Janice Robinson (trombonist)

Janice Elaine Robinson (born December 28, 1951, Clairton, Pennsylvania) is an American jazz trombonist.

Robinson played trombone on The Bill Cosby Show in her teens and received a bachelor's degree from the Eastman School of Music in 1973.[1] She then played with Chuck Mangione, the Jazz Composer's Orchestra, Clark Terry, Sam Rivers, Buddy Rich, the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra, Gil Evans, Frank Foster, and Slide Hampton. In 1978 she assembled a small ensemble with Sharon Freeman, Buster Williams, and Kenny Kirkland as sidemen. In the early 1980s she continued working with Foster as well as with Dizzy Gillespie and George Gruntz. Other work included associations with McCoy Tyner, Marian McPartland, Billy Taylor, David "Fathead" Newman, Carmen McRae, Idris Muhammad, Lionel Hampton, Woody Shaw, Mercer Ellington, Jimmy Owens, Grant Green, Sarah Vaughan, Dexter Gordon, and Kazumi Watanabe.

Discography

With Frank Foster

  • Bursting Out! (Denon, 1978)
  • Manhattan Fever (Denon, 1978)
  • Shiny Stockings (Denon, 1979)
  • Twelve Shades of Black for All Intentions and Purposes (Leo, 1979)
  • Well Water (Piadrum, 2007)

With Lionel Hampton

  • Blackout (Who's Who in Jazz, 1977)
  • Who's Who in Jazz Presents Lionel Hampton (Philips, 1977)
  • Dizzy Spells (Jazz Time, 1993)

With Buddy Rich

  • Speak No Evil (RCA Victor, 1976)
  • The Exciting Buddy Rich (RCA, 1979)
  • No Jive (Novus, 1992)

With others

References
  1. Barry Kernfeld, "Janice Robinson". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd edition, 2004.
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