Then try this on for size. And it's a great merger of both Jazz and Classical. Stan Kenton's Neophonic Orchestra.

https://youtu.be/O8Jw4PPmYos?list=OLAK5uy_kq-WQKXaHFoAIRz_W8vOi2xYcIrf_Uzkk

Improvisation, and improvisational techniques, some even the same, predate jazz. There's a long pre-jazz tradition of that.

I think the observation that there is jazz music that contains classical elements, and classical music that contains jazz, and some music where these are so subtly merged that one can't tell the difference, is a good topic for conversation. I gave my initial response. Are there others?

SSmith - I don't know the point of your post. Can you simplify it?
p.s. the link for the second video gives a Certs Breath Mint commercial. What should I be listening for?

I don't know why you even mention Jazz in the title. To me it's pure Beethoven, with the caveat that he probably wouldn't have used the original theme to Old McDonald, in the first place. To me there's nothing brilliant about it, just a good pianist who knows his Beethoven.

A really good blending of classical and jazz, is Ellington's Nutcracker Suite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MihqGJ4PkY&list=PL23E30BC70ADF96F3

An interesting piece that is jazz but which uses classical forms is Lalo Schifrin's Marquis de Sade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtcuGQ6t9d4&list=PL6hWIWnhIQgvkfSx5R2r9g8kSLKMdSVfa

Here's a great example of a Jazz composer writing in the classical mode, but not completely. Beautiful writing and singing/playing. Maria keeps her music closely guarded, so this is a promo instead of the full recording.

Here's an interview from Maria regarding classical and jazz.

Then, there's Cecil Taylor, a guy with a deep jazz history yet morphed into a technique that incorporates contemporary-music techniques.

Not dodging the answer, but wouldn't this be a topic for another thread, both to narrow content and to call attention it, rather than burying it in a thread with a title that some people, by now, wouldn't even open?

@ROWUK said in New Player has entered the Game:

@IrishTrumpeter
My son lives and works near Cork. If Covid settles down, I may visit this year.

Getting a Jones for some Guinness.

In answering your question about the difference between piston and rotary trumpets, my answer is based on practicality. In Ireland the horns with pistons are the norm. IMO, in any place, whatever they use is what you want and the other styled horn would be for specific reasons and not for universal use. In the U.K. you want a piston-valved horn. If you eventually want to play in an amateur group, consider the following.

British styled brass bands are popular throughout the U.K. and Ireland and they use, primarily, cornets, although these bands may have small trumpet sections. If you are going to be playing in pop, or big bands, you want trumpet. Orchestras use trumpets predominantly. By that I mean symphony orchestras with strings.

But for your basic local amateur orchestra, I would just take a trip over to them and see what they are using, and ask the director if he has a preference.

@ROWUK said in Do You Prefer Classical, Jazz, Rock or Other?:
I have no specific preference, it just has to be artistically rewarding. . ".

Like Duke said, "There are only two kinds of music, good and bad."

I might add that I have often heard measures two and three played as dotted eight-sixteenth notes and not straight eights. Caution.