Scores of former Ohio State University Marching Band members have come to the defense of its fired director and the organization’s reputation. We recently reported a university official made efforts ...

WASHINGTON (March 23, 2012) -- Brucker Hall, The U.S. Army Band's home on Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, has been buzzing with activity all week during the annual Eastern Trombone Workshop (ETW). It ...

Long before Trombone Shorty certified the trombone’s viability as a lead instrument for a rock band with arena ambitions, MuleBone mounted a similar effort. Founded in New Orleans in the mid-1990s by ...

Over the weekend, Dave Matthews Band returned to Charlottesville, Va., for a pair of hometown shows at John Paul Jones Arena. On Friday and Saturday night, DMB welcomed a pair of guests, including ...

The peripatetic, both geographically and musically, trombonist Roswell Rudd ranges far and wide on these two albums: a trombone-dominated romp involving five bands from two continents and a ...

Sometime around 1990, photographer Michael P. Smith, one of the most prolific documentarians of New Orleans culture, snapped a photo at a second-line of Lois Nelson Andrews. The daughter of R&B singer ...

Natalie Cressman is a rising star, but her career isn't easy to categorize. She's a jazz trombone player who's also a singer-songwriter, known in the jam band community for her work in the Trey ...

In New Orleans, it's cool to be in the high school band — especially when Trombone Shorty shows up in the band room. The brass player and bandleader recently paid a visit to New Orleans' Warren Easton ...

Being nominated for a Grammy Award is an amazing accomplishment — especially when it happens more than once, as one University of Massachusetts Amherst professor knows. Ben Barnett, an adjunct faculty ...

It’s best not to ask why someone would outfit his trombone with a flamethrower. The better question is why the rest of the brass section hasn’t followed suit. For fairly obvious reasons, please don’t ...

Trombone Shorty is 39 years old but he's already taken center stage in New Orleans for 35 years. The Grammy Award winning musician from The Big Easy will perform "America the Beautiful" with ...