Best movie trumpeter?

A.N.A.Mendez · Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 7:19 pm Post subject: Best movie trumpeter?

What was the best trumpet player role in movies and why?
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MarkZ · Heavyweight Member Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 615

It may be yet to come: Don Cheadle playing Miles in a biopic. Herbie Hancock doing the score. It's been in the works for years.

nyctrumpeter · Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 8:40 pm Post subject:

Isn't there a movie about Arturo with Andy Garcia? Also, Mo Better Blues with Denzel!

jhahntpt · Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 9:23 pm Post subject:

all of the little trumpet lines in Anchorman are phenomenal, does anyone know who played them?
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chapahi · Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 9:37 pm Post subject:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNQ1CQpUuSg

How about Jack Webb?.....
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Timo · Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 10:27 pm Post subject:

Hi!

Alan Rubin as Mr. Fabulous in the Blues Brothers! Very Funny!

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Warren Vache certainly comes to mind, but I'm chiming in because I can think of a really great one that doesn't seem to be very well known. Forest Whitaker plays a trumpet player in the very enjoyable movie (made by Showtime, 20 years ago?) LUSHLIFE. Also Jeff Goldblum is very convincing as his tenor-player friend. I remember being floored by the fantastic playing in this film, especially the trumpet player. Turned out to be the great Chuck Findley.

Great cameos (Jack Sheldon, off the top of my head). I think the tenor player was Gordon Brisker? I have a few friends that appear in this film (a bunch of musicians were used for things like a big band at a house party, if I remember correctly).

I remember this one sort of hit home a bit as it was a much more accurate portrayal of a freelance player's existence (in NY or maybe LA) than I had seen in other films. I enjoyed Mo Better Blues, but it had the Spike Lee element (which I enjoy) of taking place in a fantasy world (where a guy lives upstairs from his regular nightly gig in an elegant jazz club where both sets are sold out night after night after night, he makes tons of money, has beautiful women stalking him, etc...). I liked that movie, but somehow Denzel's daily life didn't seem as familiar to me...

A.N.A.Mendez · Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 1:52 am Post subject:

Best ROLE for a trumpet player.....

You would like the part if you were the guy.........
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jhatpro · Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 4:48 am Post subject:

For me it has to be Montgomery Clift as Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt in "From Here to Eternity" (1953). True, he only played a bugle and (thanks to Mannie Klein) got notes from it no bugler has before or since, but, hey, what a performance!
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Trptbenge · Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 5:22 am Post subject:

Rafael Mendez was in several movies including "The Cowboys" with Jack Lemon - his only western and it wasn't a comedy. Mendez was playing in a cantina and you hear him playing as the cowboys ride up.

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A.N.A.Mendez · Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 5:26 am Post subject:

I guess I am too simple in desires....

It was Johnny Murphy (Joey 'The Lips' Fagan) - trumpet in

He got ALL the girls...ALL OF THEM!

Harry is smilin'

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jhatpro · Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 5:30 am Post subject:

Here's the scene I remember because it was so corny, so impossible, yet somehow so cool that for years I fantasized myself picking up a horn and playing it like that to the amazement of all:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmhF3J8BsIg
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Mikeytrpt · Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 5:51 am Post subject:

Yeah, being able to hit all those notes without valves...I guess Hollyweird figured nobody would be able to tell?

One of the best scenes in that movie is when he is playing taps after Sgt Fatso killed Maggio. Anybody know who actually played Taps? I heard one time it was Manny Klein, but I'm not sure.

A.N.A.Mendez · Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 6:00 am Post subject:

I think it was Harry....
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jhatpro · Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 7:14 am Post subject:

Mannie Klein. He's listed in the IMDB as "uncredited musician." Aren't we all?
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EdMann · Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 7:51 am Post subject:

Sammy Davis, Jr. playing high notes on stage, then passing out. I think Brisbois did the tracks (but Davis did the passing out)

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James Becker · Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 8:04 am Post subject:

Someone correst me if I'm wrong, but didn't Ricahrd Gere learn to play cornet for his role in the 1984 film Cotton Club?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3ouqI4kkXA&feature=player_embedded#!
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trpthrld · Heavyweight Member Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 4810

Bernadette Peters in "The Jerk." Notice the slightly out of sync yet correct fingerings

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I sometimes work with Bernadette. She told me she actually plays and tried to get the director to let her play the song for the scene, but he nixed that idea.

In her show, she sometimes does a scene from "Gypsy" where the trumpet is played and supposed to be played not too well.

I told her anytime she wants to take lessons...
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