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You can email me at jvtrombone@verizon.net
On Trombone - JJ Johnson, Curits Fuller , Carl Fontana , Frank Rosolino , Slide Hampton , Ray Anderson , Conrad Herwig , Steve Davis , Urbie Green , Michael Davis , Hal Crook , Bob McChesney , Andy Martin , Doug Sertl, John Fedchock , Bill Watrous , Steve Turre , Robin Eubanks , Fred Wesley , Wycliffe Gordon , Al Grey , Harry Watters , Mark Nightingale , Delfeayo Marsalis , Phil Wilson , Jiggs Whigham
On Trumpet - Lee Morgan, Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, Clifford Brown, Woody Shaw, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Farmer, Tom Harrell
On Sax - Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Hank Mobley, Sonny Stitt, Wayne Shorter, Cannonball Adderley, Kenny Garrett
On Piano - Hank Jones, Tommy Flanagan, Thelonious Monk, Horace Silver, Herbie Hancock, Cedar Walton, David Hazeltine, Bill Charlap
On Bass - Ray Brown, Paul Chambers, Sam Jones, Jimmy Garrision, Peter Washington, Nat Reeves, Rufus Reid, Ray Drummond
On Drums - Kenny Clarke, Connie Kay, Max Roach, Roy Haynes, Art Taylor, Elvin Jones, Kenny Washington, Billy Drummond, etc., etc., etc.
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Music can be purchased at CD Baby just click on the CD cover
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Bands I've played in - Valley Jazz Orchestra Greg Johnson Quintet, Summit City Saints, Keystone Society of Swing Friends Band, Trombone Chowder, Jazz Innate, Punk Jazz, Slide Zone, Various Pit Orchestras.
Jay Vonada from Aaronsburg, made all-state band in his junior and senior years of high school and went to all-eastern band in his senior year. Jay won the John Philip Sousa Award as a senior. He attended Mansfield University in the fall of 1993 studying jazz improvisation with Dr. Michael Galloway for one year and jazz arranging for one semester. He was lead trombone and featured soloist with the "Mansfield University Jazz Band" for four years where they performed at the PMEA MENC, and placed third at the Villanova Jazz Festival in 1994. Jay played with Jazz saxophonist Bob Mintzer at the Mansfield University Jazz Festival and also performed with Mansfield alumni Neil Slater who is currently director of the "One O'clock Lab Band" at the University of North Texas. In 1999 Jay won a scholarship to study at the Berklee College of Music.
Among the non-jazz groups he performed with are the "Mansfield University Wind Ensemble Orchestra, Trombone Choir, Brass Quintet, Trombone Quartet, and Pit Orchestra". He also performed as an extra for the "Williamsport Symphony".
Jay's personal jazz improvisational style is grounded in the bebop tradition of Charlie Parker Dizzy Gillespie and J.J. Johnson. Since discovering Jazz in 1995 he listens to the masters through recordings and live performances as he believes is the only way jazz can be taught. He has over 500 CDs of the jazz masters mostly trombonists. JJ. Johnson Curtis Fuller, Carl Fontana, Frank Rosolino, Slide Hampton, Ray Anderson, Conrad Herwig, Steve Davis, Hal Crook, etc. Transcribing their solos or just learning them by ear is how he is developing as a jazz player.
Since leaving College Jay has performed at his high school with the jazz band in the pit orchestra for Penns Valley High School from 1999-2001 for the Bald Eagle Area High School from 2002-2004 for “Singing On Stages’” production of Dream Girls in 2006 and Oliver in 2007 and trombonist with the "Valley Jazz Orchestra" from 2004-2007 trombonist with "Jazz Innate" an octet from 2003-2005. He has played with Greg Johnson’s “Jazz Monsters” and “Punk Jazz” and has played at the monthly “Jazz Jam at Sozo’s” in State College. He was also the Lead Trombonist with the "Keystone Society of Swing Big Band" and is currently the trombonist for the "Summit Saints Dixieland Band". He plays in a trombone quartet called “Trombone Chowder” and a newly formed five trombone and rhythm jazz group “Slide Zone“, and also plays in a newly formed sextet “Liquid Jazz“. Jay has also had the privilege of playing with vocalist Catherine Dupuis pianist Russ Kassoff, bassists Martin Wind and Jay Anderson and drummers Tim Horner and Dennis Mackrel at the PA Jazz Festival from 2005-2008.
As the great trumpet player Clark Terry said "Imitate Assimilate, Innovate". In November 2006 he recorded a demo.
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