An area professor has released an album Psalm melodies. Wally Brath, director of the worship arts program at Grace College and Seminary, wrote most of the songs during the pandemic in 2020 and took a ...

Adrian Cunningham, Jazz Interludes- Episode 1 from Vail Jazz Foundation on Vimeo. Vail Jazz Presents: Jazz Interludes, Professor Cunningham & his Old School Band, Episode 1. Presented by Janet and Jim ...

Antonio J. García is a man who wears many hats. The New Orleans native is a music professor and director of Jazz Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he directs the Jazz Orchestra I. He ...

The Mississippi Valley Blue Society's artist-in-residence April 19-24, Bill Bell, is coming home to his own stretch of the river. He's from East Moline. Known as ``The Jazz Professor'' because of his ...

When big band jazz musicians settle into their seats, most of the music on their stands is composed and arranged by men. Alan Baylock, the director of the University of North Texas One O’clock Lab ...

In one of the more noteworthy album discoveries of recent years Schlossin Records, a division of Moyel Music, has unearthed a series of extremely rare cuts featuring the vocal skills of that ...

It seems that over the last few years, the New Orleans-based collective Naughty Professor has built up a reputation that has a lot of musicians ambling on down to the Crescent City to sit in with them ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — David Baker, a prolific jazz composer and musician who founded the jazz studies program at Indiana University, died Saturday at age 84, the school said in a statement. The ...

John Paulson could have been a mortician. He became a musician instead. Nearly 45 years later, Paulson is retiring, closing a 31-year career as a professor at Saint Mary’s University. The decision ...

A master of the French horn, a rarity in jazz, he toured the world with the pianist Dwike Mitchell and taught music at Yale. By Alex Williams Willie Ruff, who fashioned an unlikely career in jazz as a ...