Performing was predestined for Tom "TomCat Trumpet" Burke. Growing up around musicians and the touring lifestyle as the son of a Broadway musician, Burke spent his early years moving around the ...

Suresh Singaratnam is a trumpeter of uncommon breadth - unique not only for the small crowd he inhabits as a virtuoso of both classical and jazz styles but also for the continuity and clarity of his ...

On the classical end, he's recorded albums of his own compositions, including one with the Budapest Radio Orchestra. From his time in Los Angeles, you can catch him on the scores to "Back to the ...

Flea is here to help jazz up your holiday season.The Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist has shared a trumpet performance of what ...

Gunther Schuller leads the NEC Jazz Orchestra in rehearsal in Jordan Hall, 1990. Schuller coined the term "Third Stream" when referring to the genre that blends classical and jazz. From jazz to ...

Chicago’s Leo Sowerby (1895-1968) is remembered chiefly as a prolific composer of sacred scores, a Pullitzer-Prize winning composer famous for church cantatas, organ solos and songs. A self-taught ...

Taras Kutsenko and Alex Sino presented the classical-to-jazz crossover album Domus Solis for your GRAMMY consideration. Music supports global communications and surpasses limitations, and few genres ...

A true giant of jazz, vibraphonist Milt Jackson (January 1, 1923 – October 9, 1999) had a prolific and influential career that began when he was discovered by bebop trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie in 1945.

Trumpeter Paul Smoker, a blunt-spoken champion of jazz who stubbornly played on for the last years of his life with the aid of an artificial heart, died Saturday afternoon at his home in Bushnell’s ...

Frank Campos has always known he would be a trumpet player. "My dad was a trumpet player, so there was always a trumpet in the house. He was smart, too; he forbade me to touch it," Campos said. Every ...

The getaway, worthy of film noir, was timed to the minute. The girlfriend waits outside in the car at 10:15 p.m. on the busy downtown street. The guy with the black case dashes out onto the sidewalk ...