As musician Russel Mark tells it, when he first bought a trumpet at a garage sale back in high school ... was able to save her French horn when her family evacuated from La Cañada. She grabbed her ...

with Blanchard’s trumpet as its leading voice. It is a grand, cinematic wrecking ball of both reverence and anguish, with Blanchard wailing, testifying, and weeping through his horn before arriv ...