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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".
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 .
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.
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).
Allessandro Liberati (1847–1927) was a cornet player and virtuoso. [2] [3] Active mainly in the late 19th century and the early 20th century, he was also known for being a respectable bandleader for (among others) his World Renowned Liberati Band, as well as for the composition of Felice, and the Kansas City Star March.
James Francis Burke (April 15, 1923 – June 26, 1981) was an American cornet soloist. He was the principal cornet soloist with the Goldman Band from 1943 to 1974. [1] He was also the principal trumpet with The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra from 1943 to 1949. [2]
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).