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The band started when Brown and Roach rented a studio in California. With Brown able to play piano and drums in addition to trumpet, the co-leaders could experiment extensively with these instruments in the studio. They settled on the standard bebop quintet of trumpet, saxophone, piano, bass, and drums, with sax, piano, and bass players needed.
He was among a handful of trumpeters capable of playing demanding lead trumpet parts while also contributing improvisational solos and of playing baroque, classical, and later orchestral and chamber music styles, which made him an in-demand session player for commercials and soundtracks. [citation needed]
Cyril James Touff (March 4, 1927 in Chicago – January 24, 2003 in Evanston, Illinois) was an American jazz bass trumpeter. He was one of the few jazz musicians known as a bass trumpeter. He was also associated with West coast jazz although he spent most of his life in Chicago.
2 Trumpets is an album by trumpeters Art Farmer and Donald Byrd, recorded in 1956 and released on the Prestige label. They are joined by Jackie McLean in the front line for the uptempo pieces but have a ballad quartet track apiece.
Louis Edward Satterfield (April 3, 1937 – September 27, 2004) was an American bassist and trombonist.Satterfield was a member of both The Pharaohs and the Phenix Horns.He also collaborated with prominent artists such as Earth, Wind & Fire, Muddy Waters, Phil Collins, B. B. King, The Emotions, Ramsey Lewis, The Whispers and The Gap Band.
He had three periods in as many decades with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers; [2] Hardman's misfortune was not to be with the Messengers at the time of their popular Blue Note recordings. Blakey occasionally featured him playing several extended choruses unaccompanied. He died in Paris, France, of a brain hemorrhage at the age of 57. [1] [3]
Gabriel “The Gun” Gonzalez, No Doubt’s original trumpet player, died on Sept. 12 in a fatal motorcycle accident in Hermosa Beach, Ca, a family representative confirmed to SPIN. He was 57. He ...
They're Playing Our Song (RCA, 1956) Session at Riverside (Capitol, 1957) Conniff Meets Butterfield (with Ray Conniff; Columbia, 1959) I'm In The Mood (Belldisc Italiana, 1959) Billy Blows His Horn (Columbia, 1961) The Golden Horn (Columbia, 1962) Just Kiddin' Around (with Ray Conniff; Columbia, 1963) Songs Bix Beiderbecke Played (Epic, 1969)