Comments on: The Most Famous Jazz Trumpet Players of All Time (Expanded) https://jazzfuel.com/best-jazz-trumpet-players/ Your Resource For All Things Jazz Tue, 18 Mar 2025 16:14:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Reid Yalom https://jazzfuel.com/best-jazz-trumpet-players/#comment-25396 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 16:14:09 +0000 http://jazzfuel.com/?p=54432#comment-25396 Miles is undisputed at the top. Afterwards you can either close musicians by their importance to jazz or who you just like listening to the most. I am going with the latter. My top 10:
Kenny Durham,
Lee Morgan,
Blue Mitchell,
Chet Baker
Freddie Hubbard,
Clifford Brown,
Booker Little,
Conte Condoli,
Fats Navarro,
Dusko Goyovich

]]> By: Robert Plone https://jazzfuel.com/best-jazz-trumpet-players/#comment-23125 Sun, 03 Nov 2024 20:38:33 +0000 http://jazzfuel.com/?p=54432#comment-23125 I would swap out Chet Baker for Fats Navarro. Chet was an excellent player but Fats was much more influential and the natural link between Dizzy and Brownie.

]]> By: Andrew Sordoni https://jazzfuel.com/best-jazz-trumpet-players/#comment-21146 Sun, 02 Jun 2024 19:14:56 +0000 http://jazzfuel.com/?p=54432#comment-21146 In reply to jeff walsh.

Never controversial as a man or musician.

]]> By: Andrew Sordoni https://jazzfuel.com/best-jazz-trumpet-players/#comment-21145 Sun, 02 Jun 2024 19:12:50 +0000 http://jazzfuel.com/?p=54432#comment-21145 Intriguing list to be sure but it’s controversial by the omission of Kenny Dorham and perhaps Buck Clayton, Thad Jones, Clark Terry, Roy Hargrove and Harry James all of whom had credentials above and beyond instrumental virtuosity.

]]> By: Jane https://jazzfuel.com/best-jazz-trumpet-players/#comment-20656 Wed, 22 May 2024 02:42:29 +0000 http://jazzfuel.com/?p=54432#comment-20656 Bunny Berigan should be on this list. Louis Armstrong said that Bunny was the only guy he would never want to follow. Bunny was to the trumpet as Bix was to the cornet.

]]> By: jeff walsh https://jazzfuel.com/best-jazz-trumpet-players/#comment-19707 Sat, 06 Apr 2024 05:30:55 +0000 http://jazzfuel.com/?p=54432#comment-19707 Bobby Hackett was Louis’s favorite and Miles said he envied Hackett’s tone, which he called “incomparable.”

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