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Jim Knapp was born on July 28, 1939, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. He studied piano at age six and took up trumpet at age twelve. He studied music composition at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with Kenneth Gaburo and received a Bachelor of Music from the University of Illinois in 1962. [1]
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.
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 ...
Dennis González, often credited Dennis Gonzalez (August 15, 1954 – March 15, 2022), [1] [2] was an American jazz trumpeter, artist, and educator from Texas. He hosted Miles Out on KERA-FM for over twenty years.
Joey DeFrancesco (April 10, 1971 – August 25, 2022) was an American jazz organist, trumpeter, saxophonist, and occasional singer. [3] He released more than 30 albums under his own name, and recorded extensively as a sideman with such leading jazz performers as trumpeter Miles Davis, saxophonist Houston Person, and guitarist John McLaughlin.
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 .
Richard Harrison Collins (July 19, 1924 – April 19, 2016) was an American jazz trumpeter. [1]Collins was born in Seattle on July 19, 1924. Several of his parents and grandparents were professional musicians.
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.