Once upon a time, trumpets didn't get much love in smooth jazz. Everyone wanted to listen to the sax, instead. Then along came popular trumpeters such as Chris Botti and Rick Braun, who headlines ...

“The smooth jazz trumpet idiom has been the stronghold of Ric Braun, Greg Adams, Chris Botti and, in its earliest iterations, Miles Davis and Herb Alpert. With Workin' It,, Bolvin shows he has the ...

Rick Braun remembers the former Bethlehem Steel. Braun, a recording artist and smooth jazz trumpeter, singer and composer, is a native of Allentown. He will perform Saturday against the familiar ...

WE’LL KEEP A CLOSE EYE ON IT. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. MARK. THAT’S THE JASMINE IN MILWAUKEE BASED GROUP RECENTLY MAKING BILLBOARD’S SMOOTH JAZZ CHARTS. JOINING ME NOW IS THE GROUP’S FOUNDER AND TRUMPET ...

Recently I heard a smooth jazz trumpet star “do” Miles Davis. He captured Miles’s distinctive muted tone, getting every note right, and, more surprisingly, even the spaces between. The trouble was ...