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Recommended Jazz Trumpet Listening

"Must Have" Blue Note Era Album List

L. Morgan

• Sidewinder
• The Cooker
• The Rumproller
• Candy
• Cornbread
• Caramba
• Infinity
• Lee Way
• The Procrastinator
• Search For the New Land
• The Sixth Sense

F. Hubbard

• Hub Tones
• The Artistry Of ...
• Blue Spirits
• Open Sesame
• Goin' Up
• Here To Stay
• Blues and The Abstract Truth (O. Nelson)
• Ready For Freddie

K. Dorham

• Una Mas
• K. Dorham Quartet Debut
• Trumpetta Tocatta
• West 42nd St.
• Live @ Cafe Bohemia (Vol. 1, 2) w/A. Blakey & Jazz Messengers
• The Arrival Of...
• Whistle Stop
• Kenny Dorham and the Jazz Prophets

J. Henderson

• In and Out (w/K. Dorham)
• Our Thing (w/ K. Dorham)
• Page One (w/ K. Dorham)

A. Blakey

• A Night in Tunisia (w/L. Morgan)
• Live @ Cafe Bohemia (Vol. 1, 2) (w/ K. Dorham)
• Ugetsu (w/F.Hubbard)
• Caravan (w/F. Hubbbard)
• Like Someone in Love (w/L. Morgan)
• 3 Blind Mice (w/F. Hubbard)
• Live @ Birdland (Vol. 1, 2) (w/C. Brown)
• Freedom Rider (w/L. Morgan)
• Free For All (w/F. Hubbard)

W. Shaw

• Unity (L. Young release)
• Cape Verdean Blues (H. Silver)
• Jody Grind (H. Silver)
• In My Own Sweet Way
• Imagination

B. Little

• Booker Little and Friend (Victory and Sorrow)
• We Speak
• Max Roach+4

C. Brown

• Memorial Album
• Live @ Basin St.
• More Study in Brown
• w/Strings
• Study in Brown

M. Davis

• Kind of Blue
• Relaxin'
• Steamin'
• Workin"
• Cookin'
• Nefritti
• Miles Smiles
• The Sorcerer
• Some Day My Prince
• 'Round About Midnight

H. Hancock

• My Point of View (w/D.Byrd)
• Maiden Voyage (w/F.Hubbard)
• Takin' Off (w/F. Hubbard)
• Emprean Isles (w/F. Hubbard)

W. Shorter

• Adam's Apple
• Speak No Evil (w/F. Hubbard)
• Free Form (D. Byrd)
• All Seeing Eye (w/F. Hubbard)

J. Coltrane

• Blue Trane (w/L. Morgan)
• Black Pearls (w/D.Byrd)
• Last Trane (w/ D. Byrd)
• Lush Life (w/ D. Byrd)
• Coltrane Time (w/K. Dorham)
• Sonny's Crib (S. Clarke w/D. Byrd)

H. Mobley

• The Turnaround (w/F.Hubbard)
• A Caddy For Daddy (w/ L.Morgan)
• Dippin' (w/L.Morgan)
• Roll Call (w/F.Hubbard)
• No Room For Squares (w/ L. Morgan/D.Byrd)
• The Jazz message of....(w/L. Morgan/D.Bryd)
• Hi Voltage (w/B. Mitchell)
• Slice of the Top (w/L. Morgan)
• Third Season (w/L. Morgan)

L. Armstrong

• Hot Fives and Sevens
• (any volumes)

D. Byrd

• Free Form
• Fuego
• September Afternoon
• Early Byrd
• At The Half Note Cafe (Vol. 1, 2)
• Mustang
• Byrd in Flight
• Six Pieces of Silver (H. Silver)

H. Silver

• ...and The Jazz Messengers (vol.1,2) (w/K. Dorham)
• Cape Verdean Blues (w/W. Shaw)
• Horace Scope (w/B. Mitchell)
• Blowin' the Blues Away (w/B. Mitchell)
• Six Pieces of Silver (w/D. Byrd)
• Jody Grind (w/W. Shaw)
• Tokyo Blues (w/B. Mitchell)
• Prescription for the Blues (w/R. Brecker)
• In Pursuit of the 27th Man (w/R. Brecker)

T. Harrell

• Stories
• Sail Away
• Passages
• Visions
• Form

R. Brecker

• In The Idiom
• Score
• Reach Out (H. Galper)
• Speak With a Single Voice (H. Galper)

R. Hargrove

• Family
• The Vibe
• In the Public Eye
• 4 Tenors of Our Time

W. Marsalis

• Thick in The South
• Joe Cool Blues
• Standard Time Vol.2

B. Mitchell

• The Cup Bearers
• Down With It
• The Thing To Do
• Big 6
• Junior's Cookin' (Jr. Cook)

Jimmy Smith

• Damn! (w/R. Hardgrove)
• Houseparty (w/L. Morgan)
• The Sermon (w/L. Morgan)
• Open House (w/B. Mitchell)
• Plain Talk (w/B. Mitchell)