Dizzy Gillespie’s B-flat Trumpet, 1972 This week’s Smithsonian Snapshot celebrates Jazz Appreciation Month with American jazz legend John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie’s trumpet. In the 1940s, Gillespie, ...

This trumpet was made by Dominic Calicchio in Los Angeles, California around 1954 to 1956. It is a B-flat trumpet, serial #1520, made of brass with 3 piston valves. This trumpet is engraved: D.

Composer and musician Darren Solomon has created an interactive musical work designed for anyone to play. It's called "In B Flat," and it uses instruments ranging from a piano to a Nintendo DS. It ...

A worker inspects and cleans a Vincent Bach B-Flat Trumpet at the factory in Elkhart, Indiana last month. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times. 3 of 8.

David Mason, who died on April 29 aged 85, was principal trumpet, at various times, at Covent Garden and the Royal Philharmonic and Philharmonia Orchestras, but he became better known as the ...