Blue Note Records: Trumpeters

The trumpet is a compass needle for jazz, and this compilation is the map of a long, strange journey, one that begins in the topographical complexities of the bebop era and continues outward at speed. The players on Blue Note's legendary roster may be cool, hard, free, or straight, but each of their probing blasts is a battle between the new music's strict finesse and the eternal raw insolence of the horn.