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 by graphic artist Cindy Beebe Langley of Altamonte Springs, Florida, and features the outline of a grand piano as well as a treble clef in place of the ampersand. The new logo makes its first appearance with our Episode 64 podcast, featuring jazz pianist Mark Brunell and his amazing story of how neurosurgeons at the Mayo Clinic performed brain surgery as he played jazz. In the newly developed treatment protocol designed to remove damaged areas of the brain via ablation, Burnell was kept awake and instructed to play on a mini-keyboard while also singing the tunes’ lyrics. When he played a wrong note or sang a wrong lyric, the doctors were alerted by his wife, vocalist Anne Burnell, who was at his side for the procedure. At her signal they would stop probing so as not to disturb the part of the brain used for making music. You can hear their inspiring story in Episode 64 of Music Life & Times at our YouTube channel, or wherever you get your podcasts.