Them Basses

Henry Fillmore (1881-1956) was the most colorful bandman of his time, and that era stretched across fifty vibrant years during which he probably wrote more band music - much of it under assumed names - than any composer/bandmaster in history. Fillmore´s background in his family´s publishing house, the Fillmore Brothers Company of Cincinnati, led him at an early age down a variety of productive paths as a composer, including those of the hymn, popular overture, fox-trot, waltz, and his own particularly lucrative specialty - the trombone novelty, such as Lassus Trombone, Bone´s Trombone or Shoutin´ Liza Trombone. His irrepressible talent for marches produced a string of masterpieces uniquely of his own flavor.