As a Russian youth addicted to the jazz he heard on the Voice of America in the 1950s and ’60s, Valery Ponomarev dreamed of his great African American heroes, the legendary trumpeter Clifford Brown ...

You’ll find trumpets in orchestras, symphonies, mariachi bands and marching bands across the world. The lone trumpeter is often featured in the jazz music scene. But Corpus Christi audiences have an ...

Mr. Ponomarev worked with Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers for 4 years. With the Messengers, performed at major concert halls, clubs, and festivals all over the world, recorded eleven record albums.

Sergei Nakariakov plays the trumpet the way the rest of us breathe -- if we're lucky. He holds the instrument lightly and casually, as if it were simply an extra limb that he'd had since infancy. And ...

Trumpeter Valery Ponomarev, a Russian emigre who has carved a niche for himself in the American jazz world, performs Jan. 14 at the Blue Star Cafe, 26 Trumbull St., Hartford. Ponomarev, who was born ...