Performing was predestined for Tom "TomCat Trumpet" Burke. Growing up around musicians and the touring lifestyle as the son of a Broadway musician, Burke spent his early years moving around the ...

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.

How the hell he went from New York to Alberta is probably an interesting story in itself. I’ll bet it had something to do with a rogue element of the RCMP and the elite group of Jazz artists who ...

“I like the unknown,” Avishai Cohen told me over the phone. The trumpet player was at home in Tel Aviv, taking a break from touring to spend time with his family and write. (His young son, playing ...

One could argue that the piano is the backbone of jazz music, or the saxophone, for that matter. Names such as Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane have certainly achieved household status. But have ...

Kenny Dorham was once 10 feet tall, lean and healthy. In Miles Davis’ autobiography, one of the mightiest forces in music, let alone jazz, recounts a 1956 winter date at Cafe Bohemia, a onetime ...

The University’s five small jazz groups performed for students, faculty and families in Old Cabell Hall Sunday night ...

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 ...

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 ...