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Historically, pianists played chords or arpeggios with their right hand. This can be clearly heard in ragtime and early Jazz pianists who largely just played syncopated patterns around chord tones.

Then in the 1920’s a pianists called Earl Hines, who is now known as the Father of Modern Jazz Piano, rather than simply playing chordal patterns started playing more direct and linear melody lines. He called it ‘trumpet-style’ because he was intentionally imitating how a trumpet might improvise. He played single melody lines (sometimes doubling them with an octave) and created a hornlike improvisation on piano.

This was considered much more ‘modern’ than playing chordal based patterns, but that doesn’t mean that you should completely neglect chordal piano soloing. In fact, all the great Jazz pianists are able to improvise both using this trumpet-like single melody line approach, and using a chordal approach.

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