TERENCE BLANCHARD

http://www.terenceblanchard.com/
Wikipedia


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Terence Blanchard is a jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, arranger, and film score writer. He with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra in 1980 and later with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. He and his trumpet are in approximately fifty film scores including and not limited to Malcolm X, Love and Basketball, Inside Man, and Trial by Jury.

Terence Blanchard - Montreal
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NICHOLAS PAYTON

Wikipedia
Verve Music



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Oooh, baby! You've got to listen to this man blow his horn!

Nicholas is the son of bassist and sousaphonist Walter Payton. I find it pretty impressive that by the age of nine he was playing in a band with his father and in grade school played semi-professionally and played thoughout the U.S. with the All Star Jazz Bank at the age of 12.

I hope you find him as enjoyable as I do.

ROY HARGROVE

http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/royhargrove
http://www.myspace.com/RoyHargrove


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There's just something about the sound of a "horn" that will always remind me of jazz. The way Roy Hargrove plays and the sound is just classic jazz. I don't have a lot of info on Roy or any of the other artists I post about. I just know them by name, like what they play and let me ears guide. Me. I'm gently taking you by the ear and turning your ear this way.

The clip below is called "The Joint". Let your ears take a puff of this!



Maaaaaan!!! I can just close my eyes and let this "joint" take me to la-la land. Close your eyes, let your ears take a puff, let the rhythm of these smoky notes meander through the veins of your soul and take you to that little cloud of ecstacy called jazz heaven. Inhale... hold it... hold it... suck up every note 'til it sends the euphoric wave of pleasure into your senses and your scalp tingles. Can you hear it? Can you feel it?

MILES "DEWEY" DAVIS III

(May 24, 1926 - September 28, 1991)

http://www.milesdavis.com
Wikepedia



Of all of the musicians I've looked up so far, Mile Davis has the longest bio in Wikipedia. When one thinks of jazz and the horn there are only three names that come to my mind that everyone will or should know - Louis Armstrong, Dizzie Gillespie and Miles Davis. I'm not one for getting into biographies. Though I enjoy reading them, I'll just leave a link and leave it up to you to read one if you like. Check out the Wikepedia or miledavis.com link for a good bio.

Personally, I could never quite get into Miles Davis. Every time I saw him he seemed odd and even looking for a clip, in each of the more recent clips he always had his head down, seemed into his own little world. Maybe it was that he was sometimes struggling with drug addictions, maybe he was just so close to musical genius he was odd that way. I do know that people who like Miles Davis LOVE Miles Davis.

You can judge for yourself on this one. I'll give you an old clip and a more recent one.