However, a large number of them are male, although there are still some really amazing female players out there. "Most trumpet players think the trumpet is a musical instrument to make sound with breathing," he told The Japan Times in 2005, "but I found [it] is a musical instrument to express breathing.". He quickly fell in with fellow iconoclasts like guitarist Eugene Chadbourne and saxophonist-composer John Zorn. Not to mention Chris Potter. A trailblazing figure in his native Japan, Kondo earned much of his reputation while based in Amsterdam or New York City. Whether he’s blurring the lines between classical and jazz or spontaneously reharmonizing standards duo with Lee Konitz, Tepfer is a thoughtful musician. plays post-bop, Anders Bergcrantz: Swedish trumpet player. One minute he’s nostalgically boogie-woogie, then suddenly Moran will transplant the listener to a place far more distant, impressionistic, and unquestionably modern. So. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, Press J to jump to the feed. Hersh is a pianistic Yoda, with a sensitive Bill Evans-like feel and thoughtful harmonic palate. Several successive Die Like a Dog releases, including two volumes titled Little Birds Have Fast Hearts, sparked similar acclaim. His comping pushes soloists to new heights, and Mabern’s soloing is deserving of his status as a living post-bop legend.
Wayne Bergeron is an American jazz/lead trumpeter who has had an incredible rich music career, for example playing lead trumpet with the, one and only, great legend, Maynard Ferguson. A similar synthesis can be heard on a voluminous batch of albums he released over the last few years, and in footage from his most recent tours. If you follow this blog you may have picked up that I’m a big fan of Aaron Goldberg‘s playing. Most of the bebop trumpet players sound just as contemporary as anyone playing now.
He's a really awesome dude and lives for the horn. The following lists represent a group of amazing jazz musicians. Among the musicians in its class, he is one of best trumpet players right now. Advertisement. Label it what you want. Hmmmm....its difficult to know what your instructor is looking for. Good. Even the most casual jazz listeners have typically come across this household name, and with good reason. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kScYtiy4PEs. I wanted to play my own music.". I’ve been in love with Larry’s playing since I first heard Brecker’s Time is of the Essence.
Subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Here are the greatest jazz trumpet players ever, but have we ever missed your favourite? Anybody who’s spent time in Chicago knows of Perrillo’s adventurous and often mesmerizing approach to playing the piano. A strong hard bop player who has been around for many years and played with countless legends, Hal is still making music on a very high level. Lindner isn’t just playing with electronic toys, he’s got a deep knowledge of his impressive setup that allows him to build a vast soundscape.
He has a very powerful sound and has been around the block a few times but never really made a big impact in the jazz world. And he's fucking awesome. Chick is a stylist and early pioneer of the post-bop in/out approach.
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He’s also got one of the sharpest websites in the business. Yet another gifted and versatile rhodes master that Chris Potter’s groups hipped me to (I’m guilty of being sax player), Taborn can hold down a funky left-hand groove as well as he can sit at an acoustic piano and paint with intangible, improvised strokes of delight. But I don’t even know where to start with most of these modern guys.” Well, here’s a list of contemporary pianists that will get you off on the right foot. Hopefully this helps you discover new artists who you will be glad you checked out. Paul Bley is prolific, having maintained his importance as an astoundingly influential force in the improvised music scene since the 60s. Most notably Terence Blanchard’s current pianist of choice, Fabian is also establishing himself as a strong and sensitive writer and bandleader with his Rhizome project featuring string quartet.
Another gifted post-bop pianist and in-demand NYC-based musician. Not only a gifted educator and one of the nicest people you’ll ever come across, Kocour is also an engaging performer with great time and control on the piano. Also thanks to his his wonderful collaboration with Oxmo Puccino (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT8gsm9dOCM). They also don't have to be that modern to sound modern. Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), the Gerald Clayton trio’s live performances, 50 Killer Living Trumpet Players: Chad & Mike's Excellent Adventure. Toshinori Kondo was born on Dec. 15, 1948 in Imabari, a city on the island of Shikoku, part of Ehime Prefecture. Peter Gannushkin Virelles has been popping up on all sorts of hip projects recently, and his latest release Mboko is a treat to listen to. Wow, it takes some serious chops to be playing like that for 90 minutes. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! In my experience a large portion of his discography is ballads and, like you said, "smooth jazz", so it makes sense that he would gain that reputation. His rhythmic and harmonic conception is impressively clear. He gave a completely new and unique shape and beauty to the nature of jazz, and kept improvising his talent even until shortly before his death. Thanks. Toshinori Kondo, Freewheeling Jazz Trumpetist, Dies At 71 From the '80s on, Kondo stood with a new generation of free-form players, collaborating with a long list of fellow iconoclasts. Esteemed jazz musician Toshinori Kondo playing the trumpet. I'm hooked - he sounds awesome! Modern Jazz Trumpet Players? Moran’s style is eclectic. So, now that my only reason for playing trumpet is Jazz, I play Tuba during marching season and Baritone during concert, trumpet was my first one though, I've been thinking, albeit because of my band director, about my style.
Since his days playing in Blakey Messengers at age 18, Keezer plays with impressive technique and harmonic control. And the results are stunning. He now makes his rounds in the Chicago jazz scene and has several albums. Creating a finite list and then applying a rank-order to anything this personal is an absurdly biased exercise. His licks are impeccable and his line at 7:41 in that video is blues gold in my mind. Toshinori Kondo, an improvising trumpeter whose daring instinct and deep expressive resources slashed through a spectrum of experimental and ambient music, died on Saturday in Kawasaki, Japan. Anyway, I'll sure my thoughts from a previous thread on /r/Jazz. His use of wah-wah effects and other electronics earned him reflexive comparisons to Miles Davis, but he was just as comfortable with the atonal expeditionary tactics of someone like Bill Dixon. The symptoms began to pop up in his early 20’s, however, that didn’t stop his latent genius from being blasted on full display in each of his musical compositions. His writing blows my mind, it always sounds like something that is so good it has to have been done before but its new and fresh everytime. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Kondo's rapport with Laswell brought him into the orbit of Herbie Hancock; he makes an appearance, not on trumpet but on vocals, on Hancock's 1983 landmark Future Shock (the album that brought us "Rockit"). And he was a member of a short-lived but well-remembered group called Mad World Music, with guitarists Fred Frith and Henry Kaiser, Laswell and others. "Other Japanese musicians — Sadao Watanabe, Terumasa Hino — these guys also had been in the States," Kondo told The Japan Times in 2004.
His technical prowess and rhythmic mastery continue to amaze me. The group's debut album — fragments of music, life and death of ALBERT AYLER, recorded in Berlin in 1993 and released the following year on FMP — was instantly hailed as an essential avant-garde jazz album of that decade. Cookies help us deliver our Services. Martin is probably best known for his work in Wynton’s band, but so many other great bandleaders have taken advantage of his versatile approach, and Peter always delivers. If you like Woody Shaw, Peter Asplund Another swede just plays great, Tal Gamlieli Live at the Lily Pad (featuring Avishai Cohen) - "Dania" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl4miufiBYo, Chris Botti Live at Java Jazz Festival 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIYVUqYSCoU. Markowitz has worked as a top sideman for decades, supporting everybody from Chet Baker to Dave Liebman and matching every style in between. Dude's a beast, especially for how young he is (28). He won the Theolonious Monk Trumpet Competition last year (this year?). In recent years, after starting his own label and distribution platform, TKRecordings, Kondo stepped up his output: The five most recent albums on his Bandcamp page were created under the banner "Beyond Corona" — a defiant response to the global coronavirus pandemic. The Venezuela-born pianist effortlessly glides across the piano. Playing with his own group as of late (check out his half valving at 4:21, mind blowing stuff). I had the opportunity to study with Kocour for a year before he left Chicago to run the ASU jazz program out in Tempe AZ. Impressive stuff.