My old teacher Joe Allard was a saxophone psychiatrist, who taught far better players than me. He taught far better sax players than him. How he did that provides a lesson for all of us today — and ...

Whenever I go one-on-one with Joe Faissal — and those special occasions don’t occur nearly enough — I can sense the gentle Mediterranean breeze whispering over our coffee cups. I drink in the scent of ...

My good friend, Joe Faissal, was born 90 years ago in a sleepy village in Lebanon. After arriving in the U.S. in 1956, he married and went on to earn a degree in math and physics from the University ...