Your five favorite jazz TRUMPET players? (EXCLUDING both Louis Armstrong AND Miles Davis)

Let's revise it to your 50 or 500 favorite players.

It would have been just great to have Diz come to your kid's birthday party and blow up the balloons for all the kids to watch!

He could have done party tricks by allowing the balloon to blow up his cheeks.

 

Fats Navarro
Kenny Dorham
Chet Baker
Clifford Brown
Lee Morgan

 

Here's my top five right now (who knows about tomorrow): Bix, Dizzy, Brownie, Chet & Lee.

 

Tomasz Stanko
Nate Wooley
Avishai Cohen
Wadala Leo Smith
Natsuki Tamura (probably my favourite of the ones I listed, his work with his wife Satoko Fujii in different groups they are members of, is incredible.

 

Marvin Hannibal Peterson
Don Cherry
Lee Morgan
Dizzy Reece
Lester Bowie

 

My closest runners-up, a couple of whom aren't getting much publicity:

Conte Candoli
Art Farmer
Joe Gordon
Don Cherry
Carmell Jones
Booker Little
Woody Shaw

... Oh, yeah, and Dizzy Gillespie.

 

Tough to limit to 5:
1. Lee Morgan - favorites are Sidewinder, Search for the New Land, and liked where he was going with Live at the Lighthouse (great 3 disc box if you dont have it) before tragic incident when he was shot at Slug's. A prodigy who was continuing to develop.
2. Freddie Hubbard - so many great albums but also had some lean periods, just the nature of the biz in the 70s, 80s. Blue Notes of course but Red Clay and Straight Life from CTI are fantastic.
3. Woody Shaw - Unity to Song of Songs, to his great work with Muse - Moontrane and Little Reds Fantasy. Lotus Flower on Enja label is sneaky good and like Jazz Patterns with Joe Henderson. Also left us too soon.
4. Kenny Dorham for his playing and composing. Whistle Stop, Matador, Una Mas, Fro Cuban, etc
5. Art Farmer - The Jazztet (Big City Sounds, Meet the Jazztet) all the way to Yama, co biling with Joe H (amazing how many of my top 5 partnered with Joe)
Would put in Donald Byrd or Charles Tolliver if I had more spots.

 

This is incredibly hard to limit to five....but here goes.

Thad Jones
Tom Harrell
Freddie Hubbard
Booker Little
Lee Morgan

Those are the five I play the most. After them it would be Woody Shaw, Charles Tolliver, Blue Mitchell, Don Cherry and Donald Byrd. Byrd should be in my top five but the only one I could switch is Booker Little and then based only on the small discography. I forgot about Nate Adderley, Tomasz Stanko and Chet Baker. See, I told you it would be hard. Apologies for going over the limit. and finally .

 

Two favs who have NOT been mentioned so far:

Chuck Findley
Robert Wyatt

 

Miles Davis
Louis Armstrong

 

Bix
Bubber Miley
Clifford Brown
Lee Morgan
Booker Little

 

Clifford Brown
Maynard Ferguson
Roy Eldridge
Diz
Blue Mitchell

 

I'm glad to see Lee Morgan and Woody Shaw getting so much attention here. Those two would be at the top of my list, with Kenny Wheeler and Dizzy coming in a bit behind. It's too bad Morgan and Shaw died so young. I sometimes wonder what would've happened if Shaw was a bit healthier and had some of the same success another trumpeter had at CBS in the early 80s!

 

Hadn't heard him before, so found this on YT and it's great stuff as you say:

 

I'm with you on that. And in terms of bittersweet you have to have a heart of stone to not appreciate that sound.

 

Clearly Tomasz Stanko gets a lot of support in this thread. If you had to pick 1 LP to start with it would be.....

 

Clark Terry
Blue Mitchell
Maynard Ferguson
Harry James
Dizzy
Lee Morgan

Oops that's 6.

 

Clifford Brown
Freddie Hubbard
Dizzy Gillespie
Lee Morgan
Donald Byrd
Till Brönner

 

1. Beny More trumpeter player Domingo Corbacho I belive is his name





2. Joseito Fernandez trumpet player (dont know yet his name someone that knows?)


3. some tracks of chapottin like la guarapachanga

 

ps. these cubans and other cuban trompeters for me are better than even Miles Davis etc the only one from use that is in the same league for me is Louis Armstrong the great trumpeter of USA in my opiniom, like the trompeter of Joseito Fernandez: