Webster students cover concerts by Trevor, Karpowicz

The latest issue of the Webster University student newspaper, the Journal, has a couple of articles covering recent jazz events with a campus connection.

You can read an account of Jeanne Trevor's concert with the Webster Symphony Orchestra, held last Sunday, here, and a piece on saxophonist Mike Karpowicz's Monday night concert here.

While reading, keep in mind that these articles are written by students still learning their craft. Still, this passage from the second piece is absurd enough to be kind of funny:

"Adjunct music professor Dave Black played the guitar and the jazz guitar. Though the instruments have different names, Black said there is no difference in the sound. "Style doesn't dictate the structure of the instrument; it's the way you play it," Black said."

Given that music and media communications are two of Webster's most prominent departments, you'd think there would have been someone more knowledgeable - an editor, a faculty advisor, another student with more hands-on experience playing music - who would have spotted this as obvious gibberish and either edited or deleted it. Kind of makes you wonder just what those Webster students are getting for their tuition money...