Antoine Reicha’s L’Arte de varier tantalises before you’ve heard a note; the composer’s Opus 57, its theme followed by 57 variations. Reicha was an exact contemporary of Beethoven and reportedly the ...

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 ...

Graduate and undergraduate trumpet students (N = 16) were asked to replicate a 16-measure jazz solo using a written transcription and the original solo recording. We divided subjects into two groups ...