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Henry "Red" Allen/Hawkins
b. 7 January 1908, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, d. 17 April 1967, New York City, New York, USA. Allen was one of the outstanding jazz trumpeters. His career found him vacillating between New Orleans traditionalism, big band jazz, and an early kind of…
Louis Armstrong
Trumpeter/vocalist Louis Armstrong is perhaps the single most influential artist in the history of jazz. He started out in the "hot" bands of 1920s New Orleans, and was one of the first to introduce solo improvisation into the jazz idiom. Over the ne…
Chet Baker
As the poster boy for cool jazz in the '50s, trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker symbolized, at least briefly, that decade's soulful underside. But rather than ascend the throne of celebrity, he remained the outsider, the quintessential beautiful loser…
Lester Bowie
The trumpet of progressive jazz musician Lester Bowie was a window into the soul of a man with a bright sense of humor and the heart of a wandering romantic. Playing from both his heart and his head, he'd let the tune call the shots. Working solo or …
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