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Are These the 50 Best Jazz Trumpeters of All Time?

On DiscoverMusic, Charles Waring has bravely compiled a list of the 50 Best Jazz Trumpeters Of All Time, complete with comments and audio or video examples of everyone’s work. It’s a pretty solid list, and I was glad to see overlooked masters like Marcus Belgrave, Dizzy Reece, Louis Smith and Freddie Webster on the list. I do miss Tim Hagens. I’m guessing that Buddy Bolden was included on faith as none of us as ever heard him play.

-Michael Cuscuna

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Bix Beiderbecke: Born March 10, 1903

Celebrate Bix Beiderbecke’s Birthday

JazzWax has put together a glowing birthday post on the legendary Bix Beiderbecke. Included is an interview with Hoagy Carmichael which I have not heard before (and do not know the source), but it is an interesting few minutes as Hoagy speaks of Bix and a recording he had done of his tune “Old Man Harlem (which sounds like it could be a 1956 Coral release with Benny Carter).

-Scott Wenzel

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Louis Armstrong at the Savoy Ballroom, Chicago [1930]

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Love me some Eddie Bert

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I’ve been lost in this lyric lately, and the arrangement is beautiful: “I, who was lost and lonely, believing life was only, a bitter tragic joke have found in you... the meaning of existence, oh my love”

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Would LOVE to see this happen, folks

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Vic Damone, Golden Age Crooner, Dead At 89

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Who Signed Off on Prince Appearing in the Super Bowl Halftime Show?

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Getting in the mood for a military parade

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