Trombonist Deaths

[officermayo]

On a whim I Googled "tragic deaths of trombonists". Most links were to known events (natural deaths and suicides), but a few were quite bizarre.

https://groups.google.com/g/alt.music.t ... A0fOS_lrbg

https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life ... dd204.html

https://skabook.com/don-drummond/

https://slippedisc.com/2018/01/brass-wo ... principal/

[Kbiggs]

Death is the only certainty we have in life. Some sad, shocking and bizarre deaths are bound to crop up in such a small portion of the population.

[AndrewMeronek]

Yeah, one can only hope to die at old age having lived a rich life of a heart attack in one's sleep. Alas.

Tommy Dorsey did apparently die in his sleep, but from choking to death due to sleeping pills and vomiting. Yikes!

[harrisonreed]

There was the guy who died playing 1812 after he tried to turn his mute into a rocket, and his trombone into a rocket launcher.

Fake news but it should have happened

[robcat2075]

https://slippedisc.com/2018/01/brass-wo ... principal/

Slip-and-fall head injuries are pernicious things. I've witnessed an instance of a head injury that didn't seem life-threatening at first and yet was fatal a few days later.

At an advanced age you'd be better off to break a leg than bump your head.

[tbdana]

And then, of course, there was this one.

https://www.jazzmasters.nl/rosolino.htm

This is one of those events I'll always remember where I was when I learned of it.

[officermayo]

And then, of course, there was this one.

https://www.jazzmasters.nl/rosolino.htm

This is one of those events I'll always remember where I was when I learned of it.

I purposely left off Frank and JJ's suicides.

[JohnL]

Slip-and-fall head injuries are pernicious things. I've witnessed an instance of a head injury that didn't seem life-threatening at first and yet was fatal a few days later.

Even when they're not fatal, it can take some time for the full extant of the injury to manifest itself.