A lot of non-profits preach music education for kids, but a local jazz legend is keeping his simple. Every year, Freddie Jones hands out about a dozen trumpets to young people with a little talent and ...

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 ...

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 ...

British trumpet virtuoso Alison Balsom introduces her wonderful instrument – a modern adaptation of the “natural” trumpet. “Some people might not even think it looks like a trumpet,” Alison says. “But ...

Various studies show that children with asthma can improve their lung function by regularly playing wind instruments. It's also helpful if you have asthma, COPD or cystic fibrosis. Kirsten Neumann/dpa ...

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 ...