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Kermit Ruffins (born December 19, 1964) is an American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer from New Orleans.He has been influenced by Louis Armstrong and Louis Jordan and says that the highest note he can hit on trumpet is a high C.
Marquis Hill (born April 15, 1987) is an American jazz trumpet player, composer, and bandleader from Chicago, Illinois. His musical style stems from African-American music, incorporating hip-hop, R&B, Chicago house and neo-soul to jazz. [1] [2] In 2014 Hill won the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz International Trumpet Competition. [3]
In 1980 he lived there for a year to study New Orleans Jazz and the lifestyle and culture that made and shaped this music. Through all of the 80s, Susemihl lived in New Orleans for 4 months each year and studied and played regularly with almost all of the local musicians, from the older traditional players to the younger generation, covering ...
Alphonso Son "Dizzy" Reece (born 5 January 1931) [1] is a Jamaican-born jazz trumpeter. [2] Reece emerged within London's burgeoning bebop jazz scene during the 1950s [3] and went on to become a leading proponent of hard bop jazz in New York City.
Greatly inspired by Rao, Ellis sought to implement odd meters in a Western improvised context and (with Rao) co-authored the 1965 article "An Introduction to Indian Music for the Jazz Musician". [9] Ellis briefly formed the first version of his big band at this time but disbanded it when he received a Rockefeller Grant to work at SUNY Buffalo ...
Paolo Fresu (Sardinian: Pàulu; born 10 February 1961) [1] is an Italian jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player, as well as a composer and arranger of music. His unique trumpet sound is recognized as one of the most distinctive in the contemporary jazz scene. [2] Fresu plays four distinct instruments: trumpet, flugelhorn, muted trumpet, and ...
Thaddeus Joseph Jones (March 28, 1923 – August 20, 1986) [1] was an American jazz trumpeter, composer and bandleader who has been called "one of the all-time greatest jazz trumpet soloists". [ 2 ] Biography
Woody Herman Shaw Jr. (December 24, 1944 – May 10, 1989) [1] was an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer, arranger, band leader, and educator.Shaw is widely known as one of the 20th century's most important and influential jazz trumpeters and composers.