- Miles Davis
Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 - September 28, 1991) was an American jazz musician, widely considered one of the most influential of the 20th century. A trumpeter, bandleader and composer, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s. He played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jazz records. He was partially responsible for the development of modal jazz, … - Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong (4 August, 1901 - July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo and Pops, was an American jazz musician. Armstrong was a charismatic, innovative performer whose inspired improvised soloing was the main influence for a fundamental change in jazz, shifting its focus from collective melodic playing, often arranged in one way or another, to the solo player and improvised soloing. One of the most famous jazz musicians of the 20th century, … - Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (October 21 1917 - January 6 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, singer, and composer. He was born in Cheraw, South Carolina. Together with Charlie Parker, he was a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz. In addition to featuring in these epochal moments in jazz, he was instrumental in founding Afro-Cuban jazz, the modern jazz version of the "Spanish Tinge". Gillespie was a trumpet virtuoso and gifted improviser, … - Wynton Marsalis
Jazz musician, trumpeter, composer, bandleader, advocate for the arts, and educator, Wynton Marsalis has helped propel jazz to the forefront of American culture. His prominent position in American culture was solidified in April 1997, when he became the first jazz artist to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize in music for his work Blood on the Fields , which was commissioned by Jazz at Lincoln Center. - Maynard Ferguson
Walter "Maynard" Ferguson was a Canadian jazz trumpet player and bandleader. He came to prominence playing in Stan Kenton's orchestra, before forming his own band in 1957. He was noted for being able to play accurately in a remarkably high register, and for his bands, which served as stepping stones for up-and-coming talent. - Clark Terry
Clark Terry (born December 14, 1920 in St. Louis, Missouri), nicknamed Mumbles, is an American swing and bop trumpeter, a pioneer of the fluegelhorn in jazz, educator, and NEA Jazz Master. - Quincy Jones
Quincy Delightt Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American music impresario, conductor, record producer, musical arranger, film composer and trumpeter. During five decades in the entertainment industry, Jones has earned more than 70 Grammy Award nominations, more than 25 Grammy Awards, and a Grammy Legend Award in 1991. He is best known as the producer of two of the top-selling records of all time: the album "Thriller", by pop icon Michael Jackson, … - Dave Douglas
Dave Douglas (born March 24, 1963) is a U.S. jazz trumpeter and composer whose music is notable for drawing on many non-jazz musical styles, including classical music, European folk music and klezmer. He has also been a member of the experimental big band Orange Then Blue. Since 1993, Douglas has recorded more than twenty albums as a bandleader. He has also performed and recorded with dozens of musicians, perhaps most notably with various John Zorn ensembles. - Herb Alpert
Herbert "Herb" Alpert (born March 31, 1935 in Los Angeles, California) is an American musician most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass or as Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass or just TJB for short - a now-defunct brass band of which he was the leader. - Doc Severinsen
Doc Severinsen has been the principal pops conductor for The Phoenix Symphony since 1983. - Bobby Shew
Bobby Shew (born March 4, 1941) is a renowned jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player. - Bix Beiderbecke
Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke (March 10, 1903 - August 6, 1931) was a notable jazz cornet player, as well as a very talented classical and jazz pianist. - Al Hirt
Alois Maxwell Hirt was a popular American trumpeter and bandleader. Hirt was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of a police officer, and was known as "Al" or "Jumbo." At the age of six, he was given his first trumpet, which had been purchased at a local pawnshop. He would play in the Junior Police Band with the children of Alcide Nunez, and by the age of 16, Hirt was playing professionally, often with his friend Pete Fountain. - Bill Chase
Bill Chase (October 20, 1934 - August 9, 1974) was an American trumpet player and leader of a jazz-rock fusion band that bore his name. Bill Chase was born William Edward Chiaiese on October 20, 1934 to an Italian-American family in Boston, Massachusetts; his parents John and Emily changed their name to Chase, realizing Chiaiese was difficult to pronounce. Bill's father had played trumpet in the Gillette Marching Band and he encouraged his son's musical interests, … - Rafael Méndez
Rafael Méndez was a popular virtuoso solo trumpeter. As a young child in his native Mexico, Mendez was the cornetist for Pancho Villa. Mendez was legendary for his tone, range and technique. His most famous recording, "Moto Perpetuo," was written by Paganini for violin and features Mendez double tonguing continuously for over 4 minutes while circular breathing to give the illusion that he is not taking a natural breath while playing. - James Morrison
James Morrison AM (born 11 November 1962 in Boorowa, New South Wales) is an Australian jazz musician who plays numerous instruments, but is best known for his trumpet playing. He is a true multi-instrumentalist, capable of performing on the trombone, euphonium, flugelhorn, tuba, saxophone, and piano. He is also a composer, writing jazz charts for ensembles of various sizes and proficiency levels. He performed the opening fanfare at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, … - Allen Vizzutti
Allen Vizzutti is an American trumpeter, composer and music educator. - Steven Bernstein
Steven Bernstein is a jazz trumpeter from New York City. He is best known for his work in The Lounge Lizards, Sex Mob, Spanish Fly, and the Millennial Territory Orchestra. A ubiquitous figure in New York's downtown jazz scene, Steven Bernstein has been the musical director/leader for John Lurie's Lounge Lizards, the Kansas City Band (from Robert Altman's film "Kansas City"), Jim Thirlwell's Steroid Maximus, and Hal Wilner's Leonard Cohen and Doc Pomus Projects. - Bobby Hackett
Robert Leo (Bobby) Hackett (January 31, 1915 - June 7,1976) was born in Providence, Rhode Island and was an accomplished jazz musician. He played trumpet, cornet and guitar and is maybe best known for his playing with the Glenn Miller Orchestra in the period 1941-42. However, he made his name as a follower of the legendary cornet player Bix Beiderbecke: Benny Goodman hired him to recreate Bix's famous "I'm Coming Virginia" solo at his (Goodman's) 1938 Carnegie Hall concert. - Mark Isham
Mark Isham (b. September 7, 1951 in New York City) is an American trumpeter, synthesist, and composer. He works in a variety of genres, including jazz, electronic, and film. - Frank London
Frank London is a New York City-based trumpeter, bandleader, and composer, and one of the most prominent American musicians active in klezmer music. He also plays various other wind instruments and keyboards, and occasionally sings backup vocals. - Doc Cheatham
Adolphus Anthony Cheatham, much better known as Doc Cheatham (13 June, 1905-2 June, 1997) was a jazz trumpeter, singer, and bandleader. While a reliable player in some of the top jazz groups from the 1920s on, Cheatham's career enjoyed an unusual flowering of renewed creativity and acclaim in his later decades; Doc himself agreed with the critical assessment that he was probably the only jazz musician to create his best work after the age of 70. - Herbert L. Clarke
- Phil Driscoll
Phil Driscoll is a Contemporary Christian Music jazz artist who plays trumpet. - Brian McKnight
Brian McKnight (born on June 5 1969 in Buffalo, New York) is a Grammy-nominated American singer, songwriter, arranger, producer, pop and R&B musician. He is a multi-instrumentalist who can play nine instruments: piano, guitar, bass guitar, drums, percussions, trombone, tuba, French horn and trumpet. - Alison Balsom
Alison Balsom is an English trumpet soloist. She studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama the Paris Conservatory, and also with Håkan Hardenberger. She is a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, and she released her debut album with EMI Classics in 2002. In 2005, she released her second disc, "Bach Works for Trumpet" as part of a new exclusive contract with EMI Classics. - Maurice André
Maurice André is a French trumpeter, active in the classical music field. He was born in Alès, France in the Cévennes into a mining family. His father was an amateur musician. He studied trumpet with a friend of his father's, who suggested that he be sent to the conservatory. In order to gain free admission to the conservatory, he joined a military band. After only six months at the conservatory, he won his first prize. - Jon Hassell
Jon Hassell (born March 22, 1937, Memphis, Tennessee) is an American musician and trumpet player. He is most well-known for his special trumpet technique learned from training with Indian classical musicians such as singer Pandit Pran Nath. Hassell learned to apply a unique style of trumpet playing by mimicking Nath's vocal stylings, and later connected with Brian Eno and began using harmonizer effects on his recordings. - Erskine Hawkins
Erskine Ramsay Hawkins was a trumpet player and big band leader from Birmingham, Alabama, dubbed "The 20th Century Gabriel". He is most remembered as the composer of the jazz standard, "Tuxedo Junction" (1939), which became a popular hit during World War II. In 1978 Erskine Hawkins became one of the first five artists inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame. He died in 1993 in Willingboro, New Jersey. Hawkins was an exact contemporary of another Birmingham jazz great, … - Adolph Herseth
Adolph Sylvester (Bud) Herseth, (born July 25, 1921 in Lake Park, MN), was principal trumpet in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1948 until 2001. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest orchestral trumpeters of his generation. He was a student of Boston Symphony Orchestra trumpeters Marcel LaFosse (second trumpet) and Georges Mager (principal trumpet) at the New England Conservatory of Music. Herseth graduated from Luther College in Iowa. - Peter Evans
Peter Evans is an American trumpet player based in New York, who specializes in improvisation and avant-garde music. Peter Evans has been a member of the New York City musical community since 2003, when he moved to the city after graduating from The Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Peter currently works in a wide variety of areas, including solo performance, chamber orchestras, performance art, free improvised settings, electro-acoustic music and composition. - Mercer Ellington
Mercer K. Ellington (11 March 1919-8 February 1996) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and arranger. Ellington was born in Washington, DC, the son of famous composer, pianist, and bandleader Duke Ellington. The young Ellington was taught by his father rather than studying music formally, and by the age of eighteen had written his first piece to be recorded by his father ("Pigeons and Peppers"). In 1939, 1946-1949, and 1959 he led his own bands, … - Muggsy Spanier
Joseph "Muggsy" Spanier was a prominent white cornet player based in Chicago. He was renowned as the best trumpet/cornet in Chicago until Bix Beiderbecke entered the scene. Muggsy led several traditional / "hot" jazz bands, most notably Muggsy Spanier and His Ragtime Band (which did not, in fact, play "ragtime" but, rather, "hot" jazz that would now be called "Dixieland"). This band set the style for all later attempts to play traditional jazz with a swing rhythm-section. - Bobby Bradford
Bobby Lee Bradford (born July 19, 1934 in Cleveland, Mississippi) is an American jazz trumpeter, cornetist, bandleader, and composer. He is noted for his work with Ornette Coleman. Bradford grew up in Mississippi and moved with his family to Dallas, Texas in 1946. He moved to Los Angeles, California in 1953 where he reunited with Ornette Coleman, whom he had previously known in Texas. - Philip Smith
Philip Smith is an eminent American classical trumpet player. He is the principal trumpeter in the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Smith, born in the UK, is from a Salvation Army background. He maintains a high reputation amongst trumpeters worldwide as one of the best of the best. He assumed the co-principal position in the New York Philharmonic in June of 1978 and the principal position in 1988. He also is a supporter of brass bands, … - Jens Lindemann
Jens Lindemann is a Canadian professional trumpet soloist and instructor now based in Los Angeles. He has played at every major concert venue in the world, including the Philharmonics of New York, Los Angeles, London, Manchester, Munich, Hamburg, Lucerne and Berlin. Even before graduating from the prestigious Juilliard School in New York, Jens appeared as a soloist with several orchestras and won awards at numerous jazz festivals while still in his teens. - Lee Loughnane
Lee Loughnane (pronounced LOCK-nane) (born 21 October 1946, in Elmwood Park, Illinois) is an American trumpet player and songwriter, best known for being a founding member of the rock band Chicago. Loughnane was influenced by his father Phillip (also a trumpeter). Through his friendship with guitarist Terry Kath, Loughnane met drummer Danny Seraphine and saxophone/woodwind player Walter Parazaider. Parazaider, who was trying to form a rock 'n roll band with horns, … - Clyde McCoy
Clyde McCoy (b. December 29, 1903 in Ashland, Kentucky - d. June 11, 1990 in Memphis, Tennessee), a famous jazz trumpet player, is best remembered for his themes song, Sugar Blues, and popularity expanding seven decades. McCoy has a "Star" on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. No single song featuring the trumpet has ever gained the popularity of McCoy's "Sugar Blues"!He was one of the most sought after band leaders of the century. - William Vacchiano
William Vacchiano (1912 - September 19, 2005), was a legendary trumpeter and trumpet instructor. Originally from Portland, Maine, Vacchiano studied trumpet at age 12. At 14 years old, he was playing in the Portland Symphony. Later he performed with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra for 38 years and taught at Juilliard for 67 years. He was also a professor at the Mannes College of Music from 1937-83 and the Manhattan School of Music from 1935-2002. - David Hickman
David Hickman is an American trumpeter. He is a Regents' Professor of trumpet at Arizona State University and past President of the International Trumpet Guild.
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