FESTIVAL/CRUISE: Trumpets Sound at Carefusion Newport Jazz Festival August 6 - 8

Writer Eugene Holley, Jr. gives his take on trumpet masters performing at CareFusion Newport Jazz Festival NEWPORT, RI--Buddy Bolden blowing on the Mississippi, the clarion call of Louis Armstrong's "West End Blues," the revolutionary, reordering of modern music proclaimed by Dizzy Gillespie's "Night in Tunisia," to the walking-on eggshell artistry of Miles Davis; trumpeters have always heralded the infinitive variety of jazz's inventions and dimensions. Now, well into the change of the century...

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