On Sonny Fortune’s 1976 jazz album “Infinity,” DownBeat magazine singled out one performer’s “warm trumpet,” thus earning national and international recognition for the musician. The trumpet player ...

When seeking to improve at blues guitar, the first port of call is usually learning some guitar solos, be it the swampy pentatonics of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Texas Flood or dynamic melodies of B.B ...

SHERIDAN, Wyo. — Whitney Center for the Arts at Sheridan College will host an evening of jazz music featuring the Sheridan College Jazztet and the Sheridan College Jazz Ensemble at 7 p.m. on Thursday, ...

The trumpet was the lead instrument in early jazz: it is the loudest solo instrument, the natural leader of a group of individuals, if you will. So, early trumpet pioneer Buddy Bolden (there is a ...

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 ...

Teo Macero's first Ellington recordings resurface in the latest version of the master's popular '58-'59 sessions issued as Blues In Orbit. With band still riding high after the '56 Newport triumph and ...