Jazz trumpet players have shaped the sound of jazz for more than a century, and their influence still echoes in modern music. From the raw brilliance of Louis Armstrong to the cool calm of Miles Davis ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Listen to Louis Armstrong’s sweetness, Miles Davis’s wild squall, Handel’s Baroque majesty and other favorites. In the past we’ve chosen the five ...

Themba Pieterse rehearses “I Will Survive” 30 minutes before he begins his rooftop solo Trumpet player Themba Pieterse, 17, on his Lancaster Street stop before his rooftop trumpet solo on June 25 ...

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 ...