Arts & Culture

Rob McConnell, Canadian jazz trombonist, composer, arranger, educator and big band leader, died May 1st in Toronto at the age of 75.    He was best known for his ensemble work with the Boss Brass and later with the Rob McConnell Tentet. McConnell was also a prize winner of multiple Juno and Grammy awards and was inducted into the Juno Jazz Hall of Fame in 1997.

For further information on Rob McConnell and other Canadian jazz figures see  The Miller companion to jazz in Canada and Canadians in jazz or Boogie, Pete and the Senator : Canadian musicians in Jazz : the Eighties.

The Library has many of his recordings a selection of which is below :

• Rob McConnell Tentet

• Even Canadians get the blues

• Velvet and Brass – Mel Torme, Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass

• "Our 25th year" – Rob McConnell & the Boss Brass

• The jazz album

• Rob McConnell and The Boss Brass