Jazz Trumpet
Various Artists
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- The Basics
Whether it's the '50s-style "cool school" that flips your wig or Dixieland that sets your toes a-tapping, somewhere there's a trumpeter blowing notes you need to hear. Not to blow our own horn too much, but we've combed through nine decades' worth of le trompette to bring you the best trumpeters of all time. Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis, though only 25 years apart in age, represent the alpha and the omega of the modern era. Our first two selections, for instance, recorded 31 years apart, actually express the span between the jet engine and the Model T.
$26.85 The Basics
Name Artist Time Price 1 So What Miles Davis 9:22 $1.29 View In iTunes 2 West End Blues Louis Armstrong 3:16 $0.99 View In iTunes 3 A Night In Tunisia Dizzy Gillespie 3:04 $0.99 View In iTunes 4 Joy Spring Clifford Brown & Max Roach Quintet 6:48 $0.99 View In iTunes 5 Happy Little Sunbeam Chet Baker 2:43 $1.29 View In iTunes 6 Rockin' Chair Roy Eldridge 2:50 $0.99 View In iTunes 7 Singin' the Blues Bix Beiderbecke 3:00 $0.99 View In iTunes 8 Fat Boy Fats Navarro 5:45 $0.99 View In iTunes 9 You're My Everything Freddie Hubbard 6:37 $1.29 View In iTunes 10 Donna Lee (Live) Wynton Marsalis 6:47 $1.29 View In iTunes 11 Hush Donald Byrd 6:21 $1.29 View In iTunes 12 Double Play Clark Terry 3:32 $0.99 View In iTunes 13 Back Beat Boogie (Take 1) The Harry James Orchestra 4:23 $0.99 View In iTunes 14 Good Morning Blues (Take A) Buck Clayton & Count Basie and His Orchestra 3:15 $0.99 View In iTunes 15 Concerto for Cootie Duke Ellington 3:21 $0.99 View In iTunes 16 East Saint Louis Toodle-O Duke Ellington 3:40 $0.99 View In iTunes 17 'Philly' Twist Kenny Dorham 5:35 $1.29 View In iTunes 18 C Jam Blues Harry "Sweets" Edison, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis 5:28 $0.99 View In iTunes 19 I Can't Get Started Bunny Berigan 4:48 $0.99 View In iTunes 20 I Remember Clifford Art Farmer & Benny Golson 3:13 $0.99 View In iTunes 21 Speedball Lee Morgan 5:32 $1.29 View In iTunes 22 Red Arrow Red Rodney 5:11 $0.99 View In iTunes 23 Dat Dere Woody Shaw 8:11 $0.99 View In iTunes 24 Struttin' With Some Barbecue (78 rpm Version) Louis Armstrong & The Hot Fives 3:03 $0.99 View In iTunes 25 If I Were a Bell Miles Davis 8:30 $0.99 View In iTunes Total: 25 Songs - Next Steps
Ray Nance's step-out on "Take The 'A' Train" is one of the most famous solos of the big band era; surprisingly, he also played the violin with Duke Ellington's band. Wynton Marsalis, arguably the most famous trumpeter in the post-Miles Davis era, is featured here on the Duke Ellington-composed "Melancholia," but his playing is very reminiscent of early Miles. And Donald Byrd's take on Charlie "Bird" Parker's "Chasing the Bird" proves them to be birds of a feather.
$24.36 Next Steps
Total: 25 Songs - Deep Cuts
If you're wondering who's playing horn on Duke Ellington's "The Prowling Cat," it's William Alonzo "Cat" Anderson . . . and he's certainly not prowling. Mark Isham, who won a Best New Age Performance GRAMMY® in 1990, shows off his jazz chops in "And Miles to Go . . . Before He Sleeps." And Jack Sheldon, better known to Gen Xers as the guy who sang "Conjunction Junction," leads his band through a particularly tasty cover of "Green Dolphin Street."
$24.96 Deep Cuts
Total: 24 Songs - Complete Set
Some played it sweet, some played it shrill, some hit the impossible high notes, some hung languidly in the lower register. Ever since the dawning of jazz — heck, ever since the angel Gabriel blew that famous note — we've had a special place in our hearts for the man with the horn. From Art Farmer to Ziggy Elman, nine decades of the trumpet's unique place in jazz history are on showcase right here. Whether your tastes lean toward bebop or "cool school," big band or small combo, we've got the sounds you can't help but dig.
$76.17 Complete Set
Total: 74 Songs
Customer Reviews
Not a bad artist here
There isn't a single bad artist here. I love all of it!
A Little Unbalanced
How can you include Red RFodney and notr have any Maynard Ferguson? No disrespect To Rodney, but he doesn't belong in anyone's Hall of Fame. His career was short and not very meaningful. Maynard Ferguson was the opposite. Booker Little woujld be a better choice than Red Rodney.-
