Not everyone in the West Salem Adult Jazz Band is from West Salem, but the 25 adults in the band sure love to play jazz. The group formed in 1993 in advance of a Maynard Ferguson concert the band ...

Sean Applebee never considered playing the trumpet until the Mountain Ridge Middle School jazz band inspired him to start. “I loved the energy of jazz and picked up the trumpet so I could play in the ...

Jazz music has soared across the globe, and these cities are the ultimate spots to experience just how diverse this ...

Alphonso Son "Dizzy" Reece is a hard bop jazz trumpeter with a distinctive sound and compositional style. Reece was born January 5, 1931 in Kingston, Jamaica, the son of a silent film pianist. He ...

Some trumpeters aim to blow you away with their imposing technique; Miles drew the listener in. The performer, who died March 8, specialized in genre-blurring jazz that mixed old and new sounds. This ...

A Greater Cincinnati native will soon perform on a major stage. Michael R. Dudley Jr., a composer, trumpet player and educator from West Chester, will perform an adapted compilation of his work at the ...

Jack Sheldon, a jazz trumpeter, singer and bandleader who had a parallel career as an actor in television sitcoms, and whose playing, singing and stand-up comedy were heard for nearly two decades on ...