One Man Jazz, Drummer, Composer
This week was sort of a tough week for me. I’d been sick for the past couple of weeks with the flu and acute bronchitis, and it’s been 10 days since I got back from the Holy Land tour in the Middle East. Take into account, 4 piano/drumming gigs in 7 days while trying to …
Here’s a singer I honestly haven’t heard of before, but this vintage album dates back to 1960. It’s a great swingin’ album. And I’ll have to do a little more research on her career. Incidentally, that is one of my passions, to do extensive research on old traditional songs and standards. Now, Diana Dors was …
“I wake up each morning and watch the rainhi-lili hi-lili hi-loTomorrow I’ll probably love againhi-lili hi-lili hi-lo…” This very sensitively done rendition of Hi-Lili Hi-Lo is my favorite. It breaks my heart every time, but in a good way. I play this a lot in my solo piano gigs, and I try very hard to …
There are times when I can’t stand Stravinsky’s ‘Rite of Spring’. Perhaps it’s a love/hate relationship… all that disonance when I crave listening to a Mozart Piano Concerto. But no one can doubt the orgiastic swirl of orchestral instruments, the pounding primal rhythms and the sharp stabbing disonance of The Rite of Spring. Yes, it …
