While playing Careless Whisper on a public piano a man asked to join and brought his saxophone turning the performance into a ...

Whittled down to twin instrumental poles, there can be a temptation to fill the yawning gaps between. However the best duets are those which take the less traveled path, taut without undue rhetoric, ...

Piano and saxophone duets are jazz distilled to its bare essentials: one linear melodic voice interacting with a chordal and rhythmic partner, also capable of leading the line. What these two European ...

A guy asked if I could play Careless Whisper, and I didn’t expect what would happen next. As the familiar melody started on ...

Student musicians from the region recently participated in the Western State Solo and Ensemble Festival in Missoula. The festival held May 5-6 featured students who received superior ratings at the ...

Street musicians often can be a nuisance to New York City subway riders. But these two saxophonists put on a welcome show that passengers would not soon forget. Determined not to just let one musician ...

David Johnke leads the Flathead High School Symphonic Band in a piece called “Lux Aurumque” (‘Light and Gold”) by Eric Whitacre in the District 1 Music Festival on April 5 at Glacier High School.