Audition requirements. In-person live: Prepare at least 3 selections of your choice from the styles and recommended songs listed below. 12-bar blues: Play the melody and then improvise over the form ...

In the past we’ve chosen the five minutes or so we would play to make our friends fall in love with classical music, piano, opera, cello, Mozart, 21st-century composers, violin, Baroque music ...

It was billed as a talk on the evolution of trumpet styles by one of jazz’s longest-working players, Aldophus Anthony “Doc” Cheatham, but what evolved yesterday at Easton’s … ...

Either way, a trumpet starts with sheets of brass and coils of wire — 120 parts in all, which undergo 490 separate procedures to become a trumpet that can play Strauss.