Joined: 08 Jun 2017 Posts: 61 Location: Toledo Ohio
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2018 12:29 pm Post subject: Trumpet players deserving of wider recognition
I’ve been a lurker here at TH for a couple of years and I haven’t heard much about the following players:
Paolo Fresu his album Chiaroscuro with Ralph Towner is a thing of beauty. Trumpet/Flugelhorn with Classical Guitar. The things he has done with Cuban pianist Omar Sosa are very beautiful. Check out their NPR Tiny Desk concert on YouTube.
Ibrahim Maloof is based in Paris and plays with a few different groups. He’s capable of a tremendous range of feeling from very quiet beautiful songs to exuberant bravura trumpet playing. Check out his album Illusions for some really awesome bravura trumpet playing and check him out on YouTube for some very tender playing.
Nils Petter Molvaer
Solid Ether and his YouTube concerts with Eivind Aarset (guitar and electronics). Albums Khmer and American Compilation and a YouTube video from Lodz, Poland 2007-09-07. This is worth checking out just to see the inside of this concert hall/church.
Brian Lynch
His albums with Eddie Palmieri are all stunning. Palmas and Simpatico are really awesome examples of latin jazz trumpet playing. His album with the Afro Cuban Jazz Orchestra called Bolero Nights has some absolutely beautiful ballad playing on it. He demonstrates incredible control of emotion and feelings on this album which is Billie Holiday songs transcribed for trumpet.
Brandon Ridenour
I saw Brandon at the ITG Conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan a few years ago. Really beautiful, seemingly effortless trumpet playing.
He’s doing some really nice things mixing Classical and Jazz and Indie-rock lately.
Jonathan Powell and Nu Sanga the name of the CD is Transcend
This is a blend of trumpet playing mixed with futuristic afro Cuban things, jazz, prog rock etc…this is an incredible album (in my opinion,,, your results may vary). He plays in the high register seemingly effortlessly. _________________ Staying relaxed is 90% of trumpet playing
Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Posts: 278 Location: New York, New York, USA
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2018 3:07 pm Post subject:
Hi there - I agree that a lot of these players are undersung heroes of our instrument. Of all of them, I think Jonathan Powell is easily the most underappreciated. His upper register is certainly enviable, but I am astonished by his consistently beautiful basic sound quality and what he is able to do with it expressively, especially on his own challenging and memorable compositions. It is no exaggeration to state that I've listened to his Nu Sangha recording "Beacons of Light" at least 200 times now, and I have not tired of it at all. There are almost no living jazz trumpet players whose work I can say that about. I think there is a connection between all the players you mention - none of them is likely to be mistaken for someone else.
Joined: 23 Mar 2003 Posts: 9030 Location: Hawai`i - Texas
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2018 3:27 pm Post subject:
I'll give a shout out for:
Billy Hardman
Carmell Jones
Benny Bailey
Ack van Rooyen
Kenny Wheeler
Enrico Rava
Tomasz Stanko
Jimmy Owens _________________ "If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." Bird
Outside the realm of musicians and trumpet players, pretty much all of them. To whatever extent they may have been in the public eye at one time, the most "famous" trumpet players you can think of are unknown to most people.
A name that comes to mind is Don Goldie. I've been told that supposedly he had some personality issues that undermined his career.
Joined: 23 Jul 2016 Posts: 102 Location: San Francisco
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2018 9:05 pm Post subject: Trumpet players deserving of wider recognition
Kenny Dorham and Blue Mitchell both were underrated musicians.
Both are worth listening to. _________________ Several Trumpets and Flugelhorns!
Trying to thin the small herd!!
Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Posts: 278 Location: New York, New York, USA
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 7:53 am Post subject:
For the last twenty years, in concerts, private lessons, masterclasses, and conversations, I've heard scores of claims that Kenny Dorham is an under-recognized player. He is so famous for his alleged obscurity that I think he might almost be over-recognized. (Obviously this is within the music world; most people don't even know who Louis Armstrong or Dizzy Gillespie are, these days.)
Another player whose name I think should be on everyone's tongue, and yet is somehow not, is Richard Carson Steuart. As far as "classical" trumpet players go, I can think of no one whose virtuosity is so consistently in service of his expressivity and creativity, both on record and in live performance. He is fearless and spectacular, and a real breath of fresh air in an idiom that all too often involves trying to sound like a flawless studio recording and not a unique human artist.
Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 1808 Location: Toronto, Canada
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 10:58 am Post subject:
PacoTheTrumpeter wrote:
Hi there - I agree that a lot of these players are undersung heroes of our instrument. Of all of them, I think Jonathan Powell is easily the most underappreciated. His upper register is certainly enviable, but I am astonished by his consistently beautiful basic sound quality and what he is able to do with it expressively, especially on his own challenging and memorable compositions. It is no exaggeration to state that I've listened to his Nu Sangha recording "Beacons of Light" at least 200 times now, and I have not tired of it at all. There are almost no living jazz trumpet players whose work I can say that about. I think there is a connection between all the players you mention - none of them is likely to be mistaken for someone else.
Wow - I'd never heard Jonathan Powell before, but checked out some of his playing on youtube. He's something else - thanks for sharing!
Warren Vache is just an absolute monster player. One other name that comes to mind is Andy Gravish. I was at Berklee the same years Andy was there. I didn't really know him very well. We both had our lesson the same time one semester. I was studying with Ray Kotwica and Andy was studying with Jeff Stout. We would sit outside and talk a bit while we were waiting. He was also a very nice guy.
Ryan Kisor (2012 recordings from Japan are very good)
Greg Gisbert
Jason Carder _________________ Schilke X3 Bb trumpet
Yamaha 631g Flugelhorn
Nicholson Monette Prana Resonance LT mouthpiece
Kanstul Claude Gordon Personal mouthpiece
Joined: 08 Dec 2012 Posts: 948 Location: Baie St-Paul, Quebec, Canada
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 1:58 am Post subject:
Philip Dizack is one of the young incredible trumpet players who is so much underrated and unknown. His last album Single Soul is totally awesome. A great virtuoso.
Ryan Kisor plays "Donna Lee" ... _________________ Schilke X3 Bb trumpet
Yamaha 631g Flugelhorn
Nicholson Monette Prana Resonance LT mouthpiece
Kanstul Claude Gordon Personal mouthpiece
Jason Carder on Flugelhorn with YANNI. _________________ Schilke X3 Bb trumpet
Yamaha 631g Flugelhorn
Nicholson Monette Prana Resonance LT mouthpiece
Kanstul Claude Gordon Personal mouthpiece
Joined: 29 May 2016 Posts: 104 Location: Orlando, FL
Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2018 12:19 pm Post subject:
One name that I haven’t seen on this list and believe should be included, that we think of in a different context (Trumpet Sales) is Trent Austin. On line you see him in the context of demonstrating horns and mouthpieces, but if you have listened to his CD’s , he can really cook. _________________ Steve Smith
Joined: 03 May 2015 Posts: 867 Location: West Side, USA
Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2018 7:19 pm Post subject:
PacoTheTrumpeter wrote:
For the last twenty years, in concerts, private lessons, masterclasses, and conversations, I've heard scores of claims that Kenny Dorham is an under-recognized player. He is so famous for his alleged obscurity that I think he might almost be over-recognized. (Obviously this is within the music world; most people don't even know who Louis Armstrong or Dizzy Gillespie are, these days.)
Another player whose name I think should be on everyone's tongue, and yet is somehow not, is Richard Carson Steuart. As far as "classical" trumpet players go, I can think of no one whose virtuosity is so consistently in service of his expressivity and creativity, both on record and in live performance. He is fearless and spectacular, and a real breath of fresh air in an idiom that all too often involves trying to sound like a flawless studio recording and not a unique human artist.
I remember when ITG released that trumpet and guitar CD. That was some of the best playing I've ever heard. _________________ Please join me as well at:
https://trumpetboards.com
There was a player named Frank Brown I have a recording of somewhere sent to me by a guy named Ron Stokes some of you may have known. Frank was a fantastic player - he was an assistant professor of jazz studies at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. He was murdered in 1983 by some lowlifes he'd thrown out of a bar he owned. I can't find a photo of him online. I need to find that recording.
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