Janice Robinson (trombonist)

Janice Elaine Robinson (born December 28, 1951, Clairton, Pennsylvania) is an American jazz trombonist.

Robinson played trombone on The Bill Cosby Show in her teens and took a bachelor's degree at Eastman School of Music in 1973.^[1] She then played with Chuck Mangione, the Jazz Composer's Orchestra, Clark Terry, Sam Rivers, Buddy Rich, the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra, Gil Evans, Frank Foster, and Slide Hampton. In 1978 she assembled a small ensemble with Sharon Freeman, Buster Williams, and Kenny Kirkland as sidemen. In the early 1980s she continued working with Foster as well as with Dizzy Gillespie and George Gruntz. Other work includes associations with McCoy Tyner, Marian McPartland, Billy Taylor, David "Fathead" Newman, Carmen McRae, Idris Muhammad, Lionel Hampton, Woody Shaw, Mercer Ellington, Jimmy Owens, Grant Green, Sarah Vaughan, Dexter Gordon, and Kazumi Watanabe.

Discography

With Ricky Ford

• Loxodonta Africana (New World, 1977)

References