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This article lists notable musicians who have played the trumpet, cornet or flugelhorn. Classical players. Bill Adam [1] Maurice Andr ...
Benny Bailey; Guy Barker; Chet Baker; Harold Shorty Baker; Kenny Baker (trumpeter) Kenny Ball; Chris Barber; Scotty Barnhart; Gary Barone; Mario Bauza; Uli Beckerhoff
Donald Eugene Cherry (November 18, 1936 – October 19, 1995) [1] was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and multi-instrumentalist. Beginning in the late 1950s, he had a long tenure performing in the bands of saxophonist Ornette Coleman, including on the pioneering free jazz albums The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959) and Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation (1961).
Chet Baker's personal life was tumultuous, partly owing to a decades-long drug addiction which began in the 1950s and a nomadic lifestyle caused by touring. In 1980, he referred to his life as "1/3 in a car, 1/3 sleeping, and 1/3 playing music." [22] His first short-lived marriage was to Charlaine Souder in 1950.
He featured in the 1942 musical short Trumpet Serenade. [20] He played trumpet in the 1950 film Young Man with a Horn, [21] dubbing Kirk Douglas. The album from the movie charted at #1, with James backing big band singer and actress Doris Day. James's recording of "I'm Beginning to See the Light" appears in the motion picture My Dog Skip (2000).
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1950. Events The ... 6 – Fats Navarro, American jazz trumpet player (born 1923).
He contributed many arrangements and original compositions to the trumpet repertoire. His Scherzo in D minor is often heard in recitals, and has been recorded by David Hickman . He is regarded as the popularizer of "La Virgen de la Macarena", commonly known as "the bullfighter 's song", to US audiences. [ 4 ]
Kenny Baker MBE (1 March 1921 [1] – 7 December 1999) [2] was an English jazz trumpet, cornet and flugelhorn player, and a composer. [3] Biography ... By the 1950s ...