Students entering the jazz-studies program at the University of North Texas bring with them more experience every year, according to Dan Haerle, a professor of music at the university. In recent years ...

This series takes you through the building blocks of jazz and will demystify what happens on the bandstand. Some of the questions we will explore: How to count (really!). What is a downbeat? What is ...

This course, revised in 2022, will introduce you to the theory of music, providing you with the skills needed to read and write Western music notation, as well as to understand, analyse, and listen ...

Trumpeter and composer Daniel Rosenboom is probably not going to land a record deal with a major jazz label anytime soon. That’s a shame. In these days of constricted jazz-related record industry ...

It was the week after spring break and the freshman seminar hadjust finished a detailed discussion of the violin and the uniquequalities of its sound. Freshmen Lauren Carpenter, a violinist, ...

Double bassist and composer Matt Kendrick played bass guitar in local rock and funk bands before attending the UNC School of the Arts to become classically trained in the upright bass. Kendrick moved ...

Born in Brooklyn, New York, drummer Dana Hall has been an important musician on the international music scene since 1992. After completing his education in aerospace engineering at Iowa State ...