Jazz Trumpet Licks

With potential hurricanes heading towards New Orleans and other gulf coast regions, we need to have something help keep our spirits up. For us jazz fans, there isn’t much better than a great trumpet jazz solo. So why not make it a Woody Shaw trumpet transcription improvising over the tune, “There Will Never Be Another […] Read the rest of this entry…

This is a really nice trumpet transcription of Ryan Kisor playing over the tune “I’ll Close My Eyes”. It’s quite a relaxing trumpet solo and tune. This recording is off the album ‘Kisor II’ by Ryan Kisor. There are lots of outside pattern licks in this trumpet solo. I hope you enjoy.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…