Out of nowhere, a saxophonist appeared and started playing, instantly changing the atmosphere. The sound of the saxophone echoed through the space and caught the attention of people passing by. What ...
A guy asked if I could play Careless Whisper, and I didn’t expect what would happen next. As the familiar melody started on the piano, he joined in with a saxophone and the moment quickly turned into ...
Augustana College, Rock Island, will host its annual Shockingly Modern Saxophone Festival on Saturday, Feb. 21, a news release says. The event, featuring guest artists John Sampen and Mark Bunce, will ...
Saxophonist/composer Kate Olson has excelled in Seattle’s jazz and experimental scenes for about 15 years as a solo artist, ...
By nightfall, she’s onstage at the Marysville Opera House with Chicago Tribute Authority Seattle, an 11‑piece group channeling the 1970s band and their horns. Teacher by day, rock star by night. “I ...
The Conway Symphony Orchestra and Israel Getzov performs John Williams’ score while the movie screens behind them for “JAWS ...
Across the 21st century as a soloist or in two other bands - Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, and the recent supergroup called ...
Each of the three pieces the Butler County Symphony Orchestra will perform at its concert Saturday, March 7, has international themes and motifs, even though all of them were composed on American ...
The hometown Trim/Breiwick Quartet kept it tight, with originals inspired by the standards, at The Estate on Feb. 28.
Even rock's legends can't do it every time. From Led Zep to The Byrds, these 25 rock icons have tracks they’d rather erase from memory ...
A few weeks ago, my husband and I watched “Come See Me in the Good Light,” the impossibly tender, emotionally raw and, at ...
He wrote and sang the band’s hit single Let Go the Line, and later pursued a career in medical illustration and did landscape painting ...