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A Guide to Great Jazz Trumpeters: From Louis Armstrong to Wynton Marsalis

This is a collection of the greatest trumpeters know to jazz music. The artists featured include Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Clifford Brown, Arturo Sandoval, Terence Blanchard, and others.

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Louis Daniel Armstrong, nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana.

Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an "inventive" cornet and trumpet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence in jazz, shifting the music's focus from collective improvisation to solo performance.

With his instantly recognizable deep and distinctive gravelly voice, Armstrong was also an influential singer, demonstrating great dexterity as an improviser, bending the lyrics and melody of a song for expressive purposes. He was also greatly skilled at scat singing, vocalizing using sounds and syllables instead of actual lyrics.

Renowned for his charismatic stage presence and voice almost as much as for his trumpet-playing, Armstrong's influence extends well beyond jazz music, and by the end of his career in the 1960s, he was widely regarded as a profound influence on popular music in general.

Armstrong was one of the first truly popular African-American entertainers to "cross over," whose skin-color was secondary to his amazing talent in an America that was severely racially divided. It allowed him socially acceptable access to the upper echelons of American society that were highly restricted for a person of color. While he rarely publicly politicized his race, often to the dismay of fellow African-Americans, he was privately a huge supporter of the Civil Rights movement in America.

Beaver Harris:
The 360 Degree
Music Experience
From Rag Time to No Time
360 Records LP 2001

From Rag Time to No Time was one of the most subversive recordings of its time. Recorded in late 1974 and early ’75, it sought nothing less than proclaim jazz to be a unified field, instead of a Balkanized muddle. Anyone who thought drummer Beaver Harris to be an unlikely candidate to do so was probably only aware of his work with Fire Music principals like Albert Ayler and Archie Shepp. Harris’ resume was actually remarkably well rounded; not only did he work with icons like Monk and Rollins, but he played with old-schoolers like vocalist Maxine Sullivan, trumpeter Doc Cheatham and clarinetist Herb Hall, all of whom make vital contributions to the album. Tellingly, the only other musician on the album with comparable avant-garde credentials is pianist Dave Burrell, who was (and remains) as grounded in Joplin, Morton and Waller as he is in later styles (on subsequent 360 Music Experience recordings, Burrell had co-leader billing; here, he is listed as Music Director). Harris not only enlisted a unique cross-section of musicians from the jazz community (Ron Carter, Jimmy Garrison and Cecil McBee are the bassists), but Caribbean and Indian musicians, as well.

STEREO 2 VINYL LP SET! Al Hirt & Pete Fountain: Super Jazz 1! Recorded live during halftime at the 1975 Super Bowl. TRACKS: A1. South Rampart Street Parade - Al Hirt; A2. Jazz Funeral (Oh, Didn't He Ramble) - Al Hirt; B1. Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Ole Oak Tree - Pete Fountain; B2. Mood Indigo - Pete Fountain; B3. It's Been a Long, Long Time - Pete Fountain; B4. When the Saints Go Marching In - Pete Fountain; C1. Salute to Satchmo (Medley): S-H-I-N-E / Coquette / C'Est Si Bon / Hello Dolly - Al Hirt; C2. Closer Walk With Thee - Pete Fountain; C3. Lazy River - Pete Fountain; D1. Perdido - Al Hirt & Pete Fountain; D2. Basin Street Blues - Al Hirt & Pete Fountain; & D3. Super Bowl Blues - Al Hirt & Pete Fountain.