CLEVELAND, Ohio – School is done for the day at Almira Elementary, and Brandon is sitting in a chair outside Mr. Paul March’s music room, preparing to practice playing the trumpet. He holds the shiny ...

The benefits of group (music) therapy. By Shea Tuttle Our director stepped onto the podium, and the auditorium stilled to an expectant silence. The black sequins on her conducting dress flared in the ...

Last week, trumpeter Dick Titterington was in the pit at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall for the Portland Gay Men’s Chorus Let’s Get Proud concert. A month before that, he played Duke Ellington’s ...

NEW ORLEANS — For Chrisana Brown and her bandmates, jazz sounds like opportunity and sisterhood. “It feels like a victory,” Trumpeter Chrisana Brown said. But women didn’t have a seat at the jazz ...

Have you ever wanted to learn to play the mouth trumpet? I recently stumbled upon Emma Nissen, a singer/songwriter who plays a mean mouth trumpet-her mouth trumpet is so good, I swear it sounds like ...

The first time Herb Alpert picked up the trumpet, it barely made a sound. But it was that trumpet that soon started doing the talking for the shy 8-year-old boy from the Eastside of Los Angeles. “I ...

Themba Pieterse rehearses “I Will Survive” 30 minutes before he begins his rooftop solo Trumpet player Themba Pieterse, 17, on his Lancaster Street stop before his rooftop trumpet solo on June 25 ...

Even without the fake tan, bare long legs and Alice Temperley sequined minidress which accentuated her shapely figure, Alison Balsom would always stand out in a crowd. The 30-year-old blonde possesses ...