I too am a trumpet player. I have been studying for around 8 years now. I've only been playing jazz (and recently fairly infrequently) for the past 2 or 3. I will start the jazz trumpeter list with some obvious greats of the first several decades of jazz.
Louis Armstrong
Dizzy Gillespie
Miles Davis
Clifford Brown
Booker Little
Freddie Hubbard
Lee Morgan
Blue Mitchell
Nat Adderley (cornet)
Clark Terry
Don Cherry
Donald Byrd
Fats Navarro
EDIT: The list got started while I was typing mine. Eek.
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