I'm not a big fan of trumpet, but.....

[highfigh]

As the title says, it's not my favorite instrument, duel in large part because of Maynard Ferguson trying to high the highest note in the world and the others who wanted to be like him, but I think this guy is one of the best and it doesn't matter that we grew up around the corner from each other.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPJGRkvpg0U&feature=autofb

 

[3db]

Ever hear of the band called Cake? Its an alternative band with a trumpet player being a key member. "Fashion Nugget" is one of the best recordings I've ever heard on a CD format bar none. Its simply amazing. As for the music, thats a personal call. I like them in small doses.

http://allmusic.com/album/fashion-nugget-r240882

 

[STRONGBADF1]

As the title says, it's not my favorite instrument, duel in large part because of Maynard Ferguson trying to high the highest note in the world and the others who wanted to be like him, but I think this guy is one of the best and it doesn't matter that we grew up around the corner from each other.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPJGRkvpg0U&feature=autofb

Trumpet can be horrible...It don't like the screechers. I like when it's more laid back.

Ever hear of the band called Cake? Its an alternative band with a trumpet player being a key member. "Fashion Nugget" is one of the best recordings I've ever heard on a CD format bar none. Its simply amazing. As for the music, thats a personal call. I like them in small doses.

http://allmusic.com/album/fashion-nugget-r240882

Great cover of a Willie Nelson tune with some very cool trumpet:

 

[TLS Guy]

No screech here. Probably the best trumpeter in the world run now, and probably for many a day. She also is a champion sailing racer.

 

[jostenmeat]

As the title says, it's not my favorite instrument, duel in large part because of Maynard Ferguson trying to high the highest note in the world and the others who wanted to be like him, but I think this guy is one of the best and it doesn't matter that we grew up around the corner from each other.

I don't know who Maynard is, but my trumpeter friend told me many years ago that he went to see some collection/summit of trumpet superstars, I think they might have been accompanied by Tito Puente, and that one of the soloists was just getting higher and louder and higher and louder, and then his lips just exploded in blood! He had to quickly turn around, cover his mouth . . .

Anyways, some of the most graceful stuff I've heard on a recording was actually by Marsalis playing Haydn. I had no idea a trumpet could be that graceful, but I've only heard it once.

 

[TLS Guy]

I don't know who Maynard is, but my trumpeter friend told me many years ago that he went to see some collection/summit of trumpet superstars, I think they might have been accompanied by Tito Puente, and that one of the soloists was just getting higher and louder and higher and louder, and then his lips just exploded in blood! He had to quickly turn around, cover his mouth . . .

Anyways, some of the most graceful stuff I've heard on a recording was actually by Marsalis playing Haydn. I had no idea a trumpet could be that graceful, but I've only heard it once.

Bach's trumpeter at St Thomas Church Leipzig died of hemorrhage. Just in case anyone thought those really high trumpet parts Bach wrote are easy to play. The valve trumpet had not yet been invented. Some modern players are just incredulous his trumpeter played them on a valveless trumpet!

 

[jostenmeat]

Bach's trumpeter at St Thomas Church Leipzig died of hemorrhage.

How fascinating.

There are two types of soloist-performances that I have the most trepidation about in regards to being waaaay the heck out of tune, and that is a (classical or full-size) double bass recital and valveless horn recital, played by anyone less than of a world-class level. Maybe I'm exaggerating, but I very well may not be exaggerating at all. I am stuck on deciding which is worse, and there is no third place.

 

[highfigh]

How fascinating.

There are two types of soloist-performances that I have the most trepidation about in regards to being waaaay the heck out of tune, and that is a (classical or full-size) double bass recital and valveless horn recital, played by anyone less than of a world-class level. Maybe I'm exaggerating, but I very well may not be exaggerating at all. I am stuck on deciding which is worse, and there is no third place.

I have a hard time listening to instruments or singers whose intonation is off, when compared with the other instruments and/or singers. I probably would have run away screaming if I had lived before tempered tuning. Emmylou Harris is a good example of singing flat and in her case, it's worse because of the timbre of her voice. Fortunately, my sense of relative pitch overrides my sense of absolute pitch if the music has two or more instruments playing at the same time. My brother is an Early Music aficionado and he has a lot of recordings where period instruments were played, which made it hard to bear when I have listened to them. Since he's the one with the high level of interest, it doesn't bother him but only for that reason- otherwise, we both have major problems with bad intonation. Mom could sing fine but she couldn't whistle to save her life.

How about a nice sackbut solo?

 

[audiofox]

Hard to have a trumpeter discussion without mentioning Miles Davis, arguably the greatest jazz trumpeter of all time (no offense to Maynard Ferguson fans).

 

[highfigh]

I didn't start this as a contest, I did it so I could let people know about a musician who, IMO, should be more well-known.

 

[SopRage]

I have a hard time listening to instruments or singers whose intonation is off, when compared with the other instruments and/or singers. I probably would have run away screaming if I had lived before tempered tuning.

I think you'd have been fine; not only is equal-temperment tuning fundamentally "out of tune" (it's just equally out of tune in every key), but keyboard music (most affected by equal-temperment tuning) would have been written in keys that weren't offensive.

Our concept of "in tune" is always fluctuating anyways; A=440 is a recent invention and many major orchestras are working their way up several hz from there.

 

[highfigh]

I think you'd have been fine; not only is equal-temperment tuning fundamentally "out of tune" (it's just equally out of tune in every key), but keyboard music (most affected by equal-temperment tuning) would have been written in keys that weren't offensive.

Our concept of "in tune" is always fluctuating anyways; A=440 is a recent invention and many major orchestras are working their way up several hz from there.

A-440 was adopted more widely in the 1920s and I was born in the '50s, so I have always heard more recent tuning however, I have listened to early music, performed at "concert pitch" of the day and it's not easy for me. Also, it's less of an issue if it's only one note being played/sung unless the intervals are wrong.