Jazz trumpet is practically an art form unto itself, with a richness in terms of its greatest soloists that is hard to match. Some have even argued for it being the "classiest," most sophisticated ...

If you think Trumpet’s ears are big, get a load of his great-grandpa’s. Tigger, also born and bred at St. Joseph’s Flessner Kennels, is in the Guinness Book of World Records for longest dog ears — ...

I like all instruments as long as they're played right. Just over a month later Monk recorded more music for Blue Note, but hired twenty-two-year-old Sahib Shihab (Edmund Gregory) on alto and ...

List of illustrations, music examples and tables -- Foreword / Sir Peter Maxwell Davies C.B.E. -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The trumpet in the ancient and non-Western world -- ...

Jazz trumpet players have shaped the sound of jazz for more than a century, and their influence still echoes in modern music. From the raw brilliance of Louis Armstrong to the cool calm of Miles Davis ...

MOBILE, Alabama-- If trumpets could talk, they'd call Jens Lindemann their hero. The Grammy-nominated Canadian trumpet soloist and teacher has spent his career shattering unflattering stereotypes ...