Wynton Marsalis has called him “the greatest trumpet maker in the world” – and that was before Dave Monette had come up with the “flumpet.” An exotic mixture of several brass instruments, the flumpet ...

Jazz trumpeter Snooky Young, who played for more than two decades in “The Tonight Show” band in addition to stints with Count Basie, Lionel Hampton and the Band, died last Wednesday in Newport Beach, ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The Count Basie Orchestra and the Duke Ellington Orchestra were big bands that were called orchestras much as William J. Basie was dubbed “Count” and Edward Kennedy Ellington was ...