Jazz Trumpet
Recommended Books and Transcriptions
The Music Collection includes many books on jazz trumpet, including biographies of famous jazz trumpeters as well as technique manuals. Biographies are classified in ML 419, while instructional texts are classified in MT 442. The recommended books below are meant to capture the range of possibilities and are sorted by their call numbers to ease browsing. Click on the info icon to see a description of the book.
The Chet Baker Collection by
Both Baker's distinctive West Coast, cool jazz trumpet sound and his unique vocal stylings are presented in this long-awaited, 24-song folio, which features note-for-note transcriptions of: Au Privave * Cherokee * Early Morning Mood * Freeway * Have You Met Miss Jones? * How Deep Is the Ocean * How High the Moon * I Get Along Without You Very Well * Let's Get Lost * Loaded * Moonlight Becomes You * My Funny Valentine * My Old Flame * September Song * There Will Never Be Another You * The Touch of Your Lips * Tune Up * You Better Go Now * and more. Includes a biography and a discography.
Call Number: M88.B35 C4 2002Publication Date: 2002
Birth of the Cool by
In preparation for over two years, this landmark publication presents the music of the Miles Davis Nonet in concert score format, restored from as many of the original composer/arrangers' autograph parts as still exist. Includes an extensive introduction, notes on the restoration process, bios of the composers and arrangers, and note-for-note transcriptions of these classic jazz tunes: Birth of the Cool Theme * Boplicity (Be Bop Lives) * Budo * Deception * Godchild * Israel * Jeru * Joost at the Roost * Moon Dreams * Move * Rock Salt a/k/a Rocker * Rouge * Venus De Milo.
Call Number: M1366.D38 B5 2002Publication Date: 2002
Music is My Life: Louis Armstrong, Autobiography, and American Jazz by
Music Is My Life is the first comprehensive analysis of Louis Armstrong's autobiographical writings (including his books, essays, and letters) and their relation to his musical and visual performances. Combining approaches from autobiography theory, literary criticism, intermedia studies, cultural history, and musicology, Daniel Stein reconstructs Armstrong's performances of his life story across various media and for different audiences, complicating the monolithic and hagiographic views of the musician.
Call Number: ML419.A75 S75 2012Publication Date: 2012
In Search of Buddy Bolden: First Man of Jazz by
For years the legend of Buddy Bolden was overshadowed by myths about his music, his reckless lifestyle, and his mental instability. In Search of Buddy Bolden overlays the myths with the substance of reality. Interviews with those who knew Bolden and an extensive array of primary sources enliven and inform Donald M. Marquis’s absorbing portrait of the brief but brilliant career of the first man of jazz.
Call Number: ML419.B65 M4Publication Date: 1978
Miles Davis: The Definitive Biography by
In a counterpoint to Davis' autobiography, Carr provides a balanced portrait of one of the undisputed cultural icons of the 20th century.
Call Number: ML419.D39 C35 1998Publication Date: 1998
Hotter Than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture by
A swinging cultural history of the instrument that in many ways defined a century. The twentieth century was barely under way when the grandson of a slave picked up a trumpet and transformed American culture. Before that moment, the trumpet had been a regimental staple in marching bands, a ceremonial accessory for royalty, and an occasional diva at the symphony. Because it could make more noise than just about anything, the trumpet had been much more declarative than musical for most of its history. Around 1900, however, Buddy Bolden made the trumpet declare in brand-new ways. He may even have invented jazz, or something very much like it. And as an African American, he found a vital new way to assert himself as a man. Hotter Than That is a cultural history of the trumpet from its origins in ancient Egypt to its role in royal courts and on battlefields, and ultimately to its stunning appropriation by great jazz artists such as Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, and Wynton Marsalis. The book also looks at how trumpets have been manufactured over the centuries and at the price that artists have paid for devoting their bodies and souls to this most demanding of instruments. In the course of tracing the trumpet's evolution both as an instrument and as the primary vehicle for jazz in America, Krin Gabbard also meditates on its importance for black male sexuality and its continuing reappropriation by white culture.
Call Number: ML960 .G33 2008Publication Date: 2008
To a Young Jazz Musician: Letters from the Road by
In To a Young Jazz Musician, the renowned jazz musician and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Wynton Marsalis gives us an invaluable guide to making good music-and to leading a good life. Writing from the road "between the bus ride, the sound check, and the gig," Marsalis passes on wisdom gained from experience, addressed to a young musician coming up and to any of us at any stage of life. He writes that having humility is a way to continue to grow, to listen, and to learn; that patience is necessary for developing both technical proficiency and your own art rather than an imitation of someone else's; and that rules are indispensable because "freedom lives in structure."
Call Number: ML3795 .M186 2004Publication Date: 2005
Twenty Eight Modern Jazz Trumpet Solos by
These solos can be played with or without the original recordings. Contains improvised solos of artists such as Randy Brecker, Clifford Brown, Miles Davis, Kenny Dorham, Art Farmer, Woody Shaw, and others.
Call Number: MT68 .T9468Publication Date: 1977
The Art of Jazz Trumpet by
A comprehensive study of modern jazz trumpet playing by renowned jazz musician John McNeil. Contains a personal history of jazz trumpet, articulation, valve technique, and alternate fingerings. This complete edition combines and updates the earlier works and includes a CD as a practice aid.
Call Number: MT442.M36 A7 1993 V.1-2Publication Date: 1993
Interlibrary Loan
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