Cloggin’ and Bloggin’

July8, 2011

Never did I clog but I  just started to blog. I’m lookin’ for a way out of  this fog and I feel like a dog stuck on a log. I ain’t no hog, just wish I could hop like frog and find a better way to blog.


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Baby Grand Piano/Baby Grand Daughter

July 5, 2011

Playing my baby grand piano and playing WITH my baby grand daughter are both opportunities to create. When playing with Aurora I create learning experiences for her. When playing  my piano  I create music from my experiences. My new CD ( “My Life”)  ends with a song I wrote called “My Two Baby Grands” , a funny story about Aurora and I going down to Louisiana to play and sing together. It could not have been written without the priceless moments I spend playing with her  while both of us grow and create.

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Holiday? There’s no holidays in art!

July 4, 2011

Now I’m not against holidays, I’m not un-american, I’m certainly not negative and I KNOW I’m in a minority. Holidays were never a big deal for me. As a kid it seemed like a waste of time to not being able to do what I wanted to do, which was not go to some party, visit some cousins or get dressed up for a special occasion. I wanted to play, create, invent, improvise and do something that everybody else was NOT doing. Art never takes a holiday, just like death. I respect all the millions of hard working men and women who work hard at a job they don’t like and deserve holidays to relax, am most of all am grateful to the men and women in uniform, be it here or overseas. Being an artist is so enjoyable I don’t want to take a day off to celebrate some day that has nothing to do with what I’m into. I’m not a workaholic and I’m not egotistic, just anti-holiday.

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Contemplating, Commenting and Composing

July 2, 2011

Contemplating my new life style, commenting on other people’s blogs and composing my own blog and music has my head in a high place. While raising my grand daughter, finding ways to connect intelligently  and emotionally  with my wife and daughter, working out and doing yard work, I do all the contemplating, composing I can and  hope some one will comment on my composing.  I’m still contemplating how to do all this while being here and now. I LIKE IT!!!!!!

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My new life

June 28, 2011

This business of being a retired Karate Instructor and a full time Musician is going to be interesting. I’m learning how to do it while doing it at the same time!!! Its going to take a while to get use to making my own schedule, using my energy in more creative ways and learning more about on line marketing.The hardest thing to learn is how to ask the right question to the right person.

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Giging and playing

 

June 26, 2011

Friday night’s gig with Dave Morgan and Bob Bowen was FUN!!! We just jammed on old standards and had a ball.  A group of people from New Orleans came in and made the gig extra special. They danced, tipped well and even bought one of my CD’ s. Dave and Bob played circles around but  made made me look good.

Saturday was Aurora’s day with me all day. We went to the mall and visited Marc Baskind at Hayden music, played on the escalators, bought her a new pair of sunglasses ( she threw her last ones out of the car window) ate lunch at the co-op, came home for a nap, went to the playground, watched Scooby Doo on DVD and after a bath ( she poured a pitcher of water on the floor of the bathroom) went to bed. What a day!!!!

Sunday I was back at the Hotel Roanoke’s Regency Room playing solo piano for brunch. Tips were unusually fat!!

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My last day as a Karate Instructor

 

 

 

June 24, 2011

My last day as a karate instructor at American Freestyle Karate . When I finish teaching at 6 PM I go to the Hotel Roanoke to play a trio gig in the Regency Room with Dave Morgan on vibes and Bob Bowen on bass. And so begins a new phase of my life as a full time musician for the first time since 2006. Now I can write and record original music, market it on the web, play live gigs and just try to make a living.

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