UConn Jazz Combos transformed von der Mehden Recital Hall into a New York-style jazz club and brought listeners back to the “Swingin’ Sixties” Thursday night. Several student-run jazz ensembles ...
Al Hirt’s trumpet and Pete Fountain’s clarinet created the soundtrack of 1960s Bourbon Street. Both Hirt and Fountain were New Orleans’ natives who were huge national successes on radio and television ...
Visions is Mark Isaacs' latest project for his trio, featuring jazz arrangements of 1960s and 1970s popular songs. During February and March, the Mark Isaacs Trio will perform this music throughout ...
For years, trumpeter Carmell Jones was thought to have made his first recording in October 1960 in Los Angeles on a date led by tenor saxophonist Curtis Amy for the Pacific Jazz label. Two months ...
LOS ANGELES -- Freddie Hubbard, the Grammy-winning jazz musician whose blazing virtuosity influenced a generation of trumpet players and who collaborated with such greats as Ornette Coleman, John ...
LOS ANGELES - December 29, 2008 - Hubbard died at Sherman Oaks Hospital, said his manager, fellow trumpeter David Weiss of the New Jazz Composers Octet. He had been hospitalized since suffering the ...
Special to the SentinelWhen Triple Play acquired over 300 classic jazz LPs as a part of a very large collection of records we purchased from an estate in Rangely, I took home every record that had ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Jerome Callet, a trumpet player, music educator, and trumpet and mouthpiece creator and manufacturer, died May 13 in his Staten Island home. He was 89. Callet re-discovered the ...