Joe “Tricky Sam” Nanton
Joe “Tricky Sam” Nanton is a Tromboniste of Jazz born the 1904 with New York and deceased the July 20th 1946 with San Francisco.
Biography
Tricky Sam Nanton begins his career in the orchestras of Cliff Jackson then of Elmer Snowden. From 1926 to 1946, he is member the orchestra of Duke Ellington of which he is one of the soloists high-speed motorboats. He, and its trumpet player Bubber Miley confers, are the principal craftsmen of the sound color very expressionist of the style “jungle” practiced by the orchestra in the Thirties.
Tricky Sam Nanton was a specialist in the “plunger transfers” (“Sourdine wha-wha”) and in the effects of “growl”.
External bond
- http://www.music.ecu.edu/courses/nanton/orals.html