# CD review: Carl Saunders – Carl Saunders, Jazz Trumpet 2020: Video, CD cover

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2020/02/19/cd-review-carl-saunders-carl-saunders-jazz-trumpet-2020-video-cd-cover/
- Published: 2020-02-19T19:11:54+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**‘Carl Saunders, Jazz Trumpet’ is a blend of Jazz standards, American songbook 
standards and originals which could be referred to as future ‘New Jazz Standards’
featuring the great and legendary Joe Labarbera on drums, the great and legendary
bassist Chuck Berghofer and the young, new and brilliant pianist Josh Nelson. **

Carl Saunders is widely recognized as one of the greatest jazz trumpet players in
the world but it often surprises people to find that he is also a prolific composer
who has written hundreds of original compositions. Saunders began as a young man
in 1961-62 on the road with Stan Kenton. After spending part of 1962-63 traveling
with Bobby Sherwood’s group (playing drums), Carl settled back in Las Vegas where
during the next 20 years he played with a countless number of show bands, including
lead trumpet with Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennet, and Frank Sinatra. Saunders also
traveled as a lead player with Paul Anka and Robert Goulet and with such bandleaders
as Si Zentner, Harry James, Maynard Ferguson and Benny Goodman. He was soon playing
lead trumpet with Bill Holman’s Orchestra. Saunders has also worked with John Williams
and the big bands of Bob Florence, Johnny Mandel, Gerald Wilson, and the Phil Norman
Tentet. Nelson has performed with some of the most respected names in jazz, including
Kurt Elling, John Pizzarelli, Benny Golson, John Clayton and Peter Erskine. Berghofer’s
incredible career includes recording with Nancy Sinatra in ‘These Boots Are Made
For Walkin’. He also recorded with Frank Sinatra many others. Performer on hundreds
of recording, LaBarbera is best known for his recordings and live performances with
the trio of pianist Bill Evans in the final years of Evans’s career.

01. Recordame
 02. All The Things You Are 03. Say What 04. Sail Away 05. I Thought
About You 06. Flim Flam 07. Patience 08. Cherokee 09. Tofu or Not Tofu 10. Dusk 
and Dawn 11. Pick Yourself Up 12. Walking on Air

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