Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Listen to Louis Armstrong’s sweetness, Miles Davis’s wild squall, Handel’s Baroque majesty and other favorites. In the past we’ve chosen the five ...

Lately, I have been listening to jazz music more than any other genre both at home and in the store. Most of it is jazz, bop and hard bop from the 1940s through the 1960s. It is the cool jazz, the hot ...

Steve Alcala, a music teacher and trumpet player, fell in love with Latin Jazz, but very little sheet music was available to help his students learn. So he started a sheet music publishing company.

When you think of some of history’s greatest jazz trumpeters — Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Wynton Marsalis — you might wonder: Was their ascension to greatness destined to be? Would ...

From the half-shell bandstand on the lip of Lake Eola or the fountain-affixed lobby of the Peabody Orlando, his trumpet roared and purred. For Benjamin Louis Smalley, mastery of the instrument was not ...

A musician sends out his notes to the world. Great ones inspire their songs to play on long after they’re gone. Pennsylvania jazz legend Ronald W. “Ronnie” Waters was a great one. At his funeral ...

Chuck Mangione, who had one of the biggest pop-jazz instrumental crossover hits of all time with “Feels So Good”, has passed away at the age of 71. Mangione was a well-known in the music world for ...