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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]
He played Swing with the bands of Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman in the late 1930s and early 1940s, he played Dixieland from the 1930s into the 1970s in a variety of groups with many of the major figures in the field, and he was a featured soloist on the first ten of the numerous Jackie Gleason mood music albums during the 1950s.
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).
Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke (/ ˈ b aɪ d ər b ɛ k / BY-dər-bek; [1] March 10, 1903 – August 6, 1931) was an American jazz cornetist, pianist and composer. Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s, a cornet player noted for an inventive lyrical approach and purity of tone, with such clarity of sound that one contemporary famously described it like ...
Edward Llewellyn was the son of Welsh-born trumpeter James D. Llewellyn (1843–1920), who emigrated to the United States in 1855. James had been a featured cornet soloist at the 1893 World's Fair.
Smith was the principal cornet soloist with the Goldman Band from 1936 to 1941. He was also the principal trumpet with The Detroit Symphony Orchestra from 1937 to 1942. He was the founder and conductor of the Detroit Concert Band from 1946 to 1991.
Bohumir Kryl (May 3, 1875 – August 7, 1961) was a Czech-American financial executive and art collector who is most famous as a cornetist, bandleader, and pioneer recording artist, for both his solo work and as a leader of popular and Bohemian bands.
Vincent C. Buono (August 3, 1875 – June 3, 1959) was an American cornet and trumpet soloist. He was the principal trumpet with The New York Symphony Society from 1922 to 1923. [ 1 ] He was also the principal cornet soloist with the Goldman Band in 1923.