Jazz trumpet is practically an art form unto itself, with a richness in terms of its greatest soloists that is hard to match. Some have even argued for it being the "classiest," most sophisticated ...

The Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist returned to the trumpet, for a new record featuring Nick Cave, Thom Yorke and a core cast of contemporary jazz luminaries.

“You have to go back. We are all standing on the shoulders of giants." The World of Jazz Trumpet: a Comprehensive History and Practical Application (Hal Leonard) is a first-of-its-kind: The first look ...

When coronavirus descended on Chicago, Marques Carroll made himself a promise. If the pandemic was the end of live music as we knew it, he was going “to go out swinging.” The trumpeter, 47, has been a ...

Although Jim Oatts is an inductee of the Iowa Rock ’n’ Roll Music Association Hall of Fame, he will come to Topeka this weekend to play trumpet with the Topeka Jazz Workshop Band to kick off the 47th ...

The sounds of jazz filled Kutztown Area Middle School during. “Students, families, and community members come together over a ...

In the shady half of a brick courtyard along Frenchmen Street, the Trumpet Mafia has convened. On the eve of the band’s first public performance, an October 23 show at Tulane University as part of the ...

Trumpeter Paul Smoker, a blunt-spoken champion of jazz who stubbornly played on for the last years of his life with the aid of an artificial heart, died Saturday afternoon at his home in Bushnell’s ...

She's known on the gospel circuit as "The Trumpet Lady," but Syreeta Thompson is much more than that. She's toured and worked with Beyoncé and Tito Puente, and her circle of friends and mentors ...