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 Bruce Bonvissuto Bruce Bonvissuto's career defies categorization. The consummate trombonist for any situation, this Juilliard alumnus has appeared and recorded with hundreds of artists including Celine Dion, Liza Minelli, The Temptations, Luther Vandross, Bernadette Peters, Marilyn Horne, Natalie Cole, Tony Bennett, Sarah Vaughan, Kristin Chenowith, Tito Puente Jr., and Bebe Neuwirth. In addition, he has been featured in dozens of Broadway Shows including Dreamgirls, Guys and Dolls, City Center Encores and currently, Chicago. Bonvissuto has also played at The White House and several Inaugural Balls, and performed and/or recorded with jazz giants like Paquito D' Rivera, Rosemary Clooney, JJ Johnson, John Pizzarelli Jr., Branford Marsalis, Marcus Roberts and Ray Nance. On the classical scene, Bonvissuto has toured internationally with The Metropolitan Brass Quartet and is principal trombonist with The New York Virtuosi and The Philharmonic Orchestra of New Jersey. He has been a featured soloist with symphony orchestras and premiered works by Alfred Schnittke, Bruce Adolphe, Charles Small, Vivian Fine and Tatanya Sergejeva. Bruce's beautiful trombone tone has also been heard on the soundtrack of a number of films, and in hundreds of television and radio commercials.  Pete Ellefson Mr. Ellefson has participated in hundreds of recording sessions for motion pictures, IMAX, television, and video games, working with such composers as Elmer Bernstein, James Newton Howard, Basil Poledouris, and Bill Conti. Mr. Ellefson has also backed entertainers as diverse as Burt Bacharach, Frank Sinatra Jr., Ray Charles, James Taylor, Manhattan Transfer, and YES. Mr. Ellefson has a keen interest in chamber music and solo repertoire, as well as concerto performances of works by Bloch, Bourgeois, Dorsey, Grondahl, Guilmant, Larsson, Pryor, Pugh, Serocki, Tomasi, Rimsky-Korsakov, and others. He has extensive knowledge in the repertoire of orchestral and chamber music and the commercial and jazz idioms. Bill Reichenbach Bill Reichenbach started his jazz playing career while still in high school by playing with various bands in the Washington, D.C. area. He also sat in with his father’s group at the famous Georgetown club "Blues Alley" where he played with artists such as Zoot Simms, Al Cohn, Clark Terry, Urbie Green, Milt Jackson and others. While studying with Emory Remington at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., Bill played with many other jazz artists. He was also the featured jazz trombonist with the Eastman Jazz Ensemble. After graduation, Bill joined the Buddy Rich Band and was immediately featured because of his ability to play jazz on the bass trombone. In 1975, Bill moved to L.A. were he started playing the jazz tenor trombone chair on Toshiko Akiyoshi’s big band. At the same time, Bill was also the solo jazz trombone player on Don Menza’s big band. As a studio player, Bill has played on about 800 records, 500 motion pictures, and countless TV shows and jingles. Bill’s jazz quartet album featuring Peter Erskine on drums, Jimmy Johnson on bass, and Biff Hannon on piano, reached number 10 on the national jazz radio play lists. Bill has recorded three albums with Mike Davis—Bonetown, Brass Nation and most recently, New Brass. Bill has also recorded with Quincy Jones, Barbra Streisand, Michael Jackson, Elton John, Toto, The Yellowjackets, Seawind, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, David Foster, Aretha Franklin, Al Jarreau, EarthWind and Fire, Dr. John, Arrowsmith, and Ray Charles. Bill was a featured artist and clinician at the 1997 International Trombone Festival in Urbana, Illinois and the 2000 International Trombone Festival in Utrecht, Holland. As a writer and arranger, Bill has worked on records for Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, Aretha Franklin, Dr. John, Diana Ross and others. He has arranged many HBO Special Themes and composed the theme for the HBO One Night Stand comedy show. Bill also composed the theme for Fox’s animated series Peter Pan & the Pirates as well as much of the underscoring. Bill composed the main title for a series of Kurt Vonnegut stories called Welcome to the Monkey House for Showtime. He is currently working on a score for a documentary film about Frank Lloyd Wright.  Tom "Bones" Malone TA call in the early 1970s from Saturday Night Live (SNL), a new,revolutionary, late-night comedy show on NBC, proved highly fruitful for Malone, who arranged for the show from 1975 to 1985. A single SNL comedy skit featuring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd mushroomed into The Blues Brothers; Malone wrote the chart for that first skit, then continued as an integral member of the Blues Brothers musical organization. His writing and performance may be found on all Blues Brothers recordings and in The Blues Brothers (Universal) film score. In 1993, Malone reunited with SNL veterans Paul Schaffer, keyboards, and Will Lee, bass, in the CBS Orchestra, now in its eighth year as house band for The Late Show with David Letterman. In 1997, Blues Brothers 2000 was released on Universal; the film score includes considerable contribution by Malone. As a leader, Malone is featured on Standards of Living (Big World) and Soul Bones (Malaco). An extremely active writer and performer in New York, Malone may be heard on a list of jazz, R&B, rock and classical recordings far too extensive to ennumerate. A versatile musician, Malone plays piccolo, flute, alto flute, soprano sax, alto sax, tenor sax, baritone sax, piccolo trumpet, trumpet, flügelhorn, bass trumpet, euphonium, trombone, bass trombone, tuba, electric bass, and synthesizer programmer. In addition to performing, arranging, producing and composing, Malone is an active clinician in educational settings. Malone plays Bach trumpets and trombones and Selmer saxophones. |
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