Looking for a Trumpet Player

How about "In the Mood" (Glen Miller)?

ETA: Oh! And welcome to AW!

What era of jazz? 20's 30's 40's 50's or later?

Chet Baker made My Funny Valentine famous. Maybe that would work?

Look up the song stardust.

It's kind of a ballad but was very popular back in the day.

For a casual player, solo, I'd say something like Basin Street Blues. It's a famous tune.

When the saints go marching in?

Or is that more for a saxophone?

I don't know if you still need info on this but...
I played Trumpet in High School & for many years afterwards.
I agree with Barb D on the Glenn Miller tune 'In the Mood' I played it warming up and just plain goofing off.
It would also depend on the era as hammerklavier mentioned. I was in high school in the 70's so a lot of my jazz came from the likes of Herb Alpert, Al Hirt, Bill Chase, Doc Severinson, Chuck Mangione (not a Trumpet - he played the fluglehorn - but really great jazz) and last but certainly not least - the tumpet GOD of the 70's Maynard Ferguson.
If you need more, such as tune names or just general info - let me know.

Adrian

kdbeaar said:

Hello, all. Welcome to my first-ever post!--although I've been lurking here for a few weeks now. What an amazing site; I'm so happy I found it.

I'm hoping there's a trumpet player out there who can answer a question for me. I need the name of a song--any song--a casual trumpet player might play when just fooling around at home, for his own enjoyment. Kind of a jazzy number, not part of a symphony or anything. Just a fun thing to play for relaxation. If it has a 'tricky' section--so much the better.

Thanks for your help!

Karen

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I'm a trumpet player. I was quite serious from childhood through college, but now my trumpet rarely leaves its case.

However, when I do pull it out, I always play Summertime (Gershwin) -- low level of difficulty, as part of my warm up. And I also always end up playing Carnival of Venice -- very high level of difficulty in some of the movements.

And Flight of the Bumblebee is fun, too -- medium difficulty.

Smish