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Iridium's popular Milesfest includes a quartet representing four decades of the trumpeter's constantly ground-breaking groups—the 1950s (drummer Jimmy Cobb , last survivor of the "Kind of Blue" sessions), '60s (bassist Buster Williams ), '70s (the superlative saxophonist Sonny Fortune), and '80s (guitarist and fusionista Mike Stern ).

Prodigies, Mentors and Legends Will Friedwald 2011

Hearing that bit blasted out from a trumpet as though the trumpeter's about to spew his lungs out through the thing is unbelievably motivating, especially for me when I'm not even playing the game.

Music Sweet Music SVGL 2009

The trumpeter's sound can keep its lustre and poise over the band's most challenging time-signatures.

This week's new live music 2011

His original goal was not only to work with Lambert, whose early recordings had impressed Mr. Hendricks, but also to meet Davis, since he had already written words to one of the trumpeter's compositions.

Lyrics for Miles and Monk Will Friedwald 2011

True, the title track here vaguely suggests one of the trumpeter's free-form funk mixes, and "Wayne's Thang" might be a nod to Miles-ite Wayne Shorter's fusion period pieces of the same era.

Comebacks and Co-Conspirators Will Friedwald 2010

"Louis Prima in Person" could be a documentary in itself, since it covers virtually the trumpeter's entire career, from his New Orleans Gang, which helped make New York's 52nd Street the main drag for jazz in the early swing era, to the Witnesses, which co-starred singer Keely Smith the leader's fourth wife and tenor saxophonist Sam Butera, and helped make Las Vegas into a national destination for the first time.

Both Leading Man and Comic Relief Will Friedwald 2011

I haven't yet read Mr. Williams's study of the great jazz trumpeter's best-known album, and to be perfectly honest, I doubt I'm going to do so.

Too Much of a Great Thing 2010

But from the octave-leaping trumpeter's opening fanfare, to episodes of dark electronic impressionism, Miles Davis-like fusion, smoky sax playing and the cannily constructed postbop feature that formed the epilogue, it was a Douglas enterprise of characteristic freshness and invention.

Dave Douglas/Gary Lucas – review John Fordham 2010

As Neil Spencer revealed in his interview with Davis's new partner of that time, the model and singer Betty Mabry, the trumpeter's musical transformation, influenced by Mabry, was soon to move into overdrive from these toe-in-the-water beginnings.

Great moments in jazz: How Miles Davis plugged in and transformed jazz...all over again 2010

Pianist Bruce Barth spins his solo off the end of the trumpeter's, improvising on a theme handed off to him.

Drummer Dana Hall Goes 'Into The Light' 2010