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Clifford Brown played a gorgeous hard bop trumpet that has affected almost every

Clifford Brown had a fat and beautiful tone and wonderful flowing melodies poured out of his horn. His quintet was the best early hard bog combo and he might be the best trumper virtuoso ever.

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Roy Eldridge - Great Jazz Swing Trumpeter

Roy Eldridge is trumpet history's link between Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie.

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Fats Navarro was a great, original, bop trumpet player.

Fats Navarro blended a fat, sweet tone; melodies where every note meant something; and, trumpet virtuosity to the expanding vocabulary of bop trumpet playing.

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Your favorite trumpet player?

Tell us about a favorite trumpet player and some of his best music.

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Who is your favorite sax player?

Tell us about a favorite sax player and one of his best recordings

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