The type of jazz made by St. Louis-based Cornet Chop Suey is not something casual audiences may be familiar with. The band specializes in traditional jazz, including Dixieland, bebop, some gospel and ...

No surprise that filmmakers want to feature trumpet players in their films. After all, we are a complicated, sometimes volatile and, ahem, sexy cohort. Let's analyze how well filmmakers pull off the ...

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, ...