The legendary drummer Art Blakey once said, “Jazz washes away the dust of everyday life.” It’s a quote that resonates with me as a music fanatic and recent saxophone student. Lessons and practice ...

When Kenny Gorelick was a teenager in the early ’70s, he took saxophone lessons from a man named Johnnie Jessen in a sparsely decorated room across from the downtown Seattle Nordstrom’s.”His whole ...

TRAVERSE CITY — Laurie Sears picked up her first saxophone at 10 years old and has been playing ever since. Private lessons and band classes turned into shows with local jazz bands and orchestras ...

Georgianna Krieger began playing the saxophone at the age of 9 and just kept playing. She spent several formative years growing up in Denton Texas, a fabled jazz town, and attended the Arts Magnet ...