Featuring a compilation of concepts and approaches of many of the finest trumpet players and teachers including Arban, Clarke, Schlossberg, and Caruso. Besides the many exercises, this book also includes concise thought and instruction on topics such as: the warm up, the practice session, rehearsal and performance, warming down, the value of repetition, timing, pre-hearing the sound, breath support, inhalation, exhalation, the tongue, the embouchure, fingers, extreme registers, equipment, musical demands, developing the jazz language, and criteria for evaluating a jazz solo. Get your jazz scales in your ears and under your fingers!