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Long time no blog! Finally made it to Southern California! Found a temporary place North of San Diego while my wife & I explore relocation options. Rome is proving to be overly chaotic & tiring… While here, I look forward to checking out a few recording studios between San Diego, Los Angeles & Las Vegas [...]

Who says being a pianist is safe? Check out this interesting anecdote from the life of legendary jazz pianist Fats Waller (Source: Wikipedia): “…His playing once put him at risk of injury. Waller was kidnapped in Chicago leaving a performance in 1926. Four men bundled him into a car and took him to the Hawthorne [...]

Hey! It took some time but the new website is up & running! Yay! Gone is the old website that contained a ton of text worthy of an encyclopedia entry and references to myself in third person. Duh! I've gone for a very personal, minimal & clean look that draws attention to my music and [...]

I've had “Drop GoDaddy” on my ‘to-do' list for quite some time. Too many problems, too many system setups that defy human logic (& I'm quite proficient at this stuff!), a dashboard that's nuclear-scientist-friendly… Now I'll add to that Bob Parsons (GoDaddy's founder) bragging about his happy times in Zimbabwe killing animals and (in my [...]

So how does a composer play the piano when it's one floor up and they're stuck in bed with a broken hip? (i.e. me!). Easy! Fire up your Mac and launch Garageband, Apple's music-making program. It has the ideal feature for broken pianists, called “musical typing”. Essentially, it allows you to play your computer's keyboard [...]

Hi to all, If you've read some of my recent posts or are following me on Facebook, you'll know that I had an accident and am stuck in bed for the next two months without the ability to move. The accident happened in Dubai airport while en route to Auckland, New Zealand. That's where I [...]

Every second of our life is a consequence of the choices we make, the things we do and also the things we don't do. While en route to Auckland, NZ to – among other things – record my new CD, what was to be a 5 hour layover in Dubai, UAE into an ordeal, ending [...]

This, me believes, is most appropriate… A man runs into the vet's office carrying his dog, screaming for help.The vet rushes him back to an examination room and has him put his dogon the examination table.The vet examines the still, limp body and after a few moments, tellsthe man that his dog, regrettably, is dead.The [...]

Until yesterday, the only band that was missing from Apple's iTunes music store has now been included. Not some unknown indie band. Just the Beatles! There's lots of cool content on Apple's website: videos, history & more. Even if you don't like the Beatles, they're cool to watch if not for the fact that they're [...]

Thought this ‘infographic' was quite interesting…(Click on the image if you see it's chopped).C Infographic by computer school.org