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Horns a Plenty: Four jazz vinyl reissues deliver vintage trumpet sounds by Miles Davis, Donald Byrd and Clark Terry in amazing fidelity for a fraction of collector’s market pricing. By. Mark Smotroff.
Bandleader and seasoned trumpet player, Steve Moreland, has assembled fifteen fresh faces from major cities all over the country to carve out a corner of the Austin, Texas jazz scene. The Vintage 15 ...
Al Jolson may be experiencing a comeback of late – his likeness sparked $26,000 worth of attention during an auction of entertainment memorabilia at Christie’s East yesterday. A “… ...
On one wall is a poster of one of his childhood idols, the trumpet icon Wynton Marsalis. His trumpet, which he lovingly describes as “a hunk of metal,” is by his side.
The last time a woman designed the poster was in 1991, when Patti Harris produced an abstract image of a brass band. In 1990, Louise Mouton Johnson composed a wonderful split portrait of trumpet ...
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Rogers, who produced a portrait of Wynton Marsalis in the moody 2002 Jazz Fest poster, and a sunny rendering of Harry Connick Jr. in 2004, has chosen and old-style graphic look for the 2016 poster.
The festival's official poster dates to 1975, when the first one was produced as a fifth anniversary fundraiser for the nonprofit New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation. Many of the early festival ...