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Jones was recently selected as the Interim Artistic Director for the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra. He became an associate professor of Jazz Trumpet at Oberlin Conservatory for the 2012-2013 academic year. He was a member of the SFJAZZ Collective from 2015 - 2017. He previously served as head of the Brass Department at Berklee College of Music.
Robert Alexander Scobey Jr. (December 9, 1916 – June 12, 1963) [1] was an American jazz trumpet player of traditional or Dixieland music based originally in the San Francisco area and later in Chicago, Illinois. He was born in Tucumcari, New Mexico, [1] and died in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. [2]
Willie Thomas was raised in Orlando, Florida and started playing the trumpet around the age of 10.. In the 1950s, Willie was a member of the Third Army Band, where he met and played with pianist Wynton Kelly, which became his first real break into the New York jazz scene.
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!.
This is an A–Z list of jazz tunes which have been covered by multiple jazz artists. It includes the more popular jazz standards, lesser-known or minor standards, and many other songs and compositions which may have entered a jazz musician's or jazz singer's repertoire or be featured in the Real Books, but may not be performed as regularly or as widely as many of the popular standards.
Oliver arranged and conducted many songs for Ella Fitzgerald from her Decca years. As a composer, one of his most famous songs was "T'ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)", which he co-wrote with Trummy Young in 1939. In 1933, Oliver joined Jimmie Lunceford's band as a trumpet player, arranger and songwriter. He contributed many hit ...
Andrew Davies (born 1 February 1981) is a Welsh jazz trumpet player. At the London Jazz Festival , 2007, he played the role of Chet Baker in the play, "Speedball". According to Dave Gelly of The Observer , "Andy Davies has a lovely trumpet sound, and in the totally acoustic setting of a small club, it blossoms.".