Top Jazz Trumpet Players -- according to "Digital Dream Door"

There is a site called, "digitaldreamdoor.com" that has various and sundry lists of "top 100's" - rock and roll, jazz, blues, etc., etc., etc.

Here are the top 50 of the top 100 jazz trumpet players. Check how many YOU recognize, what you agree or disagree with -- and do some additional research.

Please report back -- there will NOT be a quiz.

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1. Louis Armstrong
2. Miles Davis
3. Dizzy Gillespie
4. Clifford Brown
5. Lee Morgan
6. Roy Eldridge
7. Freddie Hubbard
8. Donald Byrd
9. Bix Biederbecke
10. Fats Navarro
11. Harry James
12. Wynton Marsalis
13. Art Farmer
14. Chet Baker
15. Roy Hargrove
16. Arturo Sandoval
17. Blue Mitchell
18. Maynard Ferguson
19. Kenny Dorham
20. Al Hirt
21. Joe 'King' Oliver
22. Woody Shaw
23. Don Cherry
24. Don Ellis
25. Doc Severinsen
26. Randy Brecker
27. Nicholas Payton
28. Thad Jones
29. Clark Terry
30. Chuck Mangione
31. Louis Prima
32. Lester Bowie
33. Nat Adderley
34. Harry 'Sweets' Edison
35. Joe Newman
36. Rick Braun
37. Russell Gunn
38. Bill Chase
39. Kenny Wheeler
40. Henry 'Red' Allen
41. Hugh Masekela
42. Herb Alpert
43. Tommy Turrentine
44. Quincy Jones
45. Charles 'Buddy' Bolden
46. Bobby Shew
47. Mugsy Spanier
48. Terence Blanchard
49. Wallace Roney
50. Jay Roulston

I would reverse Miles and Dizzy, Put Blue Mitchell up to 10, make Kenny Dorham 12, drop Chuck Mangione to 38, and lift Tommy turrentine to 37 -- and that's just off the very tippy-top of my head. Oh yeah, make Wynton 11, and drop Harry James (and his vibrato) to 36. Have at it.

Addendum: I believe both Jon Faddis and Doc Cheatam should be higher rated, Muggsy Spanier lower, Billy Butterfield much higher, along with both Buck Clayton and Rex Stewart.

See how difficult this can be. It's splitting hairs between 20 and 35, or 36 and 45. Anyway, perhaps "the BEST" is the guy that moves you on one particular occasion -- that unforgettable solo or performance. For me it's Kenny Dorham on trumpet, Ed Thigpen on drums (though Blakey is close), and Bird on alto.

I'm not saying they are all "the best ever" (Bird, however, is), but the performers that moved me beyond words on a specific occasion.

Opinions please.