Growing up in Uptown New Orleans, Troy Sawyer was always drawn to the rich, brassy music of a second-line band. He loved the bold sound of a trumpet so much that he made it his career. But to Sawyer, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Various studies show that children with asthma can improve their lung function by regularly playing wind instruments. It's also ...

Hollie Farris stood on the Tonight Show stage 30 years ago, playing a trumpet solo with James Brown on one side and Johnny Carson on the other. Farris, 75, a Dickson resident and local musician, said ...

Mark Anson really didn't have an answer when asked his secret for longevity. "It's a surprise to me that I'm this old," the 95-year-old admitted. "I think I woke up one day and I was 90." Kayla Malott ...

NEW ORLEANS — For Chrisana Brown and her bandmates, jazz sounds like opportunity and sisterhood. “It feels like a victory,” Trumpeter Chrisana Brown said. But women didn’t have a seat at the jazz ...

As part of our StoryCorps' Military Voices Initiative, we hear from Air Force veterans Linda and Mark Green who met as trumpet players in a military band and are now celebrating 45 years of marriage.

INDIANAPOLIS – Before he became a linebacker for the Indianapolis Colts, Tony Walker wasn’t going to play football. Mom wasn’t having it. Tony was a musician with the gift and passion of his dad, who ...

The first time Herb Alpert picked up the trumpet, it barely made a sound. But it was that trumpet that soon started doing the talking for the shy 8-year-old boy from the Eastside of Los Angeles. “I ...

Time now for StoryCorps' Military Voices Initiative - recording and sharing the stories of service members and their families. Today, a love story that began in a military band. Since the ...