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 ...

This book is doggedly ambitious, but its ambitions are its undoing. It begins promisingly, with a historical survey of jazz trumpet that, for a change, devotes a chapter to female players. But ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — An outgrowth of the recent production of “The Play of Daniel” in The Cloisters of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the discovery that Williams College owns what is believed to be the ...

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 -- ...

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 ...

From elephant blasts to spiritual jazz, Wynton Marsalis’s concerto is a history of the world in trumpet form. As she prepares to give the UK premiere, Balsom describes the thrill of playing it When I ...

How many trumpet players does it take to change a light bulb? The answer is not to be found in Krin Gabbard's "Hotter Than That," which contains abundant, often fascinating details about the trumpet, ...