Now in our third year of our podcast, Music Life & Times, my podcast partner pianist Kevin Bales and I are proud to introduce our new podcast logo. The new Music Life & Times identity was designed…

It was the 50th anniversary of not only the most enduring but the most popular TV entertainment program of our lives, Saturday Night Live. The show opened with Paul Simon and Sabrina Carpenter signing Simon’s “Homeward Bound,”…

As seen on The EarRelevant Reader, 23 February, 2025 Jazz, by its very nature, is complex, and improvisation is the defining characteristic of jazz. That combination makes the music challenging enough to play, but add the condition…