Unmistakable sounds

loweredsixth · Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2021 11:19 am Post subject: Unmistakable sounds

What players can you identify immediately by their sounds (tone, inflection, and even melodic phrases)?

I was just thinking about how crazy it is that many people can identify Clark Terry from just one note! I’ve never really heard anyone sound like him (aside from people doing an impression).

Who else has an unmistakable sound?
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A.N.A.Mendez · Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2021 11:51 am Post subject:

Louis
Harry
Al Hirt
Herb Alpert
Ruby Braff
Chet Baker
Bix
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Croquethed · Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2021 11:56 am Post subject:

Miles
Lee Morgan

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Subtropical and Subpar · Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2021 12:07 pm Post subject:

Miles, Freddie, Lee, Clifford, Arturo, Cat, Maurice, Hakan, Sergei, Rafael, Maynard, Peter Evans.
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Steven Bernstein

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Dokschitzer

khedger · Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2021 8:12 pm Post subject:

Lester Bowie
Freddie Hubbard
Kenny Wheeler
Dizzy
Miles
Don Cherry
Clark Terry
Maynard

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George Chase · Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2021 8:27 pm Post subject:

Jon-Erik Kellso.

Bryant Jordan · Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2021 9:11 pm Post subject:

Chet Baker
Lee Morgan
Freddie Hubbard
Wynton Marsalis
Tony Glausi
Clifford Brown
Marcus Printup
Leroy Jones

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GeorgeB · Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2021 3:46 am Post subject:

same as A.N.A. Mendez with the addition of Bobby Hackett.
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delano · Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2021 4:32 am Post subject:

Some are obvious, Louis, Miles, but for me is style bu most players more recognizable than sound.

Seymor B Fudd · Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2021 9:12 am Post subject:

Louis A
Bunny B
Harry J
Ziggy E
Maynard F
Dizzy G
Maurice A (!)

Oh and I forgot Muggsy Spanier.....first EP I bought....
In all this probably reflects my age.......
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Turkle · Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2021 12:50 pm Post subject:

I was actually having a conversation about this the other day. There are the true jazz trumpet innovators, like Miles, Freddie, Clifford, Louis, Maynard, Woody, Wynton, etc. that did something so profoundly original that their music is instantly recognizable from the first quarter note.

Then there are a host of other jazz trumpet players, particularly during the hard bop era, that all sort of played "within the idiom." They were FANTASTIC players, of course! Top of their game. But stylistically, they just played right down the middle, using the "standard" tone and vocabulary of their day. To me, those players aren't always immediately recognizable, even though I know their music intimately! I would include players like Blue Mitchell, Dizzy Reese, Johnny Coles, Donald Byrd, Tom Harrell, Wilbur Harden, and others in this category. Monster players but they all kind of played with that standard hard bop vocabulary and tone so I can't immediately recognize who is who.

And don't even get me started on all the new trumpet players coming out of the universities. Incredible players, and I mean technically monstrous and possessing musical vocabulary much more advanced than anything I was ever taught. And they all sound exactly the same to me. Couldn't pick them out of a lineup if you paid me a million bucks. I mean come on.

Anyway, the above is definitely NOT meant to disparage anyone in particular, so please don't take it that way. But here in NYC I have heard a slew of incredible trumpet players, just astonishingly great, that all sound exactly the same. Make of that what you will.
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BeboppinFool · Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2021 6:33 am Post subject: Re: Unmistakable sounds

Riojazz · Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2021 6:36 am Post subject:

Till Bronner.
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