Jazz Trumpet Licks

This the first post at JazzTrumpetLicks which utilizes a Facebook embedded video. Let’s hope the Facebook servers are just as fast as Google’s servers. This Roy Hargrove live jazz trumpet solo performance demonstrates some hard bebop lines for sure, that’s why I posted the video. As usual, Roy Hargrove also builds up the solo well […] Read the rest of this entry…

Here is a nice video of some great jazz legends taking trumpet solos over A Night in Tunisia. Lee Morgan, Maynard Ferguson, Clifford Brown, Arturo Sandoval, and Dizzy Gillespie. Unfortunately the transcriptions don’t have chord changes. But A Night in Tunisia isn’t too complicated to just grab the chord changes from somewhere else.

This trumpet solo transcription with Roy Hargrove on trumpet and Justin Robinson on saxophone is really great. The transcription is from the album Earfood. Another trumpet transcription of Roy Hargrove soloing over Strasburg St. Denis was posted earlier in this website’s history, but every variation is worth listening to. The better thing about this video […] Read the rest of this entry…

This trumpet transcription of Lee Morgan was when Lee was with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. There are no chords to go along with the transcription unfortunately. The tune is definitely in a minor key. The best parts of the trumpet solo are when Lee Morgan uses a lot of repetition on certain passages. […] Read the rest of this entry…

This jazz trumpet solo transcription by Clifford Brown is absolutely great. Clifford nails every chord change as usual. Daahoud is a tough tune to solo over as well. There are some nice jazz licks that can be copied here. This jazz trumpet solo is so good it’s debatable whether or not Clifford Brown didn’t plan […] Read the rest of this entry…

This is not one of the best trumpet transcriptions, but an amazing trumpet solo by Scott Englebright on the tune Maynard Ferguson. I wonder who named the tune “Maynard Ferguson”? Interesting name for a jazz tune. I hope you enjoy!

Here is a very laid back Jazz trumpet solo by Wynton Marsalis playing over the tune Struttin’ With Some Barbecue. There are some really good jazz licks in this video. What’s interesting is this recording was performed by the “Marsalis family” aka The Lincoln Jazz Orchestra. I thought it would be more cool if the […] Read the rest of this entry…

Here is an awesome Freddie Hubbard trumpet transcription of him playing over the changes of Birdlike. Freddie uses a lot of bebop scale combinations to make the Jazz solo flow really well. When I heard this trumpet solo for the first time a while ago I really fell in love with it. Special thanks to […] Read the rest of this entry…