https://youtu.be/DLlsv1ku-JM Michael Molloy lives in London and I haven’t met him yet. But we’ve played many songs together… in fact we’re getting ready to do one of his originals soon. Mike has a very, very, very, very, very old Indian connection. His great, great, great, great, great grandfather Major M.J Molloy fell off his horse, […]

https://youtu.be/ayPDM4pyz2o There are times in life when nothing but a little #StevieRayVaughan will do. No #ellafitzgerald, no #sarahvaughan, just Stevie (not #steviewonder). #theskyiscrying is a song I’ve loved for years. I remember driving to #Connecticut from #LongIsland with the top down and blasting my #cassette (yeah, a gazillion years ago) at top volume, feeling like […]

https://youtu.be/1L51jYdwF4U They’re getting younger and younger, the musicians I’m working with these days, as I’m getting older and older. Meet @amithavguitar a 16 year-old, monster guitar player from Chennai. I met him through my friend @babimitra who sent me some of his music a few months ago. Since then Sir Gautam (he insists on calling […]

https://youtu.be/NIMCUcqp6hw Why is this picture like the black hole? No idea but if u click on it u will see and hear me singing ‘If You Could See me Now’ which is a most beautiful song. With me are Maciek Szczyciński and Pavel Ershov. #jazzcollabs #jazzstandard #lockdownjazz #TaddDameron #sarahvaughan #ifyoucouldseemenow #internationaljazz

#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 […]