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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

I’m sure you know the song “My Funny Valentine.” It’s from Babes in Arms, a 1937 musical by Rodgers and

It’s no stretch. Jazz is an expression of democracy. So much so it was outlawed in Nazi Germany, and later