Kevin Woods

One never knows how simple acts can shape a life.

Trumpet and flugelhorn player Kevin Woods, who’s been director of jazz studies at Western Washington University since 2015, remembers making family road trips with music as an important passenger. 

“We only owned two cassette…

Bellingham drummer Julian MacDonough founded Whatcom Jazz Music Art Center one year ago as an all-ages nonprofit performance and education space in the lower level of The Majestic on North Forest Street, with the entrance on Maple Street.

It’s an intimate space with a capacity of 100, but…