Radio & Podcasts Honoring Melba Liston. by Mary Foster Conklin February 9, 2019. This broadcast presents a special tribute to trombonist, composer and arranger Melba Liston in the third hour in honor ...

Jazz album: “Melba Liston and Her 'Bones” by Melba Liston, released in 2006 on Fresh Sound New Talent. Explore the largest collection of jazz recordings @ All About Jazz ...

Melba Liston: Melba Liston and Her 'Bones. by Hrayr Attarian June 2, 2006. Finding an obscure recording, especially one of quality, can be exciting for jazz enthusiasts. This reissue of Melba Liston's ...

Melba and Her Horn - Accomplishments of the Great Melba Liston article by Ava Louise, published on April 10, 2018 at All About Jazz. ... All About Jazz has been a pillar of jazz since 1995, ...

Melba Liston: Bones Of An ... 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.

In the early 1980s, pianist Dee Spencer’s astonishing and unanticipated encounter with Melba Liston introduced her to a jazz wonderland. A first-call trombonist best known as the arranger of ...

I’m Mark Rapp, and this is Rapp on Jazz. Women have shaped jazz from the very beginning—on the mic, at the piano, and behind ...

Melba Liston, a trombonist and music arranger who worked with some of the best bands in jazz, has died after a series of strokes. She was 73. Ms. Liston, who died April 23, is best known for her ...

Saxophonist/composer Geof Bradfield’s new CD Melba!, which Origin Records will release on April 16, has been a long time coming.Bradfield’s suite for jazz septet, a tribute to the great yet ...

When Melba Liston came of musical age in 1940s California, the path for a woman wanting to become an arranger/composer and an instrumentalist in the jazz world was not only easy, it was almost non ...

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 ...

In the early 1990s, the late trombonist-arranger Melba Liston lived with her three aunts in a stately, old home in Los Angeles’ West Adams neighborhood. Though she had recently suffered a stroke, she ...