John Chilton, who has died after a short illness ... later exchanged for a trumpet when he started playing casual gigs in his late teens. National Service followed, then he joined Bruce Turner ...

For years, right behind bandleader Lisa Pollard, was John Coppola, marching slowly through the streets playing trumpet. Now it is time to mourn Mr. Coppola; he died at his home in San Francisco on ...

Thomas Wolfe said you can’t go home again. Trumpeter John Piazza Jr. would disagree. (Yeah, I know I used that lead before. You dance with who brung you.) On Saturday, Oct. 8, at 7:30 p.m., The ...

Caeley Niess is a music student from Virginia – and a lover of amazing acoustics. The trumpeter played the magestic theme 'With Malice Toward None' from John Williams's 2012 score to Lincoln. The ...

Although people of African descent have been in the UK for at least 2,000 years, 16th-century trumpeter John Blanke is thought to be the first Black Briton to have an image of him recorded. The 60 ...

“The first trumpet is looked to by many of his colleagues as a leader, the topliner in the brass section. With John, like a lot of older players, I don’t need to stop in rehearsal; I can just ...

There’s a certain level of gall required to play music outside someone’s house at the best of times, but when it’s the composer of the soundtracks to Star Wars, E.T., Jurassic Park, Indiana ...

John McLevy was a boy wonder trumpeter who graduated from playing in Dundee dancehalls to working alongside jazz legends, including Ella Fitzgerald and Benny Goodman. John, whose late cousin ...