Great Jazz Trumpeters

Pre Bebop:

Buddy Bolden  (1877-1931)  Committed to an insane asylum in 1907 due to alcoholism, no known recordings of Bolden exist.

Joe "King" Oliver  (1881-1938)

Louis Armstrong    (1901-1977)

Bix Biederbecke   (1903-1931)

Harry "Red" Allen  (1906-1977)

Roy Eldridge  (1911-1989)
    
Harry "Sweets" Edison  (1915-1999) 


Other Important pre Bebop players:

Clarinet: Johnny Dodds, Edmund Hall, Bennie Goodman, Artie Shaw

Alto Saxophone:  Johnny Hodges, Benny Carter

Tenor Saxophone:  Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Ben Webster

Piano:  Earl "Fatha" Hines, James P, Johnson, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Count Basie

Miscellaneous:  Django Reinhard (guitar), Stéphane Grappelli (violin), Lionel Hampton (vibes)


Bebop and beyond:


John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie  (1917-1993)   Bebop
Howard McGhee  (1918-1987)  Bebop

Clark Terry   (1920- 2015)   Swing & Bop  

Fats Navarro  (1923-1950)  Bebop

Thad Jones  (1923-1986)  Lyrical Hard Bop /  Big Band

Kenny Dorham  (1925-1972)  Hard Bop 

Miles Davis  (1926-1991)

Art Farmer  (1928-1999)  Lyrical Hard Bop 
    
Chet Baker  (1929-1988)  West Coast Cool

Clifford Brown  (1930-1956)  Bop -jazz trumpet's greatest soloist?

Don Ellis   (1934-1978)  Experiment modern big band

Don Cherry   (1936-1995)  Avant Garde

Lee Morgan   (1938-1972)  Hard Bop

Freddie Hubbard  (1938-2008)  Hard Bop

Lester Bowie   (1941-1999)  Avant Garde

Tom Harrell   (b. 1946)  Recent Hard Bop

Arturo Sandoval   (b. 1949) 

Wynton Marsalis   (b. 1961)  Several styles

James Morrison   (b 1962)  Bop (Australian)

Dave Douglas  (b. 1963)   Bop / World Music

Thomas Gansch  (b. 1975)  Bop /Modern
 
Abrose Akinmusire  (b. 1982)  Modern Music