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Trumpet Kings [VHS]

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This video is a must for jazz trumpeters and historians. It covers the history of jazz from a trumpet perspective. It includes live performance clips and still photos of the great jazz trumpet innovators like Satchmo, Roy, Dizzy, and Miles. Also includes information on other trumpet greats like "Red" Allen Bix, Bunny, Clfford, Lee, and many others. Informatively narrated by Wynton Marsalis. The video concludes with a performance by The Wynton Marsalis Quartet. I enjoyed this video because this was my first opportunity to see many of my favorite trumpeters in actual performance.

Being a trumpet player, I have watched the tape with great enthusiasm and awe. (I have seen it more than 15 times.) If you are a trumpet player, a jazz fan or just want to be entertained by some rare and wonderful footage of a handful of the world's most inovative musicians, then you must to see "Trumpet Kings"!

FYI: A lot of this footage is from a private collection. So you might not ever see it anywhere else.

I hope they re-release this on DVD or VHS as soon as possible 'cuz it's been out-of-prints for days, or I'ma say years as for example. As to say this is very essential to those that like trumpet pioneers or trumpet kings I'll say who are in the looks of who's the best out there in jazz history: For example, Wynton Marsalis, Freddie Hubbard, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro, Harry James, Chet Baker, Bunny Berigan, Art Farmer, Donald Byrd, etc.

I actually seen several times on BET on Jazz and I didn't know it's was on VHS be4 it came on TV. Maybe 'cuz I'm specially a trumpet player who is learning to play jazz professionally like I did in the jazz band @ high school. A must.

This Is Very Essential For Lovers Of Trumpet Musicians.Wynton Marsalis does a Great Job of Presenting this Video.The Names&People Who Have Rocked this Instrument are A Whose Who Of Music Period.You Will Play this Video Non-Stop Because of all The Greatness Being Presented.Very Essential.