While trumpeter Joshua Trinidad is a deft jazz player and performs with his own quintet and quartet, he also plays with Wheelchair Sports Camp and Poets Row. As evidenced with some of his previous ...

Jul. 31—He played trumpet with big names like Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles and Dizzy Gillespie in front of thousands of people. Those who knew Saul "Tony" Lujan called him "one of the best God-given ...

What’s wrong with the word “jazz”? According to a number of New Orleans musicians, it doesn’t tell the whole story. Nicholas Payton has come to feel that “black American music” better describes his ...

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"Arutunian's Trumpet Concerto … is an energetic powerhouse of Eastern European lyricism and harmonic textures," said classical music critic Jason Sundram. Named "International Brass Personality of the ...

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Back in 2019, trumpeter Emily Mikesell was offered a gig to play a three-hour slot with her own band at Siberia. A member of Trumpet Mafia, Mikesell had written her own music off and on for a few ...

Conductor Elim Chan kept The Cleveland Orchestra alternating between "light and attentive" and "clarity with relentless energy." As for Beethoven's most theatrical strokes? Masterful, triumphant. As ...

A trumpeter with the renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra told a group of students of the power of music during an open sound check before a Saturday night performance at the Fox Theater. “Music ...

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CHAMPAIGN — At home, James Vaughen practices his trumpet in his bedroom or the piano room. At University High School, he spends his two free periods in the South Attic, honing his horn skills. He ...

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