Recently I received two new cd’s by artists playing brass and reed instruments: Bria Skonberg is a trumpet player, while Hailey Niswanger is a sax player. You don’t get this stuff everyday; usually ...

Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransome met at a "Purple Rain" party when they were 19 — sophomores at Pratt Institute. "I asked her to dance, and we've been dancing together ever since," says James ...

About Trumpet and Saxophone has an intriguing image across the back and front of its double fold-out sleeve. Painted by Geoff Wright in 1968 and entitled Svetlana, it consists of eight images of a ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Jazz great Benny Carter hardly ever looked back. He enjoyed whatever he was doing at the moment _ composing or arranging, improvising on the alto sax or trumpet, leading a band or ...

Trumpeter Tom Browne, from North Carolina by way of New York, and saxophonist Ronnie Laws, from Los Angeles by way of Houston, didn't have to go far to find musical influences. “I got started on ...

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A shared love of jazz led author Lesa Cline-Ransome and illustrator James Ransome to discover inventor Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax and the... Trumpet was too loud, clarinet was too soft — here's 'The ...