The Virtual Trombonist Podcast, ep. 1: An interview with John Ohnstad
In the summer of 1993, I had the great fun and opportunity to work at Disney World as part of the All-American College Orchestra, performing at Epcot. One of my colleague was a bass trombonist named John Ohnstad. John was an interesting guy. He was a fantastic musician, but wasn't a music major in college at all! John has continued his parallel paths in both business and music, and we recently caught up at a reunion of our College Orchestra pals in Orlando. I sat down to talk a bit with John about how he arrived at his musical career, and to also hear about his unique experiences studying with the late George Roberts. [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/220684998" params="auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true" width="100%" height="450" iframe="true" /]
John performs with a number of groups in and around Portland, here are some links to a few of them:
Art Abrams Swing Machine Big Band - and on their album "Speak Low/Swing Hard"