Results for "Trumpet"

Fats Navarro

Born: September 24, 1923

“Fats was a spectacular musician because, in a time when cats arrived on the scene with nothing, he came on with everything: he could read, he could play high and hold anybody's first trumpet chair, he could play those singing, melodic solos with a big beautiful sound nobody could believe at the time, and he could fly in fast tempos with staccato, biting notes and execute whatever he wanted with apparently no strain, everything clear. And every note meant something. You know, there are those kinds of guys who just play a lot of notes, some good, some bad. Fats wasn't one of those. He made his music be about each note having a place and a reason

Melton Mustafa

Born: November 23, 1947

Trumpeter, Composer/Arranger, Educator, Clinician, International Recording Artist Melton has recorded and toured with the Count Basie Orchestra, Bobby Watson, Jaco Pastorius, Charles Mingus Epitaph Big band among many others. Mustafa has released three CD's entitled MELTON MUSTAFA ORCHESTRA "Boiling Point", MELTON MUSTAFA ORCHESTRA "St. Louis Blues," and Mustafa’s Jazz Quartet’s new CD is entitled (The Softer Side, scenes from Miami vol.1) The Melton Mustafa Orchestra is a powerhouse orchestra in the Basie tradition, rooted in swing and blues, though also featuring bebop, modal and Afro-Cuban flavors

James Morrison

Born: November 11, 1962

The name “James Morrison” is known throughout the world for his sheer brilliance as a jazz musician and an all round entertainer. He is constantly on the move, touring everywhere and anywhere fine music has an audience. His recordings are best sellers and James works with the cream of the world’s best performers. Ray Brown called him “The Genius” and Dizzy Gillespie called him “One of The Best” but Wynton Marsalis summed it up: “Man, James Morrison can play!” James Morrison is, by anybody’s standard, a virtuoso in the true sense of the word. Besides the trumpet, this multi-instrumentalist also plays piano, all the brass, saxophones, and double bass. At the age of seven, he was given his first instrument, at nine he formed his first band and at thirteen he was playing professionally in nightclubs

Mark Morganelli

Born: May 15, 1955

Trumpeter/Flugelhornist Mark Morganelli began presenting concerts in his first Jazz Forum loft at 50 Cooper Square in June 1979. By the time the second Jazz Forum loft closed its doors in April 1983, recordings, videos, films and radio broadcasts had documented performances by Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Wynton Marsalis, Woody Shaw, Red Rodney, Carmen McRae, Barry Harris, Philly Joe Jones and Max Roach. After residencies at the Village Gate and Entermedia Theater, Thirty-two years ago, Morganelli established Jazz Forum Arts, a not-for-profit arts presenting organization, and in 1985 started the River-side Park Arts Festival, which concluded on its 13th anniversary in August 1997. Morganelli has produced over sixty compact discs, most for Candid Records, twenty of which were recorded "Live" at NYC’s Birdland club, where he was the music coordinator for five years

Fabio Morgera

Born: April 24, 1963

Fabio Morgera is a Grammy nominated trumpeter , composer and arranger well known around the world for his achievements in Jazz and contemporary music . He has played in the most important Jazz Festivals of the world including: JVC New York, Montreaux, Nice, North Sea, UmbriaJazz, Montreal, Madarao. Theatres and clubs including Town Hall, Symphony Space , the Apollo, Blue Note (New York, Tokyo and Nagoya), Birdland, BBKing's, Irving Plaza, New Morning (Paris, France) Paradiso (Amsterdam, Netherlands). He has shared the stage with legends such as Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Jackie McLean, Cedar Walton, Billy Higgins, Tony Williams

Tom Morley

Born: May 5, 1989

Lee Morgan

Born: July 10, 1938

Lee Morgan was a jazz prodigy, joining the Dizzy Gillespie big band at 18, remaining a member for two years. Beginning in 1956, he began recording as a leader, mainly for the Blue Note label, eventually he recorded twenty-five albums for the company. Morgan's principal influence as a player was Clifford Brown, having had direct contact with him before Brown's premature death.

He was also a featured sideman on several early Hank Mobley records, and John Coltrane's Blue Train. On the latter LP, he even played a bent-up horn like Gillespie's. Joining Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in 1958 further developed his talent as a soloist and writer. He toured with Blakey for a few years, and was featured on Moanin, which is probably Blakey's best known recording. When Benny Golson left the Jazz Messengers, Morgan persuaded Blakey to hire Wayne Shorter, a young tenor saxophonist, to fill the chair. This classic version of the Jazz Messengers, including Bobby Timmons and Jymie Merritt would record the classic The Freedom Rider album.

Bob Montgomery

Born: April 21, 1936

Bob Montgomery is an internationally recognized performing artist who has appeared throughout Europe, Australia, Canada, China, Mexico, Japan, Great Britain, New Zealand and the United States. He has performed in back-up orchestras for such artists as Sammy Davis Jr., Diana Ross, Tony Bennett, Quincy Jones, Nancy Wilson, and many more. Bob toured Europe with Clark Terry’s “Big Bad Band”, served as artist-in-residence in Adelaide, South Australia, appeared as featured soloist with the Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra for the International Trumpet Guild, and appeared at Town Hall in New York City with Clark Terry for the New York JVC Jazz Festival’s tribute to Clark Terry

Al Molina

Born: December 18, 1935

AL MOLINA - BIO "Straight from the Heart " CD 1001 Jazzer Records Abridged list of Al Molina's credits 1966 - "Jazz From San Francisco" Pat Britt. Crestview Records 1983 - Award - "Best Jazz Trumpet in S.F.," Bay Area Jazz Society. 1986 - Sir Douglas Quintet. Mercury Records 1990- Toured in Hawaii the Philippines, Korea, and Japan. 1991 - "Straight From the Heart" ........Jazzer Records 1997 - San Jose Jazz Festival 1997 - 1st Latino Jazz Festival 1998 - Toured Europe - Spain, Paris, France ,Germany and Amsterdam 1999 - "The Gift" ............Jazzer Records 2001 - Listed in "Trumpet Kings," by Scott Yanow 2003 - "Amigos Todos" ...........Jazzer Records 2004 - San Jose Jazz Festival 2010 - Jo Canion - " Lifelong Friends" JOCR 1001 - Produced & Performed. 2015 - San Jose Jazz Festival - "Jam at Cafe Stritch" Featured guest artist at the first and second "Bay Area Loft Jazz Festival" Monterey Jazz Festival

Ollie Mitchell

Born: April 8, 1927

Oliver E. Mitchell was born April 8, 1927. His father, Harold (Pappy) Mitchell played first trumpet in the Jazz Singer, (the first sound movie) all the old Republic westerns, the original King Kong, Gone with the Wind, and all of the MGM musicals until he retired in 1948. Harold started his son Ollie on the trumpet at age five to prove some of his trumpistic theories. Ollie survived, and because of the strict training his dad put him through, he had all the skills needed to be one of the top recording trumpet players in the ‘60’s and ‘70’s. He turned professional while still in high school, playing in the Teenagers Band on the Hoagy Carmichael radio show and in other bands around Southern California