When renowned trumpeter Jim Rotondi comes home to Butte, he brings a bit of the big-city life from Europe and mainstream jazz tours with him. With a new CD, “Dark Blue,” under his belt on the Smoke ...

Not everyone in the West Salem Adult Jazz Band is from West Salem, but the 25 adults in the band sure love to play jazz. The group formed in 1993 in advance of a Maynard Ferguson concert the band ...

Jazz trumpet player Dawn Weber is silhouetted during a Grafton Winery performance Saturday afternoon. Jazz trumpet player Dawn Weber also sang during her performance Saturday at the Grafton Winery.

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 ...

DENISON, Texas (KTEN) - Friday night, people in Denison paid tribute to one of their own, jazz trumpeter Clora Bryant. " Just celebrate another person from Denison that's done great things. So we can ...

When Ellen Seeling was a little girl, she fell in love with jazz and asked her mother if she could take trumpet lessons. Snapp Shots: Garden of Memory returning to Oakland’s Chapel of Chimes Snapp ...

Alphonso Son "Dizzy" Reece is a hard bop jazz trumpeter with a distinctive sound and compositional style. Reece was born January 5, 1931 in Kingston, Jamaica, the son of a silent film pianist. He ...

Some trumpeters aim to blow you away with their imposing technique; Miles drew the listener in. The performer, who died March 8, specialized in genre-blurring jazz that mixed old and new sounds. This ...

Maciej Fortuna Ph. D. is one of the most dynamic and versatile artist among young generation of polish jazz musicians. Getting skills in law science didn’t disturb his efficient development of music ...

A Greater Cincinnati native will soon perform on a major stage. Michael R. Dudley Jr., a composer, trumpet player and educator from West Chester, will perform an adapted compilation of his work at the ...

Trumpeter/bandleader Carl Fischer will soon release “T.Ë.T.I.” (Tribute to Evolutionary Trumpet Icons and pronounced “tet-eye”). The first single off the album is “What a Wonderful World,” a tribute ...

This story is part of “Faces of the dead,” an ongoing series exploring the lives of Americans who have died from the novel coronavirus. Wallace Roney, a Grammy-winning virtuoso of jazz trumpet who was ...