The Internet is a silly place and the trombone is a silly instrument. Like all good pairs, they compliment each other well. The Internet has produced such gems as the flamethrower, the Mythbuster, the Sad Trombone, and now there is a new kind of video: the P.O.V. or the "trombone GoPro" meme.
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Roebuck “Pops” Staples wrote the 1965 blues “Why Am I Treated So Bad” in response to the ongoing struggle for civil rights in the United States and in particularly for The Little Rock Nine - a group of Black students enrolled at Little Rock Central High School in 1957 whom were prevented from integrating the school by Orval Faubus, the governor of Arkansas and the inspiration for Charles Mingus’ 1959 composition “Fables of Faubus.”
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You may recognize him from a little band known as the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. Well, now he has put together his own rollicking ensemble of musicians who bring the Powerfunk.
Read MoreUpon the news of New Orleans trombonist Keith “Wolf” Anderson’s passing, Treme actor Wendell Pierce remembered him as “a huge trombone sound, a soulful solo, and a musician squatting down in the groove” - the inspiration for Pierce’s own performance as Antoine Batiste.
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