The BBC Singers and Principal Guest Conductor Owain Park join forces with acclaimed Nigerian-Scottish trumpeter Aaron Azunda Akugbo, live from Milton Court in London. The BBC Singers and Principal ...
Reported as one of the first times Armstrong spoke openly about politics, his statements were so shocking The Associated Press wouldn't run a story without more proof they were Armstrong's words.
Trumpet player and Columbus Jazz Orchestra artistic director Byron Stripling learned about the importance of music from his father. “He grew up in poverty and had nothing, but the one thing he did ...
Before the war, violinist and trumpeter Louis Bannet was a celebrated jazz musician in Holland, often called "the Dutch Louis Armstrong." Once, before the war, he heard a knock on his dressing room ...
One day years ago, jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis was hanging with Willie Nelson and Ray Charles when the two older musicians started to talk about their long and diverse careers. “Ray, you know, you ...