THE  ROSOLINO/GRISSOM HOME PAGE This is a document to update and distribute information about the musical career of the late Frank Rosolino (1926-78), the Frank Rosolino Memorial Fund, Inc., and the Frank Rosolino Memorial Scholarship for Jazz Trombone.

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• Forward (Frank Rosolino)

• The Frank Rosolino Memorial Fund, Inc.
• historical statement
• former scholarship winners, 1979-2001
• contribution categories
  
  
• The Frank Rosolino Memorial Scholarship for Jazz Trombone
• history and update (ITA Journal, Fall 1996  issue.    
• 25th International Trombone Festival, Feldkirch, Austria (July 1996)
• 26th International Trombone Festival, University of Illinois, Urbana, (May 27-31,1997)
  
  
• Current projects
• Ongoing reworking of information in regards the Frank RosolinoMemorial Scholarship.  The  Frank
  Rosolino Memorial Scholarship was officially cancelled  by  the ITA as a joint sponsorship with Professor Grissom at the annual ITW meeting held in Nashville, TN in 2001.  The ITA then introduced a "substitute" entitled the Frank Rosoliino Competition ( which they alone  sponsored).  It was first  introduced at the ITA meeting in Texas, 2002.  The first winner of the competition was Andrew Hunter, Oberlin College - Ohio.
  
  
• Rosolino discography research and special CD update
• Selected discography
• CD Reissues
• Rosolino CDs and Publication
• Rosolino  (Bach / Selmer page)
• Conrad Herwig Transcription of "All The Things You Are"
• Conrad Herwig  (current CD discography)

 
• Related information
• founding and development of the Frank Rosolino Memorial Fund,Inc.
• 1994 International Trombone Workshop, Univ. of Minnesota, MN.
• 1995 International Trombone Workshop, Univ. of Nevada, Utah
• 1995 International Trombone Workshop, L.A. Times article.
  
• 1996 International Trombone Festival, Feldkirch, Austria
• 1997 International Trombone Festival, University of Illinois, Urbana, Il.
• 1998 International Trombone Festival, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
• 1999 International Trombone Festival, State University of New York, Potsdam, NY
• 2000 International Trombone Festival, Utrecht  the Netherlands.
• 2001 International Trombone  Festival, Belmont University, Nashville, TN.

 
• Basic Discography of Frank Rosolino, by Roberto Machado, 2nd Edition, revised and enlarged, 1996.
• Une Discography ( A Discography ), Frank Rosolino by   Jean-Loup Decaens (Oct. 1998)
• Frank Rosolino, A Discography:  Arnie Alstrup / Eugene E. Grissom (2001 - in progress)

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 Eugene E. Grissom / ( egtbone@nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu )

Created:  August 15, 1995                     Updated: april  2, 2005

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