Jazz Trumpet Licks

I wanted to share this smokin Jazz trumpet solo of Tom Harrell with the Phil Woods Quintet. When I was watching this Jazz video I noticed how Tom Harrell rests his fingers over his trumpet valves. I’m wondering if this helps his technique overall on the trumpet. According to how he sounds in the Jazz clip I’m going to have to say that it helps him quite a bit.

This great recording of Tom Harrell took place in Hamburg of 1988. I have one problem though, I’m not sure what the name of the tune is. If anyone could help me out on this it would be greatly appreciated.

I found another good Jazz trumpet video from the Vitoria Jazz Festival back in 2006. Luckily, this time I was able to embed the video into my site. This trumpet player’s name is Terrel Stafford. He definitely took a very nice Jazz trumpet solo on the tune entitled Four by Miles Davis. Terrel Stafford plays this trumpet solo with a lot of energy, I hope you enjoy this Jazz clip as much as I did.