St. Philip's Friends of Music is assembling a Tucson who's who in the brass world for a concert Wednesday that includes two U.S. premieres. Trumpet Spectacular features trumpeters Jason Carder, Eric ...
Sean Applebee never considered playing the trumpet until the Mountain Ridge Middle School jazz band inspired him to start. “I loved the energy of jazz and picked up the trumpet so I could play in the ...
When Barry Perkins puts a trumpet to his lips, instrument and man meld into one and the notes fill your soul. If that sounds like hyperbole, you haven’t heard Perkins play. Or more likely you have – ...
When Barry Perkins puts a trumpet to his lips, instrument and man meld into one and the notes fill your soul. If that sounds like hyperbole, you haven’t heard Perkins play. Or more likely you have – ...
Maynard Ferguson, the celebrated trumpeter and bandleader known for his blasting high notes, clarion tone and wailing ensembles, died Wednesday in a Ventura hospital of kidney and liver failure. He ...
Mention the name Louis Armstrong, and certain sounds and images of the 20th-century jazz genius flood in. Screaming trumpet high notes. That gravelly "Hello, Dolly!" croon. Bright eyes and a toothy ...
When Monster Cable launched the Miles Davis Tribute In-Ear Headphones in 2009, it redefined just how good a set of in-ear buds could sound...and how comfortable they could be. Still, priced at nearly ...
"It's a show-offy piece for trumpet - high and loud," she said. "But the hardest part of the piece is not the notes - it's turning the notes into music. I try to make it dance and sing. There's a ...
The trumpeter and former “Tonight Show” bandleader tells tales from his personal life and his work with Johnny Carson in a new PBS documentary. “Never Too Late: The Doc Severinsen Story,” on PBS’s ...