Your Five...

[theslawdawg]

Let's have some fun.

You are putting a big band together.

You can have five trumpet players. Any era, alive or long gone.

Name your five and what are you tasking each player to do/play?
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My go-to Trumpet and Flugel: Thane.
Greg Black MPs

[Goby]

Snooky Young (lead)
Freddie Hubbard
Booker Little
Clifford Brown
Kenny Dorham

Dizzy conducts the band from the front

[Pete]

Maynard Ferguson
Bud Brisbois (lead)
Conrad Gozzo
Wayne Bergeron
Wynton Marsalis

Another five:
Snooky Young
Dave Stahl (lead)
Harry Kim
Doc Severinsen
Bobby Shew

There are too many!

Pete

[jmtrumpet]

Love these! It's as close as I'll ever get to being interested in fantasy football.

Split lead: Ryan Kisor
Split lead: Frank Greene
2nd: Sean Jones
3rd: Joe Magnarelli
4th: Ingrid Jensen
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Jesse McBee
http://www.jessemcbeejazz.com

[khedger]

Section 1:

Maynard (lead)
Bill Chase (second)
Conti Candoli
Jack Sheldon
Benny Bailey

Section 2:

Bobby Shew (lead)
Mike Vax
Ryan Kisor
Brian Lynch
Wayne Bergeron

Section 3:

Jon Faddis (lead)
Wynton Marsalis
Earl Gardner
Roger Ingram
Chuck Findley

Section 4:

Arturo Sandoval (lead)
Roy Hargrove
Stanton Davis
Ambrose Akinmusire
Joe Magnarelli


keith

[Subtropical and Subpar]

1) Cat Anderson
2) Maynard Ferguson
3) Bill Chase
4) Bud Brisbois
5) Lin Biviano

Because sometimes too much is just right...
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1936 King Liberty No. 2
1958 Reynolds Contempora 44-M "Renascence" C
1958 Olds Ambassador
1962 Reynolds Argenta LB
1965 Conn Connstellation 38A cornet
1995 Bach LR18072
2003 Kanstul 991
2011 Schilke P5-4 B/G
2021 Manchester Brass flugel

[Brassnose]

OK, here’s a set of European sections

Andy Haderer
Enrico Rava
Ingolf Burkhardt
Julian Wasserfuhr
Mathieu Michel

Thorsten Benkenstein or Andrea Tofanelli
Ibrahim Maalouf
Christian Meyers
Gerard Presencer
Fabrizio Bosso

Not European but anything with Terumasa Hino should be great as well.
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2019 Martin Schmidt eXcellence
1992 Bach 43GH/43
1989 Kühnl & Hoyer Model 15 flugel
1980/2023 Custom Blessing Scholastic C 😎
1977 Conn 6B
1951 Buescher 400 Lightweight
AR Resonance, Frate, Klier

[theslawdawg]

[rothman]

1) Bernie Glow (ld)

2) Oran Page

3) Buddy Bolden

4) Maynard

5) Jerome Callet

[delano]

Why five? I seldom see a necessity for five trumpets nor bones nor reeds. Much too much noise.

[Subtropical and Subpar]

[kehaulani]

This is a section that blends v. a group or soloists, right?

Gonrad Gozzo
Bernie Glow
Ollie Mitchell
Pete Condoli (jazz soloist)
Manny Klein
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"If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." Bird

Yamaha 8310Z Bobby Shew trumpet
Benge 3X Trumpet
Benge 3X Cornet
Adams F-1 Flghn

[blbaumgarn]

I love everyone else's picks and here are five from me for selfish reasons.....

Maynard............as my idol
Stan Mark..........as Maynards long time guy
Ryan Kisor......... as I heard him play when he was about 12 with Eddie Skeets
Band
Wynton Marsalis..as who he is
Tony Scodwell.....who touched base with my big band favorite Stan Kenton
Uan Rasey..........who said he couldn't play jazz, but he could play jazzy!

Like I said, they are all selfish. Pretty sharp axes, though.
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"There are two sides to a trumpeter's personality,
there is one that lives to lay waste to woodwinds and strings, leaving them lie blue and lifeless along a swath of destruction that is a
trumpeter's fury-then there is the dark side!" Irving Bush

[Bryant Jordan]

Leroy Jones
Ryan Kisor
Chet Baker
Clifford Brown
Adam Rapa

That last one was hard...wanted to throw Wynton in there somewhere.


Imagine this one though:

Patrick Hession
Roger Ingram
Wane Burgeron
Maynard Ferguson
John Faddis

[rmch]

Louis Armstrong
Clark Terry
Brad Goode
Dizzy Gillespie
Charlie Shavers

All of them can rotate lead from chart to chart or, if the band is really hip, the arranger can tailor the parts for each of them like how Ellington and Strayhorn used to do: "I want to hear Brad play this melody with the reeds in the intro, Charlie can play lead in the muted soli (with CT doubling on flugel an octave below) and Pops will play lead on the shout chorus."
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1919 King Liberty
1923 Conn 22B
1955 Selmer 24A (Balanced Action)
1981 LA Benge ML #3 bell
1938 Couesnon Flugel
1907 HN White Co. "King" Cornet
1977 Selmer Picc

[Subtropical and Subpar]

[theslawdawg]

[Tony Scodwell]

Snookie Young
Bernie Glow
Conrad Gozzo
Doc Severinsen
Conte Candoli

Snooky told me many times there was zero ego during his NYC days. Normally Bernie was usually in the lead chair but always passed parts to he felt was best suited for the job. You need a great jazz player and Conte fills that position well and was a great section player. Goz certainly was one of the greatest lead players ever so I felt he definitely should be in there. Doc, in his NYC days, was one of the sought after players before his solo career was established. He told me his last recording date in NYC was with the Concert Jazz Band of Gerry Mulligan playing lead and Conte was in the section.

Obviously I listened to more NYC players when I was starting up and certainly meant no disrespect to the many fine LA studio players then and now. You easily could compile many lists of great players which would include more cities than NY and LA.

Tony Scodwell
www.scodwellusa.com

[Subtropical and Subpar]

Let's take a slightly different tack:

1) Eric Miyashiro
2) Eric Miyashiro
3) Eric Miyashiro
4) Eric Miyashiro
5) Eric Miyashiro

You can see the fruits of such a collaboration covering Maynard's "Give It One" here, complete with sheet music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCFW8Oc0_l0
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1936 King Liberty No. 2
1958 Reynolds Contempora 44-M "Renascence" C
1958 Olds Ambassador
1962 Reynolds Argenta LB
1965 Conn Connstellation 38A cornet
1995 Bach LR18072
2003 Kanstul 991
2011 Schilke P5-4 B/G
2021 Manchester Brass flugel

[Zed]

Miles Davis
Kenny Dorham
Freddie Hubbard
Lee Morgan
Dizzy Gillespie.