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Article: Culture: Trumpet treat for jazz lovers; Peter Bacon's Jazz Diary.(Features)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- March 31, 2004
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Byline: Peter Bacon
They are jazz's SAS troops, lovers of danger, the most exposed, the most vulnerable, often the biggest risktakers, usually the nerviest, though seldom nervous. Trumpeters are an edgy lot, as anyone who has studied Guy Barker's on-stage mannerisms for long will understand.
Some of them, like the myth-laden first man of jazz Buddy Bolden, are on the edge of sanity; others, like Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie, hide the tension behind a joker's persona.
Some, like Miles and Kenny Wheeler, are quiet and intense.
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