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Nicholas Payton (born September 26, 1973) is an American trumpet player and multi-instrumentalist. A Grammy Award winner, he is from New Orleans , Louisiana. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He is also a writer who comments on subjects including music, race, politics, and life in America.
Woody Herman Shaw Jr. (December 24, 1944 – May 10, 1989) [1] was an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer, arranger, band leader, and educator.Shaw is widely known as one of the 20th century's most important and influential jazz trumpeters and composers.
Marquis Hill (born April 15, 1987) is an American jazz trumpet player, composer, and bandleader from Chicago, Illinois. His musical style stems from African-American music, incorporating hip-hop, R&B, Chicago house and neo-soul to jazz. [1] [2] In 2014 Hill won the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz International Trumpet Competition. [3]
Greatly inspired by Rao, Ellis sought to implement odd meters in a Western improvised context and (with Rao) co-authored the 1965 article "An Introduction to Indian Music for the Jazz Musician". [9] Ellis briefly formed the first version of his big band at this time but disbanded it when he received a Rockefeller Grant to work at SUNY Buffalo ...
Kermit Ruffins (born December 19, 1964) is an American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer from New Orleans.He has been influenced by Louis Armstrong and Louis Jordan and says that the highest note he can hit on trumpet is a high C.
He performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, [13] the Leopolis Jazz Festival in Ukraine, [14] the Seoul Jazz Festival in South Korea, the Java Jazz Festival in Indonesia, and the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York. [15] Glausi currently serves on the faculty of the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York City. [3]
Terence Oliver Blanchard (born March 13, 1962) is an American jazz trumpeter and composer. He has also written two operas and more than 80 film and television scores. Blanchard has been nominated for two Academy Awards for Original Score for BlacKkKlansman (2018) and Da 5 Bloods, both directed by Spike Lee, a frequent collab
The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, LP and Cassette: First Edition, Penguin, 1992. Cook, Richard and Morton, Brian. The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. Penguin, 2002. Everet, Carole J. Peterson's College Guide for Performing Arts Majors. Peterson's, 2007, p. 301. Kriebel, Robert C. Blue Flame: Woody Herman's Life in Music. Purdue University Press, 1995.