Over a 40 year career that has spanned music and film, Cuban-born trumpet master Arturo Sandoval has assembled a staggering list of bonafides. Over a 40-year career that has spanned music and film, ...
Given the musical’s central themes about how race, class and immigration shape the pursuit of the American Dream, the atmosphere was electric, even with a mostly bare stage. The timeliness of the ...
Everybody was there—Roy Eldridge and Gerry Mulligan, Count Basie and Dave Brubeck, Erroll Garner and Ella Fitzgerald and a gaggle of other big-name jazz artists—as the fourth Newport (R.I.) Jazz ...
While studying trumpet performance at St. Olaf College in Minnesota two decades ago, Jason Harrelson, owner of Harrelson Trumpets, became consumed with learning how the trumpet works and understanding ...
"In New Orleans music, trumpet is king. [There's] something about the sound of the trumpet — its expressiveness, its sort of regal quality. There may be no tighter bond linking a city and a musical ...
Steve Alcala started teaching high school music in the 1980s. Today, he supplies much needed sheet music to customers around the world.
Those old band instruments that are stuck up in your attic could actually do some good, if you take them down and hand them off to the “Play It Again, Arkansas” organization. Hornucopia is an annual ...
To learn more about Big Wy's Brass Band, visit www.bigwysbrassband.com. Music Prize will kick off Friday, Oct. 17, with five bands on the first night and five more on Saturday, Oct. 18. Passes for ...