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Dolphin Trombone Care Kit

This Trombone Brass Care Kit contains everything you’ll need to keep your instrument in tip-top condition for many years to come: Slide Oil, Tuning Slide Grease, Nylon Flexible Brush, , Mouthpiece Brush and Polishing Cloth.

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OILS AND MAINTENANCE MATERIAL

Caring for Your Trombone
	The following care is recommended to extend the life and maintain the quality of your trombone.

	Take extra care to prevent exposure to sudden changes in temperature and humidity. Avoid direct, extended exposure to:
	• Sunlight • Rain • Heaters • Air Conditioners

	Remove all moisture after you have finished playing.

	Refer to Caring for the Interior of your Trombone for detailed instructions.

	Assembling Your Trombone
	Assemble, tune, clean and lubricate your instrument for the first time under the guidance of your teacher.

	• Insert the slide section into the bell section. The slide should be to the right of the bell at a 90° angle. The bell and slide should not make contact.

			• Tighten the bell lock to secure the sections together.• Always hold your trombone by the slide brace while resting and make sure the slide lock is locked when the trombone is not in use.

	*Inserting the Mouthpiece*
	The mouthpiece and mouthpiece receiver are easily damaged by improper assembly. Insert the mouthpiece into the receiver, giving it a slight twist to secure it. Never force a mouthpiece into place, as it may become stuck. If this should happen, take the horn to your local dealer or band director to have it removed, they will have a special tool to remove stuck mouthpieces. Never use pliers or other gripping tools to remove a stuck mouthpiece.

	Tuning Your Trombone
		• Pitch is affected by temperature, so be sure to warm up your instrument before playing by blowing air through it.• Tuning your trombone is done by adjusting the tuning slide until you achieve the desired pitch.

	Care for the Interior of Your Trombone
	*Lubricating the Hand Slide*
	• Carefully remove the outer slide and lay it on a clean, flat surface.• Wipe inner slide clean of old cream, dirt, and foreign substances.
	•Apply a small amount of slide cream to the stocking of the inner slides (the part that is slightly thicker than the rest). Spread evenly, until it is coated with a thin film. Do not apply too much slide cream as this will hinder the movement of the slides.

	• Use a trombone spray bottle to spray water evenly over the inner slides. (Note: liquid cream may be used instead of slide cream and water. Apply in the same manner, spreading a thin, even film over the stocking of the inner slides.)
	• Replace the outer slide, moving it back and forth to spread the lubricant evenly.

	*Lubricating the Tuning Slide*
	slide grease keeps slides airtight and maintains smooth movement. It is an essential factor in the care of your horn. To apply slide grease:

	• Remove each tuning slide and wipe clean of dirt and foreign substances.• Apply a thin coating of slide grease to the inner slide surfaces. Replace the slide, working it in to ensure that the grease is evenly and thoroughly spread.

	*Oiling the Rotary Valve*
	The rotary valve must be oiled prior to assembly of the trombone.

	• Remove the complete hand slide assembly and place it on a clean, even surface.• Hold bell section with the bell pointed up. • Place a few drops of rotor oil into the slide receiver.

	• Depress lever to activate the rotary valve, spreading the oil evenly on the rotor and casing.• Apply a few drops of rotor spindle oil to the rotor stem, directly between the stop arm and the top of the casing.
	• Carefully remove valve cap and apply a few drops of rotor spindle oil to the bearings. Activate rotor and replace the cap.
	• Apply a drop of lever oil to each linkage of the lever assembly.
	NOTE: Do not remove the rotary valve. This should be done only by a qualified repair technician during periodic maintenance.

	*Restringing the Rotary Valve (when applicable)*
	NOTE: Only use string designed specifically for rotary valves.
	You will need a small screwdriver, scissors and rotary string to restring your valves. Please follow these directions carefully:
	• Lay the bell section of the trombone flat, with bell pointing toward you. Inner components should appear as in illustration shown below.

	• Loosen screws (C) and (E) with small screwdriver. Cut a piece of string approximately nine inches long and tie a knot in one end. Begin by threading the string through the hole at bottom of rod (A). Start from the outside of the rod and thread toward the valve. The knot must provide a stop at the hole.
	• With the stop arm (B) to the right of rod (A), bring the string around the top of the rotor stem in a clockwise direction, then loop the string entirely around the small screw (C) in a counter-clockwise direction.
	• Continue around the bottom of the stop arm (B) to the hole (D) near the top of the rod. Thread the string through this hole and loop it under the head of the small screw (E) on the rod in a clockwise direction.
	• Now pull the string fairly taut so that no lost motion occurs when depressing the trigger lever. Tighten screw (E) enough to hold the lever in place.
	• Position the lever so the string rod is parallel to the rotor casing top.
	• Tighten the string screw (C).

	*Cleaning the Mouthpiece*
	• Soak the mouthpiece in a solution of warm soapy water. Using a brass mouthpiece brush , scrub the inside and outside.
	• Rinse thoroughly with clean, warm water.

	*Cleaning the Water Keys*
	A tone hole cleaner may be used to clean and dry the water keys.

	Care for the Exterior of Your Trombone
	For daily care, use a polishing cloth to remove dust and fingerprints.

	Storing the Instrument
	The case should always be used for storing the instrument after playing and transporting. Be sure the mouthpiece and other accessories are secured tightly, as they can scratch and dent your horn if they fall loose during transportation. Do not put anything in the case that could place pressure on the instrument.

…	To keep your instrument in optimum playing condition, have it professionally cleaned and inspected by a qualified repair technician annually.Yamaha Knowledgebase

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Boston Brass in Concert at RNCM

Jose Sibaja trumpet

Jeff Conner trumpet

J D Shaw french horn

Lance Laduke trombone, euphonium

Andrew Hitz tuba

From exciting classical arrangements to breath-taking vocal harmony and burning jazz standards, Boston Brass achieves new levels in brass performance, treating audiences to a captivating musical experience for all ages in this, their only appearance in Manchester.

Date & Time – Tuesday 7 October 2008 7.30pm

Venue – Haden Freeman Concert Hall

Ticket Price – £16, £14

Concessions – Concessions Available

More powerful than a speeding locomotive!!!”

Boston, Massachusetts
United States

About Boston Brass

Boston Brass is setting new standards in entertainment. From exciting classical arrangements, to breathtaking vocal harmony, to burning jazz standards, Boston Brass achieves new levels in brass performance while treating audiences to a unique musical experience that captivates all ages. The ensemble’s lively repartee, touched with humor and personality, bridges the vast ocean of classical formality to delight audiences to an evening of boisterous fun, exciting knowledge and an enthusiastic love of music, deftly exhibited by five brash brass players. Boston Brass has transcended the traditional mores of brass ensemble literature and, with a host of original arrangements, has pioneered a new generation of music that sets out to achieve one simple goal: entertain at all costs with blistering precision. Whether they are performing solo or with a symphony orchestra, the fun and emotion exhibited from this group is uniquely infectious and keeps audiences on their feet, demanding encore after encore. Performing over 100 concerts annually, the members of Boston Brass have dazzled audiences at concerts and jazz festivals around the world in such cities as Tokyo, Singapore, Taipei, Macau, New York, Portland, Seattle, Philadelphia, Detroit, Dallas, San Antonio, Washington DC, Minneapolis, Salt Lake City, Sacramento, and Los Angeles. As committed to education as they are to performance, they have conducted master classes at colleges and universities around the country including The Eastman School of Music, Rice University, Peabody Conservatory of Music, University of Connecticut, Syracuse University, University of North Carolina, University of Florida, University of North Texas, Boston University, Yale University, University of Michigan and U.C.L.A. Boston Brass has also conducted clinics and concerts at national and regional music educational conferences in New York, Massachusetts, Georgia, Florida, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Missouri, Iowa, South Carolina, Ohio and Texas. Boston Brass helped raise over $100,000 for VH1?s Save the Music program, giving musical instruments to schools in need. Boston Brass has been featured educators and performers at the Mid West Band and Orchestra Conference, American Bandmaster Association Conference in Gainesville, FL, Southern Oregon University?s American Band College in Ashland, OR, and at the Texas Bandmasters Association Convention in San Antonio, TX. In October 2006 Boston Brass became Artist/Educational Ambassadors for Jupiter Band Instruments. During the 2005 season Boston Brass made their debut appearances in the Far East, with an eight city concert tour of Taiwan, and as featured guest ensemble at the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (WASBE) 2005 conference in Singapore. They also much acclaimed concert appearances in Hong Kong and Macau. In December 2005 Boston Brass made their debut tour of Japan with an eight city tour. Boston Brass has been featured on The CBS Morning Show, National Public Radio’s Performance Today, The Great American Brass Band Festival and has recorded several ground breaking, extraordinary, delightful albums. Two of these albums appear on the Summit Records label: Stealing the Show, a collection of overtures and arias, and Young Fogeys, a collage of jazz and swing favorites. The ensemble?s latest release on the Loft Recordings label entitled Out of This World, features heroic music for brass and organ. Along with Seattle’s St. Mark’s Cathedral organist J. Melvin Butler, the band explores symphonic textures from all eras of music and even includes a commission from Hollywood composer Bruce Edward Miller entitled Pluto: The Last Planet. The summer of 2000 proved to be an exciting time as Boston Brass teamed up with the legendary jazz recording genius Rudy van Gelder to produce Ya Gotta Try. This collaboration, which features music from Horace Silver, Chick Corea, Dizzy Gillespie and many others, further explores the innovative jazz styles that have propelled Boston Brass to the forefront of their genre. The 2003 release of Within Earshot features classical pieces by Shostakovich, Ginastera, Dvorak, Liszt and others. In that same year, Boston Brass collaborated with the Syracuse University Wind Ensemble for a new recording of Christmas classics titled Christmas Bells are Swingin?, which was released in 2004 and featured many of the most beloved tunes of the holiday season. In winter 2005, the Boston Brass All-Stars Big Band was born when the five members of the ensemble were joined by twelve other well known brass players and musicians to record A Stan Kenton Christmas. This recording of holiday music, conducted by brass master Sam Pilafian, features truly phenomenal charts made popular by the Stan Kenton Orchestra and performed with the enormously powerful sound of thirteen horns and jazz rhythm section. Boston Brass and the Brass All-Stars Big Band will begin touring “A Stan Kenton Christmas” in December 2006 and future holiday seasons.

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jiggs Wigham at RNCM

Jiggs Whigham is an internationally acclaimed trombonist, band leader and educator. This versatile performer, born Oliver Haydn Whigham III (the nickname Jiggs was given by his grandfather) in Cleveland Ohio on 20 August 1943, first came to the attention of critics and fans at 17, as featured soloist and first trombonist with the Glenn Miller Orchestra, directed by Ray McKinley. Two years later, he was first and solo trombonist with Stan Kenton. Following a year of studio and Broadway Musical engagements in New York, he became featured soloist with the Kurt Edelhagen Jazz Orchestra at the West German Broadcasting Company in Cologne, Germany in 1965. In 1966 his was awarded 1st Prize at the first competition for Modern Jazz in Vienna.
He uses Bonn, London and Cape Cod as home bases, In 1979 he was named Professor and Head of the Jazz Department at Cologne University College of Music, the first appointment of its kind in Germany. In 1995 he was named “Professor for Life” and head of the Jazz-Popular Music Department at the “Hanns Eisler” College of Music in Berlin. From 2000-2001 he was visiting professor at Indiana University. He was bandleader of the Swiss Radio Band (Radio DRS) from 1984-1986. From 1995-2000 he was chief conductor and artistic director of the Berlin Radio Orchestra (RIAS Big Band Berlin).

He is currently soloist and clinician worldwide, conductor of the BBC Big Band in Great Britain, artistic director of the Berlin Jazz Orchestra and visiting Professor at the Guildhall School Of Music And Drama in London and visiting tutor at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England.
He was recently appointed musical director of the LaJJOB (Brandenburger Youth Jazz Orchestra). In addition, in 2008 he will be the musical director of the ‘BUJAZZO’ (German national Youth Jazz Orchestra).

Jiggs Whigham is a lifetime member and general advisor to the International Trombone Association, British Trombone Society and the German Trombone Society. He is a lifetime member of the International Trombone Association.

Currently Vice President (President elect) of The International Trombone Association.
He is active as a soloist, Conductor and educator. He is a clinician for the Conn-Selmer Company .Jiggs is also author of the new book “Jazz Trombone” (Edition Schott – ED 12710

For more information or to book Jiggs Whigham for concerts, festivals or master classes, please email him at jiggs@jiggswhigham.com

Jiggs has played and/or recorded with…

Jamey Abersold, Pepper Adams, Cannonball Adderly, Manny Albam, Laurindo Almeida, Vic Ash, Giacomo Aula, Patti Austin, Benny Bailey, Gary Barone, Mike Barone, Rony Barrak, Count Basie, Madeline Bell, Louis Bellson, Tony Bennett, Bill Berry, Gene Bertocini, Paul Bley, Francy Boland, Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Nick Brignola, Till Broenner, Bob Brookmeyer, Billy Brooks, Ray Brown, Uschi Brüning, John Bunch, Michael Bublé, Bobby Burgess, Carol Burnett, Don Byas, Charlie Byrd, George Cables, Conte Candoli, Pete Candoli, Betty Carter, Ron Carter, Bruno Castellucci,Philip Catherine, Ray Charles, Buddy Childers, Pete Christlieb, Kenny Clarke, Terry Clarke, Jay Clayton, John Clayton, Billy Cobham, Tony Coe, Al Cohn, Bob Cooper, Keith Copeland, Larry Coryell, Jamie Cullum, Ted Curson, Eddie Daniels, John Dankworth, Buddy De Franco, Nathan Davis, Alan Dawson, Barbara Dennerlein, Jimmy Deuchar, Bill Dobbins, Jerry Dodgion, Klaus Doldinger, Paquito D’Rivera, Kenny Drew, George Duvivier, Kurt Edelhagen, Harry “Sweets” Edison, Larry Elgart, Kurt Elling, Peter Erskine, Robin Eubanks, Bill Evans, Gil Evans, Jon Faddis, Georgie Fame, Allen Farnham, Art Farmer, Joe Farrell, Paul Ferguson, Maynard Ferguson, Chuck Findley, Ella Fitzgerald, Bob Florence, Carl Fontana, Barry Forgie, Bud Freeman, Curtis Fuller, Hal Galper, Judy Garland, Herb Geller, Stan Getz, Terry Gibbs, Astrud Gilberto, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Golson, Benny Goodman, Eddie Gomez, Paul Gonzalves, Dexter Gordon, Wycliffe Gordon, Dusko Goykovich, Al Gray, Benny Green, Urbie Green, Johnny Griffin, George Gruntz, Friedrich Gulda, John Guerin, Jeff Hamilton, Scott Hamilton, Jan Hammer, Lionel Hampton, Slide Hampton, Jake Hanna, Tom Harrell, Billie Hart, Peter Herbolzheimer, Horacio ‘el negro’ Hernandez, Joe Henderson, Conrad Herwig, Giovanni Hildalgo, Billy Higgins, Milt Hinton, Bill Holman, Red Holloway, Bob Hope, Dave Horler, HR Brass, Freddy Hubbard, Chuck Israels, Christian Jacob, Howard Johnson, Carmell Jones, Hank Jones, Harold Jones, Quincy Jones, Thad Jones, Sheila Jordan, Bert Kaempfert, Mauricio Kagel, Stefan Karlsson, Greetje Kaufeld, Roger Kellaway, Stan Kenton, Barney Kessel, Chaka Khan, Rick Kiefer, Jimmy Knepper, Wolfgang Koehler, Lee Konitz, Kristine Kresge, Manfred Krug, Paul Kuhn, Rolf Kuhn, Joe Labarbera, Steve Lacy, Yusef Lateef, Jay Leonhart, Jerry Lewis, Mel Lewis, Vic Lewis, Victor Lewis, Mundell Lowe, Don Lusher, Bob Malach, Albert Mangelsdorff, Christian McBride, Rob McConnell, Ian McDougall, Al McKibbon, Ray McKinley, Jin McNeely, Bob Magnusson, Steve Marcus, Charlie Mariano, Bill Mays, Don Menza, Palle Mikkelborg, Bob Mintzer, Jane Monheit, Michael Moore, Lanny Morgan, James Morrison, Buddy Morrow, George Mraz, Werner, Müller, Gerry Mulligan, Mark Murphy, Dick Nash, The New York Voices, Lenny Niehaus, Judy Niemack, Mark Nightengale, Sal Nistico, Ken Norris, Walter Norris, Adam Nussbaum, Anita O’Day, Tony Oxley, Marty Paich, Horace Parlan, Joe Pass, Jaco Pastorius, Niels-Henning Orsted Pederson, Bill Perkins, Ake Persson, Polizei Orchestra-Hamburg, Herb Pommeroy, Jean Luc Ponty, Al Porcino, Tom Porrello, Chris Potter, Ferdinand Povel, Seldon Powell, Gerard Presencer, Jeanfrancois Prins, Rob Pronk, Arthur Prysock, Don Rader, Johnny Richards, Jerome Richardson, Max Roach, George Roberts, Claudio Roditi, Shorty Rogers, Frank Rosolino, Ellen Rowe, Pete Rugolo, George Russell, Bill Russo, Eddie Safranski, Art Sayers, Maria Schneider, Lalo Schifrin, Manfred Schoof, Ronnie Scott, Tony Scott, Marc Secara, Doc Severinsen, Bud Shank, Helen Shapiro, Ed Shaugnessy, Woody Shaw, Jack Sheldon, Bobby Shew, Gary Smulyan, Lew Soloff, Ed Soph, Terell Stafford, Marvin Stamm, Louis Stewart, Markus Stockhausen, Donna Summer, Harvie Swartz, Grady Tate, Art Taylor, John Taylor, Clark Terry, Toots Thielmans, Ed Thigpen, Jean Turner, Warren Vache, Bart van Lier, Erik van Lier, Ack van Rooyen, Jasper van’t Hof, Catherina Valente, Sarah Vaughn, Mads Vinding, Miroslav Vitous, Allen Vizzutti, Silvia Vrethammer, Mal Waldron, Cedar Walton, Jean Warlon,Tom Warrington, Derek Watkins, Bill Watrous, Ernie Watts, Peter Weniger, Kenny Werner, Denis Wick, Joe Williams, Gerald Wilson, Nancy Wilson, Phil Wilson, Kenny Wheeler, Kai Winding, Mike Wofford, Jimmy Woode, Phil Woods, Leo Wright, Snooky Young, Joe Zawinul.

Jiggs Whigham plays
King Trombones exclusively
(produced by Conn-Selmer)

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