Wycliffe A. Gordon (born May 29, 1967) is an American jazz trombonist, arranger, composer, band leader, and music educator at the collegiate-conservatory level. Gordon also sings and plays didgeridoo, trumpet, soprano trombone, tuba, and piano.The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, Second edition, Vol. 2, edited by Barry Dean Kernfeld, London: Macmillan Publishers (2002) His nickname is "Pinecone".
Gordon was born in Waynesboro, Georgia, into a religious and musical background that influenced the early direction... meer