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Dizzy Reece, the great, underrated trumpeter, turned 91 today

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicJanuary 5, 20220 comments

#Dizzy #Reece #Jazz #Trumpet

To celebrate Dizzy Reece’s birthday today, I have listened to Star Bright and Soundin’ Off, two of his recordings on the Blue Note Label that are my kind of music. At 91, Dizzy Reece is one of a tiny number of surviving great musicians from the Golden Age ...

Freddie Hubbard and the enchanting sound of the trumpet

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicAugust 24, 20210 comments

#Freddie #Hubbard #Trumpet #Jazz #Blue #Note

I am very partial to the trumpet in jazz music. To my ears, Louis Armstrong was and is the master of the instrument.  However, within the Be Bop, Hard Bop, Modal and Post-bop/Modern styles that form the bulk of my listening, I have players that sit atop a very long list ...

Edward Lee Morgan (1938-1972): lee-way

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicMay 12, 20200 comments

#Lee #Morgan #Jazz #Hard #Bop #trumpet

To my ears, Edward Lee Morgan was the best of the best trumpeters in the Hard Bop idiom.His very premature death, gunned down by his spouse while he was at work at Slug's Saloon, a club in New York City, ended a very brief but brilliant career of a young man that had enjoyed great ...