Janice Robinson (trombonist)


Janice Elaine Robinson is an American jazz trombonist.
Robinson played trombone on The Bill Cosby Show in her teens and received a bachelor's degree from the Eastman School of Music in 1973. She then played with Chuck Mangione, the Jazz Composer's Orchestra, Clark Terry, Sam Rivers, Buddy Rich, the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra, Gil Evans, Frank Foster, and Slide Hampton. In 1978 she assembled a small ensemble with Sharon Freeman, Buster Williams, and Kenny Kirkland as sidemen. In the early 1980s she continued working with Foster as well as with Dizzy Gillespie and George Gruntz. Other work included associations with McCoy Tyner, Marian McPartland, Billy Taylor, David "Fathead" Newman, Carmen McRae, Idris Muhammad, Lionel Hampton, Woody Shaw, Mercer Ellington, Jimmy Owens, Grant Green, Sarah Vaughan, Dexter Gordon, and Kazumi Watanabe.

Discography

With Frank Foster
With Lionel Hampton
With Buddy Rich
With others