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How To Improvise With Others (When You Lack Confidence) by Monica Shriver Confidence is a tricky thing. Sometimes you feel it and sometimes you don’t. Sometimes you deserve to be confident and sometimes you don’t. And sometimes that doesn’t stop you. The trick is tempering confidence with humility and kindness. When is comes to improvising, […]

How To Live Well On The Road (An Interview With Trumpeter Terell Stafford) by Christopher Davis In 2005, I graduated from college, not really understanding how I could have a music career outside of teaching in the classroom.  I knew that it was possible to earn a living as a performer but I really didn’t […]