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 ...

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 ...

Trumpeter Chris Botti, who plays one show with his band at the Orange County Performing Arts Center on Jan. 8, looks more like Hollywood’s version of a jazz trumpet player than the real deal. Blond ...

The annual Atlanta Smooth Music Festival, the only all day music experience devoted solely to smooth jazz, is coming to the Mable House Barnes Amphitheatre on Sept. 10. “We’ve unapologetically planned ...

His instrumental interpretation of Charlie Puth & Selena Gomez's Hot 100 top 10 has become a hit on the Smooth Jazz Songs chart. By Gordon Murray Esteemed smooth jazz trumpet player Rick Braun, teamed ...

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 ...

One might wonder what might have drawn the great Miles Davis to record melodically verbatim covers of Michael Jackson's "Human Nature" and Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time," in a smooth jazz format.