Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rooms have been buzzing with the sound of jazz legend Wynton Marsalis' smooth trumpet playing for over half a century now. The ...

Chuck Mangione, one of the most successful musicians to come out of Rochester, has died at age 84. “The family of Chuck Mangione is deeply saddened to share that Chuck peacefully passed away in his ...

Herb Alpert has a new album that brings together lessons he says he's learned from playing the trumpet for over 80 years, specifically those times in which he says, a-ha. HERB ALPERT: I had problems ...

Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard performed at the Blue Morocco in 1967 with other top jazz artists like Bennie Maupin, Kenny Barron, Herbie Lewis and Freddie Waits. Their never-before-distributed live show ...

One day years ago, jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis was hanging with Willie Nelson and Ray Charles when the two older musicians started to talk about their long and diverse careers. “Ray, you know, you ...

On the occasion of the announcement of the 2015 class of NEA Jazz Masters—the nation’s highest honor for jazz artists—let’s take note of three recently departed NEA jazz masters: trumpeter Joe Wilder, ...

Jazz, American's original art form, is the chronicle of inventive characters. Over more than a century, generations of players have been seduced by the freedom of expression that has marked the music, ...