One could argue that the piano is the backbone of jazz music, or the saxophone, for that matter. Names such as Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane have certainly achieved household status. But have ...

This year marks 50 years since the first Cameron University Jazz Festival. To celebrate this milestone, the university has invited award-winning trumpeter, vocalist and songwriter Bria Skonberg ...

WARSAW (Reuters) - Tomasz Stanko, a Polish trumpeter, composer and prominent figure in avant-garde and free jazz for decades, died on Sunday at the age of 76, the Polish Jazz Association said. Born in ...

Rated the #1 Jazz Club in New York City (Secret NYC), Smoke Jazz Club presents some of today’s top trumpeters and saxophonists to the stage during November. The month begins with the return of three ...

Chuck Mangione, the Rochester-born jazz trumpeter who rocketed to worldwide fame with his 1978 album “Feels So Good,” has died. He was 84. Mangione died from natural causes on Tuesday at his home in ...

When coronavirus descended on Chicago, Marques Carroll made himself a promise. If the pandemic was the end of live music as we knew it, he was going “to go out swinging.” The trumpeter, 47, has been a ...

Students surround Ambrose Akinmusire (third from left) and Yakiv Tsvietinskyi (middle with trumpet). Credit: Provided, Spoleto Festival USA. Yakiv Tsvietinskyi remembers having a friend hand him ...

HU Presents has partnered with Jazz at Lincoln Center Presents to bring the show “Sing & Swing: Our American Songbook” to Harrisburg. The show features trumpeters and vocalists Bria Skonberg and Pa.

When people think of Vermont and music, their thoughts may jump right to modern famous acts like Phish, Grace Potter or Anais Mitchell. Or, in a more general sense, they might think of bluegrass, folk ...

Jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard died Dec. 29, 2008, at the age of 70. In this story from 2001, he talks about attempting a comeback after a series of personal setbacks. Freddie Hubbard is a legendary ...

Ashlin Parker started Trumpet Mafia a decade ago as a collective of horn enthusiasts who initially got together to improve their skills, share techniques and keep each other motivated. In the late ...

Award-winning trumpeter Bria Skonberg is set to perform during the Cameron University Jazz Festival 50 years after the ...