One to listen to in particular is BUGLERS LAMENT by Red Nichols. Although it sounds Jazzy like the excerpt from "From Here To Eternity" it is performed on a solo bugle...no valves!
While you are there check out the entire site TAPS150
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Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 11:29 am Post subject:
Taps clip from the original "From Here To Eternity." No one is credited with the performance but apparently Manny Klein played trumpet on the soundtrack.
Question is, why did he play it in concert C? Was it played on a C instrument?
Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 8:14 pm Post subject: Best trumpet player in movies
Doesn't anybody remember seeing "Dingo", the Michelle LeGrand soundtrack that Miles played himself and Chuck Findley was the "protege"? GEEZ!
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Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 9:00 pm Post subject: Re: Best trumpet player in movies
No. Really? Do you mean that Mile played the soundtrack, or played himself in the movie? Chuck played Miles' protege?
I have to find this movie. I'm a big fan of Michel Legrand too...
Tony Scodwell wrote:
Doesn't anybody remember seeing "Dingo", the Michelle LeGrand soundtrack that Miles played himself and Chuck Findley was the "protege"? GEEZ!
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Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 1:48 am Post subject:
I think 'Dingo' came out about 20 years ago. Australian actor Colin Friels played the protege (but not the trumpet).
Miles played character whose name escapes me who was somewhat Miles-like without the language and also played on the soundtrack.
Much of it was filmed in Australia with local jazz players forming Miles band in the sequence where the plane is forced to land at an outback airstrip.
On a separate matter, Richard Gere is listed in the credits for playing the cornet solos in 'The Cotton Club'.
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Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 3:26 pm Post subject:
Young Man With A Horn starring Harry James (I mean Kirk Douglas) has to be a candidate for best trumpet player movie. Here's one of the tracks that Harry smokes
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Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 3:39 pm Post subject:
No one's mentioned "Uncle Joe Shannon". To be fair, not a brilliant film but some cool stuff by Maynard.
"Mo' Better Blues" is huge, thanks Terrance.
"Angel Eyes" has a really brief trumpet playing scene as did "Cousins" the American remake. _________________ "I'm an engineer, which means I think I know a whole bunch of stuff I really don't."
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Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 7:16 pm Post subject:
There is a great movie starring Kirk Douglas called "Young man with the Horn". This is with three great actors; Kirk Douglas as Rick Martin, Lauren Bacall as Amy North, AND Doris Day as Jo Jordan. Even though the movie was loosely based on the short and sad life of jazz trumpeter Bix Beiderbecke, the ending was written in a more positive light than Bix's tragic real life story. Yet the movie still manages to capture the essence of a tormented musician's existence, the dangers of alcoholism, the deceptions of false love, and the effect Rick Martin's choices have on those around him who love...and hate...him.
The best parts of the movie is Harry James! He smokes everything in this flick. It was made in 1950........
Another vote for Denzel Washington - Mo' Better Blues and Richard Gere for his role of Dixie Dwyer in Cotton Club - I also heard that he learned to play cornet for the role. Warren Vache was his teacher? _________________ Eric M. Brewington
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In a movie called "The Salton Sea" Val Kilmer plays the trumpet in the opening scene while the room burns around him. Not a very good imitation of trumpet playing, but a cool image nonetheless.
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Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 6:48 am Post subject:
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Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 7:13 pm Post subject: Re: Best movie trumpeter?
A.N.A.Mendez wrote:
What was the best trumpet player role in movies and why?
My vote goes to the classic 1950 film, YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN, starring Kirk Douglas and Doris Day. The film was a somewhat bio of the great Bix Beiderbecke but the real star was the brilliant soundtrack trumpet work provided by the legendary Harry James. There was a lot of artistic discretion in the story but the film remains a classic both for Douglas' and Day's fine performances but even moreso for the great trumpet work of the master, Harry James. The film and a separate soundtrack album are both available through Amazon.
"A Man Called Adam" is about a cornet player who goes through the stereotypical musician trials and tribulations. Nat Adderley provided Adam's music. Adam also plays a flugelhorn at one point and a cornet throughout the film, but every character refers to him as a trumpet player. It also features Louis Armstrong in the supporting cast.
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