Traditional / popular music is full of beautiful simple songs that are familiar to listen to. They offer us a "postcard" of the part of the world they come from, they make us imagine landscapes, ...

When Barry Perkins puts a trumpet to his lips, instrument and man meld into one and the notes fill your soul. If that sounds like hyperbole, you haven’t heard Perkins play. Or more likely you have – ...

THERE never will be a brassier wedding than this in the land of the Quad-Cities. Tonight, there may be a hundred horns trumpeting congrats into the darkness at one time or another … six horns alone ...