EditorialJazz musician Louis Armstrong's Esquire All-American 1946 Award is seen at the Louis Armstrong Center extension to his House Museum in the Queens borough of New York City
EditorialThe trumpeter Nate Wooley in the program “Anthony Braxton Theater Improvisations” by Experiments in Opera at the Brick Theater in Brooklyn, June 15, 2023. (Clark Hodgin/The New York Times)
Editorial Lowell Hershey, a trumpeter in “The Phantom of the Opera” orchestra, at the Majestic Theater in Manhattan on Feb. 7, 2023. (Todd Heisler/The New York Times)
Editorial Lowell Hershey, a trumpeter in “The Phantom of the Opera” orchestra, at the Majestic Theater in Manhattan on Feb. 7, 2023. (Todd Heisler/The New York Times)
Editorial Lowell Hershey, a trumpeter in “The Phantom of the Opera” orchestra, at the Majestic Theater in Manhattan on Feb. 7, 2023. (Todd Heisler/The New York Times)
EditorialFormer Secretary of State Madeleine Albright plays drums for the trumpeter Chris Botti at the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Drums Competition and Gala Concert at the Kennedy Center in Washington on Sept. 23, 2012. (Evelyn Hockstein/The New York Times)
Editorial Musicians perform during the grand re-opening event for David Geffen Hall in New York on Saturday, Oct. 8, 2022. (Christopher Lee/The New York Times)