Steve Alcala, a music teacher and trumpet player, fell in love with Latin Jazz, but very little sheet music was available to help his students learn. So he started a sheet music publishing company.
Josh Welchez of Claremont performs passionately because of his intensive love of jazz music. He also considers music mentoring a perfect way to pass on skills and knowledge to young players. Welchez, ...
Jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, who played with legends such as John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, McCoy Tyner, Art Blakey and Herbie Hancock, died Monday. By Jonathan Cohen, Billboard, The Associated ...
Summer Concerts on the Hudson continue with another evening of music on Wednesday, Aug. 24, with world class trumpet player Benny Benack III and special guest vocalist Anaïs Reno. Known for his ...
We think of him as the Santa Claus of jazz — a laughing white-haired patriarch, almost a comic fool with puffed cheeks and a bent horn. But between his jokes and his good-will work for jazz, we forget ...
In the fall of 2013, Cuban-born trumpeter Arturo Sandoval won the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest award granted to civilians. “It’s a huge honor, I’ll be grateful forever,” Arturo tells the ...
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, ...
Jazz musician Steve Enos can blow into his trumpet until he runs out of air and he still won’t disturb other tenants in the Hyacinth Lofts in Cleveland. Maybe, Enos said, his neighbors in the ...