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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“The Festival of New Trumpet Music has become a contender among New York's jazz-concert series"--Ben Ratliff, The New York Times FONT Music 2006: OPENING WEEKEND - 9/15-17 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 8-12 ...

She's known on the gospel circuit as "The Trumpet Lady," but Syreeta Thompson is much more than that. She's toured and worked with Beyoncé and Tito Puente, and her circle of friends and mentors ...

Khalil Shaheed, a trumpet player who served as one of the Bay Area's most prominent jazz music educators and performed for several years with the drummer Buddy Miles, died Friday in Oakland. He was 63 ...

Ted Curson, a celebrated jazz trumpeter who collaborated with many of the greats of the genre, died of a heart attack in his Montclair home on Sunday. He was 77. was a regular at New Jersey jazz clubs ...

"In New Orleans music, trumpet is king. [There's] something about the sound of the trumpet — its expressiveness, its sort of regal quality. There may be no tighter bond linking a city and a musical ...