Jazz Trumpets: Trumpet Stars from Satchmo to Miles (10 CDs)

– 23 of the greatest trumpet players in Jazz with some of their greatest recordings – Featuring Louis Armstrong, Clifford Brown, Roy Eldridge, Miles Davis, Howard McGhee,Chet Baker, Kenny Dorham, Doc Cheatham, Blue Mitchell, Freddie Hubbard, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Hank Mobley, Earl Hines, Art Farmer, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and more Ever since Joshua fit the battle of Jericho with his trumpet, the instrument has held a special place among the horns. And trumpeters were first and main identifying figures and founding fathers of the African-American Jazz that developed in New Orleans, Louisiana, around 1900. Unfortunately, there are no recordings with Buddy Bolden, but King Oliver and especially his student Louis Armstrong are still known around the world today - and the latter also very popular. From "Satchmo" Armstrong to Dizzy Gillespie to Miles Davis trumpeters became the figureheads of a music that developed at breakneck speed in synchronicity with the industrial