WYCLIFFE GORDON
Original New Orleans Jazz / Swing / Jazz Related Gospel / Big Band • United States
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Trombone player Wycliffe Gordon is best known for his work with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, under the direction of jazz maestro, Wynton Marsalis. The versatile trombonist can scat, multi-note, slide, and plunge, just like he stepped out of the 1930s. Gordon has played with many jazz luminaries, including Dizzy Gillespie, Joe Henderson, Branford Marsalis,Lionel Hampton, Tommy Flanagan, and Shirley Horn. His musical colleagues call him "Pine Cone," since he grew up in the piney woods of Georgia.
It must have been this Ellington era quality that caught the ears of jazz educator Wynton Marsalis, who heard Gordon play while the trumpeter was giving a workshop at Gordon's alma mater, Florida A&M University. Their fortuitous meeting resulted in Gordon joining the Wynton Marsalis Septet, as well as the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, in 1989. As a member of the illustrious band, Gordon contributed as both musician and composer. Gordon, who like
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Slidin' Home
Original New Orleans Jazz
1999
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The Search
Original New Orleans Jazz
2000
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The Joyride
Original New Orleans Jazz
2003
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Cone's Coup
Original New Orleans Jazz
2006
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Boss Bones
Original New Orleans Jazz
2008
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