Mr. Miller is a Grammy-nominated drummer and the founder of a music education company. Each fall, as school starts up again, music educators witness a familiar ritual: Eager first-time students squeak ...

Steve Alcala, a music teacher and trumpet player, fell in love with Latin Jazz, but very little sheet music was available to help his students learn. So he started a sheet music publishing company.

Remember the recorder? It's that small plastic instrument — looks kind of like a flute or clarinet — that's often the first instrument children learn to play in school. Or, at least, they used to. But ...