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Also Known As trompete • trompette

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Illustration of wind instruments grouped by type, showing woodwinds-tenor saxophone, clarinet, flute, oboe, bassoon-and brass instruments-horn, trumpet, trombone, and tuba.
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Louis Armstrong
American musician
Miles Davis
Miles Davis
American musician
Herb Alpert stands outdoors by a tree, holding a trumpet and looking at the camera, with house windows and greenery in the background.
Herb Alpert
American musician and recording executive
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Freddie Hubbard
American musician
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Wynton Marsalis
American musician
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Don Cherry
American musician
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Doc Cheatham
American musician
Harry James in the early 1940s.
Harry James
American musician
Dizzy Gillespie, 1955.
Dizzy Gillespie
American musician
Chet Baker, wearing a suit and hat, holds a trumpet and looks to the side in this black-and-white photo.
Chet Baker
American musician and vocalist
Hugh Masekela
Hugh Masekela
South African musician
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Tom Harrell
American musician
Benny Carter
Benny Carter
American musician
Roy Eldridge
Roy Eldridge
American musician
Humphrey Lyttelton, on the cover of the album Jazz Concert, released by Parlophone in 1953.
Humphrey Lyttelton
British musician
Lee Morgan
Lee Morgan
American musician
Cootie Williams
Cootie Williams
American musician
Bunk Johnson
Bunk Johnson
American musician
Clifford Brown.
Clifford Brown
American musician
Buck Clayton
Buck Clayton
American musician

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