The Art Of Jazz Trumpet

The art of bebop trumpet is the art of velocity and logic. Listen to "A Night in Tunisia." Gillespie attacks the melody with Afro-Cuban rhythms, then solos with lines that snake through the chord changes like a lightning bolt. Playing bebop on trumpet is incredibly difficult because the instrument lacks the mechanical agility of the piano or guitar. Every note is a physical gamble. Dizzy made the gamble sound like easy breathing.

Alongside him was (another victim of tragedy). Morgan was the street poet of the horn. On "The Sidewinder," he invented a blues-based, funky vocabulary that became the blueprint for hard bop. Morgan’s vibrato was wider, his blues bends were grittier. He proved that the art form could be both intellectual (complex harmony) and visceral (for the hips). The Art Of Jazz Trumpet

Woody Shaw, though less known to the public, is the musician’s musician. He introduced a specific harmonic concept—playing the "diminished whole-tone" scale—into the trumpet lexicon. Shaw’s art is angular, searching, and dark. He forced the trumpet to think like a post-Coltrane saxophone. Without Woody Shaw, there is no Wynton Marsalis. The art of bebop trumpet is the art of velocity and logic