On Sonny Fortune’s 1976 jazz album “Infinity,” DownBeat magazine singled out one performer’s “warm trumpet,” thus earning national and international recognition for the musician. The trumpet player ...

Seattle’s most in-demand Latin and jazz musicians join forces with Carlos Cascante. Seattle’s most in-demand Latin and jazz musicians join forces with legendary Costa Rican vocalist Carlos Cascante of ...

The crowd roars as a pianist starts playing a loping swing groove. Then, a trumpet player begins a solo, his impressive wails echoing around a cavernous venue — the 82,300-person-capacity Croke Park ...

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The first time Herb Alpert picked up the trumpet, it barely made a sound. But it was that trumpet that soon started doing the talking for the shy 8-year-old boy from the Eastside of Los Angeles. “I ...

Musician Jon Lampley has been a fixture in the band on Stephen Colbert's talk show. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to the trumpet player about his debut album, "Night Service: Live at LunÀtico." COLBERT: ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli in for Terry Gross. Jazz musician Jack Sheldon died last month at age 88. As a big-band and recording soloist on trumpet, he was featured with Sinatra, Bennett, ...

Armstrong’s most influential early vocal recording is his 1926 performance of “Heebie Jeebies,” which popularized scat singing, the technique of vocal improvisation using nonsense syllables. In the ...

This summer has seen plenty of worthwhile jazz, including a pianist who's been around since the '50s, a Caribbean jazzman, a band of deliberate... Piano Mastery, Trinidadian Trumpet, Singing Apes: New ...

I've been into music ever since I can remember. Everyone on my mother's side of the family can either sing, play an instrument or both, so I was always around it, plus I love to dance. My parents were ...

Sheldon, who died Dec. 27, sang with Benny Goodman and was bandleader and sidekick for Merv Griffin's talk show for many years. Originally broadcast in 1993. This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli in ...