May Day piano improv: Early (part 1)
Yesterday, I sat down for the first time in many days and improvised on the piano. You see: piano improv is often the clearest way I can voice what’s inside of me. Certainly this was true last night. I...
View ArticleMay Day piano improv: Mouse and Elephant
When I was teaching piano lessons in Pennsylvania, I had a student who was a truly inspired young lad. In addition to being a good learner, passionate about music, and with a very creative mind, he...
View ArticleMay Day piano improv: Sunset and loveliness
This is the third of three piano improvs from May 1, 2014. First, there was “Early (Part 1)“. In it you’ll hear predictable sounds and very stylistic, yet still spontaneously created, themes. Next,...
View Articlemasterpiece – an #improv #poem
Don’t let any kind of dread Run a thread Through your head You can always turn To face something Beautiful To shift into Gratitude And that Is surely where it’s at The post masterpiece – an #improv...
View Article#poem – now?
My eyes open to See the sun near The horizon; its Jagged, golden Flickers seemed to Invite me to fly to Its center. I lay still in the grass With chirruping birds nearby and Buzzing bugs enticed by the...
View ArticleLife and Oh, “G” moments – #piano #improv
Life and Thoughts Creating Reality Though I believe in the power of thought and know that we create our own reality, it’s easy to experience things as “life” giving us this lesson or that curve ball....
View ArticleOpen Door – an #improv #poem
I wake in the middle of the night My heart is pounding fiercely And the sheets offer no comfort So I slip out of bed. As my feet touch the floor There’s a cold sensation; Knowing your warm, soft body...
View ArticlePainting Piano: #music inspired by visual #art
Thanks to everyone who is helping to make “Painting Piano” my best-selling album ever! I’ve chosen to include several of the piano improvisations and paintings from “Painting Piano” throughout this...
View ArticleCracked Open Blues, part 1 – #piano #improv
Digging Through Blues After digging into the recordings from the Painting Piano series of improvisations, I’ve found a few more tracks that are interesting, but did not make the cut for the album. One...
View ArticleCracked Open Blues, part 2 – #piano #improv
“Why prefer blue skies over grey? Because you can sing and play the blues.” ~ Stan Stewart After the opening, at times disjointed part one of Cracked Open Blues comes this very bluesy improv. If you...
View ArticleOld Hymns For A New Age – #piano #improv re-release
Some time in the Summer of 1991, John Bennison encouraged me to create a set of recordings of piano improvisations. We talked about the how since we knew the where would be the sanctuary of the church...
View Articleheart leaps – an #improv #poem
As part of #Quest2015, Pam Houston provided this prompt: “Sit quietly and ask yourself, what in the last day or week or month has made your heart leap up? Not what should, or might or always had, but...
View Articlewhat if? – an improv #poem
This poem is my response to a prompt by Seth Godin in the #Quest2015 series. He is the author of 18 books that have been bestsellers around the world and have been translated into more than 35...
View ArticleIs Just Fine (video)
To bring in the new year, I’ll be presenting a series of videos that I’ve recently added on my YouTube channel. Please be sure to subscribe when you have a moment. This first video is one of several...
View ArticleSacred Joy (video)
Participants in #Quest2015 wrote, painted, and played about our sacred joy. Though I could never cover all of the wonderful responses, here are a few: Kate Arms (Roberts) Molly Morrissey Sacred Joy...
View Articlefirst light – an #improv #poem
Like drones rising up We are eager to catch first light. It’s Winter, so the catching Is not too difficult; Though it may be hard: Stiff and inflexible like The frozen melt on top Of old snow. We tramp...
View ArticleIlluminated – an improv #poem
Brush sways heads of browned leaves; A stark contrast to the brilliant, glazed snow Shining in the glow of morning sunlight. From this angle, those twigs seem like Darkness or shadow. But shift to the...
View ArticleRiver Moving Through You [video]
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. ~ Rumi This is one of a series of video art collaborations I have created with Tracee Vetting Wolf. (Check out her video...
View ArticlePrayer Suite #Pray4Nepal #Pray4Baltimore
When there are rumblings — literal and metaphorical — around the world, it’s easy to be affected by them. That’s what happened to me. First, the earthquake in Nepal had been in the news for days....
View ArticleBoy On A Bicycle – an improv #poem
Well, there he is again. Sure, I thought he was gone. I forgot that he is not here To haunt me; Only to bring the lesson Of my life back to my Heart Again and again. For the heart of the Boy on a...
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