Since late March I’ve been working from home assisting patients with navigating our health care system, assisting clinic staff, and answering phone calls.  For the first 10 days, I worked predominately out of my bed.  At 7 am I opened my work laptop and put my personal laptop away and then pulled out my phone rosters.  When I…

With school, work and launching a new business I pushed it hard this past week, because if I sleep I’m two-steps behind. I started this week’s #SmoothJazzPiks 5 days ago and took then the opportunity to relax a bit and complete classwork. After finishing an assignment, I decided it was music time. I love hearing…

An Active Jazz Experience Recently, I did a personal assessment and came to the realization of how often I was not actively involved in my jazz experience.  What do I mean?  Over the last few months, I’ve had the pleasure of seeing and speaking with some great jazz artists who are more than holding their…

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr On The Importance Of Jazz On the Importance of Jazz Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Opening Address to the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival: God has wrought many things out of oppression. He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to create—and from this capacity has flowed the sweet songs of…