The Functional Musician, Austin Pancner

Learn the story behind Trombone 101 and the great trombone teacher and musician, Sean Reusch. Make sure to check out his webpage: https://www.trombone101.com/ with many resources for students and teachers alike.

Meet the Vox Cor Trio! Listen and learn about their mission and music they perform. Follow them on Instagram to keep up with the latest.

Jose Leon talks about his new book, life experiences and more. Listen and get to know this amazing person, trombonist, and now author. 

The brass and trombone community are quite amazing with all the resources we have to offer from pedagogical minds all over the world. Just to name a few of the great trombone pedagogical minds with great resources for you to devour for your own practice or studios are Joseph Alessi and the Alessi Music Studios. Brad Edwards has a plethora of resources and texts about the trombone written, created, and composed by him. David Vining and his hive of pedagogues through Mountain Peak Music. Another great resource that popped up over the lockdown of Covid is Slide-School, with the creators Nathan Zgonc and Brian Hecht. If you have not had a chance to join slide-school in any capacity, you should check it out. They bring in the best of the best in the world of trombone to talk about their careers, pick their minds about trombone topics, and the members always have a chance to submit a recording to be critiqued by their guest artist. Please take a listen to this episode and listen to the end to make sure you can take full advantage of your first month’s membership with a discount, just in time for the holiday season.

Two great trombonists and friends team up for a power duo of trombone music and micro-brews. Meet the Brews Brothers, Jemmie Robertson and Bill Mann. We discuss the duo's name, commission projects, and future performances. 

There are many trombone treasures to discover in this interview!

Get to know Dr. Joseph Jefferson a bit in this episode. We learn about his musical influences from growing up going to church to his trombone professors instilling a great work ethic and the eagerness to continue to grow as a person and musician. 

Meet the bass trombonist and composer William Pagan-Perez. It's an exciting discussion about growing up in Puerto Rico playing trombone and finding his voice as a composer through writing his first composition for his recital in graduate school at the University of Utah.

(If you hear a dog barking you're not going crazy, my dog lost her mind during the recording.)

Listen to this episode with Katy Jones, Principal Trombone of the Hallé Orchestra. We chat some about her life and background through becoming a pharmacist to principal trombone of major symphony orchestras in the UK. We go into great detail about the breathing technique, Buteyko. If you want to learn more about this take a listen and also visit her website with many details and resources about Buteyko Breathing and courses she has to offer on the topic. https://katyjonestrombone.co.uk/ 

On one HOT day in July in Salt Lake City at the International Trombone Festival I had the pleasure to catch up and meet Mark Davidson, We chatted about his latest album and he shares some new information hot off the press. Very exciting to sit down and learn a thing or two about his life and trombone - the best combination. 

On this episode of Skills and Bones you will hear from Dr. Tony Baker, Professor of Trombone at the University of North Texas. We discuss his journey to success on both sides of the horn, classical and jazz, with a few other tidbits you may not get from some of his other interviews.