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A 1927 review in The Gramophone noted that "Charles Leggett, needless to say, plays cornet solos of Love's old sweet song and Oh that we two were maying, as almost only he can play the cornet." [2] A 1911 review in The Music Hall and Theatre Review called him a "clever cornet player". [3] In 1930, a review in The Musical Times praised Leggett's ...
Waino Kauppi (1898 – November 25, 1932) was a musician who played both the cornet and the trumpet. Known as the "Boy Wonder", at age 12 Kauppi was one of the first triple-tonguing cornetists. He played as a cornet soloist for bands like the Edwin McEnelly Orchestra, the Goldman Band and, his own, Waino Kauppi Suomi Orkesteri. He had numerous ...
James Shepherd (25 November 1936 – 22 June 2023) was an English cornet player from Northumbria, described as one of the world's most respected players of the instrument, having won the Championship Soloist of Great Britain Prize in three consecutive years (1962-4).
Although he always said he was a follower of Armstrong, he made his name as a follower of cornet player Bix Beiderbecke. [7] In 1938 Benny Goodman hired the talented 23 year old to recreate Bix's "I'm Coming Virginia" solo at his (Goodman's) 1938 Carnegie Hall concert .
Roger Webster (born 1960) is an English cornetist and psychologist.He has been acclaimed as one of the world's best ever cornetists. [1] He also teaches performance at the Royal Northern College of Music as well as giving lectures on psychology (specialising in Cognitive Intervention Therapy a version of CBT).
At the age of six, he and his family moved to New York City where, as a child, he occasionally sang for money on the streets, and later, at the age of 14, studied to play the trombone and cornet. In 1920, after having served in the Navy for 18 months, he joined a jazz formation named the Carolina Five, and remained a member for the next three ...
Jean Tubéry (1964 born in Toulouse) is a French player of the cornett (cornetto) and conductor. [1] He is noted for being, along with his own teacher Bruce Dickey and his colleague Jean-Pierre Canihac , one of the main cornett players to resurrect the baroque instrument, cornet à bouquin, as part of the historically informed performance ...
The Five Pennies is a 1959 American biographical music drama film in VistaVision and Technicolor starring Danny Kaye as jazz cornet player and bandleader Loring "Red" Nichols. Other cast members include Barbara Bel Geddes, Louis Armstrong, Harry Guardino, Bob Crosby, Bobby Troup, Susan Gordon, and Tuesday Weld. The film was directed by Melville ...