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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. He often accompanies his songs with his own vocals.
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.
In 2017, Skonberg won the Juno Award for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year, for her crowd-funded album Bria. [6] [7] Skonberg is also a mentor and teaching artist passing on the jazz tradition, working with institutions such as The Louis Armstrong House Museum's education programs. In addition to the trumpet, Skonberg also plays the flugelhorn. [8]
Clark Virgil Terry Jr. [1] (December 14, 1920 – February 21, 2015) [2] was an American swing and bebop trumpeter, a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz, and a composer and educator.
Jon Faddis (born July 24, 1953) [1] is an American jazz trumpet player, conductor, composer, and educator, renowned for both his playing and for his expertise in the field of music education. Upon his first appearance on the scene, he became known for his ability to closely mirror the sound of trumpet icon Dizzy Gillespie , who was his mentor ...
The measure also affirms jazz as a national treasure and "encourages the United States government to preserve and advance the art form of jazz music". [219] It passed with a vote of 409–0 on December 15, 2009. [220] The trumpet Davis used on the recording is displayed on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. It was ...
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.
Jones was the first female trumpet player to record a jazz record. [3] She was involved in two recording sessions: in 1926, Albert Wynn's Gut Bucket Five (including with Barney Bigard) and 1941 in the Stuff Smith Sextet. [7] She played trumpeter Miss Watkins, "a little girl from Birmingham", [8] in Oscar Michaux's 1936 musical film Swing!.