Rated the #1 Jazz Club in New York City (Secret NYC), Smoke Jazz Club presents some of today’s top trumpeters and saxophonists to the stage during November. The month begins with the return of three ...

“You have to go back. We are all standing on the shoulders of giants." The World of Jazz Trumpet: a Comprehensive History and Practical Application (Hal Leonard) is a first-of-its-kind: The first look ...

HU Presents has partnered with Jazz at Lincoln Center Presents to bring the show “Sing & Swing: Our American Songbook” to Harrisburg. The show features trumpeters and vocalists Bria Skonberg and Pa.

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Chris Griffin, 89, one of finest trumpeters of the Big Band era and best known for his work with Benny Goodman, died of melanoma June 18 in Danbury, Conn. Through the latter half of the 1930s, Goodman ...

Multitasking is an art form for Ivan Trujillo whether he is in San Diego, his hometown of Ensenada, performing at England’s famed Glastonbury festival or some point in between. A tireless trumpeter, ...

When coronavirus descended on Chicago, Marques Carroll made himself a promise. If the pandemic was the end of live music as we knew it, he was going “to go out swinging.” The trumpeter, 47, has been a ...

Some trumpeters aim to blow you away with their imposing technique; Miles drew the listener in. The performer, who died March 8, specialized in genre-blurring jazz that mixed old and new sounds. This ...

Students surround Ambrose Akinmusire (third from left) and Yakiv Tsvietinskyi (middle with trumpet). Credit: Provided, Spoleto Festival USA. Yakiv Tsvietinskyi remembers having a friend hand him ...

Lionel Ferbos, a trumpeter and icon of New Orleans’ traditional jazz scene who was hailed as the city’s oldest active musician and gained international attention for performing well past the century ...

Lex Futshane, the South African bass player in the 1992 student band NU Jazz Connection, was the first to tell me that the great South African jazz trumpeter Feya Faku had died while touring ...

This is FRESH AIR. Our jazz critic Kevin Whitehead has a remembrance of trumpet player Ron Miles. He died at age 58 at home in Denver on March 8. Miles had recorded with such leaders as guitarist Bill ...