cornet

An inventive trumpet and cornet player, Armstrong shifted jazz away from an ensemble experience with collective improvisation to one focused on solo performance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026

The cornet and trumpet virtuoso, who performed in Ornette Coleman’s band and taught jazz history at Pomona College and Pasadena City College for decades, chose the neighborhood partly because it was bustling with artists.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2025

Headed by a local teenage cornet player, those in the funeral procession sang Swing Low, Sweet Chariot - amended slightly to include references to Wasdale.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2024

His most recent release, in 2022, was a trio album, “Heart Is a Melody,” with Kirk Knuffke on cornet and Matt Wilson on drums.

From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2023

She bought him a cornet and made him take lessons, figuring he’d be put in an army band and play at parades and reviews only and be kept away from the front.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

According to Chef Chavez, cornets are especially great for working with chocolate.

From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2023

Gougères were served, along with Keller’s signature cornets: salmon-tartare-filled ice-cream cones the size of golf tees.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 26, 2017

Beneath it, tiny wild daisies and mint ornamented the grass with pink tassels and purple cornets.

From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2016

In the La Pasion Sevilla brass band, all the cornets are sopranos.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2012

He did not pay any attention because he was listening to the forming of the troops, the sound of the cornets, and the voices of command that were shattering the dawn.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez