I thought he would have taken that route – but he fell in love with Jazz – Bebop Charlie Parker, Dizzy and Miles. He was an American trumpet player, actor, vocalist, and composer. Best TWO of the Ellington Orchestra, but not the best trumpeter of the Basie Orchestra? The trumpet is a brass instrument with a very penetrating sound in the soprano range. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. Pleased to see Chet Baker in the top ten but could and should be top 5. Topping the list of Norway’s best jazz trumpeters, Henriksen has a sound all his own – one that equates more to a Japanese shakuhachi flute than a conventional trumpet. Musicians make contributions, they don’t run races. It is not necessary – once is enough. He continues to find new forms of expression, recently collaborating with J’Something, singer with South African house group Mi Casa. Baikida Carroll? https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/trumpeter-hugh-masekala-dies-78/. A legend ! A flamboyant showman as well as virtuoso horn player, Ferguson could dazzle audiences with his show-stopping, stratospheric high notes and, in the 70s, embraced rock and pop styles which led to mainstream chart success. 1.satchmo 2.clifford brown 3.fats Navarro 4.dizzy 5.lee morgan 6.miles davis 7.freddie hubbard 8.donald byrd 9.blue mitchell 10.buddy bolden 11.thad jones.. lee morgan(uncle) is my favorite and the best to me but as great as he is, you can not be greater than the foundation. Bill Chase?? Like Fats Navarro, Webster, from Cleveland, Ohio, died before his talent reached maturity and a wider audience. Chuck Mangione plays flugelhorn. Unlike most of the other players in the orchestra, a percussionist will usually play many different instruments in one piece of music. A master of the muted trumpet, Spanier played in a vibrant manner that always seemed to exude joie de vivre. The world at large first became aware of this South African trumpeter and flugelhorn player when he scored a substantial US hit in 1968 with the infectious instrumental ‘Grazin’ In The Grass’. Wallace trained in music and as a classical trumpeter – performing with the Philharmonic Brass Orchestra at age 9 to 11 – under Eugene Ormandy. The trumpeter of freedom, Hugh Masekela (1939 – 2018) dies. Music for trumpet. Canadian Kenny Wheeler was a virtuoso as was Scotlands Jimmy deuchar , England’s Henry Lowther & Italian Enrico Rava…to mention but a few !!! But think Louis Armstrong is the king of the trumpeter of all time. And Candoli’s not even in the top 50? ALEXIS BARRO? I’m tired of reading lists from idiots seeking to push their own agendas. No one can touch him, he was in a class of his own. He only gave one name … Bunny Berigan. Could commercial success, breadth and versatility actually be considered handicaps when putting together a list like this? Bill Chase?? I love Cat Anderson and can tolerate Maynard Ferguson but it’s hard to rate a list that includes them to the omission of any of the above. Balsom was the principal trumpet of the London Chamber Orchestra. He played with Charlie Parker–should be in the top ten. Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche. Christian Scott and Nicholas Payton got switched somehow. Like the violin, the trumpet is the smallest member of its family and plays the highest pitches with its bright and vibrant sound. His musical calling card is producing a stream of rapidly-blown notes and eerie note bends. Before the arrival of the gravel-voiced Satchmo – who rose to fame in King Oliver’s Chicago-based band in the early 20s – jazz was defined by collective rather than individual improvisation, but Armstrong’s unparalleled gift for embroidering melodies led him to reinvent the nascent genre as a vehicle for solo extemporisation. After that, he relocated to the US West Coast and, as well as making a raft of albums under his own name, he became a first-call studio musician easily earning his place alongside the best jazz trumpeters of all time.