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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".
From 1943 to 1974 Jimmy was the principal cornet soloist [4] and solo chair with The Goldman Band. [1] During his 32-year career, he was contracted to play five solos each week. The band performed seven nights a week with 50 concerts in a summer season. All totaled, Jimmy performed over 1,100 solos with The Goldman Band.
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 ...
In addition to performing, Bellstedt composed for band, orchestra, piano, violin, and cornet. His cornet solos remain popular with today's trumpeters and include Napoli [ 6 ] (Variations on a Neapolitan Song ), Fantasia No.1, La Coquette, Capriccio Brilliante, La Mandolinata, [ 5 ] and Variations on the Carnival of Venice .
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).
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 ...