His first fame arrived with his debut projects on Motéma, Sira, and the award-winning Amanke Dionti, an achingly beautiful trumpet with Senegalese kora and vocals duo album that was voted “Best World ...

At 88, Herb Alpert still plays the trumpet like the perky wunderkind who ... “I just pick up songs that touch me. I’m a melody guy.” On Oct. 18, Portlanders can hear those songs (the ...

They have become stars in a galaxy his trumpet first snatched out of the sky at a time we can only now access through the music. In the years after “This Guy’s in Love With You” went #1 ...

It was on full display yet again Wednesday night as Timmy Trumpet played Díaz's entrance music live during a 2-1 ... to run on that pitch. This guy's such a professional, he could do this with ...

Trumpet legend Herb Alpert once out-sold the ... Having just released his 49th studio album, “Wish Upon a Star,” the 88-year-old music giant — who will also have a Nov. 14 to 25 engagement ...

A Pittsburgh musician who started playing the trumpet 91 years ago is still going ... "Jim is an amazing guy," band director Paulette Gulakowski said.Gulakowski and Hanna have been friends for ...

But the 89-year-old trumpet-playing music legend has a ready answer ... I'm a right-brain guy; I play, I'm painting for over ...

He is a father of three (one daughter died last year) and grandfather of three and passed his love of music to his sons. His new trumpet, which he said he's still getting used to playing ...

He left school at 10 years old to work. He said a music academy was opened and that's when he fell in love with the trumpet, but after Cuba's communist revolution, he could only play what the ...