Author name: Mike Shaw

It might be your last concern. All you did; all you accomplished; your successes more than your failures. When you […]

We know that music is an essential part of everyone’s life, listeners as well as players. And that playing music

Sometimes we learn from lyrics. That’s why we love the songs from the American Songbook. Take “The Nearness of You”:

One of the most endearing things about playing jazz, or trying to play jazz, is the community that you find

Of all the many life lessons that learning to play music teaches, that is, how playing music improves your life,

A tradition among jazz musicians is bringing along younger players, giving them a chance to mature and grow their skills

Sometimes, the audience is memorable. Billed “an elegant evening” of jazz the October 6 performance at Atlanta’s Spivey Hall might

I remember a conversation I had with my parents as I was graduating from college and telling them that I

I’m compelled to call attention to jazz vocalist Karla Harris, who appeared with us on our Music Life and Times

You’ve heard the saying—it’s from a John Keats poem—“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”  One of the gifts