If a title such as Essays on Jazz might suggest something dry or academic (or, god forbid, pretentious), perish the thought. For one thing, Maria Baptist has spent decades as a professor of music and ...

Click to open image viewer. This piano once resided in the historical Pilgrim Baptist Church of Chicago, Illinois, where it was used as a rehearsal piano by music director, Thomas A. Dorsey, the ...

Like it or not, a new wave of young composer / arrangers has surfaced, scrupulously guiding big bands into heretofore uncharted waters, now and then smooth, at other times choppy, but always ...

In his early teens, J. Barry Vaughn played piano at Sunday morning worship services at First Baptist Church of Hayden. "I'm very grateful for my Baptist upbringing," said Vaughn, now an Episcopal ...

Brianna Price, of Woodway, presented her senior piano recital Sunday at Columbus Avenue Baptist Church. A piano student of Ann Lindsey, Brianna is a home-schooled high school senior and has earned 52 ...