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  You keep playing, keep studying, keep listening, keep learning, and you keep developing.  Jazz is not a nine to one [a.m.] job, once or twice a week.  It’s a way of life.  Some people develop in their twenties. Some people mature in their thirties...

  The Call: The fog from PTSD of the  traumas in my life has lifted.  I had forgotten that major events like cancer, death from cancer, the death of my father, a neuropathy and mom’s death over time is cumulative.  It obnubilates living in the present...

Music would take over at the point at which words become powerless, with the one and only object of expressing that which nothing but music could express. ~ Debussy February 26th Today it appears that spring has sprung.  A warm glow piercing through...

Sounds In the Wind First Love By Jannat Marie The first muted note That caresses your face A dream that spoke Beating in a syncopated space Covering your heart’s sacred place.   Discordant suffocating breath Ravaging the spirits with ornamented ghost...

“She’s not supposed to play like that! And “She plays like a man” were epithets that have been uttered throughout the early life of jazz when describing women musicians at the turn of the 20th Century. Sex discrimination, segregation and tradition have...