Louis Armstrong? Or Parliament-Funkadelic, Earth, Wind & Fire, and proto-rap group The Last Poets? It is perfectly logical to assume New Orleans-bred trumpeter and Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz composer ...

A dynamic and innovative composer, bandleader and trumpeter, Bill Warfield has energized audiences, performers and writers for more than four decades. Warfield’s most recent accomplishments are Mercy ...

From the time he took to the road as an 18 year old performing in front of 25,000 fans with Con Funk Shun, to sold out gigs with Huey Lewis & The News, to four-star productions like “Book of Mormon” ...

Before Al Chez and The Brothers of Funk’s concert Friday in the Renaissance Hotel ballroom to open the second annual Allentown JazzFest, Chez spoke to the audience. “We’re small, but we’re gonna rock ...

Randy Brecker's latest recordings are only mainstream because they are generously laced with R&B soul and multifaceted Latin funk. In all other aspects, Brecker, who performs with his younger brother ...

STANHOPE — The trumpet rested on a stand; the brass of the instrument illuminated by the red and yellow stage lights of The Stanhope House. Al Chez lifted the instrument to his lips, paused ...

SAN DIEGO – Louis Armstrong? Or Parliament-Funkadelic, Earth, Wind & Fire and proto-rap group the Last Poets? It is perfectly logical to assume New Orleans-bred trumpeter and Pulitzer Prize-winning ...