“There are more people playing jazz music at a higher level than ever before in the history of jazz.” That’s Ian Buss’s answer when I ask him about choosing a career playing straight-ahead jazz music ...

We all know that 3D printers are great for churning out plastic trinkets and tiny sculptures of questionable artistic worth, but what makes the technology truly exciting is when users push the its ...

The Encore Saxophone Quartet brought some great music to the great outdoors on Sunday. The quartet performed on a warm summer evening as part of the Garden Concert series at St. Luke’s Presbyterian ...

The educational market is saturated with printed materials that regurgitate the same concepts with slight-to-little-to-no variation, playing—or preying, perhaps—on everything from foundational needs ...

In much the same way, saxophonist Larry Ochs has found a rich source of ideas for organizing sound in Brakhage's spellbinding silent creations. "As an artist, you're always looking for inspiration and ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X For his opening piece, Richard McGhee drew rich, long tones from his sax, reveling in the natural ...

Charles Hines improvises with his alto saxophone during a hot Tuesday afternoon on Main Street in downtown Cape Girardeau. "I'm just having fun," he said, noting "people were loving it" when he ...

An operating theater isn't somewhere you'd normally expect to see someone belt out a saxophone solo, and even if you did, you wouldn't peg the player to be the patient lying on the table with their ...