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Read about all the equipment I've ever used! I describe in depth all the trombones and mouthpieces I've used over the years, as well as all the additional instruments I use from time to time.

With direct links to Amazon's store, these suggestions are great places to start your collection, or you can use these lists to balance and round-out your collection.  Visit our featured sections on trombone, big band, composing and arranging, and suggestions from Rick Mandyck.

Need some new information? Here's a great place so satisfy all your hunger for knowledge in such areas as arranging and composition, jazz history and biographies, and improvisation and theory.  Fill that void in your knowledge!

Visit this section for some essential jazz DVD lists as well as tons of online video you can watch right here on our site, including the complete Charlie Rose Interviews with Jazz Artists.

Seattle-area guitarist Rick Mandyck is one of the few musicians around that deserves the title of "guru", and his personal lists of reccommendations are a great place to spend your time and money.

Included here are some specialized lists -- some mixes of recordings and other resources -- on more narrow subject matters. Also included here is a list made for Matso Limtiaco's Listening project.