“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 ...

Skylar Tang is living her best life. In her first year at Juilliard, the Foster-City-raised jazz trumpeter wasted no time in ...

Tito Carrillo is one of the finest trumpeters to emerge from Chicago’s rich jazz trumpet legacy. He is an accomplished trumpeter, educator, bandleader, and composer, and since 1996 he has been a ...

eyoncé and Lizzo have each released acclaimed albums this summer that have dominated the charts and streaming services and re-centered the musical spotlight on Black women. That’s not the only thing ...

Jazz trumpeter and singer Jack Sheldon has died. He was a fixture on the Merv Griffin Show and sang "Conjunction Junction" and "I'm Just a Bill" for Schoolhouse Rock. Jack Sheldon died last Friday at ...

One day years ago, jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis was hanging with Willie Nelson and Ray Charles when the two older musicians started to talk about their long and diverse careers. “Ray, you know, you ...

At 91, jazz cornetist Jack Fine thought his rambling days were done. As he tells it, he was a cop in New York and a musician in Paris. He survived three plane crashes and ran a mob-connected club in ...

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Had she been a singer, she might have been an American star. Had she been a piano player, record labels might have lined up to sign her. But Clora Bryant played the trumpet and attention came slowly, ...

On Friday night, the Rutgers Jazz Ensemble I and special guest trumpeter Jeremy Pelt paid tribute to one of the greatest jazz ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jack Sheldon, a jazz trumpeter who had a career as a TV performer in the 1960s and ’70s and sang classic “Schoolhouse Rock” tunes, ...