The Nokia Theater is not a typical jazz venue, but trumpet player Christian Scott, who played the theater this weekend, isn’t your typical jazz musician. The 26-year-old trumpet phenom is creating ...

Canadian trumpeter Simon Millerd is one of those musicians who effortlessly moves between genres. This new CD of his is a collection of work that mixes folk, jazz-rock, electronic minimalism and jazz ...

When Rodney Marsalis took up the trumpet at age 11, his first teacher was his cousin, the great Wynton Marsalis. Wynton was only 17 at the time, but already was a brilliant musician just a couple of ...

The fine trumpeter Bobby Shew, now one of the horn’s elder statesmen, gave Dan Miller an unforgettable present on his protégé’s 30 th birthday. As Miller recalls 22 years later, those sage words of ...

I was in the kitchen making dinner recently while my son, Leo, had his trumpet lesson in the living room. I watched him hold the instrument to his lips, then blow a note into the air. “Leo, Leo,” a ...