Al Hirt
Al Hirt
Alois Maxwell Hirtwas an American trumpeter and bandleader. He is best remembered for his million-selling recordings of "Java" and the accompanying album Honey in the Horn, and for the theme song to The Green Hornet. His nicknames included "Jumbo" and "The Round Mound of Sound". Colin Escott, an author of musician biographies, wrote that RCA Victor Records, for which Hirt had recorded most of his best-selling recordings and for which he had spent much of his professional recording career, had...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTrumpet Player
Date of Birth7 November 1922
CityNew Orleans, LA
CountryUnited States of America
Al Hirt quotes about
In my opinion, Louis Armstrong is the greatest trumpet stylist of all time and has influenced every trumpet player of his time and long after
I always smoked cigars. I've smoked cigars with everybody in show business.
Rich could play way better than Krupa.
I've been glued to the TV. I am absolutely devastated.
A little bit of this, a little bit of that. I never had any specific style.