This week's lineup of jazz and creative music shows in and around St. Louis includes a well-known expat back home for a couple of “summer vacation" shows, showcase performances for one of the city's ...

Richard M. Sudhalter, who won wide respect as a mellifluous cornet player and perspicacious jazz historian — and ignited controversy for a book arguing that jazz was shaped by white as well as black ...

During a recent Nat Adderly listening session, I thought “Why play this style on cornet and not trumpet?" I was thinking of the cliched perception of the cornet, as personified by cornet greats Oliver ...

Traditional jazz will be the cornerstone of a new concert series at Loyola University honoring cornet player Connie Jones and his wife, Elaine. The Connie Jones Legacy Band, an ensemble of players who ...

Louis Armstrong bought his first cornet at a New Orleans pawnshop, when he was 15 years old. The instrument cost $10, and was "all bent up, holes knocked in the bell". Nevertheless it was the ...

If you’re visiting the Satchmo Summerfest taking place this weekend at the New Orleans Jazz Museum at the Old U.S. Mint, step inside for a look at Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong’s cornet. The piece of ...

WASHINGTON — A time-blackened cornet that Louis Armstrong first learned to play 90 years ago at the Colored Waifs Home in New Orleans was shown off to reporters Thursday before going on display at the ...