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A.N.A.Mendez Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 7:19 pm Post subject: Best movie trumpeter? |
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What was the best trumpet player role in movies and why? _________________ "There is no necessity for deadly strife" A. Lincoln 1860
☛ "No matter how cynical you get, it's never enough to keep up" Lily Tomlin☚ |
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MarkZ Heavyweight Member
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It may be yet to come: Don Cheadle playing Miles in a biopic. Herbie Hancock doing the score. It's been in the works for years. |
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nyctrumpeter Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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Isn't there a movie about Arturo with Andy Garcia? Also, Mo Better Blues with Denzel! |
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jhahntpt Heavyweight Member
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all of the little trumpet lines in Anchorman are phenomenal, does anyone know who played them? _________________ Bb: Yamaha 9335NY Gen3
Bb: Yamaha 8310Z
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Flugel: Yamaha 8315G
Cornet: York Eminence |
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dbacon Heavyweight Member
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Timo Regular Member
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Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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Hi!
Alan Rubin as Mr. Fabulous in the Blues Brothers! Very Funny!
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jat Regular Member
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Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 10:46 pm Post subject: |
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Warren Vache certainly comes to mind, but I'm chiming in because I can think of a really great one that doesn't seem to be very well known. Forest Whitaker plays a trumpet player in the very enjoyable movie (made by Showtime, 20 years ago?) LUSHLIFE. Also Jeff Goldblum is very convincing as his tenor-player friend. I remember being floored by the fantastic playing in this film, especially the trumpet player. Turned out to be the great Chuck Findley.
Great cameos (Jack Sheldon, off the top of my head). I think the tenor player was Gordon Brisker? I have a few friends that appear in this film (a bunch of musicians were used for things like a big band at a house party, if I remember correctly).
I remember this one sort of hit home a bit as it was a much more accurate portrayal of a freelance player's existence (in NY or maybe LA) than I had seen in other films. I enjoyed Mo Better Blues, but it had the Spike Lee element (which I enjoy) of taking place in a fantasy world (where a guy lives upstairs from his regular nightly gig in an elegant jazz club where both sets are sold out night after night after night, he makes tons of money, has beautiful women stalking him, etc...). I liked that movie, but somehow Denzel's daily life didn't seem as familiar to me... |
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A.N.A.Mendez Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 1:52 am Post subject: |
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Best ROLE for a trumpet player.....
You would like the part if you were the guy......... _________________ "There is no necessity for deadly strife" A. Lincoln 1860
☛ "No matter how cynical you get, it's never enough to keep up" Lily Tomlin☚ |
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jhatpro Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 4:48 am Post subject: |
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For me it has to be Montgomery Clift as Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt in "From Here to Eternity" (1953). True, he only played a bugle and (thanks to Mannie Klein) got notes from it no bugler has before or since, but, hey, what a performance! _________________ Jim Hatfield
"The notes are there - find them.” Mingus
2021 Martinus Geelan Custom
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1965 Getzen Eterna Severinsen
1946 Conn Victor
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1986 Bach 181 cornet
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ohiotpt Heavyweight Member
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Trptbenge Heavyweight Member
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Rafael Mendez was in several movies including "The Cowboys" with Jack Lemon - his only western and it wasn't a comedy. Mendez was playing in a cantina and you hear him playing as the cowboys ride up.
Mike _________________ It's the sound that makes the difference! |
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A.N.A.Mendez Heavyweight Member
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I guess I am too simple in desires....
It was Johnny Murphy (Joey 'The Lips' Fagan) - trumpet in
He got ALL the girls...ALL OF THEM!
Harry is smilin'
_________________ "There is no necessity for deadly strife" A. Lincoln 1860
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jhatpro Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 5:30 am Post subject: |
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Here's the scene I remember because it was so corny, so impossible, yet somehow so cool that for years I fantasized myself picking up a horn and playing it like that to the amazement of all:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmhF3J8BsIg _________________ Jim Hatfield
"The notes are there - find them.” Mingus
2021 Martinus Geelan Custom
2005 Bach 180-72R
1965 Getzen Eterna Severinsen
1946 Conn Victor
1998 Scodwell flugel
1986 Bach 181 cornet
1954 Conn 80A cornet
2002 Getzen bugle |
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Mikeytrpt Heavyweight Member
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Yeah, being able to hit all those notes without valves...I guess Hollyweird figured nobody would be able to tell?
One of the best scenes in that movie is when he is playing taps after Sgt Fatso killed Maggio. Anybody know who actually played Taps? I heard one time it was Manny Klein, but I'm not sure. |
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A.N.A.Mendez Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 6:00 am Post subject: |
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I think it was Harry.... _________________ "There is no necessity for deadly strife" A. Lincoln 1860
☛ "No matter how cynical you get, it's never enough to keep up" Lily Tomlin☚ |
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jhatpro Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 7:14 am Post subject: |
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Mannie Klein. He's listed in the IMDB as "uncredited musician." Aren't we all? _________________ Jim Hatfield
"The notes are there - find them.” Mingus
2021 Martinus Geelan Custom
2005 Bach 180-72R
1965 Getzen Eterna Severinsen
1946 Conn Victor
1998 Scodwell flugel
1986 Bach 181 cornet
1954 Conn 80A cornet
2002 Getzen bugle |
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EdMann Heavyweight Member
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Sammy Davis, Jr. playing high notes on stage, then passing out. I think Brisbois did the tracks (but Davis did the passing out)
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