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The following is an alphabetical list of jazz trumpeters This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in a roughly five-decade career that kept him at the forefront of many major ...
Ronald Glen Miles (May 9, 1963 – March 8, 2022) was an American jazz trumpeter, cornetist, and composer. He recorded for the labels Prolific (1986), Capri (1990), and Gramavision . [ 2 ] His final album, Old Main Chapel , his second on the Blue Note label, was released posthumously in 2024.
Jack Johnson (also known as A Tribute To Jack Johnson on reissues) is a studio album and soundtrack by the American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Miles Davis. It was released on February 24, 1971, by Columbia Records. The album was conceived by Davis for Bill Cayton's documentary of the same name, on the life of boxer Jack Johnson.
Nefertiti is a studio album by the jazz trumpeter and composer Miles Davis.It was released in March 1968 through Columbia Records. [12] The recording was made at Columbia's 30th Street Studio over four dates between June 7 and July 19, 1967, the album was Davis' last fully acoustic album.
Kind of Blue is a studio album by the American jazz trumpeter and composer Miles Davis.It was released on August 17, 1959, by Columbia Records.For the recording, Davis led a sextet featuring saxophonists John Coltrane and Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, pianist Bill Evans, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Jimmy Cobb, with new band pianist Wynton Kelly replacing Evans on one track, "Freddie ...
Miles Davis' performance of "Walkin'" the title track of his album of the same year, at the first Newport Jazz Festival in 1954, announced the style to the jazz world. The quintet Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, fronted by Blakey and featuring pianist Horace Silver and trumpeter Clifford Brown, were leaders in the hard bop movement along ...
All cuts were initially issued as singles except "How Deep Is the Ocean."[4] [5] Young Man with a Horn was also reissued on Vogue in 1954.[6]The original master takes were split and merged with Davis' two other sessions for Blue Note and re-released on 12 inch LPs Miles Davis, Vols. 1 & 2 in January and February 1956, shortly after Davis won the DownBeat reader's poll for best trumpeter.