Jazz

By Jesse Nolan   The 16th Annual Jazz Education Network (JEN) Conference, held from January 8-11, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia,...

Adapted from “Five Steps for Growing a Healthy Crop” Hungry For Truth blog from the South Dakota Soybean Farmers, August...

SBO+: We are thrilled to announce a renewed partnership with JEN, the Jazz Education Network. Each month they will provide...

In the early 1960s, my group, The Lee Evans Trio (piano, bass, drums), played a roughly six-month gig atop the...

For many in the packed house at Norfolk Virginia’s Chrysler Hall on February 25, it was a great concert with...

As a music educator your passion for music is obvious, but what works and composers ignited a flame in you...

Self - talk is something we all do. We can be in denial about things we need to do differently,...

Great locations, terrific music, and heck, you may be able to write it off as professional development (repeat LOUDLY after...

Have you ever had a piano student who wanted to learn how to compose music and asked you the best...

The ability to play notes in the altissimo register is a highly desirable skill for most jazz saxophonists. This skill...

SBO+: Eugene Marlow’s work in documenting jazz in China is an important look into music in a country that is...

Slap tonguing is an extended technique used by saxophonists that produces a unique popping sound when articulating notes in a...