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Post by Notavialible on Nov 4, 2003 20:17:32 GMT -5
I know its not alot to choose from. I tried to pick only the biggest names in jazz trumpeting. I know I left quite a few. I would have liked to add Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, Kenny Dorham, Sweets Edison, and some others to the list but these are OK.  |
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Post by Jarrett on Nov 5, 2003 8:11:30 GMT -5
Come on, you put Miles over Clifford or Diz?
-J
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Post by noel on Nov 5, 2003 10:53:20 GMT -5
Hi Jarrett. Yes, Miles gets my vote (on this list) any day of the week.
The question is NOT who is the best trumpet player or who is the best jazz player but who is your FAVOURITE trumpet player. So it's down to personal choice and there can be no arguments.
To be honest I don't really see the point of the poll.
Now if the question was who is your favourite trumpet player and why?..... then we might start an interesting and informative discussion.
Where have you been by the way and how is the Caruso working out?
Noel.
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Post by diggindiz on Nov 5, 2003 12:04:53 GMT -5
I can't believe you put Arturo & Maynard on a list of JAZZ trumpet players and left off Freddie!!!!  |
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Post by Jarrett on Nov 5, 2003 13:43:25 GMT -5
no kidding.
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Post by Jarrett on Nov 5, 2003 13:47:21 GMT -5
Oh, hey Noel, I guess I can see your point. I automatically thought "Miles was nowhere near as good as Diz or Cliff in my book."
Guess it's the same thing huh?
Anyway, the Caruso has been awesome, everytime I do the 6 notes I feel like I'm superman afterwards. I need to get deeper into the book. OH, I'm up to double c-B-double c pretty easily now. I feel like I know EXACTLY where each note should be in the upper register, it's really helped with accuracy. When are you gonna come up here by the way!?
-Jarrett
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Post by noel on Nov 5, 2003 13:59:24 GMT -5
Hi Jarrett. Well I just love all those players - but Miles is my favourite. I can find something of his to listen to whatever my mood or the time of day etc and, unlike any of the others, his playing career encompasses at least 5 or 6 eras of jazz trumpet (many of which he basically defined) over 6 decades! Wow... the man is a musical giant in my opinion.
Anyway I think asking do you like Armstrong more than Sandoval is like asking if you prefer chalk to cheese.
Wouldn't you love to have heard Clifford playing on 'So What', or Kenny Wheeler playing on Clifford Brown with Strings etc....
I'll see you in Germany just as soon as I get an invitation.
Noel.
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Post by TangneyK on Nov 7, 2003 18:54:47 GMT -5
I had to pick Chet...
Miles is my favorite musician ever, but not my favorite trumpet player... What he did with the music, the musicians he brought together, etc.
But anyways, it was a struggle between Chet and Clifford for favorite jazz trumpet player. I love em both, but my ear is on the level of Chet's playing (simpler) right now, so that's why I had to give it to him. And he's sooooo D-A-M-N tasty!
And WTF again about putting Maynard and Arturo up there. Ok Maynard can play high, and he has made a couple of recordings that other people have liked (myself not included), and Arturo can play high, and his Latin stuff sounds good. (I actually walked out of a performance of him playing with the Disney big band in Anneheim for IAJE a couple years back cause he sounded like S-H-I-T doing the jazz thing with them.) But they haven't contributed anything major to the music!!!! I mean, Arturo plays other peoples' solos on his albums!!!!!! AHHHH!!!!!
Freddie Hubbard (up there with Chet)
Blue Mitchell
Kenny Dorham
Woody Shaw
Lee Morgan
Tom Harrell (another up there with Chet)
Kenny Wheeler (up there with Chet)
Thad Jones
Don Cherry
Wynton Marsalis (Someday I'll post my thoughts on him.)
Nicholas Payton
Bobby Shew
Tim Hagans
And I'm spent...
Of course, this is a small least of players that it could (in my humble opinion) be said to have brought something more to the music than either Maynard or Arturo. The two of them are (or used to be) complete freaks on their horns, but "Great Jazz Trumpet Players". I hope not.
--Kevin
P.S. Here's your official invite to Bamberg! I heard great things about Jarrett and Gary's trip to the UK and their lesson with you.
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Post by Tootsall on Nov 7, 2003 20:02:45 GMT -5
Sorry guys...I have to go with the guy who started it all. He began his life in the most humble possible of circumstances, became the icon of what has become to be known as jazz, invented riffs that nobody had ever heard of, and through it all was humble to a fault and always remembered his roots. Even today he stands as the name that even non-trumpet players or non-jazz musicians and fans recognize "at first shot".
Pops, (the real "Pops"), I'll raise my glass to you Sir.
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