Matt Lavelle is one of the bright lights in today's avant-garde jazz scene, his trumpet and bass clarinet exploding with passionate spirit and unwavering intent. His newest CD, Trumpet Rising Bass ...

Kate Amrine and Ford Fourqurean make up Spark Duo. Together they perform new premieres for clarinet and trumpet, mixing solos, duos, improvisations, and live electronics. This season, Spark Duo is ...

Ben Fuller is the principal trumpet player in the Charlotte Symphony Youth Orchestra. "Last year I played third trumpet, and I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to learn how to lead by watching ...

This interview was originally broadcast on Feb. 6, 2013. Clarinetist Anat Cohen is one of a handful of Israeli jazz musicians making a mark on the American jazz scene. She's been voted Clarinetist of ...

MOBILE, Alabama-- If trumpets could talk, they'd call Jens Lindemann their hero. The Grammy-nominated Canadian trumpet soloist and teacher has spent his career shattering unflattering stereotypes ...

Of course, there’s a bit of rhythm involved, and some repetition. But it’s those four notes that are key. Long A, longer G, long A, longer G, long D, longer C, long A, longer G. It was the knowledge ...

As January blows in a tidal wave of Omicron here in California and across the nation, I am blowing out—and trying to keep time with my slippered, WFH foot: one and two and three and four and one and ...