Jazz for aficionados

@mahgister 

You’ve got me curious. Which heavenly bodies do you associate with other well-known trumpet players? 

Miles Davis is Jupiter...For sure...

I had not decided who is Saturn yet and Uranus Neptune and Pluto... Too much great trumpet players to analyse and feel....

@mahgister 

I had a friend when I was in high school who introduced me to jazz. Art Tatum was the first jazz player I heard and then I picked up an Ahmed Jamal album. Ahmed played more for a jazz bar than Tatum. I just watched a piece on Tatum on the "Jazz" series and he was amazing. He blew people away with his skill. I also watched a lot of footage of Marsalis talking about Armstrong. He got on his trumpet and showed the things Armstrong invented. 

@stuartk, 

I have an album with Shankar and Menuhin. I think I must have seen them a long time ago either live or on TV. They're amazing together.

@tyray 

Grappelli played with Django Reidnhardt whose band was famous in Paris. When he came to the states much later, he's played with a lot of people. I have a number of his albums. One with Itzhak Perlman. My favorite is with Teresa Brewer. They're like a cute couple together. I loved the Grappelli/Grisman concert I saw live. Grisman is supposedly a blue grass player, but I think he transcends that genre.

@mahgister 

I can see how the dazzling, uplifting Armstrong would be the progenitor solar body and the nocturnal, melancholic Baker, the moon, but I'm not sure about Miles as Jupiter. Perhaps because Miles went through so many stylistic shifts, I'm finding it challenging to see what remained constant and characterize whatever that essence was, metaphorically. He was creatively restless; always looking forward to the next phase. I'm not sure what his capacity for reinvention suggests in terms of astronomnical phenomenon. He was of course one of the greatest band-leaders, in terms of magnetically bringing together shifting constellations of highly gifted players into his orbit or gravitational field... so many bright bodies... Coltrane, Hancock, Carter, Williams, Shorter, Holland, Corea, McLaughlin, Jarrett, etc. Perhaps if I was more scientifically astute, your analogy would be clearer to me.

@audio-b-dog 

I agree that Grisman transcends the genre, as do Tony Rice, Mark O’Connor, Chris Thile, Jerry Douglas, Sarah Jarosz, Bela Fleck and numerous others. Grisman’s pioneering Dawg Music led the way into a rich and fascinating cross pollination of acoustic genres that is ongoing. This new frontier attracts many gifted young players. I suspect many Boomers who complain about the supposed lack of high quality music at present are totally ignorant of this segment of music. Such a shame!

Jupiter protect the solar system of jazz music... After Armstrong  Sun birth , i think the most influential trumpet was Miles  second only in influence by his creative size  to Armstrong the sun ...No other trumpeter can be or had been  bigger than these two by their archetypal influence ...

It is just  subjective metaphors not something i felt to justify in debating.. You get it or you dont... 

 Chet Baker is the moon for me because his most of the times introvert playing is completely complementary in energy to extrovert Armstrong, and the two luminaries sing as they play in the same way, which is unique among trumpeters...

I spoke also about trumpeters if you remind  not of other instrumentists when i use these planetary metaphors to describe my subjective impression of trumpeters in Jazz.....

I will not try be more "scientifically astute" and you dont need too  ...Sorry.. I am not a musician...You are... Then the metaphors spoke to you or not, they are only the means to convey a subjective impression (mine) ...

 I like the trumpet as much as the piano in jazz... This is why speaking of trumpeters in jazz i thought about these metaphors evident for me about these 3 giants......... 

I can see how the dazzling, uplifting Armstrong would be the progenitor solar body and the nocturnal, melancholic Baker, the moon, but I’m not sure about Miles as Jupiter. Perhaps because Miles went through so many stylistic shifts,