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After focusing on the trumpet, Snow quickly became so famous at the instrument that she was nicknamed "Little Louis" after Louis Armstrong, who called her the world's second-best jazz trumpet player, besides himself. W. C. Handy, who is known as the Father of the Blues, gave her the nickname "Queen of the Trumpet." Contemporary critics Krin ...
Anna Freeman (born 1954) is a trumpet player and Professor of Trumpet and Brass Chamber Music at Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln in Germany. She was a soloist with Australian symphony orchestras and performed with the Australian Chamber Orchestra. [citation needed]
Willie Thomas was raised in Orlando, Florida and started playing the trumpet around the age of 10.. In the 1950s, Willie was a member of the Third Army Band, where he met and played with pianist Wynton Kelly, which became his first real break into the New York jazz scene.
Spivak's experience playing with jazz musicians had little effect on his own band's style, which was straight dance music, made up mainly of ballads and popular tunes. Spivak himself (known as "Cheery, Chubby Charlie") had been noted for his trumpet's sweet tone and his strength for playing lead parts, rather than for any improvisational ability.
He made an appearance in the 1994 film Radioland Murders as the ill-fated trumpet player Ruffles Reedy, who becomes a victim of the gruesome goings-on during a 1939 radio show. Jack's poignant trumpet solo on " The Shadow of Your Smile " which was introduced in the 1965 film The Sandpiper helped earn it Song of the Year at the 1966 Grammy ...
Charles B. Findley (born December 13, 1947, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania) is an American trumpet player known for his diverse work as a session musician.He also plays other brass instruments such as flugelhorn and trombone.
Born in Cuba, the beginnings of his artistic career took place mainly in Miami, United States. [5] As lead trumpet player, he has participated in records of salsa musicians like Oscar d'León, Marc Anthony, Tito Nieves, La India, Richie Ray, Víctor Manuelle, Rey Ruiz and Aymée Nuviola, as with artists of other genres like Maluma, Prince Royce, Ricardo Arjona, Thalía and Ricardo Montaner.
In 2016 Turcotte played on the soundtrack to the critically acclaimed video game Cuphead which received praise for its art style, gameplay, soundtrack, and being one of the hardest video games ever created. In 2020, Turcotte was member of the John Clayton led Keorner Hall Orchestra that performed the World Premiere of Oscar Peterson's "Africa ...