Jazz trumpet is practically an art form unto itself, with a richness in terms of its greatest soloists that is hard to match. Some have even argued for it being the "classiest," most sophisticated ...

In a recent study at Johns Hopkins, jazz musicians improvised with each other while sitting in MRI machines. No doubt many of them were used to playing in tight spaces, but this was, all the same, odd ...

For 30 years, trumpet and flugelhorn player Diego Urcola has toured and recorded with Cuba-born saxophonist Paquito D'Rivera. For his own new album, Urcola hired his boss as featured sideman. This is ...

It closes out with the standard, "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," in an arrangement for trumpet, Laura's piano and strings. Vizzutti arranged it himself as a jazz-influenced, through-written encore for ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea is releasing a jazz-influenced debut solo album in March; listen to an advance single featuring Thom Yorke.