Our Inside the Trumpet podcast brings you artists from around the country to discuss their music, the impact it has on them personally and some of them will even give budding musicians a bit of free advice for breaking into the industry. This show is for you if you enjoy jazz – and it’s really for you if you travel to various jazz festivals – as you will recognize many of the guests on this show.

Tom Rigney has been a part of the San Francisco Bay Area roots music scene for more than thirty-five years. In 2000, after fifteen years as the leader and electrifying violinist of The Sundogs, fiddler/composer Tom Rigney stepped out on his own

Followers of La Lucha have known for a long time that this is a ‘trio with a difference.’ The first-call rhythm section in the Tampa Bay scene is at home in any jazz context

At age six, Pieter played in a concert band that his father conducted in the coastal community of Oostkapelle, and he did some conducting of classical orchestras himself in his mid 20’s. He identifies …