Andy Martin: The Lead Trombonist of Hollywood

[@D-KAL-KDZ]

Met Andy Martin during his break after a first set of one of his performances with the Big Phat Band. Such a nice guy, totally receptive to my photo request and was all smiles and talking passionate about music. Oh, and he’s one of the most killer trombone players.

[@TheTromboneChannel]

He is a very nice guy.

[@aideniscommittingstairway]

I gotta play with him when he sat in for a concert last semester at my university, he was awesome and super supportive!

[@bassbyrdtx]

another notable thing about the movie Soul was that Pixar got the musicians' fingerings correct. This almost never happens. The animated characters' hands and fingers are manipulating their animated instruments correctly for the sounds you are hearing. That's attention to detail.

[@cmw12]

Whoa! I’m definitely going to examine the frames now.

[@WNTrombone]

That YSL 891ZD horn by Yamaha is amazing! I picked one up last year at ITF and its easily the best small bore horn I've played

[@dbt103]

Andy Martin...fantastic musician. Classy human being. Very nice man.

[@astralbaby6962]

I had the honor to see this legend for my jazz comp at U of H, bros crazy with trombone

[@samrocks1695]

Funny enough Andy is the biological father of former actress and singer now author, Jennette McCurdy according to her memoir! The musical talent is truly in her genes!😂

[@davinnicode]

For me Andy Martin has one of the smoothest swing articulation on the trombone.

[@Cheesehuggerz]

I wish he also got more recognition for his work on La La Land as well - amazing playing on the original soundtrack!

[@TheTromboneChannel]

In an earlier draft of the video, I did have a clip of that but KZbin claimed it so I left it out.

[@Cheesehuggerz]

@@TheTromboneChannel That's unfortunate :(

[@posaune45]

Thank you for making this video!

[@steveruzich3273]

Andy Martin's three rules are exactly right, but I look at it from a different point of view. As someone who is not close to Andy's level, I presume there's always someone out there better than I am. So why should they hire me rather than someone else? The person doing the hiring wants a player who can do the job, but they also want a quick decision, and no trouble. So, if you follow Andy's rules (show up, be nice, play well), you make life easier for the person doing the hiring, and they may hire you again. In addition, I propose a rule #4. #4: When you're contacted about a job, whether you can do it or not, get back to them right away. And rule 4A: If you can't do the job, have some names ready to recommend. Thirty years ago, I did personnel for a community orchestra. I appreciated people who gave me the names of good players to call. I have a player list with descriptions like "very helpful" or "prima donna". People remember how you behave, and word gets around.

[@vahpr]

I shot that video with the Note, sadly I dumb thumbed the camera for Jeff Martin's arrangement of Over the Rainbow which I remember as being just phenomenal. So pissed:) The concert is on YT

[@theuntapstep7789]

I love this channel

[@TheTromboneChannel]

I love this comment!

[@RW-ob4en]

Check out Andy’s restrained artistry: Melody Gardot “Our Love is Easy” from the My One and Only Thrill album.

[@kevinhornbuckle]

Thank you for the recommendation. That is incredible. Such feel. Great song.

[@nabDoesYoutube]

history of jazz trombone!!!

[@rickharris8780]

They should do a Soul2 and and have Andy featured the whole movie with the girl that grew up and became a jazz musician.

[@TheTromboneChannel]

Yes!

[@ThatoneguyShortz]

Sweet dude

[@danielnewman134]

It was very interesting.

[@jacobdoll8111]

Would love to see a video on jeremy wilson

[@james_subosits]

The trombone subreddit figured out that Jeanette McCurdy's dad is Andy Martin - everything in her autobiography concerning her dad points to it being him

[@TheTromboneChannel]

It is not.

[@james_subosits]

@@TheTromboneChannel It's in the beginning of chapter 84 of her memoir, where she meets her biological dad at one of his concerts. A summary: her biological dad is an LA-based jazz trombonist named Andrew (one could shorten that name to Andy...) who played on a number of big movies (Star Trek, Jurassic World, Lost and countless others) with a big band as a fun side project (probably Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band). Who else could it be, Jack? Who else?

[@TheTromboneChannel]

@@james_subosits I’ll give Andy a call

[@TheTromboneChannel]

@@james_subosits well shit. You’re right.

[@james_subosits]

@@TheTromboneChannel crazy, huh? She was somewhat vague in the details but in the trombone world we're like "oh I know who that is"

[@franklee1550]

The best lead players I heard in LA in the 90’s and early 2000’s were all playing Bachs-Steve Holtman with Watrous, John Grab with Bill Holman and Glen Garret and Bruce Otto with Bill Elliot. All had dark but super focused sounds that projected and they weren’t afraid to put some personality into the part.

[@BigOnBebop]

Love Andy's playing, he's the best. Enjoyed the interview great, but the hat's gotta go.Go Dodgers!

[@chickentender445]

I met both of Andy’s brothers but not him😢

[@JamesG1126]

Bill Watrous was the best of the best.

[@srconrad]

The lick at 9:17 is straight from Carl Fontana’s solo on A Beautiful Friendship.

[@bobboscarato1313]

I wasted precious time watching this commercial ..!!!

[@alexkarye9079]

Just a heads up, d*xieland is a racist term. Trad jazz is the preferred term

[@brucekuehn4031]

Since when? Aren’t we going a little far on this crap?

[@alexkarye9079]

The term d*xie dates back to the Mason-Dixon line, which was a border between Pennsylvania and Maryland that demarcated the free Northern states and the southern slave states. Daniel Decatur Emmett, a minstrel performer and musician (minstrelsy being a musical tradition that was heavily reliant on racial stereotypes of black people), composed a song in 1859 called "Away, away, away down south in D*xie," which became the de facto national anthem for the confederacy during the Civil War. The term is rooted in racism, and a lot of Black people, whose tradition the music belongs to, would prefer not to be associated with that term. As white people, we're guests in this tradition, and I think it's only fair that we give the music the respect it deserves.

[@bobboscarato1313]

@@alexkarye9079 While most of what you say it's correct; I believe folks around the world love Jazz music. And I mean any style they follow!

[@HereticBra55]

​@@alexkarye9079 why are you (self)censoring the "i" in Dixie/Dixieland, but not Mason-Dixon? Just asking out of genuine curiosity.

[@brucekuehn4031]

Dixieland music - you know exactly what it is and what it sounds like. Trad jazz - couldn’t that be ragtime music which is something totally different? Who actually gets offended when you say Dixieland? Whose day or week was ruined?

[@isaiahvega890]

Expect he didn’t wanna live in Fresno…. 🥲 anyways Go ‘Dogs