A truly great jazz trumpeter; quite handy with the classical repertoire too. He's The Face of Jazz, and a Bad Thing, in that his revisionist view consigns nearly all post-50's innovation to the outhouse of Not Jazz. Wynton's the embodiment of the truism that "history is written by the victors"; his total embrace of the old school impoverishes his mature works. It's still worth a listen; I just prefer the stuff he did before he nailed himself to the Jazz Soapbox.