What is "slide trombone"

Usage examples of "slide trombone".

It floats just buoyant on the wind, kisses a traffic sign, lightly dabs a slide trombone and plasters itself across army boots.

Their instrumental music consisted of a foot-pumped organ and a slide trombone.

All but one, who wore a coonskin cap, marched a half-pace out of step, and was armed with a slide trombone.

His chin sawed in and out like a slide trombone, and his skin bubbled and boiled in a wild variety of color, texture and hairiness.

Or reefer dreams improvised out of a slide trombone without any notes to back them up.

There was an army bugle, a slide trombone, and a trumpet of gold with a real trumpet mouthpiece but the keys of a saxophone.

In the background a siren wail climbed like a slide trombone solo, then dopplered into silence.

On the wall above the mantel were framed black-and-white photos of big bands and jazz combos, the musicians all black, and one close-up of a young, clean-shaven, pomaded Bayliss, dressed in a white dinner jacket and formal shirt and tie, and holding a slide trombone.