Red Hot Chili Peppers member Flea performed a 13-minute bass and trumpet solo set this past weekend, delivering an ever-evolving piece that featured bass, trumpet, loops and effects. Smith was clearly ...

Swedish trumpeter Emil Strandberg continues to explore the format of an intimate, acoustic trio. He began in 2012 with a self-titled trio of double bassist Pär-Ola Landin and drummer Sebastian Voegler ...

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 ...

1. ML on BC 05:21 2. Trumpet Rising 06:21 3. West End Blues 06:45 4. Bass Clarinet Moon (for Joan Fleur) 05:21 5. Super Old Silver 04:42 6. ML on BC 2 03:34 7. Thanks Miles 03:41 8. Zim 05:09 9.

Oh took the fast track to jazz prominence, emerging on the scene in the 2000s and becoming the bass player in bands led by Pat Metheny and Vijay Iyer. Her new album is a look back at her early work.

This is the Tromba Marina – an instrument that was popular in medieval and Renaissance Europe and which sounds like literally nothing else we’ve ever heard The ‘marine trumpet’ has one long, thick ...

Alfred F. “Skeeter” Meixner, 72, of 110 N. 7th St., Coplay, died Thursday, April 9, in ManorCare Health Services, Bethlehem. He was the husband of Theresa M. (Stangl) Meixner. They were married for 49 ...