Jazz Trumpet Licks

I really enjoy listening to Ryan Kisor take solos on the trumpet. His trumpet solo on the tune Candy from The Sidewinder album is very melodic sounding and fun to sing or hum along with.

Ryan Kisor nails all the changes in this Candy trumpet solo and there are a quite a few Jazz licks to take advantage of as well.

Candy is a basic rhythm changes tune where the bridge of the tune progresses in fourths. I love tunes like these because they are what most Jazz standards use.

I would love to hear what you think of Ryan Kisor’s solo.

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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 how Ryan Kisor makes all the chord changes on this tune even though his trumpet solo really isn’t that impressive. This is what makes a great Jazz musician, the ability to sound good all the time even if you are not super man every time.

I wanted to share a really fast Jazz trumpet solo of Ryan Kisor on the tune Cherokee from his album entitled Kisor. It’s a really good CD, definitely take a look at it. I don’t know what tempo Ryan Kisor took Cherokee at though.

Ryan Kisor starts Cherokee off soloing right away, no head is played on this recording. There are a lot of good Jazz licks to take advantage of from this recording. Ryan Kisor does this alternate fingering Jazz lick going down a scale one note at a time. The alternate fingering Jazz lick happens so fast that it is hard to write down at first though. I hope you enjoy this Jazz trumpet solo.

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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 it is Kisor II album. I don’t know why they called it that, but it’s good Jazz trumpet music and there are a lot of trumpet licks to take advantage of in this recording.

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Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra were at the 2009 New Orleans Jazz Fest on Saturday the 25th of April. I was fortunate enough to get down to the Jazz Fest and hear the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra perform. They sounded absolutely great and the crowd really had a good time.

Wynton Marsalis has a really good line up of a trumpet section as well. Ryan Kisor, Marcus Printup, and Sean Jones all took awesome trumpet solos. I was really impressed. Unfortunately I didn’t get the idea to start recording some of their trumpet solos with my iPhone until the end of the concert. I should’ve brought my video camera, but I wasn’t thinking.

At the end of the show, Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra rhythm section did some G blues. I apologize that the sound quality isn’t that great, but you can really hear how simple the solo is, yet it really swings. Real New Orleans style playing. I wasn’t able to get the whole trumpet solo, but I hope you enjoy what I was able to record.

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