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Eldon Payne
Trombonist in Tampa Bay Area
About Me
Eldon was born in Morristown, TN and
graduated cum laude from the
University of Tennessee in Knoxville with
a B.S. in Business
Administration
in 1979. He moved to Tampa, FL in the
spring of 1980 and retired from
Delta Air Lines with twenty five years of
service on Mar. 1, 2008.
Some of the groups which Eldon has
performed with are as
follows:
University of Tennessee Campus Band,
Tampa Bay Buccaneer Band,
Shades of Blue, Boulevard Jazz Orchestra,
The Mostly Pops Orchestra,
Helios Jazz Orchestra, Cigar City Big Band,
Swing Sound Orchestra,
Frankie D. New York Orchestra, Clearwater
Community Jazz Band, Sun
City Center Big Band, George Carroll Big
Band, Gulf Bay Big Band, Ten
O'clock Big Band, Frank Parsons Band, The
Tomkats Jazz Orchestra, The
Sarasota Jazz Project, Encore IV Big Band,
The Richey Community Orchestra,and The
Carrolwood Jukebox Big Band.
Artists that Eldon has helped back up
include Margo Rey, Denise Moore,
Kathy Kosins, Kevin Mahagony,Whitney
James, Michael Lynche, Lorri Hafer, Chuck
Wansley, Bryan Hughes, Fred Johnson,
Belinda Womack, and Alexis Cole.