No, the headline isn't just a clever pun. Like John Coltrane and the saxophone, Miles Davis' figure looms large over our ideas about jazz trumpet. The dulcet tones of Kind of Blue and the spaced-out ...

The trumpet was the star instrument of the baroque period, but it fell out of favor not long after. “There are no trumpet concertos by Beethoven or Brahms,” trumpeter Steve Charpie said in a recent ...

Both of the recordings I’ve heard by Argentinean trumpeter Leonel Kaplan have found him in the company of other trumpeters, an unusual context even for a guy, like collaborators Axel Dörner (Berlin) ...

Louis Armstrong, move over. A new digital trumpet is now on the market and it looks to help make even the most inexperienced trumpet player sound like a pro. The Morrison Digital Trumpet--or MDT for ...

FORT McPHERSON, Ga. (March 8, 2010) -- Atlanta had been promised a rare treat when The Army Herald Trumpets joined The Army Ground Forces Band for "Sound the Trumpets" at the Georgia Tech Ferst Center ...

The Streitwieser Foundation Trumpet Museum and its founder are going home. After Sunday’s farewell concert at the Pottstown farm, where Franz Xaver Streitwieser built a vast collection of historic and ...

Sometimes it seems as though there’s almost nothing Arturo Sandoval can’t do if he puts his mind to it. The Cuban expatriate, whose life story was the subject of the HBO film “For Love or Country: The ...

The piano enters stealthily, its ethereal elements exposed. A tentative trumpet follows, the flutter of the player’s tongue creating a sound not quite ...