Once upon a time, trumpets didn't get much love in smooth jazz. Everyone wanted to listen to the sax, instead. Then along came popular trumpeters such as Chris Botti and Rick Braun, who headlines ...

Recently I heard a smooth jazz trumpet star “do” Miles Davis. He captured Miles’s distinctive muted tone, getting every note right, and, more surprisingly, even the spaces between. The trouble was ...

Bucks fans might remember Wayman Tisdale as a power forward for the Phoenix Suns, Indiana Pacers and Sacramento Kings. This weekend, he was in Milwaukee in his new role as a smooth jazz musician.

WE’LL KEEP A CLOSE EYE ON IT. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. MARK. THAT’S THE JASMINE IN MILWAUKEE BASED GROUP RECENTLY MAKING BILLBOARD’S SMOOTH JAZZ CHARTS. JOINING ME NOW IS THE GROUP’S FOUNDER AND TRUMPET ...

"Ms. Collins plays trumpet and flugelhorn like a twenty-first century Miles Davis" Derek Ansell - Jazz Journal International "...one of the best out there on the current trumpet community. Your ...

There was a time when listening to jazz on the radio was a highly personal experience. Disc jockeys like New York City’s Symphony Sid laid down a carpet of lush-toned introductions, their tune ...

An older musician once gave a much younger Eddie Gale a piece of advice, something the legendary jazz trumpet player still follows to this very day "He said, 'Man, just trust me, any time you ever see ...