The Texas Instruments Jazz Band is a full 20-piece big band consisting of saxes, trombones, trumpets, a rhythm section, and a vocalist. The band is organized through the Texins Association (Dallas, ...
Historically the cornet was the quintessential jazz instrument but over a century of its evolution other instruments have also become part of the regular jazz armamentarium. These include common ones ...
Steve Alcala started teaching high school music in the 1980s. Today, he supplies much needed sheet music to customers around ...
Queens-born saxophonist John DiFiore, who played with legends like the Glenn Miller Band, has spent 50 years teaching and performing jazz in Fargo-Moorhead.
East Detroit High School alumni Dave Sell is getting the band back together – literally. The 1979 graduate was a member of the school’s award-winning band program under the direction of Al Marco when ...
Some may think of big band jazz as the sound of a bygone era, but it thrives in the Southern Regional School District. Students and their teachers take the music very seriously, as evidenced by a ...
Legendary American trumpeter, composer, and music instructor, Wynton Marsalis, and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO ...
The last few years have been brutal for local band students. Hurricane Ida upended the last school year, keeping some students out of school for weeks and damaging some students’ instruments in the ...
SALT LAKE CITY — If not for jazz, Charles Barkley maybe makes that pair of free throws. But Sir Charles’ mind was elsewhere. He was pissed. Pissed at that pill of a trombone player who ventured off ...