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Trumpeter and vocalist Wendell Brunious boasts a towering musical family tree primarily flowered with trumpets. He is the son of trumpet master John “Picket” (or “Picky”) Brunious Sr. and Nazimova “Chinee” Santiago, the niece of guitarist/banjoist Willie Santiago.

Brunious believes what’s considered the “Brunious sound” all began with his father’s influence. “When my father first started to develop as a trumpet player was in an era before amplification, so you had to play loud enough to hear yourself and to be heard in the band. I kind of think that’s where what some people call the Brunious sound kind of started

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Old School with Wendel Brunious

by Thomas Cole
September 24, 2026

Growing up in my family, there was quite a bit of music around the house, as my brother John Brunious would be practicing and my daddy would be doing the same. John had actually taught me to play the blues, beginning with Going to New Orleans, first learning it on the piano. Of course, there were ...

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First Weekend of the 2026 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival

by Mark Robbins
May 28, 2026

The Fair Grounds Race Course and Slots in New Orleans is transformed for two weekends a year into the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Once inside the gates the walk to the far end of the fair grounds to the Jazz Tent is filled the sounds of music from the Kid's Tent, zydeco, soul and ...

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Echoing the Angel Gabriel: Leroy Jones and his Signature Sound

by Taliya Hafiz
March 25, 2025

This story roots its preface in 2015 in JazzAscona at a press conference dedicated to jazz trumpeters and featuring a league of fantastic musicians: Wendell Brunious, John Michael Bradford, Kevin Louis and Shamarr Allen, who kindly shared their perceptions of the “trumpet as an instrument." “My trumpet is my girlfriend, I kiss her every day," Allen ...

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Johnny Vidacovich: Magnet In The Middle

by Thomas Cole
November 13, 2023

The ever changing cast of the Johnny Vidacovich Trio defies the meaning of that word--trio . Historically, jazz trios with a drummer in the middle have included such notables as Art Blakey, Gene Krupa and Max Roach but none of those groups changed cast members on a weekly basis or deviated very far from what they ...

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The Preservation Hall Jazz Band at Miner Auditorium

by Thomas Cole
August 28, 2023

The Preservation Hall Jazz Band Livestreamed from SF JAZZ Miner Auditorium San Francisco, CA August 18, 2023 The dichotomy or, in more blunt terms, the extreme differences of opinion over the current course charted out by creative director and heir to the Hall, Ben Jaffe, seemingly has been fully addressed with ...

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Woody Shaw & Todd Cochran

by Joe Dimino
December 12, 2021

The 729th Episode of Neon Jazz begins with veteran pianist Todd Cochran and music off Then and Again, Here and Now and follow it with the legend who gave him his stellar beginnings in Bobby Hutcherson. From there we motor through an hour of music with modern musicians making 2021 a memorable year including Scott Reeves, ...

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Interview: Wendell Brunious

January 26, 2021

If the name Wendell Brunious is not familiar to you, I assure you that the sound of his trumpet will stick with you the moment you hear it. Wendell, 66, has spent much of his life in New Orleans, growing up in a musical family rich in the New Orleans jazz tradition. From 1987 into the ...

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Peter Martin, Wendell Brunious to Perform for Benefit on Saturday, November 19 at the Sheldon

September 27, 2011

Pianist Peter Martin will team with New Orleans trumpeter Wendell Brunious to provide the music for “ArtSounds: French Quarter Fête," an event to benefit the Sheldon Art Galleries to be held at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, November 19 at the Sheldon. Martin and Brunious will team with bassist Chris Thomas—who, like Martin, originally is from St. ...

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Take Five With Erik Jekabson

by AAJ Staff
September 12, 2010

Meet Erik Jekabson: Erik Jekabson is a freelance trumpet player, composer and educator who has recorded or performed with Illinois Jacquet, the Woody Herman Big Band, John Mayer, Galactic, Mark Turner, Brian Blade, and Nicholas Payton, among others. He has a Bachelor's of Music from Oberlin Conservatory of Music and a Master's of Music from the ...