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The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BC. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound that starts a standing wave vibration in the air column inside the instrument. Since the late 15th century they have primarily been constructed of brass tubing, usually bent twice into a rounded oblong shape.
There are several types of trumpet; the most common is a transposing instrument pitched in B♭ with a tubing length of about 148 cm. Earlier trumpets did not have valves, but modern instruments generally have either three piston valves or, more rarely, three rotary valves. Each valve increases the length of tubing when engaged, thereby lowering the pitch.
A musician who plays the trumpet is called a trumpet player or trumpeter.
The earliest trumpets date back to 1500 BC and earlier. The bronze and silver trumpets from Tutankhamun's grave in Egypt, bronze lurs from Scandinavia, and metal trumpets from China date back to this period. Trumpets from the Oxus civilization (3rd millennium BC) of Central Asia have decorated swellings in the middle, yet are made out of one sheet of metal, which is considered a technical wonder. The Moche people of ancient Peru depicted trumpets in their art going back to 300 AD. The earliest trumpets were signaling instruments used for military or religious purposes, rather than music in the modern sense; and the modern bugle continues this signaling tradition.
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and big-band leader. Ellington wrote over 1,000 compositions. In the opinion of Bob Blumenthal of The Boston Globe "In the century since his birth, there has been no greater composer, American or otherwise, than Edward Kennedy Ellington." A major figure in the history of jazz, Ellington's music stretched into various other genres, including blues, gospel, film scores, popular, and classical. His career spanned more than 50 years and included leading his orchestra, composing an inexhaustible songbook, scoring for movies, composing stage musicals, and world tours. Several of his instrumental works were adapted into songs that became standards. Due to his inventive use of the orchestra, or big band, and thanks to his eloquence and extraordinary charisma, he is generally considered to have elevated the perception of jazz to an art form on a par with other traditional genres of music. His reputation increased after his death and the Pulitzer Prize Board bestowed on him a special posthumous honor in 1999.
Actors: Devin Dehaven (producer), Allyson Vecchione (miscellaneous crew), Ed Martinez (miscellaneous crew), Evan Haiman (producer), Domenic J. Cotter (producer), Ray Volkema (editor), Devin Dehaven (director), Lucia McCalmont (producer), Chris Markwell (producer), Beth Klepper (producer), James Kruger (miscellaneous crew), Anthony Hamilton (actor), Cynthia Velazquez (miscellaneous crew), Jorge Corona (miscellaneous crew), Booker T. Jones (actor),
Genres: Music,Actors: Eric Tuchelske (actor), Joshua Amir (producer), Joshua Amir (writer), Joshua Amir (director), Karen Minard (actress), Hayley Stahl (producer), Tim Oestreich (actor), Lisa Sodman Elzinga (actress), Brynn Alexander (actress), Kyle Rich (actor), Laurie Dean-Amir (actress), Lanny Foster (actor), Randy Dean (actress), Henry Nelson (actor), Tara L. Drummond (actress),
Genres: Drama, Romance, Short,Actors: Daniel E. Catullo (producer), Lawrence Jordan (director), Guy Harding (editor), Shelli Fitzgerald (miscellaneous crew), Jack Gulick (producer), J.W. Griffith (miscellaneous crew), Chris Lovett (editor), Tilton Gardner (producer), Tilton Gardner (miscellaneous crew), Madelyn Catullo (miscellaneous crew), Madelyn Catullo (miscellaneous crew), Robert McClaugherty (miscellaneous crew), Susan Applegate (producer), Robert McClaugherty (producer), Craig Fruin (producer),
Genres: Music,Actors: Tom Malone (actor), Louie Bellson (actor), Gil Goldstein (actor), Michael Brecker (actor), Tim Landers (actor), Randy Brecker (actor), Herb Geller (actor), André Villeger (actor), Ack Van Rooyan (actor), Benny Baily (actor), Jiggs Whigham (actor), Americo Belotto (actor), Hermann Breuer (actor), Dean Brown (actor), Rudi Fussers (actor),
Plot: The Inventor of the two-bass drum kit is famous for his collaborations with Ellington, Basie, Dorsey, and Goodman bands and his work with Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, and many others. This is superb big-band jazz at its best; a live concert performance, recorded direct from Switzerland in 1983, featuring Randy and Michael Brecker, Herb Geller, Lew Soloff, Howard Johnson, and Benny Baily. Includes Bonus Video of Bellson and Billy Cobham in a "Drum Duel"
Keywords: big-band, character-name-in-title, concert-film, drummer, genius, jazz, live-concertActors: Tom Malone (actor), Louie Bellson (actor), Gil Goldstein (actor), Michael Brecker (actor), Tim Landers (actor), Randy Brecker (actor), Herb Geller (actor), André Villeger (actor), Ack Van Rooyan (actor), Benny Baily (actor), Jiggs Whigham (actor), Americo Belotto (actor), Hermann Breuer (actor), Dean Brown (actor), Rudi Fussers (actor),
Plot: The Inventor of the two-bass drum kit is famous for his collaborations with Ellington, Basie, Dorsey, and Goodman bands and his work with Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, and many others. This is superb big-band jazz at its best; a live concert performance, recorded direct from Switzerland in 1983, featuring Randy and Michael Brecker, Herb Geller, Lew Soloff, Howard Johnson, and Benny Baily. Includes Bonus Video of Bellson and Billy Cobham in a "Drum Duel"
Keywords: big-band, character-name-in-title, concert-film, drummer, genius, jazz, live-concertActors: Micky Dolenz (actor), Davy Jones (actor), Peter Tork (actor), David Fishof (miscellaneous crew), George Xhilone (miscellaneous crew), Kevin Cain (producer), Eric Biondo (actor), Michael A. Joseph (director), David Alexander (actor), David Alexander (actor), Steven Ship (producer), Sandy Gennaro (actor), Jerry Renino (actor), Jerry Renino (actor), Avira Maloney (actress),
Genres: Music,Actors: Eddy Mitchell (actor), Pierre Papadiamandis (composer), Michel Gaucher (actor), Basile Leroux (actor), Alex Perdigon (actor), Evert Verhees (actor), Michel Amsellem (actor), Eric Giausserand (actor), Kurt Rust (actor), Jacques Bessot (actor), Philippe Perathoner (actor),
Genres: Documentary, Music,Actors: Frank Slaten (actor), Stefania Rocca (actress), James Rebhorn (actor), Sergio Rubini (actor), Renato Scarpa (actor), Gwyneth Paltrow (actress), Philip Seymour Hoffman (actor), Gianfranco Barra (actor), Philip Baker Hall (actor), Matt Damon (actor), Jack Davenport (actor), Jude Law (actor), Ivano Marescotti (actor), Sydney Pollack (producer), Cate Blanchett (actress),
Plot: The 1950s. Manhattan lavatory attendant, Tom Ripley, borrows a Princeton jacket to play piano at a garden party. When the wealthy father of a recent Princeton grad chats Tom up, Tom pretends to know the son and is soon offered $1,000 to go to Italy to convince Dickie Greenleaf to return home. In Italy, Tom attaches himself to Dickie and to Marge, Dickie's cultured fiancée, pretending to love jazz and harboring homoerotic hopes as he soaks in luxury. Besides lying, Tom's talents include impressions and forgery, so when the handsome and confident Dickie tires of Tom, dismissing him as a bore, Tom goes to extreme lengths to make Greenleaf's privileges his own.
Keywords: 1950s, affection, american-abroad, american-express, anger, aristocrat, assumed-identity, bank-account, based-on-book, based-on-novelActors: Sally Kirkland (actress), James Keach (actor), Geoffrey Holder (actor), Robert Strauss (actor), Angelo Ross (editor), Avraham Heffner (writer), David Bourla (actor), Louis De Rochemont III (producer), Nicole de Rochemont (miscellaneous crew), Herbert Hartig (actor), Daniel Bourla (writer), Daniel Bourla (director), Richard Thomkins (actor), Jim Blackmore (actor), Jack Schneider (actor),
Plot: Noah, the sole remaining survivor on our planet after a nuclear holocaust, finds himself unable to to accept his unique predicament. To cope with his loneliness, he creates an imaginary companion, then a companion for his companion and finally an entire civilization - a world of illusion in which there is no reality but Noah, no rules but those of the extinct world of his memory - our world.
Keywords: absurdism, allegory, apocalypse, auditory-hallucination, auld-lang-syne, avant-garde, best-friend, betrayal, character-name-in-title, cult-filmActors: Roy Mack (director), Jimmy Dorsey (actor), Jimmy Dorsey (actor), Eton Boys (actor), Freddie Rich (actor), Vera Van (actress), Jack Day (actor), Earl Smith (actor), Charlie Day (actor), Bunny Berigan (actor), Bunny Berigan (actor), Freddie Rich and His Orchestra (actor), Art Gentry (actor),
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Keywords: vitaphone-melody-master