Author name: Mike Shaw

Our podcast interview this week was with Atlanta’s big band leader and ubiquitous performer, trumpeter/vocalist Joe Gransden, who talks eloquently […]

One of the things you learn learning music is to always do your best. Sounds clichéd, but as in other

My Music Life and Times podcast partner, Kevin Bales, says: “It’s funny how much of what we do musically is

The underlying purpose of our podcast, Music Life and Times, is to discuss the life lessons that music teaches you

My MusicLifeandTimes podcast partner Kevin Bales, who has taught jazz to students young and not-so-young for more than three decades,

Of course, there’s no such thing as the three best ways to learn to play music, because everybody learns things

Most parents agree that music should be part of their children’s education. Not that they expect Clarissa to sing at

In an upcoming MusicLifeandTimes podcast, my partner jazz pianist Kevin Bales and I exchange stories about life on the road

The other day I engaged my podcast partner, pianist Kevin Bales, in a discussion of pianists who have influenced him.

In light of ongoing racial injustice and the Black Lives Matter movement, universities have been pressured to better represent a