Rob McConnell
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- 3
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- 'X' Zone Book of Triviology
- 'X' Zone 2013 Book of Triviology
- Annie Jacobsen's Area 51 Book Scandal
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1960
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- Better Place2024
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Robert Murray Gordon (Rob) McConnell (born February 14, 1935, London, Ontario) is a Canadian jazz valve trombonist, composer, arranger, music educator and recording artist. Rob McConnell took up the slide trombone in high school, and began his performing career in the early 1950s, performing and studying with Don Thompson, Bobby Gimby, and later, with fellow Canadian Maynard Ferguson. In 1968 he formed The Boss Brass, a big band that would become his primary performing and recording unit throug
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Rob
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Place of birth
- London
- Place of death
- Toronto
- Educated at
- University of Toronto
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- trombone
- Image
- Fraser MacPherson, Rob McConnell 1989.jpg
- Residence
- London
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- Rob McConnell
- date of birth
- 1935-02-14
- cause of death
- cancer
- date of death
- 2010-05-01
- manner of death
- natural causes
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