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With John Mueller having retired, they are the "visiting professor" at the University of Memphis...

...great player, and some impressive stuff (trombone playing and singing - their sister is an opera singer) on YouTube.

They're a Conn-Selmer artist, and - a few weeks ago - someone in their studio did some sort of boo-boo that resulted in both the inside and outside playing slide tubes (one side of the slide) being trashed (karate chop), and having to be replaced.

There were some other things that needed urgent attention. This wasn't a "good" thing that happened, but it was good that I saw that those other things needed to be done.

Check out the channel:

This is great stuff! I was not familiar with Elisabeth Shafer but I'm glad I am now. Very well done, musical multitracks - no smothering in processing and auto-tune necessary. It's a shame these don't have more views.

THAT is a great musician. This post is one of the finest I have seen this year. Thanks, Bloke.

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I haven't seen those before. Thanks for pointing them out. I've done enough bad multi-tracks that I know good multi-tracks take a lot of work and good setup, on top of being a good musician. Coordinating with other players and singers adds a lot to it. I have to admit I'm a bit jealous of the tech skills it takes to make all of that sound good. It's not just playing into a mic and pushing a button.

I've always wanted to do La Vie En Rose with a proper clear tone mute, but she's got me out done already by singing along. Nice stuff.

One thing I wish is that she'd play some smaller bore bones, sometimes the sound gets a little mushy with all that large bore.

Based on my observations, I believe that there are quite a few trombonists who nearly exclusively read or memorize music – and rarely play extemporaneously – who do not embrace the value of a B-flat trombone with a half inch or sub half inch bore size.
Truth be told, such instruments could add quite a bit to many symphonic works (and NOT just “pops”, and NOT just for someone who isn’t a very good alto trombone player) when used by a principal player...at least, in my view.

… but – just like the alto, the large bore tenor, and the bass, the small bore tenor requires regularly spending time with it in the practice room.