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The featured trombonist right now at JazzTrombones.com is:

Milt Bernhardt

Milt Bernhart was probably best known as the the big band
trombonist who played the memorable solo on Frank Sinatra's
1956 recording of "I've Got You Under My Skin".

Over a three-decade career, Bernhart played in bands
led by Benny Goodman, Stan Kenton, Nelson Riddle,
Andre Previn, John Williams, Henry Mancini and
Ray Brown. After traveling with bands through
the 1940s, Bernhart settled in Los Angeles
and became a fixture in Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse
All-Stars along with Shelly Manne and other Kenton alumni.
Marlon Brando heard the All-Stars and arranged for them
to play in his 1954 motion picture "The Wild One."
The job launched Bernhart as an oft-in-demand studio musician --
first at Columbia, and then freelancing at other motion picture,
television and recording studios.
Two years later, Bernhart found himself in the
recording studio with the Riddle orchestra and Sinatra,
creating the classic "I've Got You Under My Skin."
In his 1995 biography "Sinatra! The Song Is You,"
author Will Friedwald called Bernhart's contribution
to that recording "what might be the world's most exciting
and best-known trombone solo." Around the 10th take,
Bernhart told Friedwald, a technician decided that his
trombone should be closer to the microphone.
But Bernhart was too short to reach it.
"Sinatra himself went and got a box and brought it over
for me to stand on," Bernhart said. "It was funny."
When the recording session ended, Sinatra invited
Bernhart to go into the sound booth and listen to the playback with him.
"It was the greatest compliment the Chairman could have paid," the author wrote.

Born in Valparaiso, Ind., Bernhart was orphaned by age 10
and went to live with relatives in Chicago. He first studied
the tuba, but by age 12 had switched to trombone. At 16,
he was playing with the Boyd Raeburn band at the Bandbox in Chicago.
Drafted into the Army in 1944, Bernhart was awaiting
shipment with other infantry to Okinawa when he was
ordered to fall out and transferred to the Army band.
His son said the trombonist felt the selection saved his life,
because few of the group headed to Okinawa returned.
Bernhart wound down his performing career
in 1973, as the popularity of big bands waned,
and bought Kelly Travel Service in Hollywood.
In 1986, he created the Big Band Academy
of America to preserve and promote the history
and music of big bands.