Scott | November 23, 2010
“Boggie-Woggie in the Afternoon” was the title of the Ann Arbor Kerrytown Concert House event the wife and I attended last Sunday. Three fine boogie-woogie piano players did there thing over an hour and a half to a packed sold out house. Detriot area musicians Matthew Ball (aka the boogie woogie kid) played first followed by veteran [...]
Scott | April 20, 2010
After near a dozen lessons spread over four months I’ve completed my Owen’s College Community piano lesson offering. It was fun, interesting and I surely improved greatly on my sight reading. Owens College has a music education department and a newish building called the Owen’s Center For Fine and Performing Arts which houses music classrooms, practice rooms and a [...]
Scott | March 26, 2010
The Degage Jazz Cafe had Steve Richko playing on a Thursday evening (a no cover evening) so I dropped by to hear a couple songs. Steve was playing with his bass player and was making that Yamaha piano sound oh so good. Jazz is cool and Steve was cranking it out, I’m just amazed how good [...]
Scott | December 6, 2009
One million plus MIDI and karaoke files is what the EBAY auction said was on the two DVD set plus act now and you get the two bonus CD PRO MIDI files pack all for just $20. Media shipping was only a couple bucks from some international location. I couldn’t resist as I’ve spent quite a few hours the last year browsing [...]
Scott | December 3, 2009
Never having been to the Village Idiot bar located in downtown Maumee I decided it was finally time to check it out. I started by first looking at their Web site. I was surprised to learn they have some type of live music every night. Their calendar said every Tuesday evening Mark Mikel plays. I was able to read up a [...]
