Program notes on container. Performer(s): Trumpet solos by famous jazzmen: Randy Brooks, Jimmy McPartland, Bobby Hackett, Louis Armstrong, Ralph Mendez, Roy Eldridge, Billy Butterfield, Sonny Dunham, ...

“You have to go back. We are all standing on the shoulders of giants." The World of Jazz Trumpet: a Comprehensive History and Practical Application (Hal Leonard) is a first-of-its-kind: The first look ...

In a recent study at Johns Hopkins, jazz musicians improvised with each other while sitting in MRI machines. No doubt many of them were used to playing in tight spaces, but this was, all the same, odd ...

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 ...

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 ...