The latest “meme” game to take the world by storm is Trombone Champ, a rhythm title all about the titular giant brass slide whistle. The addictive freeform gameplay, in which a mouse is all you need ...

It’ll be a homecoming of sorts when an Iowa native musician returns to Ames to perform this weekend. John Engelkes grew up in Parkersburg and now plays bass trombone with the San Francisco Symphony.

He recorded for Nelson Riddle, Frank Sinatra, Stan Kenton and John Williams and can be heard on the soundtrack for 'Jaws' By Mike Barnes Senior Editor After a long battle with multiple sclerosis, ...

If you liked “Guitar Hero” but wished it had more brass instruments, you’re in luck. A new rhythm game called “Trombone Champ” has struck a chord with users online, bringing the kind of much-needed ...

Each day, thousands of music students head to band practice with their trumpets, trombones and saxophones. But they may want to pay a bit more attention to the way they clean out their instruments ...

If you're as nuts for trombone as I am, The Trombones Inc. is an absolute dream album. Recorded in New York and Los Angeles over several sessions in December 1958, the concept was staggeringly ...

Members of the Warren Easton Charter High School student body were shaking their own student bodies Monday afternoon (Oct. 5), and for good reason, too. Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews, the global jazz ...

I appreciate how difficult it is to play brass instruments, which Rudesim fully demonstrated about a minute into the track. The trombone is controlled with movement and breath, and Rudeism manages to ...

Part of How To Classical. Why does the oboe tune the orchestra? Why does the orchestra sit the way it does? What does rosin actually do to a violin bow? If you find the traditions of the classical ...

When I think of a shock wave, I think “explosion,” like the ones on “Mythbusters” (where you can often see the resulting shock wave when the hi-speed video is played back in slow motion). I don’t ...