Musicians of all genres will be informed and enlightened by jazz journalist-historian Bob Bernotas' profiles, conversations, and master classes with such major brass artists as trombonists J.J. Johnson, Benny Powell, Al Grey, Slide Hampton, Steve Turre, Robin Eubanks, Conrad Herwig, Grover Mitchell, Art Baron, and Dick Griffin, and trumpeters Clark Terry, Art Farmer, Lester Bowie, Claudio Roditi, Wallace Roney, Valery Ponomarev, lngrid Jensen, Byron Stripling, Ray Vega, among many others.
Top Brass' 38 chapters offer an engaging and informative survey of the art and craft of jazz brass playing.