When Barry Perkins puts a trumpet to his lips, instrument and man meld into one and the notes fill your soul. If that sounds like hyperbole, you haven’t heard Perkins play. Or more likely you have – ...
Time now for StoryCorps' Military Voices Initiative - recording and sharing the stories of service members and their families. Today, a love story that began in a military band. Since the ...
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A Nigerian musician has spoken about his record for the longest uninterrupted trumpet performance, which he acheived earlier this year. Joshua Olusanya teaches music at an International school in ...
The first time Herb Alpert picked up the trumpet, it barely made a sound. But it was that trumpet that soon started doing the talking for the shy 8-year-old boy from the Eastside of Los Angeles. “I ...
A benign tumor behind his ear forced John Swana to put down the trumpet, an instrument he had played since he was 11 years old, about two years ago. The tumor, he believes, put pressure on the nerves ...
Since I was a boy, my musical heroes have been jazz musicians — Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Lester Young, John Coltrane. My own trumpet playing was good enough to get me the solo chair in the school ...