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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My trombone player did a youth orchestra one year when they couldn’t fit school band into their class schedule. The orchestra was fine with it when we explained, mostly because they also kept up private lessons.

But ultimately, they ended up preferring jazz trombone to orchestra or band, because the parts were more interesting. Orchestra tended to be like 50 measures of rest, then a dozen or two of accompaniment. Jazz actually let them have some lead parts, even solos. [/quote]

That really is the gist of my son’s complaint. He wants to play more and likes the idea of jazz band. Are you saying that youth orchestras be similar in that they won’t have a lot for him to do?[/quote]

That’s been my trombonist’s experience, both in high school and college orchestras. It’s not so much the age/level, but the type of pieces they’re playing.

There may be the occasional piece with better trombone parts, but in general it’s more of a background instrument in the orchestral compositions. Jazz can often be trumpet-led, or sometimes saxophone, but it’s still more likely than a wind or philharmonic orchestra to feature a full, robust brass section.[/quote]

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