Robert Valentine Lamb[1] (born 11 February 1931) is an Irish jazz trombonist, composer, and conductor.
Born in 1931 in Cork, then in the Irish Free State, Lamb started on euphonium as a teenager before settling on trombone.
[2] In 1951, Lamb moved to Dublin to perform with Neil Kearn's band for six months and later Johnny Devlin's Downbeaters group.
[2] He and Ray Premru co-led an orchestra starting in the late 1960s, in which they worked with Buddy Rich, Louie Bellson, and Kenny Clare, among others.
[3] Lamb became professor of contemporary music studies at Hochschule für Musik Detmold in Germany in 1994.