Wisconsin-born tenor saxophonist/composer Matt Olson has traveled 789 miles from his childhood home to his current home in South Carolina, where he teaches at Furman University. His original ...

Pianist Michael Kocour was born and raised in the Chicago area. He received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Illinois in 1985 and went on to a Master's degree in music ...

With the recent release of his second solo piano album "East of the Sun," professor of music and director of jazz studies at the ASU School of Music Michael Kocour has set out to preserve the ...

Wherever You Go, There You Are, Michael Kocour's energetic, deeply focused, imaginatively performed solo recital, is a patchwork of eight, twentieth-century jazz and popular songs, as well as two of ...

November 16, 2007 • Pianist and educator Michael Kocour spent years on the Chicago jazz scene, leading his own trio and playing high-profile gigs with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie and the Chicago ...