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The Voice of the Loy Norrix Community

Knight Life

Jazz band director Dennis Shebukhov guides the jazz band through a musical set. The jazz band plays on as Shebukhov makes callouts and shouts measure numbers.

Jazz Band “swings” in to this year with huge optimism

Erik Courtney, Assistant Business Manager December 18, 2024

With on the spot improvisation and its swing style, jazz is a unique genre of music. Since Loy Norrix has its very own jazz band, any student who can play an instrument can join and express their creativity. According...

The Western Michigan University Dalton Center is being used for the Gilmore Piano Festival. Andentees shuffle around to find their seats before the show.

Performing on the ‘world’s stage,’ the 2024 Gilmore Piano Festival is looking sharp with over 100 musical events

Isabella Figueroa, Chief Copy Editor May 8, 2024

With over 100 musical events in a 19-day timeline, this festival seems like something you'd run into on your trip to Paris, but nope! It's right here in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Since 1989, the Irving S. Gilmore...

How music has changed through the past century

How music has changed through the past century

Isabella Aguilar, Staff Writer January 7, 2022

The soft, the loud, the calm, the wild; music is something that we have all listened to. Some of it we like and some of it we dislike. Music has changed and it will continue to, in ways we never might...

Looking Into the Life of Jazz: Understanding Transgenderism Through One Girl’s Experience

Looking Into the Life of Jazz: Understanding Transgenderism Through One Girl’s Experience

Esperanza Fraga May 15, 2019

Jazz Jennings, a very simple name that is causing a lot of talk. Jazz is a YouTuber and author of the chapter book “Being Jazz,” the kids book “I Am Jazz,” and stars in a TLC reality series about...

This group of musicians form the Western Jazz Quartet. They have all studied at Western Michigan University. Photo Credit / Alexis Martin

Jazz Music Entertains The New Generation

alexiskaymartin January 27, 2016

Have you ever wondered what it felt like to be in a college jazz band? To go from place to place just to make music with your small jazz quartet? On November 4th, the Western Jazz Quartet came to play...

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