Jazz Articles about Stan Bann

Stan Bann: Penmanship

by Jack Bowers
February 6, 2018

To those who know him, it's no secret that Stan Bann is partial to the trombone. After all, the Minnesota-based composer / arranger plays one himself, leads Stan Bann's Big Bone Band and is a mainstay as writer and performer with the Minneapolis Trombone Choir. And as if that weren't a large enough clue, Bann welcomes to his new CD, Penmanship, four of the country's--and arguably the world's--most accomplished trombone maestros: in alphabetical order, Andy Martin, Bob McChesney, Ian McDougall ...