Jazz Trumpet Licks

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 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…

It’s always cool to hear a famous Jazz trumpet player like Terence Blanchard at a jam session. I’ve never got to hear him really play without a whole bunch of bends  in his trumpet solo until I watched this Jazz video clip of him at the 2007 Vitoria Jazz Festival. I’m not 100% sure of [...] Read the rest of this entry…

It was nice to hear Freddie Hubbard’s rendition of Joy Spring by Clifford Brown. I never heard him take a ride on this tune. Freddie Hubbard definitely does a great job of adding his unique Jazz style to the tune. One thing I’ve always noticed about Freddie Hubbard is that he likes to takes really [...] Read the rest of this entry…

I’ve always enjoyed the unique Jazz trumpet style of Randy Brecker. There are some really nice diminished patterns that Randy Brecker repeats of few times in this trumpet solo. The trumpet solo starts off with a harmon mute, then Randy plays the rest of the solo open. Why he did this, I don’t know. It’s [...] Read the rest of this entry…

Take a listen to this nice Jazz trumpet solo of Ryan Kisor on Fly me to the Moon. I can’t say much about the sax player, so the comments say in You tube. This Jazz video displays good use of Ryan Kisor’s trumpet technique. Ryan Kisor’s trumpet sound is very clean on this tune. Notice [...] Read the rest of this entry…

I wanted to share this live Jazz trumpet solo of Sean Jones on the tune I’ll Remember April. This performance took place at Gregory’s Jazz Club back in 2008. I like the name of that Jazz Club because my name is Gregory as well. Anyway, this trumpet solo of Sean Jones is very good. Sean [...] Read the rest of this entry…

The chord changes for The Song Is You are pretty difficult. Listen how easily Ryan Kisor takes a ride over these chord changes while making beautiful melodies at a pretty fast speed. When I first heard this Jazz trumpet solo I was very impressed. If you are interested in purchasing this album, the name of [...] Read the rest of this entry…