Also ranks #9 on The 55+ Best Jazz Funk Artists, Ranked 14 Maceo Parker 27 votes 15 Nat Adderley 18 votes Also ranks #12 on The Greatest Cornetists of All Time Also ranks #19 on The Best Cornetists in the World Also ranks #43 on The 95 Best Trumpet Players Of All Time, R...
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Bunk Johnson, and cornet player King Oliver – but he was more significant, combining virtuosity with popular appeal and, with his Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings in the late 20s, lit the touchpaper to what became known as the Jazz Age. ...
The Hot Five recordings made between 1925 and 1926 featured early jazz greats, and along with Louis Armstrong who was still playingcornetat this time were Kid Ory (trombone), Johnny Dodds (clarinet),Lil Hardin Armstrong(piano) and Johnny St. Cyr (banjo). The tracks, or sides as they were...
A pocket trumpet is a miniature trumpet which features a tighter wound coiling of slides like a cornet but even smaller. They are sometimes referred to as a piccolo trumpet or piccolo cornet although a real-piccolo trumpet has a completely different form to the pocket trumpets we have shown he...
Mike Reed: The Separatist Party (We Jazz/Astral Spirits) Drummer, born in Germany but long based on Chicago, with a remarkable series of albums since 2006. Marvin Tate's spoken word is arresting, and the music -- Ben LaMar Gay (cornet), Rob Frye (tenor sax/flute), Coper Crain (guitar...
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Violinist, has done a lot to incorporate traditional Chinese music into avant-jazz. Band here includes erhu (Wang Guowei) and pipa (Sun Li), as well as Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet), Steve Swell (trombone), Joseph Daley (tuba), Ken Filiano (bass), and Andrew Drury (drums). 62. Simon ...
Sidney Joseph Bechet grew up in New Orleans when jazz was beginning to take definite shape. He was born early enough to have heard one of the genre’s founding fathers, Buddy Bolden, playing cornet in a street parade. Bechet played cornet as a child, and he came to the attention of fel...
(Richard Gere) is a cornet player about to turn a solo into a sultry duet when he knocks Dutch Schultz (James Remar) out of the way of a pipe bomb. He’s got a Dutch uncle from then ‘til doomsday, which is always in the shadows with such a possessive and paranoid mob boss ...