Trumpeters Bill Warfield and Randy Brecker have been friends for twenty years; it's high time they joined forces in a recording studio and began making beautiful music together. On Trumpet Story, ...

As Neil Tesser's liner notes explain, the original idea behind Trumpet Story - the new album from The Bill Warfield Big Band - was to celebrate the trumpet by "writing a suite of big-band compositions ...

The Joe Gransden Big Band swings into Ella Fitzgerald’s rollicking blues anthem “When I Get Low I Get High,” the buoyant intro fronted by a muted trumpet. The eponymous front man, in a black blazer, ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - Bill Leon, a trumpet player who organized the Christian jazz band Power & Glory, loves the sound of heavenly horns. Power & Glory, a brass band that plays medleys of classic ...

TALLMADGE, Ohio – On a recent chilly evening in Tallmadge, the Venue Banquet Center was mostly empty as the oldest big band in Akron prepared for its Spring Gala. The Moonlight Serenaders were founded ...

What would it sound like if someone bridged the gap between big band jazz and classic hip-hop anthems? Between Art Blakey and A Tribe Called Quest; between Freddie Hubbard and J. Dilla? One answer is ...

Ciribiribin (They're So In Love); I Had The Craziest Dream; (By The) Sleepy Lagoon; I'll Get By (As Long As I Have You); Cherry; Two O'Clock Jump; It's Been A Long, Long Time; The Mole; These Foolish ...