Rob and Earl Swope were brothers. Earl was three years older, and both played a gorgeous, deft and warm-toned trombone. In the late 1940s, Earl played with Woody Herman while Rob played with Buddy Rich, Chubby Jackson and Gene Krupa. The brothers from Washington, D.C., were in the same trombone section on only a handful of recordings: with Elliot Lawren…
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