Henry Purcell: Trumpet Sonata in D Major (1694) English early Baroque composer Henry Purcell was a real master of the trumpet. His 1691 opera, King Arthur, contains some splendid moments for the ...

He is a father of three (one daughter died last year) and grandfather of three and passed his love of music to his sons. His new trumpet, which he said he's still getting used to playing ...

Since the departure of multi-instrumentalist Mick Cooke in 2013, the group, which has been out promoting its 11th album, A Bit of Previous, has mostly used a horn-for-hire on the songs that ...

As an eight-year-old California kid, Alpert picked up the trumpet ... music.” He said, “You need a hook!” I thought about that, I thought about the idea of a hook—because the pop songs ...

Finding sheet music, however, proved difficult ... “People will often say, ‘Well, I would play some songs written by women, but I don’t know any,’ or, ‘Where are they?’” ...