jazz education

Frank DeMiero who started Edmonds College music program in the mid-1970s, has died.

With key grant funding, an enthusiastic board and a new home for its performances, the Jazz Center of Bellingham is experiencing an upswing.

With a nationally acclaimed local jazz program at risk, the trumpet legend joins Washington Middle School graduates in protest.

The ISJAC International Jazz Composers Symposium is a bi-annual conference that brings hundreds of jazz composers, arrangers, educators and industry executives together for three days of concerts, lectures, panel discussions and the presentation of new jazz compositions and arrangements.

The Girls Jazz Day mission is to create safe space for female musicians to own their voice, feel empowered in improvisation and take musical risks. The program is open to girls and female-identified or gender non-conforming youths who play an instrument or sing.

Talented musicians ages 16-19 from across the country have an opportunity to train with an all-star faculty of renowned musicians, perform on the famed Carnegie Hall stage and travel to some of the greatest concert halls in the United States.

Three area high schools are competing in the Essentially Ellington festival and competition in New York City this weekend: Mountlake Terrace,…