Trumpet Tones

[JazzAt52ndStreet]

Miles and
Hargrove..esecially his flugel horn tone.

[Pete C]

Bix, Arthur Whetsol, Rex Stewart, Roy Eldridge, Clark Terry, Miles, Clifford, Freddie Hubbard, Chet Baker, Enrico Rava, Tomasz Stanko...

[Joe Milazzo]

Joe Wilder

[relyles]

Woody Shaw!!!!!!!!!!!

Miles.

That's it.

Sorry, no one else comes close.

[jazzy mary]

Brownie had a pretty nice tone, folks!

[Joe Milazzo]

Originally Posted by jazzy mary

Brownie had a pretty nice tone, folks!

Indeed. As full but a bit brighter than Fats Navarro's -- whose tone I slightly prefer.

[stonemonkts]

My favorite trumpet tone of all is the sound made by Bix. Considering how old those recordings are, his sound still manages to come through to my ears sweet and clear.

[Uli]

I'd consider Louis.

[antboy]

lester bowie...

the one & only!!

[LeMo]

I like better bugle (flugelhorn) than trumpet.

Jean-Luc Cappozo has a beautifull "tone" on this instrument.
Kenny Wheeler too.

[Brownian Motion]

Don Joseph
Buck Clayton
Bill Coleman
Joe Thomas
Cootie Williams
Bunny Berigan
Harold Baker

[hardbop4life]

surprised no one mentioned Lee Morgan he's the top on my list

2.Blue Mitchell
3.Booker Little
4.Don Cherry
5.Miles Davis
6.Clifford Brown
7.Freddie Hubbard
8.Woody Shaw

recent trumpet players
9.Maurice Brown
10.Russell Gunn

[Sergio Zamora]

For some reason, I thought this thread was about cel phone ring tones. Right now I have Miles playing 'Bitches Brew' on mine

[Pete C]

I stand by my original list. It's too bad Arthur Whetsol had relatively few features on Ellington recordings. Another early player with a wonderful tone was Arthur Briggs, who is virtually unknown due to his having emigrated to Paris and carried on most of his career there.

[bigtiny]

Originally Posted by antboy

lester bowie...

the one & only!!

Absolutely!!! Nobody sounded like Lester....

I also like Miles, CLARK TERRY, and about 1000 other guys....

bigtiny

[john williams]

I like a few:

Kenny Wheeler
Lee Morgan
Miles

Don't know whether these guys have the 'best' tone but their tone appeals to me. I do like the softer flugel tone, particularly Wheeler's.

[Rob Damen]

Wynton.

Cheers,

Rob

[Tom Storer]

Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Roy Eldridge, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Booker Little, Clifford Brown, Freddie Hubbard, Woody Shaw, Clark Terry, Kenny Wheeler.

Also: Ruby Braff, Ray Nance, Sidney DeParis, Bubber Miley, and more recently, Terell Stafford and Ryan Kisor.

Finally: Dizzy Gillespie! His tone is gorgeous, especially on mid-tempo stuff or ballads. He sounds fabulous on all those 70's Pablo releases.

[John L]

I'm surprised to see no mention of Art Farmer. Few could obtain a pure tone of such beauty. Sometimes it was on the flugelhorn, however. Ditto Thad Jones.

[jazzy mary]

Ron Horton has the most beautiful tone on trumpet & flugelhorn.

[JazzAt52ndStreet]

Originally Posted by relyles

Woody Shaw!!!!!!!!!!!

word up!

[Surfer]

I like Arve Henrikson's tone. Really breathy, and he can make it sound like a shakuhachi.

[Mike Schwartz]

Surprised that Chet Baker hasn't shown up yet [unless I missed it]

Pete;
What's the name of that guy on Charlie Hayden's Liberation and Mingus Bands whose tone we both like?

[Pete C]

Originally Posted by Mike Schwartz

Surprised that Chet Baker hasn't shown up yet [unless I missed it]

Pete;
What's the name of that guy on Charlie Hayden's Liberation and Mingus Bands whose tone we both like?

Michael Rodriguez. Is he playing with the Mingus Big Band?

[Pete C]

Originally Posted by Pete C

Bix, Arthur Whetsol, Rex Stewart, Roy Eldridge, Clark Terry, Miles, Clifford, Freddie Hubbard, Chet Baker, Enrico Rava, Tomasz Stanko...

Mike, you missed it.

[Mike Schwartz]

Originally Posted by Pete C

Michael Rodriguez. Is he playing with the Mingus Big Band?

That may not be the case....I had heard his name mentioned but not confirmed.

Larry Goldings new "Quartet" CD [Palmetto] has a trumpet/cornet player who is a new name for me:
John Sneider and his sound is magnificent!

[bigtiny]

Originally Posted by John L

I'm surprised to see no mention of Art Farmer. Few could obtain a pure tone of such beauty. Sometimes it was on the flugelhorn, however. Ditto Thad Jones.

for all of you who think someone was missed....I covered it

"...and about 1000 other guys...." =:-)

bigtiny

[groover]

Originally Posted by stonemonkts

My favorite trumpet tone of all is the sound made by Bix. Considering how old those recordings are, his sound still manages to come through to my ears sweet and clear.

FYI: Bix played cornet, as did Nat Adderley. Ruby Braff alternated between trumpet and cornet. Thad Jones alternated between trumpet, cornet, and flugelhorn.

The cornet is a brass instrument, similar to the trumpet, with curved tubing emerging into a cone-shaped end section and a flared bell. Like the trumpet it has three valves that enable the player to produce additional tones. The cornet's "bore," or air tube, is more conical than that of the trumpet, resulting in a mellower, more rounded tone. Its mouthpiece is also deeper and more cone-shaped than the trumpet's, resulting in a technical ease and flexibility that suited the instrument to use in marching bands and in jazz. Thanks to its prominence in those genres the cornet survived as an independent instrument while other descendants of natural horns fell into disuse. The cornet was integral to the New Orleans jazz sound, but was largely supplanted by the more brilliant and percussive trumpet in later styles.

[Mike Schwartz]

Originally Posted by bigtiny

for all of you who think someone was missed....I covered it

"...and about 1000 other guys...." =:-)

bigtiny

We know that BT..........but if not for like stuff like this there would be no need for a jazz 'board', so what else would we have to do when we are 'bored?'

trumpet tones;-)