No, the headline isn't just a clever pun. Like John Coltrane and the saxophone, Miles Davis' figure looms large over our ideas about jazz trumpet. The dulcet tones of Kind of Blue and the spaced-out ...

Despite the growing trend of trumpet players freezing their trumpets in hopes they can improve the instruments' tone, engineers at Tufts University have shown that cryogenic treatment has minimal ...

When Barry Perkins puts a trumpet to his lips, instrument and man meld into one and the notes fill your soul. If that sounds like hyperbole, you haven’t heard Perkins play. Or more likely you have – ...

Paul Kurtz had been playing the piano for about three years when he heard the fight song being played at a Florida Gators football game. "What instrument is that?" he remembers thinking. "I want to ...