A dynamic and innovative composer, bandleader and trumpeter, Bill Warfield has energized audiences, performers and writers for more than four decades. Warfield’s most recent accomplishments are Mercy ...

One of the brightest 20-something lights on jazz trumpet, Theo Croker—grandson of New Orleans trumpet legend Doc Cheatham—followed a more traditional jazz script on his first two records, The ...

Louis Armstrong? Or Parliament-Funkadelic, Earth, Wind & Fire, and proto-rap group The Last Poets? It is perfectly logical to assume New Orleans-bred trumpeter and Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz composer ...

Randy Brecker's latest recordings are only mainstream because they are generously laced with R&B soul and multifaceted Latin funk. In all other aspects, Brecker, who performs with his younger brother ...

From the time he took to the road as an 18 year old performing in front of 25,000 fans with Con Funk Shun, to sold out gigs with Huey Lewis & The News, to four-star productions like “Book of Mormon” ...

Before Al Chez and The Brothers of Funk’s concert Friday in the Renaissance Hotel ballroom to open the second annual Allentown JazzFest, Chez spoke to the audience. “We’re small, but we’re gonna rock ...

Tom Browne learned quickly that piloting a jet is a whole different bird than playing trumpet. “It’s more of a contrast than it is similarities,” he said. “For me, it’s a left-brain, right-brain thing ...

SAN DIEGO – Louis Armstrong? Or Parliament-Funkadelic, Earth, Wind & Fire and proto-rap group the Last Poets? It is perfectly logical to assume New Orleans-bred trumpeter and Pulitzer Prize-winning ...