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 ...

No, the headline isn't just a clever pun. Like John Coltrane and the saxophone, Miles Davis' figure looms large over our ideas about jazz trumpet. The dulcet tones of Kind of Blue and the spaced-out ...

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 ...

Jazz saxophonist Coleman, who is almost 85, rarely makes records any more. In New Vocabulary, he joins up trumpet and drums — and peppers his solos with his signature catchy and earthy pet phrases.