Carl Fontana, a jazz trombonist who created a technique called ” doodle tonguing ” and once played with Frank Sinatra and Duke Ellington, died Thursday in Las Vegas. He was 75. Although slowed by ...

A brilliant trombonist who has spent much of the past 40 years playing commercial music in Las Vegas, Carl Fontana occasionally emerges to remind listeners just how technically skilled he is. The son ...

This is the second album for TNC Jazz by trombone masters Carl Fontana and Jiggs Whigham with the Stefan Karlsson Trio, and like the first, Nice ‘n’ Easy (1997), it merits comment but is really beyond ...