This (and every) Sat. night from 7-10pm – it’s Jason Jones on vocals and guitar. I’ll be sitting in on Grand Piano !   Jason can sing a wide variety of genres with good inherent sense of the stylistic markers, that make them sound authentic, plus sings with passion and empathy. It’s nice to have live music back at Sapphire – it’s depressing down at Sapphire Beach.  Down there, it’s all boarded up and in disrepair !!                                                         Last night I played for a youth theater workshop show at Pistarckle Theater. The show went well and was well received by the audience (which, okay was primarily family and friends – a friendly crowd), but hey, a standing ovation is still a standing ovation !!  The kids were great !!

I’ll be playing on the grand piano at Northside Bistro for the first time on a Friday night ! It should be a livelier crowd, which will affect my tune calling. This is such a fine room to play in – the food , the microbrewery, the wine list, and the staff are all excellent. couple that with live music on a grand piano – and this place should be packed every night. Once the word gets out, that’s what I think will happen !!

Look Ma, I don't need to look at the keys anymore.

a frontal view

This is me singing and playing “The Piano Has Been Drinking” by Tom Waits. It’s usually a fun day right there on the beach at Ainsley’s with Barefoot Davis, Donald Birmingham, and sometimes Jason Jones and or Bob Ward. The crowds have been really appreciative and spirited lately, and the pizza is brick-oven baked!

We enjoy the crowd at Jack’s. Almost all locals-we usually know quite a few of them. Plus Becca does a Trivia night there on Tuesdays, and does have a fan base for that! We’ll be playing our usual eclectic mix of  Blues, Country, Rock, R&B, Jazz, and original songs!  We hit at 7:30pm. Come on down and hang!!

This performance was recorded at the Haiti Relief Concert at Yachthaven Grande. Becca’s rendition somewhat reminds me of the sultry Billie Holliday interpretation –but done in her own style. It felt real good to be playing on a major league sound system thanks to Cinque Donovan!!

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This was a fun day of music. Morgan Rael and I “sat in”with the Blues Disciples-a fine blues band from Milwaukee. This took place at Hull Bay Hideaway and we also had Merle Johnson and Paul Dirks sitting in. We got to sit in with them on a couple of other occasions.

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Morgan Rael,Danny Silber, Jason jones

The show went very well. I thought Kmisha handled the occasional blips smoothly, and sounded fabulous!! The backup singers were each excellent and the pacing of the show was quite professional.

Sounding like an angel

The band was a good one! We had Tommy Pilgrim on drums, Vimcent Wallace on bass, Ras Abijah on guitar  plus Albert Lynch and myself on keys. These are all solid pros –They’re versatile, and quick learners – plus have excellent “time and feel”  This show was for the annual Art’s Alive Fundraiser and was held at Tillett Garden’s on Jan.9th.

Danielle Greenaway and Detra Davis

Detra Davis and Christalia Mark

This was in November 2009 and was a fun night. The band sounded good and the crowd was into it. Randy Baustert was kind enough to do this video and hence here it is!

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