When Melba Liston came of musical age in 1940s ... spoke highly of her many years later. Liston played trombone, soloed, and contributed both charts and original compositions to Jones' orchestra.

One of the few women to succeed as both a jazz instrumentalist and an arranger, Melba Liston was a true jazz pioneer. In the 1940s, '50s, and '60s, she played trombone in the big bands of Gerald ...

Born in 1926 in Kansas City, Missouri, Melba Liston had an early interest in music. She saw a trombone when she was young and was taken by its beauty. Her family encouraged her interest in music and ...

Christmas Eve; What's My Line Theme; You Don't Say; Dark Before Dawn; Pow; Blues Melba; Trolley Song; Wonder Why; Insomnia; Very Syrian Business; Never Do An Abadanian; Zagred This. Melba Liston, ...

The studio recording of Melba! is just out on the Origin label. JazzSet has the live version. Liston was born in 1926 with music in her soul. As a child, she taught herself to play the trombone.

You’d think that any jazz musician who wrote for Marvin Gaye, the Supremes, Billy Eckstine and Randy Weston – and also played trombone for ... pioneering work of Melba Liston, who arranged ...

Measured by the size and scope of her musical contributions, Melba Liston is singularly qualified for the lead spot in SFJazz’s celebration of Women’s History Month. The trombonist-arranger ...

When Melba Liston came of musical age in 1940s ... spoke highly of her many years later. Liston played trombone, soloed, and contributed both charts and original compositions to Jones' orchestra.

Melba Liston was a true jazz pioneer. In the 1940s, '50s, and '60s, she played trombone in the big bands of Gerald Wilson, Dizzy Gillespie, Quincy Jones, and Clark Terry. As an accomplished ...

One of the few women to succeed as both a jazz instrumentalist and an arranger, Melba Liston was a true jazz pioneer. In the 1940s, '50s, and '60s, she played trombone in the big bands of Gerald ...