Inclusiveness is FONT's central organizing principle and, in the service of that principle, the curators violate conventional notions of musical genre, gender and race, more or less continuously, ...

Director/curator Dave Douglas, along with new curators for 2007, Taylor Ho Bynum, Mark Gould and Jeremy Pelt, proudly announce the 2007 Festival of New Trumpet Music - aka FONT Music, taking place ...

eyoncé and Lizzo have each released acclaimed albums this summer that have dominated the charts and streaming services and re-centered the musical spotlight on Black women. That’s not the only thing ...

LA CROSSE, Wis. (WKBT) — The La Crosse Jazz Orchestra’s free Jazz in the Park series continues with “A Trumpet Storm” featuring two notable guest performers at 7 p.m. Sunday in Riverside Park. Brent ...

Performing was predestined for Tom "TomCat Trumpet" Burke. Growing up around musicians and the touring lifestyle as the son of a Broadway musician, Burke spent his early years moving around the ...

Musician Marty Ehrlich doesn't play much on his new album; instead, he conducts an ensemble that performs his compositions. He tells Fresh Air about his first album devoted to his orchestral music.

In the shady half of a brick courtyard along Frenchmen Street, the Trumpet Mafia has convened. On the eve of the band’s first public performance, an October 23 show at Tulane University as part of the ...

Though she's now well established on the gospel circuit as both an instrumentalist and successful recording artist, Syreeta Thompson understands there are still those who find it strange a trumpet ...

“I want to be the next Chris Botti, and I’m going to spend the rest of my life trying to do it,” says Sausalito jazz trumpeter Jonathan Dely. (Photo by Stefan Kohli) Provided by Jonathan Dely ...