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Shanghai Journal #8: Lucky Eight
8, the lucky number in China. The piano has 88 keys. My street number: 688. If not luck but through coincidence I found the Yunnan
May 28, 2018
Blog
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Jazz Piano Lesson #10: Listen up!
Fred Hersch and Anat Cohen have a gorgeous and newly released CD. That’s about all I’ll say about it because perhaps it should be heard first and discussed second.
May 3, 2018
Musical Design
Shanghai Journal #7: Simple Design
It’s time to reflect and to write about writing. That’s in part because I have the time to do it. But, before I reflect, part
April 10, 2018
Piano Improvisation
Shanghai Journal #6: You are an artist
Art is where we find it? Art is what we make it? I find those to be fraught questions (My new word: fraught). So, for
March 18, 2018
Martial Arts
Shanghai Journal #5: Hangzhou and Taichi
With water, copious amounts of it, from the sky because it was raining, does Shanghai asphalt resemble—what?— a high-def 4K concrete display screen? The former
March 2, 2018
Piano Improvisation
Shanghai Journal #4: In Which Time And Pianos Bend
Still here in Shanghai. It’s been 4 weeks. Sometimes it feels like months. The feels-like-months isn’t because time stopped. Nor is it because we’re in
February 11, 2018
Piano Improvisation
Shanghai Journal #3: A piano arrives
My piano arrives in my Shanghai flat. I’m all set to resume Skype lessons with my students. Meanwehile, Shanghai provides cultural lessons each and every day.
February 4, 2018
Piano Improvisation
Shanghai Journal #2: Concert in Hong Kong
PIanos, jazz, and otherwise: I have a solo piano concert Wednesday, 23 January. Meanwhile, Janet’s meeting with her collaborators. Our perch: we’re in Hong Kong
January 22, 2018
Piano Lessons
Shanghai Journal #1: I’m here!
As the title says, we arrived uneventfully, if that’s an applicable word, on Monday. In other words, we’re here in Shanghai. We’ve since registered at
January 17, 2018
Piano Improvisation
Jazz Piano Lesson #9: Interview with Harold Danko
An interview (by Mark Polishook) with the great jazz pianist and teacher Harold Danko.
December 11, 2017
Dr Mark Polishook, currently based in Maine in the US (that after a decade in Leicester in the UK), is known internationally as a jazz pianist and a composer. He is a former director of the music composition and theory programs at Central Washington University in the United States.
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