The Dallas Mavericks are set to square off against the Boston Celtics in the 2024 NBA finals starting June 6th. Boston, who has been to the conference finals in 6 out of the past 8 seasons and will ...

Jazz is complex music that even some professional musicians have difficulty playing. Yet somehow, jazz-band teachers create new jazz musicians out of youngsters who just a few years earlier knew ...

Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk—all jazz greats had to start somewhere. For those locally who want to get great, the Milwaukee Jazz Institute has been offering programming since 2020.

Although there have been jazz violinists ever since the music began, formal jazz education programs in schools usually are set up to cater mostly to trumpets, trombones, saxophones and rhythm sections ...

In an era where we create entire festivals around electronic dance music and praise carefully engineered techno tracks, jazz might seem like a far cry into the colossal cavern of music history. While ...

Jazz has also begun to win recognition as a valuable part of American culture. In 1996, the U.S. Department of Education included jazz techniques in its national music standards, a set of guidelines ...

As for motivation, teaching and learning jazz involves clearly identifiable motivating features. Jazz-band teachers can’t take credit for some of these features, but creative teachers in other subject ...