Wow! The AI's response was amazing! It's like I'm really talking to a person; I'm surprised. To be honest, French-made trumpets are not very common in Japan and are a rare presence. I think Antoine ...

Paris-based Leila Olivesi is an award-winning composer and pianist. She has won Best Musician of the Year awards and a Django Reinhardt prize and she won the Ellington Composers prize in 2013. Add to ...

Airelle Besson has enjoyed exceptional success in recent years: she has twice been named Best French Musician of the Year by the French Django Reinhardt Award Academy and as Jazz Revelation of the ...

Trumpet-accordion duos are rare enough to be filed under 'endangered species,' so infrequent are sightings. Dave Douglas and Guy Klucevsek broke cover with a number of duets on the quartet album ...

A world-renowned brass instrument brand based in North Yorkshire has been acquired by a leading UK musical instrument company. John Packer Musical Instruments, one of the UK’s largest specialist brass ...

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Besson is actually in his not-that-impressionable mid-60s, but an adolescent impulse has run through much of his work over the years, including (and maybe especially) in his best-loved movies, like ...

Starring Caleb Landry Jones (“Harvest”), two-time Academy Award winner Christoph Waltz (“Django Unchained,” “Inglourious Basterds”) and Zoë Bleu (“Gonzo Girl”), the film is set for a wide theatrical ...

Some musicians tastelessly plunder songbooks from other artists. Some merely copy the material because they have run out of ideas. Some (in rare cases) burnish the original songs with fresh meaning ...