Known as a constantly searching and forward-looking musician, trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire won the Thelonious Monk (now Herbie Hancock) International Jazz Competition in 2007 at 27 years old. His ...

Jazz trumpeter Chris Botti is the first to admit that he wasn't an "overnight sensation." "There is just something so real about packing up your proverbial Volkswagen Beetle and moving to LA and New ...

Returning to Kutztown, 10-time Grammy Award winner and trumpet master Arturo Sandoval will perform at Kutztown University at Schaeffer Auditorium on April 16 at 7:30 p.m. A protege of legendary jazz ...

Lebanese-born father Nassim Maalouf and son Ibrahim Maalouf are two unusual trumpet players, who play quarter-tone trumpets to achieve the “notes between the notes”—half-sharps and ...

CHAMBERSBURG - Chambersburg resident John Pursell, a Yamaha Trumpet Artist and Clinician, was a featured speaker at the National Association for Music Education national convention in Nashville, ...

At 17, Sean Hennessey was playing trumpet and composing, but he dreamed of playing one of his own compositions with the Chicago or New York Philharmonic. The teen had been studying with his idol, ...

Wynton Marsalis has attained a level of renown unprecedented for a jazz musician in recent decades. But, as he demonstrated at the University of Connecticut Friday night, his fame has in no way ...