Jazz Trumpet Licks

Want some great Freddie Hubbard Jazz licks and patterns? All you have to do is get a transcriber and slow this YouTube video of Freddie performing Cherokee at the Blue Note in Japan. This recording took place back in the 1990s. Hope you enjoy!

Here’s a really nice trumpet solo of Nicholas Payton on Woody N’ You. He performed this awesome Jazz trumpet solo with The Airmen of Note. I really like how Nicholas Payton makes great use of space and only does a few crazy lines with the majority of his trumpet solo being quite melodic.

I love this Jazz clip of Ryan Kisor at a jam session in London. Notice that I mentioned jam session, I wonder if he’s had a few drinks? Well anyway, Ryan Kisor, as always, sounds amazing on trumpet even if the quality of the video isn’t up to par. He nails all the chord changes [...] Read the rest of this entry…

I’ve been listening to this YouTube video almost every day for the past week. The head isn’t all that impressive, but it’s definitely catchy. What you are going to want to do is take a listen to Arturo Sandoval’s flugelhorn solo at about 3:15 on the trumpet video. Just amazing. I’m going to be stealing [...] Read the rest of this entry…

I’ve been recently working on the chord changes to Autumn Leaves. So I decided to browse You Tube a little bit to see if I could find some good ideas. Low and behold, guess what I found? A really cool and awesome trumpet solo of Freddie Hubbard taking a ride on Autumn Leaves. Plus you [...] Read the rest of this entry…