Though the first movement has a loose sonata form, like most symphonies you're familiar with, the first melody is played by a muted trumpet that sounds like a 12-bar blues form (giving the ...

After the intro, Miles states the melody with his muted trumpet sound. Then, as commenter M Morrell (concertgoer) says, When he lands on a F# in the A- chord, it's so hip.

Imagine a trumpeter swan unable to utter a single sound. E.B. White’s classic tale gives voice to what it means to be different and swim against the tide. While the message of the story sings… ...

The central section features a sultry, sinuous melody for muted trumpet which sounds like out-of-tune Armenian blues. The trumpeter dashed through the final cadenza with its tricky double tonguing ...

Kurtz is blind, so to read music he has to play the trumpet one handed, which is challenging, especially when the music calls for him use a mute on his trumpet. "I memorize fairly quickly," he said.