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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".
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).
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 Wesley "Bubber" Miley (April 3, 1903 – May 20, 1932) [1] was an American early jazz trumpet and cornet player, specializing in the use of the plunger mute. [ 2 ] Early life (1903–1923)
Joseph Jean-Baptiste Laurent Arban (28 February 1825 – 8 April 1889) was a cornetist, conductor, composer, pedagogue and the first famed virtuoso of the cornet à piston or valved cornet. He was influenced by Niccolò Paganini 's virtuosic technique on the violin and successfully proved that the cornet was a true solo instrument by developing ...
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 ...
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.