Musician Marty Ehrlich doesn't play much on his new album; instead, he conducts an ensemble that performs his compositions. He tells Fresh Air about his first album devoted to his orchestral music.
The trumpet was the lead instrument in early jazz: it is the loudest solo instrument, the natural leader of a group of individuals, if you will. So, early trumpet pioneer Buddy Bolden (there is a ...
Sean Applebee never considered playing the trumpet until the Mountain Ridge Middle School jazz band inspired him to start. “I loved the energy of jazz and picked up the trumpet so I could play in the ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Listen to Louis Armstrong’s sweetness, Miles Davis’s wild squall, Handel’s Baroque majesty and other favorites. In the past we’ve chosen the five ...
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 ...
From the half-shell bandstand on the lip of Lake Eola or the fountain-affixed lobby of the Peabody Orlando, his trumpet roared and purred. For Benjamin Louis Smalley, mastery of the instrument was not ...
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Trumpet player Takuya Kuroda on the New York jazz scene and his genre-blending style
Currently touring Europe, jazz musician and trumpet player Takuya Kuroda sits down with FRANCE 24 to speak about his ...
Mouth Trumpet, a vocal technique first made popular during the Jazz Age, using the lips to imitate the sound of a trumpet, is seeing an unexpected revival. Photo: Courtesy of Victoria Vox ...
Jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, who played with legends such as John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, McCoy Tyner, Art Blakey and Herbie Hancock, died Monday. By Jonathan Cohen, Billboard, The Associated ...
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