In the middle of their set at the Paramount a couple weekends ago, surrounded by windmilling guitarists and kit-smashing drummers, one of Modest Mouse's new members pulled out a trumpet. A couple ...

Trumpeter Tom Browne, from North Carolina by way of New York, and saxophonist Ronnie Laws, from Los Angeles by way of Houston, didn't have to go far to find musical influences. “I got started on ...

A shared love of jazz led author Lesa Cline-Ransome and illustrator James Ransome to discover inventor Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax and the... Trumpet was too loud, clarinet was too soft — here's 'The ...

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