A small-statured man in a fine suit, hunched over and silhouetted against a smoky backdrop — trumpet to his mouth about to play a softly muted note that no one expected but perfectly fits the moment.
Tutankhamun's trumpet was one of the rare artefacts stolen from the Cairo Museum during the recent uprising. The 3,000-year-old instrument is rarely played, but a 1939 BBC radio recording captured its ...
The roof of the Sunday Dankaro House in Abuja has fallen on the head of the federation’s president. Sounds of help are coming out from the debris of the fallen roof, with many watchers certain that ...
Botti intelligently utilizes the Prince of Darkness' celebrated muted melodicism on his popular PBS concerts and recordings, including Chris Botti in Boston (Sony, 2009), featuring bassist Robert ...
Cootie Williams, 77, a jazz trumpeter, was the last surviving member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra that played the Cotton Club in Harlem during the 1920s. Playing professionally for more than 50 ...
Despite the growing trend of trumpet players freezing their trumpets in hopes they can improve the instruments' tone, engineers at Tufts University have shown that cryogenic treatment has minimal ...
This article was first published at All About Jazz in February 2002. The multi-trumpet format suffers an inherent stricture: a frontline consisting expressly of two or more b-flat horns circumscribes ...
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