During a recent Nat Adderly listening session, I thought “Why play this style on cornet and not trumpet?" I was thinking of the cliched perception of the cornet, as personified by cornet greats Oliver ...

Traditional jazz will be the cornerstone of a new concert series at Loyola University honoring cornet player Connie Jones and his wife, Elaine. The Connie Jones Legacy Band, an ensemble of players who ...

Ruby Braff began his jazz career as an out-of-time traditionalist playing with veteran jazzmen of an earlier age, and rose to establish his own standing as one of the handful of leading artists ...

Cornetist Jack Fine, who moved to New Orleans late in life and became an elder statesman of the Frenchmen Street jazz scene, died at Touro Infirmary on July 16. He was 92. With an especially sweet ...

Ron Miles, Brian Blade, and Bill Frisell (left to right). The music of Ron Miles, the Denver cornet player, is rooted in jazz, but he’s just as comfortable playing a song by Hank Williams as he is ...

In the music biz, friendships are often formed between two musicians when they have enormous respect for the other's talent. That's much the case with noted jazz double-bassist and composer Brian Q.

The building has been boarded up and has many signs of disrepair. Legend has it that the stoop is where Jazz music began when Bolden was kicked out of the house for playing too loud with his cornet, ...

The Cornet Chop Suey Jazz Band will perform at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, May 15, at the Neville Center for the Performing Arts, Fifth and Bailey. This is the last concert of the 2014-15 series sponsored by ...