The Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist returned to the trumpet, for a new record featuring Nick Cave, Thom Yorke and a core cast of contemporary jazz luminaries.

One could argue that the piano is the backbone of jazz music, or the saxophone, for that matter. Names such as Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane have certainly achieved household status. But have ...

Chuck Mangione, the Rochester-born jazz trumpeter who rocketed to worldwide fame with his 1978 album “Feels So Good,” has died. He was 84. Mangione died from natural causes on Tuesday at his home in ...

When coronavirus descended on Chicago, Marques Carroll made himself a promise. If the pandemic was the end of live music as we knew it, he was going “to go out swinging.” The trumpeter, 47, has been a ...

WARSAW (Reuters) - Tomasz Stanko, a Polish trumpeter, composer and prominent figure in avant-garde and free jazz for decades, died on Sunday at the age of 76, the Polish Jazz Association said. Born in ...

Students surround Ambrose Akinmusire (third from left) and Yakiv Tsvietinskyi (middle with trumpet). Credit: Provided, Spoleto Festival USA. Yakiv Tsvietinskyi remembers having a friend hand him ...

St. Louis born trumpeter/flugelhornist Clark Terry is a household name among jazz lovers and many casual listeners alike. He’ll bring his infectious smile and virtuosic brass technique to the ...

When Ellen Seeling was a little girl, she fell in love with jazz and asked her mother if she could take trumpet lessons. Snapp Shots: Garden of Memory returning to Oakland’s Chapel of Chimes Snapp ...

Ferretti is a prime example of what can be attained when talent and work ethic converge. Another key influence on Ferretti at The New School was saxophonist David Glasser. "He became my main mentor," ...

This year marks 50 years since the first Cameron University Jazz Festival. To celebrate this milestone, the university has invited award-winning trumpeter, vocalist and songwriter Bria Skonberg ...

The sounds of jazz filled Kutztown Area Middle School during. “Students, families, and community members come together over a ...