Trombone fans will have a good time with this new release from the quintet led by Allen Hermann and Carl Fontana. Fontana passed away in November '03 at age 75, and this is considered his final ...

Truly an unearthed gem, Trombone Heaven is a previously unreleased concert recording from 1978 at the Bayshore Inn in Vancouver, Canada, featuring the late slide legends Frank Rosolino and Carl ...

Carl Fontana, a jazz trombonist who created a technique called “doodle tonguing” and once played with Woody Herman and Duke Ellington, died Thursday in Las Vegas. He was 75. Though slowed by Alzheimer ...

Legendary jazz trombonist Carl Fontana died Thursday at a Las Vegas Alzheimer's facility listening to the music that was his life. Playing at his bedside was a CD he recorded in Las Vegas in 1999, ...

Carl Fontana, a jazz trombonist who created a technique called ” doodle tonguing ” and once played with Frank Sinatra and Duke Ellington, died Thursday in Las Vegas. He was 75. Although slowed by ...

Have you heard of doodle tonguing? It may have given West Salem graduate Matt Hettwer, 23, the edge in the International Trombone Festival’s Carl Fontana Jazz Trombone Competition that he won last ...

Jerry Fink's lounge column appears on Fridays. Reach him at [email protected] at (702) 259-4058. It was standing room only at a memorial service for Carl Fontana on Tuesday afternoon, not unlike some ...