cornet
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An inventive trumpet and cornet player, Armstrong shifted jazz away from an ensemble experience with collective improvisation to one focused on solo performance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026
The cornet and trumpet virtuoso, who performed in Ornette Coleman’s band and taught jazz history at Pomona College and Pasadena City College for decades, chose the neighborhood partly because it was bustling with artists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2025
Headed by a local teenage cornet player, those in the funeral procession sang Swing Low, Sweet Chariot - amended slightly to include references to Wasdale.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2024
His most recent release, in 2022, was a trio album, “Heart Is a Melody,” with Kirk Knuffke on cornet and Matt Wilson on drums.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2023
She bought him a cornet and made him take lessons, figuring he’d be put in an army band and play at parades and reviews only and be kept away from the front.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
Wilson recently conducted two performances of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta “Princess Ida” on period instruments, with “tiny trombones and cornets and gut strings and everything.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2023
Chef Chavez recommends making several cornets to keep in your pastry toolbox at all times.
From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2023
Gougères were served, along with Keller’s signature cornets: salmon-tartare-filled ice-cream cones the size of golf tees.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 26, 2017
In the La Pasion Sevilla brass band, all the cornets are sopranos.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2012
He did not pay any attention because he was listening to the forming of the troops, the sound of the cornets, and the voices of command that were shattering the dawn.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Musical Instruments - Middle School
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