Artist	Song
Miles Davis	So What
from Kind of Blue (1997)
Louis Armstrong	West End Blues
from The Essential Louis Armstrong (1979)
Dizzy Gillespie	A Night In Tunisia
from Bebop Professor (2002)
Clifford Brown & Max Roach Quintet	Joy Spring
from The Definitive Clifford Brown (2002)
Chet Baker	Happy Little Sunbeam
from The Best Of Chet Baker Plays (1992)
Roy Eldridge	Rockin' Chair
from Little Jazz Giant (2005)
Bix Beiderbecke	Singin' the Blues
from Bix Beiderbecke, Vol. I - Singin' the Blues (1990)
Fats Navarro	Fat Boy
from Goin to Minton's (2002)
Freddie Hubbard	You're My Everything
from Hub-Tones (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition Remastered) (1999)
Wynton Marsalis	Donna Lee (Live)
from Amongst the People - Live At the House of Tribes (2005)
Donald Byrd	Hush
from Royal Flush (2006)
Clark Terry	Double Play
from Clark Terry (2004)
The Harry James Orchestra	Back Beat Boogie (Take 1)
from Harry James - Stereo Takes (2006)
Buck Clayton & Count Basie and His Orchestra	Good Morning Blues (Take A)
from Black Legends of Jazz (1994)
Duke Ellington	Concerto for Cootie
from The Very Best of Duke Ellington (1999)
Duke Ellington	East Saint Louis Toodle-O
from Best of the Duke Ellington Centennial Edition (1999 Remastered) (1999)
Kenny Dorham	'Philly' Twist
from Whistle Stop (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition Remastered) (2000)
Harry "Sweets" Edison, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis	C Jam Blues
from Harry "Sweets" Edison - Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis (1997)
Bunny Berigan	I Can't Get Started
from Big Band Classics (2007)
Art Farmer & Benny Golson	I Remember Clifford
from Meet the Jazztet (1990)
Lee Morgan	Speedball
from The Gigolo (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition Remastered) (2006)
Red Rodney	Red Arrow
from Fiery (1994)
Woody Shaw	Dat Dere
from Giants of Jazz: Soul Jazz (2004)
Louis Armstrong & The Hot Fives	Struttin' With Some Barbecue
from The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings, Vol. 2 (2003)
Miles Davis	If I Were a Bell
from Jazz At the Plaza (2001)

Comment:

Whether it's the '50s-style "cool school" that flips your wig or Dixieland that sets your toes a-tapping, somewhere there's a trumpeter blowing notes you need to hear. Not to blow our own horn too much, but we've combed through nine decades' worth of [i]le trompette[/i] to bring you the best trumpeters of all time. Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis, though only 25 years apart in age, represent the alpha and the omega of the modern era. Our first two selections, for instance, recorded 31 years apart, actually express the span between the jet engine and the Model T.

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