The University of North Texas is marking a milestone: 75 years of offering jazz studies. "Jazz initially was saloon music in the brothels, not the concert hall," UNT One O'Clock Lab Band Director Alan ...

To mark the seventieth anniversary of its establishment, the Division of Jazz Studies at the University of North Texas in Denton has issued superb CD compilations honoring four of its distinguished ...

DaCamera's noble efforts notwithstanding, top-tier jazz talent doesn’t perform in Houston nearly as often as it should. This week it will. On Thursday, the Houston Symphony will welcome the University ...

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For University of North Texas alumnus Aakash Sridhar, the journey to jazz — and his debut album, Revived Emotions — started with the tabla and few chances to improvise. “I was not into the concept of ...

Brava Jazz Publishing launched on International Women's Day for a reason. The one-of-a-kind outlet aims to champion and widely distribute the work of women composers and arrangers in the big band jazz ...

University of North Texas music professor Brad Leali thought an email alerting him to a hefty award was spam. “I got an email that said, you know, you got the jazz educator of the year. The Ellis ...

Tito Charneco might have been born to tell stories with the tenor saxophone. The University of North Texas student was born in Brooklyn, that spot that has an ongoing arm-wrestling match with New ...

A long-running radio station broadcasting jazz across the North Texas airwaves is no more. On Friday, the University of North Texas’ student-run radio station — KNTU — switched from jazz to indie and ...

A University of North Texas graduate has given his alma mater a gift leaders are calling “transformative.” James Thomason, who earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from UNT, donated $2 ...