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No other 100-year-old musician is leading a band, and no bandleader has remained in the same band for 67 years. NEA Jazz ...

As a finalist in the 2011 National Trumpet Competition (NTC) Jazz Division, 24-year old trumpeter Shawn Williams is beginning to make a name for himself among the jazz scene. Prior to competing at NTC ...

Summer Camargo, 21, is a trumpet player in her fourth year at The Juilliard School, majoring in jazz studies. She is a recipient of a Jerome L. Greene Fellowship at The Juilliard School. Summer, born ...

Quincy Jones, the multi-talented music titan whose vast legacy ranged from producing Michael Jackson's historic "Thriller" album to writing prize-winning film and television scores, has died at 91.

On such classic tracks as "Billie Jean" and "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'," Jones and Jackson drew upon disco, funk, rock, pop, R&B and jazz and African ... he was playing trumpet and befriending ...