On Friday night, the Rutgers Jazz Ensemble I and special guest trumpeter Jeremy Pelt paid tribute to one of the greatest jazz ...

When coronavirus descended on Chicago, Marques Carroll made himself a promise. If the pandemic was the end of live music as we knew it, he was going “to go out swinging.” The trumpeter, 47, has been a ...

Students surround Ambrose Akinmusire (third from left) and Yakiv Tsvietinskyi (middle with trumpet). Credit: Provided, Spoleto Festival USA. Yakiv Tsvietinskyi remembers having a friend hand him ...

Chuck Mangione, the Rochester-born jazz trumpeter who rocketed to worldwide fame with his 1978 album “Feels So Good,” has died. He was 84. Mangione died from natural causes on Tuesday at his home in ...

One day years ago, jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis was hanging with Willie Nelson and Ray Charles when the two older musicians started to talk about their long and diverse careers. “Ray, you know, you ...

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In Niwot, the summer’s arrival isn’t marked by fireworks or a town-wide water balloon fight. Instead, it arrives in the slightly more sophisticated form of cymbal brushes, horn solos and ...

eyoncé and Lizzo have each released acclaimed albums this summer that have dominated the charts and streaming services and re-centered the musical spotlight on Black women. That’s not the only thing ...

This article first appeared in Jersey Jazz Magazine. "Every now and then," said trumpeter Sean Jones, "a musician comes along who has a vision and focus that you just know will affect the world—a ...

With hundreds of performances out at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, it's hard to know where to start. So Gambit ...

"Trombone Shorty" started playing his trumpet with New Breed, and suddenly an impromptu street party took hold.