Tutankhamun's trumpet was one of the rare artefacts stolen from the Cairo Museum during the recent uprising. The 3,000-year-old instrument is rarely played, but a 1939 BBC radio recording captured its ...
No, the headline isn't just a clever pun. Like John Coltrane and the saxophone, Miles Davis' figure looms large over our ideas about jazz trumpet. The dulcet tones of Kind of Blue and the spaced-out ...
Master improvisers have a personality in their playing, a singularity to their sound. They have the ability to adapt to any musical context while maintaining a sense of personal identity, displaying ...
Louis Armstrong, move over. A new digital trumpet is now on the market and it looks to help make even the most inexperienced trumpet player sound like a pro. The Morrison Digital Trumpet--or MDT for ...
Sometimes it seems as though there’s almost nothing Arturo Sandoval can’t do if he puts his mind to it. The Cuban expatriate, whose life story was the subject of the HBO film “For Love or Country: The ...
On the surface, the trumpet and saxophone are two instruments that might seem totally incompatible with black metal, yet they actually go together quite beautifully. Remember, the trumpet can be used ...
Brass instruments are notoriously hard to emulate in software, but SampleModeling thinks that it´s hit on a winning formula with The Trumpet. A Kontakt 2 Player-based instrument, this is built around ...