Trumpet Players to listen to (and what to listen for)

Miles Davis: tone, space, and exploring different musical eras.
All Blues
Freddie Freeloader

Chet Baker: smooth, lyrical, and soft tone. Singing is so musical!
I Fall In Love Too Easily
My Funny valentine

Roy Hargrove: mastery, warm sound, great bebop lines, and work with hip-hop/jazz.
I remember Clifford (flugelhorn)
You Go To My Head (flugelhorn)
Mister Magic

Dizzy Gillespie: bebop (jazz) , speed, and technical mastery.
Manteca, I Can't Get Started
Salt Peanuts

Wynton Marsalis: incredible technical skill in both jazz and classical music.
Fantaisie and Variations - Carnival of Venice
Embraceable You
Braggin' In Brass

Clifford Brown: melodic playing, clean articulation, and joyful sound.

Freddie Hubbard: what can I say, everything.
Cantelope Island
Red Clay

Sergei Nakariakov: "The Paganini of the trumpet," unmatched speed and technique.
Haydn, Joseph - Trumpet Concerto
Collection

Tine Thing Helseth A fantastic contemporary classical player known for her beautiful, lyrical phrasing.
Libertango
Fanfare - with transcription
Fanfare - better quality
he Tine Thing Helseth Quintet (Chester Festival 2012)

Allen Vizzutti: A virtuoso who demonstrates incredible range and technical capacity.
Fire Dance
Carnival of Venus

Maurice Andre Most reknowned trumnpet player.
Haydn trumpet concerto allegro
Ave Maria

Alison Balsom: Exquisite tone and musicality, melodic phrasing.
'Haydn Trumpet Concerto in Eb, 1st mov.' (Allegro)
"Allison Balsom collection' (Allegro)

Contemporary

Rick Braun:
Silk
Get Up and Dance
Body and Soul

Ingrid Jensen: An underrated, highly creative contemporary jazz player.
Infinitude: Margareta
Sight Unseen

Summer Camargo: a 22-year-old phenomenon from Fort Lauderdale with a multi-faceted jazz and classical background.
JP Shuffle
an average summer night in tunisia
with Arturo Sandoval at Birdland

Wayne Bergeron: Premier lead trumpet player, great for high-range and big band listening.
INCREDIBLES 2
Big Phat Band trumpet section (omg)
PJO feat. Wayne Bergeron "Wayn-ology
MAYNARD & WAYNARD - (with Arturo Sandoval)

Ambrose Akinmusire: Represents the modern, experimental edge of jazz trumpet.
Playlist

Arturo Sandoval: Known as a trumpet god.
A Night in Tunisi
Claudia (flugelhorn)

Andrea Giuffredi: tone, phrasing, technique
Play With Me "Collection
Morricone in Beijing