#52JazzVideos #MyOwnMusicMarathon #HaveIGoneCrazy? I started collaborating with jazz musicians from other countries sometime in #June2020. It was a spur-of-the-moment thing. Today, 52 weeks later, I am posting my 52nd online jazz video. The song is #FoolsRushIn with my sweet piano-playin’ friend Tomoko Ohno Farnham whom I’m yet to meet. It will happen this year for […]

So when I write a tune it’s always the melody first and the lyric later. Sometimes the words try to force themselves out before the melody is gestated, and I have to be stern. Not yet, I say. Wait. I wrote #LoveOnTheDanceFloor about 10 years ago. We’ve performed it as a band a few times […]

Many, many people have performed #YouGoToMyHead because it’s an absolutely beautiful song. It’s moody and the lyrics are so beautifully written. It’s all about how love and alcohol are so perfectly paired. Maybe I haven’t had any alcohol in some 25 years, but I still remember. it was fun. Anyhow, I wrote #vocalese lyrics to […]

Michael Molloy, keys / Maciek Szczyciński bass / Radha Thomas, voice Written by #LeonardCohen, one of my earliest inspirations for writing lyrics, the words to this song can mean different things to different people. You can look it up. My mom, whose birthday it is today, loved him too. She would always ask me to […]