Sean Applebee never considered playing the trumpet until the Mountain Ridge Middle School jazz band inspired him to start. “I loved the energy of jazz and picked up the trumpet so I could play in the ...

Ashlin Parker started Trumpet Mafia a decade ago as a collective of horn enthusiasts who initially got together to improve their skills, share techniques and keep each other motivated. In the late ...

This week's Fine Arts Student of the Week is Brainerd High School senior Nico Buffetta, who plays trumpet. Art focus: Band. Adviser nomination: “Nico is a strong senior leader who plays trumpet in ...

NEW ORLEANS — For Chrisana Brown and her bandmates, jazz sounds like opportunity and sisterhood. “It feels like a victory,” Trumpeter Chrisana Brown said. But women didn’t have a seat at the jazz ...

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 ...

Had she been a singer, she might have been an American star. Had she been a piano player, record labels might have lined up to sign her. But Clora Bryant played the trumpet and attention came slowly, ...

On Nov. 5, Harvard was lucky enough to host famed jazz trumpet player and composer Ingrid Jensen in a performance with the Harvard Monday Jazz Band. Jensen, alongside Yaure Muniz, the Interim Director ...

It’s been close to two years since jazz icon Wynton Marsalis last performed in Greater Columbus. Much has changed in the interim. In March 2021, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, led by trumpeter ...

The Irving S. Gilmore School of Music's Jazz Studies Department and Rev. Millard Southern III present the Trumpet Summit in Honor of Roy Hargrove on Saturday, October 11, 2025. This monumental tribute ...

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 ...