cornetist

• “Whether or not the cornetist Buddy Bolden invented jazz Jelly Roll Morton is one of the best known other claimants to the title, he certainly created the enduring archetype of the jazz musician as doomed romantic hero when he suffered a mental breakdown in 1907, at the age of 30, and spent his remaining years in a Louisiana asylum.”

  The Guardian: Buddy Bolden 'invents' jazz

• “He was still in his teens when, in a pivotal encounter in the history of jazz, he met Joe "King" Oliver, an older man then generally reckoned to be the city's finest cornetist, and the leader of an excellent band.”

  The Guardian: Louis Armstrong buys a cornet

• “The Tri-Centric Festival began on Wednesday with "Pine Top Aerial Music," a piece for three horns, including Mr. Braxton on soprano sax, cornetist and Braxton copilot Taylor Ho Bynum , plus two dancers, all of whom moved about the stage in geometric patterns, and a stationary diva in towering heels chanting a mixture of numbers and bird noises.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Jazz Scene: Columbus Day, Ladies' Night

• “The promised guest stars include cornetist Warren Vache and the brilliant jazz singer-songwriter Jon Hendricks —a merry, 90-year-old elf if ever there was one.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Jubilant and Jazzy for the Holidays

• “ What first struck me about Henry ' s work is its lyricism, " said Butch Morris, a composer, cornetist and conductor who has followed Mr. Threadgill ' s career since the ' 70s.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Jazz Man With His Own Vocabulary

• “The mayor gave the signal to play, but the cornetist couldn't play his cornet, the piccolo player couldn't play his piccolo, the trombone player couldn't play his trombone, and the tuba player couldn't play his tuba, because their lips were all puckered up.”

  Old Sneep

• “Now 50, Graham, a cornetist, is among the most adventurous musicians of his generation.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Families That Play Together . . .

• “In 1943, Marian began playing in USO camp shows in Belgium and France, where she met a Chicago cornetist named Jimmy McPartland, a Bix Beiderbeck protégé.”

  Archive 2008-03-01

• “This concert's earlier "history of jazz" segment paid homage to the "classic" jazz of the '20s; its most effective moment, for many, was when Bobby Hackett, a 22-year-old cornet player from Rhode Island, re-created the late Iowa cornetist Bix Beiderbecke's melancholy 1927 version of "I'm Comin' Virginia. ”

  The Wall Street Journal: When Carnegie Hall Swung

• “For years Mr. Mazurek, 42, a cornetist, has been known for some of the best small-group recordings in jazz with his Chicago Underground series.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Chicago's Avant-Garde Musicians

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