Chicago — Smooth trumpet notes fill an empty Chicago street. There is a familiarity from the sounds emitting from the lone instrument. It feels like a modern radio hit with a classic oldie twist. Each ...

Girls Play Trumpets Too (GPTT) will host its annual Holiday Concert on Saturday, December 13, 2025, from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music. The event will feature performances by GPTT ...

Among the remarkable treasures found in Tutankhamun’s tomb were two ornate trumpets, one made of silver and the other of bronze. In 1939, BBC radio broadcast the trumpets’ music to 150 million people, ...

I like all instruments as long as they're played right. Just over a month later Monk recorded more music for Blue Note, but hired twenty-two-year-old Sahib Shihab (Edmund Gregory) on alto and ...