A brilliant trombonist who has spent much of the past 40 years playing commercial music in Las Vegas, Carl Fontana occasionally emerges to remind listeners just how technically skilled he is. The son ...

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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 ...

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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, ...

TROMBONIST Carl Fontana has made his home in Las Vegas and because of that his immense talent has remained hidden away from the public gaze, with rare outings allowing us the opportunity to hear one ...

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 ...

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 ...

THE world, well that populated by jazz musicians and aficionados, has become a poorer place with the passing of Carl Fontana, one of the most innovative trombone players in the history of the genre.