When Barry Perkins puts a trumpet to his lips, instrument and man meld into one and the notes fill your soul. If that sounds like hyperbole, you haven’t heard Perkins play. Or more likely you have – ...
When Barry Perkins puts a trumpet to his lips, instrument and man meld into one and the notes fill your soul. If that sounds like hyperbole, you haven’t heard Perkins play. Or more likely you have – ...
From the half-shell bandstand on the lip of Lake Eola or the fountain-affixed lobby of the Peabody Orlando, his trumpet roared and purred. For Benjamin Louis Smalley, mastery of the instrument was not ...
In response to Liane Hansen's question about hearing a trumpet that reminded her of Herb Alpert, musician Ben Vaughn said, "that was the guy who played in the Liberace Orchestra for 15 years." In post ...
When Arthur H. Zens picked up a trumpet he was 10 years old. When he put it down for the last time he was 92. In between those two points in his life, Art Zens, who died May 7 at age 93, created a ...