The Summerglen Files

A friend recently sent me an email asking what I knew about the fine ladies of the DIVA Jazz Orchestra trombone section. Well, all three of them, Deborah Weisz, Jen Krupa, and Leslie Havens are excellent trombonists with active careers. But the best way to describe them is, of course, in a song. (A song [...]

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Something very, very, very cool has happened this week, something that truly moves me and sparks a jolt of excitement at the same time: My first student trombone choir is all girls! Now, many people may wonder why an all-girl trombone choir is such a terrific phenomenon, so here is some background story. I began [...]

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