I was listening to the radio the other day, and heard a song that is in my collection. It’s a song I like, but not for the reason you would suspect. I like it for the brass instrument solo. In many ...

Last year, trumpet player Tom Battenberg began to step away from a career of music-making. The longtime Columbus Symphony member retired from his position as principal trumpet, although he continued ...

This Oakland root-blues-soul quartet has a truly underground sound. In October 2004, Oberlin College graduates Lech Wierzynski and Nansamba Ssensalo moved to the Bay Area and began performing ...

Another slice of Cake? Yes, please. At least, that's the reaction of fans in the Birmingham area, who've scooped up all the tickets to Saturday's concert at WorkPlay. It’s been almost nine years since ...

They are 12 seconds that changed the course of jazz—the opening of Louis Armstrong’s 1928 trumpet solo on “West End Blues.” Its strutting four-note beginning leads to a flashy climax before ebbing ...

Paul McCartney was watching TV, saw a trumpeter playing a Bach Brandenburg Concerto on screen, and next minute invited him to play on one of the Beatles’ biggest hits. That’s how the story of the ...