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Roberts was a member of the Ray Robbins band, then quit to join Gene Krupa in 1947 when he was in the same section with Urbie Green. It was Urbie's lyric tenor trombone playing that inspired George to be an "Urbie" one octave lower. After the Krupa band broke up in 1949, Roberts was a freelance musician in Reno, Nevada, for a year before being ...
Apr 2, 2022 · GEORGE ROBERT. S - March 22, 1928 - Sept. 28, 2014. George Roberts died on September 28, 2014, at the age of 86 in Fallbrook, CA, from pneumonia. George Roberts, " Mr. Bass Trombone" was one of the most beloved personalities in the music world. The man whose sound we so easily recognize in movies, records and television, is also the man who ...
Oct 1, 2014 · George M. Roberts, the master musician known as “Mr. Bass Trombone” whose melodic sound can be heard on Nelson Riddle-arranged albums for Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, has died. He was 86. He ...
Mar 26, 2010 · George Roberts is known in the jazz world for his recording of “Stella By Starlight” with the Stan Kenton Orchestra, which featured George on bass trombone. He is known among music instrument makers as Mr. Bass Trombone, who helped make a market for the instrument beginning in the late 1940s. George is known to movie trivia buffs as the trombonist who scared audiences with the sounds ...
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Oct 1, 2014 · George M. Roberts, the master musician known as "Mr. Bass Trombone" whose melodic sound can be heard on Nelson Riddle-arranged albums for Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, has died. He was 86.
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