Jazz Ensemble Story

Here's a story I wrote about this fall's incarnation of the NIU Jazz Ensemble. The story could have been more newsy, telling folks to come out to the concert to hear some great jazz, etc. but I decided to go a feature route, focusing on the new director and the new aesthetic he brought to the band. Of course, to do this issue justice the article would have been about five times as long, but whatcha gonna do?

I also didn't have room to include info about the news aspect that most people probably thought was most prescient: the guest artist on the Jazz Ensemble's tour is renowned drummer Peter Erskine. So instead, I included a little "sidebar" article about Erskine that's only in the online edition of the newspaper.

Hope you like it.