Skyline Bones

Staten Island, NY

$600 and up

Travels up to 90 miles

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Skyline Bones Pop Selections

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Skyline Brass ~ Gershwin: "I Got Rhythm"

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Skyline Bones Youth & Family Series

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The Holidays at Chelsea Market!

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Skyline @ Chelsea Market

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Trios & Beer!

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Skyline Bones Recital Afterparty

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Skyline Wedding Ceremony

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Wedding Ceremony

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Skyline Bones Beer & Trios Recital

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Nicholas Martin Skyline Bones Coordinator

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Skyline Christmas

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Skyline Solo Bone

Overview

Trombonists Nicholas Martin, Ric Becker and Jacob Elkin created Skyline Bones Trombone Trio in 2019 to provide imaginative, exciting and inclusive concert opportunities to the public. Since that time we have delighted audiences with our unique take on pop, jazz, classical and original works. We have performed throughout the greater New York City area as veteran musicians of Broadway shows, renowned symphony orchestras and jazz ensembles. Skyline Bones has performed long running concert engagements with Chelsea Market NYC, Mozart for Munchkins Youth and Families series, New York City Parks outreach events and at weddings and concert recitals. All styles and occasions - give us a call today!


Reviews

3 reviews

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Karen E.

July 5, 2023
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Retirement Party Fun with Skyline Bones

Skyline Bones was the perfect trio for my husband's retirement party. As retiring music teacher and professional trombonist, I was in search of the perfect group to enhance our retirement party. Nick worked with me to provide songs that fit in with the theme of the party and individualized the mix to include my husband's favorite groups. We had a multigenerational audience, and I received several compliments from all in attendance. In addition, their tone and volume was fine for the venue (i.e. no one was blasted away by 3 trombones). I would highly recommend them and high them again.

Hired as: Brass Musician, Trombone Player

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Skyline Bones

Thank you Karen it was truly a pleasure! We all had a wonderful time getting to know you and your husband as well as everyone at your party. We are so happy you enjoyed the music it was great to play for such an appreciative and friendly audience. Best wishes in retirement and all the best!


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Leah F.

April 18, 2022
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Fantastic Ensemble!

The music provided was exceptional and Nick was wonderful to work with throughout. Overall, a wonderful experience!

Hired as: Brass Musician, Trombone Player

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Skyline Bones

Dear Leah
Thank you so much for this wonderful experience. Your expertise, professionalism and musicality were exceptional and made the whole service a true pleasure to be a part of!
On behalf of myself and the other musicians of Skyline Bones we wish you the best and hope to work with you again soon!
Regards
Nicholas Martin
Trombonist and Coordinator
Skyline Bones Trombone Trio


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Lisa L.

June 22, 2020

Perfect musicians for our tree lighting

Skyline Brass was a great addition to our outdoor tree lighting. They were flexible and knew all the classics. Very professional. They kept the mood light and fun. It was a great event for the families of the neighborhood.

Hired as: Brass Musician, Trombone Player

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Booking information

Price range: $600 and up

Languages: English, Spanish

Gig length: 30 - 180 minutes

Insurance: $1,000,000 - General Liability

Unions: AFM

What to expect

SKYLINE BONES TROMBONE TRIO

Is a unique, modern and inclusive take on the centuries old tradition of brass chamber music. We perform in a wide ranging variety of styles, venues and scenarios. Our capabilities and musicality create an unforgettable atmosphere of musical brilliance, warmth and connection that work seamlessly throughout a wide variety of settings and occasions.

From solo performances and recitals, kids fun and educational concerts, community events or even commissioning new works for your arts organization, or simply unique and original takes on musical favorites, SKYLINE BONES is a flexible, lightweight, mobile and dynamic musical arts ensemble. Equally well suited to a wide range of settings from small to large spaces, background or main stage, indoor / outdoor venues or even strolling throughout crowds, we are low maintenance, easy setup and smoothly flexible for transitioning within styles, spaces and audiences.

Skyline Bones is an original performing arts ensemble that has fresh and dynamic interpretations of many familiar styles, including classical, jazz, pop favorites and original compositions.

SKYLINE BONES - KEY POINTS / WHAT TO EXPECT
* Uniquely wide dynamic range (volumes from very soft to loud) and do not require amplification. However if needed we do pickup nicely with sound systems and combine with other amplified instruments.
* Flexible, lightweight, compact with capability to move quickly and unobtrusively for easy, seamless transition to other parts of your event and musical setup areas.
* We typically perform a cappella as a trombone trio ensemble. As such we do not usually provide background instruments, such as drums, guitars, singers.
* If you are looking for top 40 hits, Youtube or other popular tunes favorites, we would love to create a unique arrangement just for your event! Just remember that it will be our trombone trio interpretation and not a note for note recreation of your favorite song- but we promise you will love it! :)

Skyline Bones is particularly well suited for venues such as
* City markets and shopping centers
* Outdoor public spaces including block parties and neighborhood festivals
* Church Services
* Corporate functions and events to create a unique and sophisticated background soundtrack
* Weddings (ceremonial services, light background music: cocktail receptions)
* Children's concert educational series events
* Light strolling jobs moving about site venues as well as outdoor settings

Skyline Bones also collaborates to create original musical trombone trio compositions with arts organizations. Although these artistic partnerships require long term planning, funding and coordination, Skyline Bones has highly experienced, professional composers and grant writers in our organization to help realize your artistic goals and vision to create new works specially tailored to your needs.

Skyline Bones would love to hear from you! Please do not hesitate to contact us as we would love to hear your thoughts and chat about your artistic aspirations, goals and needs.

Reach out to us today and let us know how we can help with all your musical needs!

Nicholas Martin
Skyline Bones Coordinator

About

THE SKYLINE BONES trombone trio concept is a unique take on brass chamber music. Like the beautiful and diverse city in which we live and work, SKYLINE BONES aims to build a new artistic skyline of music to our community.
Skyline Bones was founded in 2019 by three friends, performing a trombone trio community recital of new compositions, jazz and pop favorites and classical compositions. With our distinctive musicality and gregarious approach to audience participation we won over many fans and quickly gained regular performance residencies at Chelsea Market in Manhattan, New York City Parks concert series and church and community events.
Skyline Bones is equally at home with many styles of music from vocal transcriptions to jazz arrangements classical compositions and pop standards for any style or occasion or event.
Our collective of trombonist performers currently hold top positions throughout the New York City area, including Broadway shows, NYC jazz foundations, professional symphony orchestras and original music composition commissions throughout the greater New York City area.
Skyline Bones has performed with arts organizations such as Mozart for Munchkins, New York City Parks Dept., Chelsea Market and the Allentown Symphony chamber music series.
Skyline Bones is a champion of trombone trios genre. A great deal of our trombone trio music selections have been arranged, adapted, or even originally composed by members of our organization especially for our group! As a unique ensemble we would love to hand craft our special take on your styles of musical event. Give us your favorite tune and we will create an unforgettable arrangement just for you! We also are careful curators of the historic, collecting many unique and specialized arrangements throughout many centuries of musical literature. With over 25 years of experience with the trombone trio genre, Skyline Bones ensembles have performed outreach concerts for community events, corporate functions, public spaces, churches, assisted living facilities, schools, churches and corrections facilities throughout New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
Contact us us today and help create your own SKYLINE - WITH SKYLINE BONES.

Additional booking notes

We are three highly trained and experienced musicians with a great deal of flexibility and

Past booked events

July 2023

01

Saturday

Retirement Party

1:00pm - 3:00pm

Exton, PA

April 2022

17

Sunday

Worship Service

9:30am - 10:30am

Morris Plains, NJ

Set list

Pop / Jazz Tune Set List
Besame Mucho - Velazques arr. Elkin
Hallelujah from "Skrek" - Loenard Cohen arr. Elkin
Don't Stop Believing - Journey arr. Elkin
I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston arr. Elkin
Stevie Wonder Medley (Superstition, Isn't She Lovely, Sir Duke) Stevie Wonder arr. Elkin
I Got it Bad - Duke Ellington arr. Jason Jackson
Monk's Mood - Thelonius Monk arr. Jason Jackson
The Girl From Ipanema - Jobim arr. Elkin
JJ Johnson Medley - J & Kai - transcription

Holiday Set List
Blue Christmas - Elvis arr. Elkin
Addams Family Theme - arr. Elkin
You're A Mean One Mr Grinch
White Christmas - The Drfiters arr. Elkin
Sugar, Rum, Cherry - Tchaikovsky/Ellington/ Elkin
Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time - Paul McCartney arr. Elkin
Silent Night - Traditional arr. Elkin
Overture From Nutcracker - Tchaikovsky/Ellington/Elkin
Christmas Time is Here - Vince Guaraldi arr. Elkin
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel - Traditional

Light Pops / Classical Set List
George Gershwin Medley - arr D. Armitage
Jazz Suite Waltz #2 - D. Shostakovich arr. Elkin
(The Man I Love, I Got Rhythm, I Got Plenty of Nuthin', Summertime, Rhapsody in Blue)
Lift Every Voice and Sing - James Wheldon Johnson arr. Jason Jackson
Mozart - "Soave Il Vento" from Cosi fan Tutti
In the Hall of the Mountain King - Greig arr. Elkin
JS Bach - 3 Sinfonias
Renaissance Music for Three Trombones - Collection

Influences and inspiration

Canadian Brass
JJ Johnson
George Gershwin
Stevie Wonder
New York Philharmonic
Duke Ellington
George Balanchine
Jazz at Lincoln Center
Trombone Shorty
Meredith Monk
Antonio Carlos Jobim

Setup requirements

We bring all own equipment :)

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