First Quote by Frankie Avalon

My father was incredible on trumpet and played with the likes of Duke Ellington and Count Basie.

— Jeffrey Osborne

A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.

— David Amram

Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty…

— Chuck Mangione

I started off with the flute and French horn, and then I was playing trumpet in the jazz band.

— KiKi Layne

I played trumpet in school at an early age.

— Michael Anthony

My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations.…

— Pat Metheny

Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.

— Herb Alpert

I wound up signing to RCA Victor as a trumpeter, guesting on shows like Jackie Gleason's Honeymooners.

— Frankie Avalon

I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

I have a classical music background. I studied violin and trumpet.

— Johnny Flynn

A very few musicians passed across all decades. In terms of trumpet playing, Louis Armstrong does it of course but Sweets [Edison] is right…

— Freddie Hubbard

I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging…

— Elton John