WILLIAMSTOWN — An outgrowth of the recent production of “The Play of Daniel” in The Cloisters of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the discovery that Williams College owns what is believed to be the ...

This book is doggedly ambitious, but its ambitions are its undoing. It begins promisingly, with a historical survey of jazz trumpet that, for a change, devotes a chapter to female players. But ...

How Buddy Bolden blew his brains out (but not before he changed the music forever) -- From the Pyramids to New Orleans : the trumpet before jazz -- Louis Armstrong's beam of lyrical sound -- Bending ...

MOBILE, Alabama-- If trumpets could talk, they'd call Jens Lindemann their hero. The Grammy-nominated Canadian trumpet soloist and teacher has spent his career shattering unflattering stereotypes ...

How many trumpet players does it take to change a light bulb? The answer is not to be found in Krin Gabbard's "Hotter Than That," which contains abundant, often fascinating details about the trumpet, ...