Chris Rhodes is a

trombone The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the Brass instrument, brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the Standing wave, air column ...

player from

New Haven, Connecticut New Haven is a city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is located on New Haven Harbor on the northern shore of Long Island Sound in New Haven County, Connecticut and is part of the New York City metropolitan area. With a population of 134,02 ...

best known for playing

in several notable

ska Ska (; ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. It combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. Ska is characterized by a walki ...

bands including

Spring Heeled Jack Spring-heeled Jack is an entity in English folklore of the Victorian era. The first claimed sighting of Spring-heeled Jack was in 1837. Later sightings were reported all over the United Kingdom and were especially prevalent in suburban Lo ...

, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones,

Bim Skala Bim Bim Skala Bim formed in Boston as a ska band that was influenced by the bands in England’s two-tone movement as well as artists such as the Clash, UB40 and Bob Marley. Their "Boston Blue Beat" sound, a mix of upbeat two-tone ska, rock ‘n’ r ...

and

the Toasters The Toasters are one of the original American second wave of ska bands. Founded in New York City in 1981, the band has released nine studio albums, primarily through Moon Ska Records. History Englishman Robert "Bucket" Hingley relocated to New ...

as well as Connecticut funk band, Boogie Chillin'. He has also made frequent on-stage guest appearances with bands such as

Reel Big Fish Reel Big Fish is an American ska punk band from Orange County, California. The band gained mainstream recognition in the mid-to-late 1990s during the third wave of ska with the release of the gold-certified album ''Turn the Radio Off''. Soon af ...

, NOFX and Less Than Jake. He was once a student at the

University of Connecticut The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university in Storrs, Connecticut, a village in the town of Mansfield. The primary 4,400-acre (17.8 km2) campus is in Storrs, approximately a half hour's drive from Hart ...

in Storrs, Connecticut where he played trombone in the marching band. In 2007, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones reunited after a four year hiatus. The band continued to record and perform live for the next fifteen years until its dissolution in January 2022. Since then, Rhodes has returned to performing with Spring Heeled Jack and the Toasters.

External links

Official website of The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rhodes, Chris Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American ska trombonists Male trombonists African-American rock musicians Western Connecticut State University alumni Musicians from New Haven, Connecticut The Mighty Mighty Bosstones members 21st-century trombonists 21st-century American male musicians 21st-century African-American musicians