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Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an inventive trumpet and cornet player, he was a foundational influence in jazz, shifting the focus of the music from collective improvisation to solo performance. [5] Around 1922, Armstrong followed his mentor, Joe "King" Oliver, to Chicago to play in Oliver's Creole Jazz Band.
The following is an alphabetical list of jazz trumpeters This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Bobby Hackett. Hackett performs at the Paramount Theatre in New York City in August 1946. Robert Leo Hackett (January 31, 1915 [1] – June 7, 1976) [2] was a versatile American jazz musician who played swing music, Dixieland jazz and mood music, now called easy listening, on trumpet, cornet, and guitar.
Edward Lee Morgan (July 10, 1938 – February 19, 1972) was an American jazz trumpeter and composer. [1] [2] [3] One of the key hard bop musicians of the 1960s and a cornerstone of the Blue Note label, [1] Morgan came to prominence in his late teens, recording with bandleaders like John Coltrane, Curtis Fuller, Dizzy Gillespie, Hank Mobley and Wayne Shorter, and playing in Art Blakey's Jazz ...
James Lloyd Morrison AM (born 11 November 1962) is an Australian jazz musician. Although his main instrument is trumpet, he has also performed on trombone, tuba, euphonium, flugelhorn, saxophone, clarinet, double bass, guitar, and piano. [1] He is a composer, writing jazz charts for ensembles of various sizes and proficiency levels.
Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah (born March 31, 1983, [5] formerly Christian Scott) [6] is an American jazz trumpeter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer. He has been nominated for six Grammy Awards [7] and is a two-time Edison Award [8] winner. He has been named the Jazz FM Innovator of the Year [9] and the Jazz Journalists Association ...
Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is an American trumpeter, composer, and music instructor, who is currently the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has been active in promoting classical and jazz music, often to young audiences. Marsalis has won nine Grammy Awards, and his oratorio Blood on the Fields was the first ...
Christopher Stephen Botti (/ ˈboʊti / BOH-tee; born October 12, 1962) is an American trumpeter and composer. [1] In 2013, Botti won the Grammy Award in the Best Pop Instrumental Album category, for the album Impressions. [2] He was also nominated in 2008 for his album Italia [3] and received three nominations in 2010 for the live album Chris ...