Blowing one of the most potent horns since the Biblical Joshua led a septet outside Jericho, the late Al Hirt (1922-1999) has left us with a trumpet legacy characterized by a singular blend of power ...

Today, the series continues with trumpeter Al Hirt's 1964 Grammy win. THEN: Trumpeter Al Hirt, one of New Orleans' best-known mid-century musicians, won his only Grammy in 1964 for his ...

This week we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Grammy-winning musician Al Hirt, the New Orleans-born trumpeter and bandleader nicknamed “Jumbo” who was known both for his size ...

Al Hirt, 76, the portly Dixieland jazz trumpeter who was a symbol of the exuberant laissez-faire way of life of New Orleans, died yesterday at his New Orleans home. Mr. Hirt had been hospitalized ...

Paul Cacia was Al Hirt's lead trumpet player and contracted the brass section for what Al Hirt called his dream band, formed in the fall of 1979. At the time of receiving the phone call to join Al ...

The eclectic halftime show included New Orleans trumpet titan Al Hirt, the Grambling State and University of Arizona marching bands, two men soaring above the field on Bell Aerosystems jet packs ...

Like, for instance, in Super Bowl I when trumpeter Al Hirt was the headliner of the halftime show that also featured marching bands from Arizona State and Grambling State (as well as a high school ...

The late trumpeter Al Hirt, who had his own club on Bourbon Street for more than two decades, will be inducted posthumously into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame this weekend. Hirt will be ...

Al Hirt’s trumpet and Pete Fountain’s clarinet created the soundtrack of 1960s Bourbon Street. Both Hirt and Fountain were New Orleans’ natives who were huge national successes on radio and ...

Al Hirt was one of those rare musicians who could play any style of music and do it with technical ease, This CD is a supreme example, truly amazing ...

Novelist Thomas Wolfe notwithstanding, you can go home again, even if you’re trumpeter Al Hirt and even if the New Orleans tourist and convention industry once wanted your head on a platter.

In 1964, the great trumpet man Al Hirt called them "The Doctah's Band." Rochester knows them as the Notochords. The band dates back to 1949, when a group of Mayo Clinic staff members put together ...