There are Famous trumpeters Which have stood out above the others for the quality of their music and the technique they have managed to develop. They are the best there is in the world.
Each and every one of them has discovered his passion to play the trumpet, living, creating and feeling, something as unique, magical and harmonious as music.
Many people think it's a gift, others say it requires study. There are also those who believe that it is something that is felt; Others who consider music to be a manifestation of culture; Those who think it is an expression of the spirit, a reflection of the self; Or a way of expressing what can not be said with words.
Perhaps it is complex to define it and it is more pleasant and simple to feel or hear it. The truth is that music is art. And as such it generates different sensations and emotions not only in those who listen to it, but also in those who generate it.
Music allows us to communicate with the other, thus being a way of linking ourselves, of sharing, of relating, where in many occasions we do not need words, since music can be considered a universal language in itself.
They have found through and in it a way of life that has led them to be the 20 most famous trumpeters in the history of music.
1- Arturo Sandoval
He was born in Havana, Cuba on November 6, 1949. He began studying trumpet at age 12 and soon began to feel passionate about Jazz. In that country, he was part of the most important group of Jazz, called Irakere, after the success achieved with it, self exiled to the United States, where he recorded his first album.
Sandoval has received many gratifications throughout his career, among them are 10 Grammy awards, these being a recognition by the American society, a music artist. Sandoval has also written the script for the film"For Love or County"film intended to tell his biography for which he has also been awarded.
Its history is full of successes and participations in countless symphony orchestras throughout the world.
In his native country he met Dizzy Gillespie who has been a very important reference for him, immersing him in the wide universe of music.
According to his sayings in several interviews that have made to him throughout his successful race, his objective is to share his gift by the world.
2- Richard Allen"Blue"Mitchell (1930-1979)
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He was born in Florida, United States. He was a prominent trumpeter in his country for his melodic style. In the course of his adolescence he had his first approach to the trumpet, at the age of 17, when he was encouraged to participate in a musical group of the school. It is these same comrades who have nicknamed him"Blue".
Blue Mitchell came from a family eager to have a musician in the family, which leads us to wonder if he has lived a life around the realization of his mother's desire, or lived his own desire.
The truth is that his passion has been developed by Jazz, and surrounded by renowned musicians has been a member of different bands.
Clifford Brown, the famous trumpet player from the United States whom we will talk about later, has been the inspiration of Blue Mitchell to perform his incredible trumpet solos, through which we can perceive his spirit and love for music. Blue has not been able to cope with cancer, which ended his life early at age 49.
3. Rowland Bernard Berigan (1908-1942)
Rowland Bernard Berigan, known as Bunny Berigan (1908-1942) born in the United States has been a trumpeter and jazz singer. Luis Amstrong was the inspirational muse for this artist, who was recognized in 1939 by a famous magazine of his country, as the best trumpeter of the year.
Bunny's study, dynamism and virtuosity have helped him to join different musical groups, to which he brought a wonderful value by blowing his trumpet. This artist has formed a big band which because of economic problems and a bad administration of Bunny, has not been able to perpetuate in time more than a few years.
Even so, Bernard Berigan is renowned for his musical talent, and Michael P. Zirpolo has written his biography which he has called"Mr. Trumpet. The Trials, Trials and Triumph of Bunny Berigan".
4- Chesney Henry Baker, Jr (1929-1988)
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Chesney Henry Baker, Jr. known as Chet Baker (1929-1988) born in Ocklahoma, began expressing his passion for music through the presentations he performed singing in the church choir of the city of California, where he had moved with His family at 11 years of age.
His father, who at that time was a guitarist, was the one who gave Chet, his first trumpet. Influenced by his father's artistic talents, Chet Baker begins his musical studies, but it has been his love and passion for music that has made him a professional Jazz artist.
Throughout his musical career, the style of Miles Davis has been influential in his love for this shared art. With a life of success, Chet Baker falls under the effects of heroin, having to struggle with an addiction that has forced him to move away from the stage, and finally has ended his life at 58 years of age.
There have been documentaries and films about Chet's life, his unfinished biography was published in 1997 with the name"As though I had wings: the lost memoir", as if you had wings: lost memory.
5- Clark Terry (1920-2015)
Clark Terry at Monterey Jazz Festival, 1981
Famous US jazz trumpeter, with more than seventy years of career, has left a mark in different parts of the world with his art. He began his career in St. Louis, Missouri where Jazz was the music that used to be heard by then.
Having traveled much of the world with his talent, his style marked by contemporary music, his writing, technique and virtuosity, have made this wonderful musician an impeccable career.
Clark has garnered a wealth of awards in recognition of his music and has been recognized as ambassador for Jazz in Africa and the Middle East. His gift for music has been the inspiration for Miles Davis, a famous great trumpeter.
According to Clark, teaching Jazz has allowed him to play an important role in the realization of the dreams of those who wanted to perform as musicians in the world of Jazz. It was he himself who wrote his autobiography called"Clark, the autobiography of Clark Terry".
6- Clifford Brown (1930-1956)
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Born in Pennsylvania, he has had a short career as a trumpeter musician, but strongly influential in many trumpeters of the time like Miles Davis, Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, Blue Mitchel, among others.
Its beginnings with the trumpet were to its 15 years of age and quickly appeared its talent, with virtuosity, capacity of improvisation and adaptation to different musical styles. The success reached its 23 years.
He has excelled in the bebop rhythm and today is a strong reference of the jazz hardbop being Fats Navarro of whom we will speak later also, who inspired him with his virtuosity.
Clifford Brown dies at a young age in a vehicular accident, but his talent, his music and his style have been transmitted through different artists of renown over time; Keeping their spirit alive through music.
7- Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie, thus was well-known, but its real name is John Birks Gillespie (1917-1993). Famous trumpeter, composer and singer of American Jazz transcended by its style, which has acquired after having recognized to try to imitate the one of Roy Eldridge, famous trumpet player that we will occupy to us later.
Today, Dizzy is a reference for modern jazz and has excelled at trying to merge Afro-Cuban Jazz with African-American music. Gillespie was virtuoso in playing diverse instruments of percussion what took to make a unique fusion of these different styles, making of its own style. Being today one of the most recognized musical artists in the world of Jazz.
8- Donald Byrd
Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II (1932-2013) born in the United States, begins to develop his musical career influenced by the style hard bop. With the passing of the years, and his different experiences along the trips undertaken to train, he begins to arouse his interest in music from Africa.
At the same time influenced by the changes in the musical style of Miles Davis, he begins to feel attracted by the funky style, thus recording a disc that has been highly criticized but at the same time the most sold of the time.
For health problems he has spent several years of his life teaching, forming a musical group with some of his students with whom he returns to the stage. Donald finally retires from the world of Jazz with the style hard bop, style with which it had begun his race like trumpeter; And devotes his last years of life to his profession as an educator.
9- Fats Navarro
Fats Navarro, Theodore"Fats"Navarro (1923-1950) born in Florida, United States began his professional career early in his 13 years playing the trumpet. He had previously started studying piano and sax, but was amazed to learn the instrument that made him one of the most famous American trumpeters.
He quickly awakened his passion for the trumpet, influenced by the music of Dizzy Gillespie and did not delay in marking his own style, with the creativity that had as its main strength.
After suffering tuberculosis, immersed in the world of drugs, he died at the age of 26, leaving his style printed in the works of Donald Byrd, Lee Morgan and Clifford Brown, who with his style has greatly influenced the music of these famous trumpeters .
10- Freddie Hubbard
Freddie Hubbard , Frederick Dewayne Hubbard (1938-2008), born in Indiana, began to study the art of music at a young age, and thanks to the influence of his brother, began to enter the world of Jazz.
At the age of 20 he decides to move to New York where a successful career awaited him. He has been influenced by the music of Clifford Brown and Lee Morgan, then marking his own style by merging jazz with soul and funk. He has participated in several musical groups, but it has been by recommendation of Miles Davis, that has been able to record its first musical subjects like soloist.
It was in the 70's that Freedie Hubbard achieved his greatest success as a trumpeter in the world of music. After several years of career Freedie decides to share his knowledge and musical talent to different emerging music students at that time. He loses his life at age 70, weeks after suffering a heart attack.
11- Harry James
Harry James, Harry Haag James (1916-1983) born in Georgia, United States, comes from a family in which music was present, forming part of their lives. His father was an orchestra conductor and it was at a young age that he taught Harry to play the trumpet.
This famous American trumpeter has dedicated years of his life to the rigorous study of music. Thanks to this and his immeasurable talent, he has formed his own big band, in which he has participated the renowned Frank Sinatra.
Harry died in 1983 after suffering from lymphatic cancer, which has not prevented him from touching until the last days of his life.
12- Herbert"Herb"Alpert Goldberg
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Herbert"Herb"Alpert Goldberg was born in Los Angeles, California in 1935. He began his musical studies in his childhood passionate about trumpet, and culminated the same with the title of Bachelor in Music. But as the years passed, Herb found in art a way of life.
He was interested in phonography, painting, theater and music. In the musical field has been and is one of the most famous American trumpeters because of the number of records sold and the gold records awards.
Albert was a participant in great successes, among them the most outstanding are those generated in Tijuana by the musical group Tijuana Brass. Its main successes have occupied the first positions of the musical ranking in the decade of the 70 and beginning of years 80.
It is by that time that Albert creates its own foundation destined to support the youth and the education of the art. This wonderful artist, found in music a way of expressing herself, and it is through her that she has developed her enormous musical career.
13- Louis Armstrong
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Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) was born in New York, a family with no resources. He has suffered the abandonment of his father, and from a very young age he had to face a harsh reality that led him to commit minor crimes, for which he was sent to different reformatories.
It is there where his admiration for music began, since the children of the place had formed different musical bands. Those who have given him his first trumpet have been his adoptive parents for whom Louis works.
It is in New Orleans, a city that currently bears his name at the local airport, where Louis Armstrong began his musical career by participating in different bands that offered street shows.
He participated in different orchestras, recorded as a soloist and always shone for his creativity. Reached success to its fullest potential; His personality, charisma and undoubted talent helped him to become the most popular jazz musician of the time.
Louis died after having suffered two heart attacks, a few months before turning 70, but his legacy, his love of music, his style, and spontaneity renew his spirit in each of his songs.
14- Maurice André
Maurice Andre (1933-2012), known as the genius of the trumpet, was born in France and soon acquired the taste for playing the trumpet, which came from his father, who did in his spare time, playing in a musical band in his city .
Maurice began to study music at the age of 14, and for his 20 years he was awarded the music conservatory, being invited to play in several renowned orchestras of the moment. His freshness, together with his musical talent and style, made him a successful success, so he has traveled with his music to different countries in Europe, North America and different parts of the world, becoming an international artist.
He was professor of the music conservatory of Paris and in his last years he dedicated himself to the music, the teaching and the diffusion of his prized instrument: the trumpet.
15- Maynard Ferguson
Maynard Ferguson (1928-2006) was a famous jazz trumpet player from Canada. He seems to have inherited the passion for music from his mother, who was a violinist in a symphony orchestra. By the age of 4 Maynard already knew how to play the violin, at 9 he began to study music in the French conservatory, which led him to the young age of 11, to be a soloist in a prestigious musical orchestra.
At 13 she started as a soloist and quickly set up her musical group, having chosen to prioritize her musical career because of the immense vocation she felt towards her. He has played with renowned musicians, including Dizzi Gillespie, his mother and trumpeter Luis Amstrong being the main sources of inspiration for him.
16- Miles Davis
Miles Davis, Miles Dewey Davis III (1926-1991) is an American trumpeter with more than five decades of career. Miles is born in Alton, a town of Illinois In the middle of a middle-class family. His mother was a music teacher, and it seems that not only the mother and son bond, but also the love of music.
Miles is attracted to it in the course of his childhood. At age 12 he started taking trumpet lessons and a few years later played in different cities. Already teenager was clear that his career as a jazz trumpeter was what he wanted for his life, so he leaves the university to devote his energy to what was his passion. It was recognized and achieved its maximum potential with the fusion of the Jazz with the Rock.
17- Nicholas Payton
Nicholas Payton was born on September 23, 1973 in New Orleans. He is a contemporary American trumpeter recognized worldwide for dedicating himself entirely to Jazz.
Nicholas is from a family of musicians, so he has lived a childhood surrounded by music. At the age of four he could play the trumpet; Promoted by his parents to his 9 already played in a prestigious orchestra of his city.
In addition to the impetus of his parents, Nicholas Payton has been fascinated by the music of Miles Davis, who has been a main inspiration to later forge his career as a jazz trumpeter.
18- Roy Eldridge
Roy Eldridge, Roy David Eldridge (1911-1989), a native of Pennsylvania, began to enter the world of music in the course of his adolescence. At age 16 he participated in an important orchestra, as a trumpeter, and later when he decided to put together his own band under the name Roy Elliot.
He has worked in various orchestras, big bands being an important figure in classical jazz and the inspiration of Miles Davis among other great trumpet players.
19- Rubén Simeó
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Rubén Simeó, contemporary and young trumpet Spanish, born in 1992 has had the possibility to show his talent quickly. To his only 8 years, has demonstrated to have a brilliant musical technique with his trumpet in the presentations that have realized in different contests and competitions.
To its 12 years participated of different orchestras like invited, and is to the same age, that edits his first disc. Rubén Simeó not only has talent and maturity in his musical technique, but also, he is an excellent teacher in different parts of the world, imparting knowledge on the art of music. He has now decided to tour the world as a soloist, accompanied by his most faithful friend, his trumpet.
20- Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis was born on October 18, 1961 in New Orleans. He is the last successful trumpet player to be selected in this list of twenty. Wynton is considered an exceptional classical trumpeter, being one of the best in his field.
He received his first trumpet at the age of 6. Wynton has formed his own band consisting of three musicians, his brother Branford Marsalis and himself, with two brothers who were dedicated to the Jazz, and inspired by the influence of trumpeters Freddie Hubbard and Miles Davis.
In the same year, 1982 recorded his first classic album with which success was not long in coming, being part nowadays not only of the list of 20 famous trumpet players, but also a maximum exponent of classical music along with his trumpet.
It is important to note that many of these twenty famous trumpet players we have mentioned have been influenced by each other, being referential, inspiring or even sharing in each other's lives.
Not only because they share an immeasurable passion for music and trumpet, which has led them to success in their musical careers, but because those who believe faithfully in what they do, obey their obligations, and work hard at it, a Life full of success. Do you want to have a successful life following your passions? To love what you do is the secret of success.