During a recent Nat Adderly listening session, I thought “Why play this style on cornet and not trumpet?" I was thinking of the cliched perception of the cornet, as personified by cornet greats Oliver ...

Traditional jazz will be the cornerstone of a new concert series at Loyola University honoring cornet player Connie Jones and his wife, Elaine. The Connie Jones Legacy Band, an ensemble of players who ...

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, Australian cornet master Bob Barnard joins the Jim Cullum Jr. Jazz Band on the bandstand. Together they play classic tunes made famous by Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke ...

Cornetist Jack Fine, who moved to New Orleans late in life and became an elder statesman of the Frenchmen Street jazz scene, died at Touro Infirmary on July 16. He was 92. With an especially sweet ...