#music, Mis mejores trompetistas Jazz – My Best Jazz Trumpet Players

(Louis Armstrong/Photo Wikimedia Commons)

Decían, los supuestos «blancos» de EEUU,* que era la música de los negros y la despreciaban. Pero el Jazz acabó siendo el invento musical más importante del Siglo XX… Se tuvieron que meter la lengua en el culo…

A mi el amor a la música me llegó, no con el Jazz, con los Beatles. Después con toda la música rock. Fui rokero hasta que oi «Just the Way You Are,» la balada de Billy Joel en 1977 y el saxofón me encanto y me cautivo. Mi compañero de faena, en la mili, que era fan del Jazz, cuando le hablé del solo de saxofón de Phil Woods, (el que tocó en la canción), me dijo que lo conocía, que era jazzista y que si me gustaba el saxofón a quien tenía que escuchar era a Coltrane. Lo hice y eso bastó para hacerme fan del Jazz para toda la vida.

Ahora la trompeta, venga, eso es otra historia. Claro que siempre he conocido la música, la extraordinaria música, de Louis Armstrong, pero de los demás trompetistas no sabia mucho. Entonces en 1993 conocí a Arturo Sandoval, el trompetista cubano y me habló de Dizzy Gillespie, como Gillespie lo había ayudado a escapar de Cuba roja. Empecé a escuchar a Gillespie y a través de el a otros como Miles y empecé a desarrollar el mismo amor que le tenia al saxofón, a la trompeta…

Aquí os traigo a los que mas me gustan, pero entre los tantos otros que también me gustan están Nicholas Payton, King Oliver, Clark Terry et al…

The supposed «white people*» of the United States called it music for negroes and thought little of it, but Jazz became the most important musican invention of the XXth Century. They had to stick their tongue where the sun don’t shine…

My love for music came, not with Jazz, but with The Beatles, then with all of that the greatest era of rock music could offer. I was a rocker until I heard Billy Joel’s ballad «Just the Way You Are» in 1977. I told my buddy from the Army that I really dug on Phil Woods saxophone solo. He, being a Jazz enthusiast, told me he had heard of Woods, that he was a Be-Bop player and that if I liked the sax then I should be listening to Coltrane. I did and that was enough to make me a Jazz lover for life.

Now trumpet led Jazz, that’s another story. Of course I had always known of Louis Armstrong and liked his music, his extraordinary music, but I didn’t know much about the others. Then in 1993 I met Arturo Sandoval, the Cuban trumpet player and he spoke to me about Dizzy Gillespie and how Gillespie had helped him escape from communist Cuba. I started listening to his music and that led me towards a host of others and the love for the trumpet equalled the love for the sax…

Here are my main trumpets, but among all the others I like as well are musicians such as Nicholas Payton, King Oliver, Clark Terry et al…

* Digo que en EEUU clasifican a la gente de blanco, negro o de color y deciden quién es quién por el país donde han nacido, un sistema extrañísimo, discriminador y racista.

* In the US they classify people as white, black or coloured and they decide who is who according to the country where the people are from. A very strange, discriminating and racist approach.

Gracias…

Cheers…

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  1. Avatar de christinenovalarue christinenovalarue dice:

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  2. Avatar de beth beth dice:

    Louis – one my father’s favs, and he passed that on to me as well

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    1. He was «The Man!!!»

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  3. Avatar de spwilcen spwilcen dice:

    Careful there, Cowboy. Lumping «white people» as one all-inclusive group is the same as castigating Latinos for some ridiculous and subjective perception, assigning it «mainstream» credentials and therefor irrefutably correct.

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    1. No, it’s not me that’s lumping «white folk» Espie, that’s what they do in the US. I was witness to people, white people, from Colombia being called «coloured» while a similar «white man» from Italy was called «white.» Don’t they know that the white population of Latin America is just as descendent from Europeans as the one from the US? Or do they think that in the US there are no mixed race people? People mixed with North American Indians? With Blacks? With Asians? It’s rather prepotent to think of some as white and not others with similar backgrounds… That is what I meant.

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