Bill Watrous, a jazz trombonist who came up in the 1960s just as jazz was fading and the trombone was transitioning into studio orchestras and funk-soul groups such as the Jazz Crusaders and Kool and the Gang, died on July 2, 2018. He was 79.
Much of Watrous's recorded work was in big bands and studio orchestras, though he occasionally recorded in ensemb…
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