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

Let's face it, either Pops and/or Miles are going to be on EVERY list, so let's just keep them out of the mix, m'kay? So, please, NO LOUIS ARMSTRONG and NO MILES DAVIS. Thanks!!

Here's mine, and I'll try and cite some specific favorite albums by each later tonight when I'm home and can review my collection. (I tried to keep it to five, I swear.)

1. Woody Shaw
2. Lee Morgan
3. Charles Tolliver
4. Eddie Henderson
5a. & 5b. Kenny Wheeler / Tomasz Stańko (similar kinds of players, I think)
6. Don Cherry

 

I just got Larry Young's "Unity" album for the first-time ever, and have been digging Woody's playing and composing skills. He is one cool cat.

 

1. Lee Morgan
2. Freddie Hubbard
3. Blue Mitchell
4. Kenny Dorham
5. Clifford Brown

close but didn't make the cut include donald byrd, fats navarro, and dizzy gillespie

 

Clifford Brown
Dave Douglas
Don Cherry
Booker Little
Lee Morgan

 

i'll go with all of the above. gotta add jon faddis.

 

Morgan
Freddie
Tomasz Stanko
Roy Hargrove
Kenny Dorham

 

Why do you ask for five and list seven?

 

The virtually unknown cat living in Detroit who combines both Lee's and Freddie's styles....

 

Kenny Wheeler
Laco Deczi
Arturo Sandoval
Maynard Ferguson
Tomasz Stanko

 

Wallace Roney
Wadada Leo Smith
Clifford Brown
Woody Shaw
Terence Blanchard

Also mention Christian Scott, Roy Hargrove, Kenny Wheeler and Wynton Marsalis.

 

Bunny Berigan all right!!!

 

1. Clifford Brown
I here him in like every player since. I think he's the most influential musician of all time who is never called that. But more importantly I can't get enough of his tone and phrasing.

2. Cootie Williams
I will involve Duke Ellington in every jazz thread!
He did that thing with the plunger mute that was like GRWWAHH...AHHH... and I love that.

3. Art Farmer
Jazztet! Amazing partnership with Golson. So smooth and on point, always.

4. Buck Clayton
Make that Basie band swing! The icing on that cake. Also arranger and general leader.

5. Thad Jones
That Jones/Lewis Orch was maybe the last great huge commercially successful straight-up jazz band. I'm guessing, I dunno. Swung the hardest at any rate. Woo boy Jones bleeping and blooping that thing on top of all the groove. Also wrote some lovely tunes and was just totes cool.

 

Clifford Brown is my number one choice and stands above everyone else by some way.

After that it's the Blue Note chaps
Lee Morgan
Freddie Hubbard
Kenny Dorham

 

Clifford, Lee Morgan, and Roy Hargrove

 

These three:

Lee Morgan
Freddie Hubbard
Clifford Brown

after that, maybe some more recent guys could use a little love:
Roy Hargrove? Wynton Marsalis? Dave Douglas? Cuong Vu? Christian Scott? Ambrose Akinmusire?

Piano-led jazz is doing so well these days, artistically speaking, which is great. But I regret a little that it seems to overshadow trumpet-led jazz as much as it does.

 

Bix Beiderbecke
Buck Clayton
Roy Eldridge
Bunny Berigan
Dizzy Gillespie

 

Cootie Williams
Don Ellis
Arturo Sandoval
Harry James
Nat Adderley
Chet Baker

 

freddie hubbard
clifford brown
booker little
eddie henderson
wynton marsalis
just a bonus: nicholas payton

 

Dizzy Gillespie
Clifford Brown
Lee Morgan
Freddie Hubbard
Roy Eldridge

 

just one more bonus: johnny coles

 

Hard to argue with any of the names already mentioned, but I wanted to add one name that I have been listening to quite a bit as of late - Ruby Braff.

 

I'm pretty new here, and it's threads like this that give me ideas about new music to explore. As a budding fan of jazz, more than half of these names are new to me.