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Growing up, Kevin Woods was surrounded by music from the swing era, in part because his dad was a trumpet player with a big band in Walla Walla.

“He gave me a bugle at age 2, a cornet at age 5, then a trumpet in junior high school,” Woods says.

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…

Don Phillips, a longtime Bellingham jazz aficionado, recently donated a sizable quantity of his music collection to Western Washington University's jazz program and music library.

Here are the details, according to Don, in his words:

"I have amassed a large amount of jazz…