for the bottom of the orchestra. I told dad that it was the greatest looking horn I'd ever seen. I¹m kidding but I just like the single trigger ­ it¹s light, more resonant. Now my brother and I, when we wanted new bikes, would go down to the Western Auto Store and get used bikes out of the back, take them home and paint them. I¹m going to take you down to hear a real trombone player now. It has to be that way. What the heck does that mean? This page is updated: Tracks #1 - 12: originally issued on the album "George Roberts and His Bass Trombone - Meet Mr. Roberts", Columbia CS 8178 Radio Recorders, Hollywood, May 22 & 29, 1959 Tracks # 13 - 24: originally issued on the album "George Roberts Sextet - Bottoms Up", Columbia CS 8320 Radio Recorders, Hollywood, May 2 & 5, 1960 Barcode and Other Identifiers Barcode: 8 427328 606424; Mould SID … At this point, several of George¹s many friends and fans in Coronado recognized him and stopped by to say hello. I wanted to meet Robert Isele to find out what kind of a guy he was that enabled him to play that way. You know, that¹s really true ­ you didn¹t really hear that B but you felt it. November 6, 2020 10:08 AM, George Roberts $5.25. Has there been any push to get Meet Mr. Roberts and Bottom¹s Up reissued? Say it the right way with a great sound ­ and I think that¹s a bass trombone! I played a 1.5G Bach for years and Burt made me an oversized 1.5G that I just loved. I played it almost like a breath. Lloyd Ulyate, tenor trombone solos; George Roberts, Bass Trombone Solos; Harry Betts, Conductor and Arranger. Really, it did. Do you feel that was part of Frank's success, as well? That¹s my library for down here. I wanted to sit and talk with him but I could never find out where he lived. So I left the conservatory and went on the road with a hotel band. He also had multiple sclerosis. Where you¹re talking. The movie Jaws is my favorite. That¹s the book that Paul Tanner and I did together. George Mortimer Roberts (known as "Mr. Bass Trombone") (March 22, 1928 - September 28, 2014) was an American trombonist. What are your thoughts about embouchure shifts? $11.95. I took all the steps at Great Lakes in order to get into the Navy music program which I thought would be a good thing to do. POW!!! Coronado Ferry Landing These were our new bikes because we couldn't afford (real) new bikes. There are many ways to approach playing the trombone and I have told you my way that has been pretty successful. It¹s very subtle, smooth, and in character. I could always catch the low C out in flat seven. I asked Gene if he minded if I switched to bass trombone. Like, all these big pictures had Alfred Newman and Elmer Bernstein, and all that. I still believe this today and tell all my kids that your personality is going to dictate what you do on the horn. I thought that was just great. General Requirements. His humor - everything about him is exactly why he plays the way he does. Play a slow ballad, that¹s the greatest way to play long tones and slurs that you can find. With Kenton, later Johnny Richards; I played Stella By Starlight, Yesterdays, Alone Together, and some other things like that. I do a thing down here, at the Coronado Ferry Landing, where I play for two straight hours. That is basically the same Conn mouthpiece, which is basically the oversized 1.5G that I played for so many years. I think that they¹ll take care of business. He has truly reached an international audience. I¹ve got to find some way to be as good or equal to Urbie or I¹m out of this business. This caused the business to really grow for us. Ferner gehört er lange Jahre der International Trombone Association an und war Namensgeber für die George Roberts Bass Trombone Competition. That was a special lick that I wanted to include in the book ­ a drill that I have used for my own playing. Recording Guidelines. The manufacturers are all making great horns now ­ they all are. Sound. I studied composition and such and had a friend ­ a bass player who asked me if I wanted to go on the road? Mother said that we should go ask the teacher. Dad told me that he would go look at it the next day. You lose if you're negative. You know, Watrous, Marcellus and I are the best garbage players in the whole world! Nobody in the world wrote beautifully, like Nelson Riddle did, for bass trombone, flute, harmon mute trumpet, big strings and stuff like that. He said, I just don¹t think I¹d be doing my students any favors by putting them on the road because it¹s not like it used to be. I still think that we should place more emphasis on the music and less on technical and mechanical processes. George Mortimer Roberts was born in Des Moines, Iowa, on March 22 1928, and first became fascinated with the trombone while watching his brother perform in the high school band. What are you doing back here? I called Doug when he accepted that job; to tell him how pleased I was that one of the young guys had taken over a John Coffee tradition. Why don¹t I play a single trigger horn like I¹ve always played and not bother with this? He used to come up and talk to me during breaks because he liked bass trombone, he liked the sound. I started to think, are my thoughts right? 10:29. Yes, John wrote all the arrangements, too. He plays technically fantastic but he also is one of the greatest interpreters that I've ever heard in my life. He plays a song just like Frank (Sinatra) sang and, you go from one end of the trombone to the other, this is why I've always wanted to meet him, and found out that he plays that way by being the neatest, most wonderful person in the whole world. Sue and I would go outside ­ I would practice outside to try to build up my lung capacity. The musicians who went down front with Kenton, like Maynard (Ferguson) were playing triple high C's and enough notes to choke a mule. I went back, looked at what I had to play and I thought, well, all I can do is look at the part and count like heck. That set into me like you wouldn¹t believe. That, I'll never forget. I said, you bet! Kids come up to me all the time and ask these questions. It would be an understatement to say that George has an adoring audience. When you hear one of the bass trombone things or bass trombone with that harmon mute and flute, people immediately recognize that as Nelson Riddle. But I know how to lie about it! All the jobs that you get in the music business are basically from friendsŠmy friend from the conservatory got me the job in Milwaukee. I said, he's a fan of mine? 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He took me to Drake University, which was only six blocks from where we lived, and got Jack Dalby, who was a kid getting his trombone credentials at Drake, and asked Jack if he could teach me to play trombone. And they will! Just really beat up. So, all day long I kept thinking, boy, I can't wait to get home. I think that really is true. They have about 100 Frank Sinatra backgrounds with strings. Nat Cole. The more of yourself that you dedicate to making beautiful music, the better you will play and the more enjoyment you will get out of it. Not the original, maybe the second one ­ thanks a lot! If I were playing a double trigger horn, I couldn¹t last the two hours. George Roberts Bass Trombone Competition. Oh, boy ­ I almost flipped! This accessibility has "charged" many a young player into aiming right at the top of musical career. Sing, sing, sing! Well, I wanted to get out, so I could go on the road with a big name band. Watrous and I used to play a lot of dates and we sat next to each other. One day, my father came in and said, George, get dressed. I¹m not Tommy Dorsey, so I don¹t need a feather-light slide. What I miss most is live music and the opportunity to share music with large groups of people. Ultimately, I got with Kenton and Krupa. Shortly after that, I heard a Tommy Dorsey album and that ignited me on playing melodies. Absolutely! If you listen to his phrasing, the way you say what you play there's the big one. I had to be able to bend as each of those guys took the lead part, to support the different way that each one of them played. Sound, to me, is the number one most important thing you can do. Doug Yeo, with the Boston Symphony, plays a Yamaha and sounds fabulous. How do you get that? His Big Bass Trombone Meet Mr. Roberts and His Sextet Bottoms Up by George Roberts (2011-08-02) Conte fantastique (After "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe) Revolution - Die komplette erste Staffel [5 DVDs] Honey-Bun 2 Danses, "Danses sacree et profane": Danses sacree et profane (version for harp and strings) KOMPONIERBUCH FUER JUNGE … I already knew that the sound delay was going to be a son-of-a-gun but Stravinsky began to conduct and we got a little way in and he stopped and said, he (George) is right and you¹re wrong (harpist) ­ play with him! The other voice said, this is Robert Isele. George, what are your thoughts about breath support and breath control ­ airflow management? And I looked at that horn and had just made the biggest fool of myselfŠever! They will hear things that they really like and will need to work toward that type of sound, to grab hold of it. We went into the house and talked for three hours. You listen to all that stuff and realize that their vibrato is not distorted like ³WAH, WAH, WAH, WAH, WAH² or ultra fast like ³bababababa². Dick Nole: sound player. I found that, sometimes, the weight actually helped me. George Roberts (trombonist) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia George Mor­timer Roberts (known as "Mr. Bass Trom­bone") (March 22, 1928 - Sep­tem­ber 28, 2014) was an Amer­i­can trombonist. I am so thankful for that opportunity because what actually happened was me playing that thing with Bob Kraft and Igor Stravinsky (Kraft was the conductor) was that it opened up television, motion pictures, and everything else for me in LA. What other vocalists do you emulate in your playing? Office? Then he went with Woody Herman¹s band years ago and left the band. I stepped back to leave and noticed that he had tears coming down his face. So, I went into Capitol to see Lee. One night, I saw a piece of paper on the floor and I threw it under his chair. When the lead player changed, I¹d go right along with him. I think that¹s true. If somebody's going to hire you as a trombone player, they¹re hiring you because of the fantastic sound that you have. So, I stomped into the living room and lying on the couch, in an open case, was a brand new trombone. Kenton was always a thrill because that first ensemble sound was always so powerful; it could really just knock you out! A studio veteran with more than 6000 movie and recording credits, George is single-handedly responsible for bringing the bass trombone from last chair to solo voice with his lyrical and expressive playing. That's where I met Sue, my wife. Why do I think the bass trombone represents the male voice? So, I started walking toward Lee¹s office and when I got there, the door was open and Gillette was sitting there, talking with some guy at his desk. Daaaahhhh, daaaahhhh, you know. 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