Jazz Trumpet Licks

I first heard this Arturo Sandoval trumpet solo on YouTube without the transcription. Thanks to Joseph Prieto you can now take a look at the transcription of Arturo’s trumpet solo on There Will Never Be Another You and try to get some new Jazz licks from it. It would’ve been nice if Joseph added the […] Read the rest of this entry…

I wanted to write about this Miles Davis Jazz trumpet solo over Freddie the Freeloader Jazz standard because of how simple Miles Davis keeps the solo. Miles never goes crazy with it and he makes really good use of space (silence) in his trumpet solo. A lot of times in today’s Jazz music musicians tend […] Read the rest of this entry…

Now I know that 99.9 percent of you Jazz trumpet players out there have already heard this famous Clifford Brown trumpet solo of Joy Spring. I still wanted to add this to the website because it is just that awesome of a trumpet solo. Everything about this trumpet solo is just brilliant. From beginning to […] Read the rest of this entry…

This trumpet solo was performed live by Roy Hargrove. I love this Jazz trumpet solo so much because Hargrove does such a great job of building the solo up from calm to crazy. Lots of good Jazz licks in this trumpet solo. The name of the band is the Roy Hargrove Quintet and was performed […] Read the rest of this entry…

You are going to like this Arturo Sandoval trumpet transcription if you haven’t seen it yet. At the end, my computer’s speakers started freaking out it was so high. The arrangement was done by Wally Minko and from the album Dear Diz (Every Day I Think Of You), by Arturo Sandoval. You can download the […] Read the rest of this entry…

I had to share this trumpet transcription of James Morrison because Thomas Voss did such a great job. I’m starting to like these YouTube video transcriptions more and more. Morrison does a great job of building up the solo and outlining all the chord changes. This trumpet solo on “All Of Me” (Seymour Simons/Gerald Marks […] Read the rest of this entry…

This clip I had to listen to a few times. The first take is Tom Harrell improvising over blues changes in Bb I guess. Then it goes into him going over the same blues changes flawlessly in all 12 keys which is very impressive considering how consistently good Tom Harrell sounds on the chord changes in all […] Read the rest of this entry…

I came across this nice Jazz trumpet solo by Nicholas Payton while browsing around YouTube. It’s on the tune Bags’ Groove and Payton uses a lot of blues licks on it as well as bebop patterns. He even takes his trumpet solo outside the key a little bit and uses a lot of enthusiasm. Unfortunately, […] Read the rest of this entry…