GREAT Books for Musicians

Beeching -  Beyond Talent: Creating a Successful Career in Music

Bosler, Greene, Tesar - College Prep or Musicians

Bradberry and Greaves - Emotional Intelligence 2.0

Bruser – The Art of Practicing: A Guide to Making Music from the Heart

Catmul - Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

Clear - Atomic Habits

Colgrass - My Lessons with Kumi

Conable – What Every Musician Needs to Know About the Body: The Application of Body Mapping to

Making Music

Coyle – Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How

Colvin – Talent is Overrated

Cron and Stabile - The Road Back to You

Cutler – The Savvy Musician: Building a Career, Earning a Living and Making a Difference

Cutler - The Savvy Music Teacher: Blueprint for Maximizing Income & Impact

Dyer - You'll See It When You Believe It: The Way to Your Personal Transformation

Galway - Inner Game of Tennis

Gladwell - Blink - The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

B. Green - Inner Game of Music

D. Greene – Audition Success

D. Greene – Fight Your Fear And Win 7 Skills for Performing Your Best Under Pressure

D. Greene - Performance Success

Kaplan – Practicing for Artistic Success

Kleinhammer and Yeo – Mastering the Trombone

Klickstein – The Musician’s Way: A Guide to Practice, Performance, and Wellness

Leonard – Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment

Mack – Mind Gym – An Athlete’s Guide to Inner Excellence

Maltz - Pscyho Cybernetics

Marshall - The Brave Athlete: Calm the F*ck Down and Rise to the Occasion 

Mass – Power Sleep

McGill - Sound in Motion

Medcalf - Chop Wood Carry Water

Nelson – Also Sprach Arnold Jacobs

Olson - The Slight Edge

Ratey - Spark - The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

Ricker - Lessons From A Street-Wise Professor: What You Won’t Learn at Most Music Schools

Ristad – A Soprano on Her Head

Tolle - The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Waters - Beyond the Practice Room - Making Music in the Modern Age

Werner – Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician from Within

Westney – Perfect Wrong Note – Learning to Trust Your Musical Self 

Wooten - The Music Lesson

Brad Edwards

Peter Ellefson

Tom Ervin 

Robin Eubanks

Bruce Faske

John Fedchock

Alan Ferber

Nicola Ferro

David Finlayson

Nick Finzer

Mark Fisher

Carl Fontana

Luis Fred

Jay Friedman 

Andrew Friedrichs

Curtis Fuller

Wes Funderburk

Matthew Gee

Cristian Ganicenco

David Gibson

Marshall Gilkes 

David Gonzalez

Wycliffe Gordon

Barry Green

Urbie Green

Nick Grinder

John Grodrian

Shannon Gunn

Craig Harris

Scott Hartman 

Joshua Hauser

Conrad Herwig

Mark Hetzler

Kevin Hicks

Tim Higgins

Ross Holcombe

Matthew Hoormann

Maureen Horgan

Thomas Horch

Brad Howland

Chris Houlding 

Andy Hunter

Stafford Hunter

Lauren Husting

Alex Iles

Justin Isenhour

Jason Jackson

Carol Jarvis

Will Jaxx

Joseph Jefferson

Philip Jones

Megumi Kanda

Alan Kaplan

Alistair Kay

Bob Kehle

Will Kimball

Zoltan Kiss

Darren Kramer

Sebastiaan Kemner

Michael Lake

Rodney Lancaster

Nils Landgren

Nick Lane

William Lang

Stephen Lange

Massimo LaRossa

Brittany Lasch

Nick Laufer

Mark Lawrence 

Wes Lebo

Carl Lenthe 

Achilles Liarmakopoulos

Christian Lindberg 

Lisa Liz Trombone

Aubrey Logan

Andrew Malloy

Albert Mangelsdorff

Natalie Mannix

Karen Mari

Delfeayo Marsalis

Karen Marston

Andy Martin

Philip Martinson

Jacques Mauger 

Anthony Mazzocchi

Bob McChesney

Rob McConnell

Ian McDougal

Pete McGuinness

Glen Miller

James Miller 

John Mindeman

Grachan Moncur

Justin Moore

James Morrison

Sarah Morrow

Craig Mulcahy

Michael Mulcahy 

Ed Neumeister

Matt Niess

Mark Nightingale

James Nova

Toby Oft

Ava Ordman

Sarah Paradis

Paul the Trombonist

David Phy

Michael Powell

Jim Pugh

Jonathan Randazzo

Phil Ranelin

Gareth Roberts

Sasha Romero

Matthew Russo

Brian Santero

Brian Scarborough

Will Scharen

Michael Seltzer

John Shanks

Scott Shelsta

Brad Shigeta

Trombone Shorty

Rick Simerly

Hillary Simms

Branimir Slokar 

Tim Smith

Dale Sorensen

Weston Sprott 

Peter Steiner

Milt Stevens

Amanda Stewart

Dee Stewart

Ian Striedter

Mike Svoboda

Jack Teagarden

Katie Thigpen

Will Timmons

Trombone Shorty

Alain Trudel

Steve Turre

Jorgen Van Rijen 

Matt Vaughn

Ximo Vicedo

David Vining 

Sophie Volpe

Chris Washburne

Harry Waters

Brian Wendel

Fred Wesley

Jiggs Whigham

Jonathan Whitaker

Scott Whitfield

Roy Wiegand

Steve Wiest

Colin Williams

Jamie Williams

Kai Winding

Gordon Wolfe

Ko-ichiro Yamamoto

Larry Zalkind

Nathan Zgonc

Bass Trombonists

Brandt Ateema 

Will Baker

Sebastion Bell

Christopher Brown

Joshua Brown

Alan Carr

Justin Clark

Javier Colomer

Evan Conroy

George Curran 

Christopher Davis

Geert De Vos

Felix Del Tredici

Mike Dobranski

Rose Doylemason

Dan Dunford

Mark Fry

Matt Guilford

Frank Gulino

Randall Hawes

Brian Hecht

Eric Henson

Matt Jefferson

Eric Klay 

Donald Knaub 

David Krosschell

Rene Laanen

Jose Leonardo Leon

Torbjörn Lundberg

James Markey 

Martin McCain

Terry Mizesko

Ilan Morgenstern

Gerry Pagano 

Denson Paul Pollard 

Doug Purviance

Bill Reichenbach 

Gabe Rice

John Rojak

Dan Satterwhite

Stefan Schultz 

Erik Shinn

Max Siegel

Jason Sulliman

Nick Sullivan

Dave Taylor 

Phil Teele

Steve Trapani

Anthony Triplett

Ben Van Dijk 

Charles Vernon 

Jennifer Wharton

Doug Yeo 


Summer Trombone Workshops

 The Alessi Seminar

Bar Harbor Brass Week

Becker Low Brass Boot Camp

Cleveland Trombone Seminar

Dutch Bass Trombone Open

Eastman Summer Trombone Institute

High School Trombone, Tuba, Euphonium Institute (Interlochen)

International Trombone Festival

International Brass Women's Conference

Lieksa Brass Week

Northwestern University Trombone Masterclasses

Pokorny Low Brass Seminar

Rafael Mendez Brass Institute

Sante Fe Trombone Summit

Savannah Trombone Workshop

Slide Factory

SliderAsia Music Festival

Southeast Trombone Symposium

Spectrum Brass Seminar

Summer Brass Institute and Festival

Summer Slides with Tromboteam

Summer Trombone Workshop

Third Coast Trombone Retreat

Tomball Trombone Institute

Trombonanza

Trombone Workshop (Oberlin)


Summer Orchestra Festivals

Aspen Music Festival

Atlantic Music Festival

The Banff Centre

Brevard Music Center Summer Institute

Castleton Festival

Chautauqua Institution

Colorado College Summer Music Festival

Eastern Music Festival

FOOSA

Hot Springs Music Festival

Lake George Music Festival

Le Domaine Forget

Marrowstone Music Festival

Miami Summer Music Festival

Music Academy of the West

Music House International

National Music Festival

National Orchestral Institute

National Repertory Orchestra

National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute

New York Summer Music Festival

The Pierre Monteau School

Round Top Festival Institute

Sewanne Summer Music Festival

Spoleto Festival USA

Sunflower Music Festival

Taneycomo Festival Orchestra

Tanglewood Music Center

Texas Music Festival


 Trombone Ensembles

 American Trombone Quartet

Bonerama

Bones Apart

Bones West

Bonegasm

Bones West

I Tromboni

Maniacal 4

New Trombone Collective 

Pandora's Box

Rose City Trombones 

Skinny Lips and the Sound Malfunction

Slokar Quartet

Tres Bones

Trombones de Costa Rica 

Trombonissimo

Vienna Trombone Quartet


Warmups and Routines

Joe Alessi Warmup 2007

Joseph Alessi Warmup

George Curran Daily Routine

Brad Edwards Basic 4

Brad Edwards Basic 6

Brad Edwards Basic 6 Younger

Peter Ellefson Warm Up #2

Peter Ellefson Warm Up "If I Only Had the Time"

Peter Ellefson Warm Up 2006

Micah Everett Daily Routine

Randy Hawes Warm Up

Simon Kräuter

Steve Lange Warmup

Don Little Breathing Exercises

Brent Phillips 2010

Brent Phillips Warm Up

Paul Pollard Routine

Emory Remington Warm Up

Chris Van Hof Advanced Trombone Warm Up and Daily Routine

Jonathan Whitaker Warm Up


Masterclass Notes

Carl Lenthe

Joseph Alessi (by Dave Tall)

Sean Reusch