The trumpeter, who turned professional aged 17, is survived by his wife Wendy and their three children.
The trumpeter played with the BBC Big Band and performed for prominent jazz musicians Johnny Dankworth, Maynard Ferguson and Benny Goodman.
Wadada Leo Smith's "Ten Freedom Summers, " which paired the trumpeter's jazz quartet with a chamber orchestra, was a 2013 Pulitzer Prize finalist for music.
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The trumpeter, whose actual name was John Birks Gillespie, made a humorous run for the Presidency in 1964, organizing John Birks Societies in twenty-five states.
They were an instant sensation and launched Chet's fatal bout with fame and an attendant low life of drug addiction, which eventually cost the trumpeter his teeth in a dope-related street fight.
But Mr Carr has passionately defended every stage of the trumpeter's progress, believing that his over-riding responsibility was to his hearers and to the new cultural awareness he was trying to work into his music.
The trumpeter, whose given name was Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II, rose to national prominence when he joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers later that year, filling the seat in the bebop group held by his idol Clifford Brown.
There are few better examples of Brown's greatness than the three choruses he throws off on 'Brownie Speaks', the fourth title cut at the 9 June 1953 date, which the trumpeter is accredited as co-leading with Lou Donaldson (Elmo Hope, Percy Heath and Philly Joe Jones in the rhythm section).
The relationships of the trumpeter to the rhythm section, and of the solo to the underlying harmonies that support it, is highly influenced by "Kind of Blue, " specifically Davis's interplay with pianist Bill Evans and his subsequent experiments with his mid-1960s group, in which he continued along the same path with Herbie Hancock.
My eldest brother, for some reason, became the first trumpeter in the wind band of Rakunan Junior High School, and became known as a musical genius.
Two months later, he secured the first trumpeter's position in the band.
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The jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis once said that nothing captures the democratic process as perfectly as jazz.
Harrell, dubbed "the greatest trumpeter of his generation" by Entertainment Weekly, is also schizophrenic.
The NJCO spent more than a decade touring and recording with the late trumpeter Freddie Hubbard.
The band dedicated the music to the late trumpeter Freddie Hubbard.
The original score, by the jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard, is brilliant.
Killed in a car accident in June 1956, he didn't live long enough to fulfil a widely held conviction that he was becoming the pre-eminent trumpeter in the music.
The jealous Japanese students, notably a boy named Shinda, secretly took away a piston or springs from my brother's instrument, drilled a hole in the connecting conduit, or removed a cork, but my brother's position as the first trumpeter was secure.
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In this WBGO session, we feature the handiwork of trumpeter David Weiss and pianist Xavier Davis, charter members of the NJCO, and winners of composer grants from Chamber Music America's Doris Duke Jazz Ensembles Project: New Works Creations and Presentation.
Punctuated by the mid-20th-century sounds of the Manhattan Brothers and Hugh Masekela, a trumpeter, the show evokes a South Africa that is arguably long gone.
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In that sense, she can be likened to Chet Baker, the hard-living trumpeter who became similarly popular in the '50s with his whispery vocals and restrained sense of swing.
No venue is designated for one or another stream: The postbop attack of trumpeter Wallace Roney and his quintet was presented at the same hall as guitarist Marc Ribot's rock- and free-jazz-influenced Ceramic Dog.
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Fontella Bass was married to the great jazz trumpeter, Lester Bowie, who was her musical director.
Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins heard the new sound, propelled by bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Ed Blackwell, and went back to the woodshed to retool his music, excising the piano and guitar and featuring the work of trumpeter Don Cherry, Ornette's perennial sidekick.
The mood of the protesters was described as "good natured and jovial", with a trumpeter playing as the protesters walked along the route along the seafront.
Andy Everton, a trumpeter with the orchestra, came up with the idea of a concert that was designed to raise awareness of deafness.
Starting in 1955, Brubeck ended up playing the Newport festival more than any other musician, and the celebration ended with trumpeter Jon Faddis and Chris Brubeck on trombone blowing up a storm on "Blues For Newport, " a tune Brubeck composed backstage at the festival.
In the early 1960s, he and trumpeter Art Farmer co-led a six-person ensemble called the Jazztet.
The musician was a leading hard-bop trumpeter - a jazz extension of bebop - in the mid-1950s.
In the early 1950s, young trumpeter Clifford Brown (1930-1956) would drive from Wilmington, Del.
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