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WE GOT RHYTHM?
This coming week trumpeter Walt Szymanski will be playing at the Dirty Dog Jazz Café. Walt is exactly like what a Walt Szymanski should...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
Jul 22, 20197 min
THE CREATIVE PROCESS
Every year I get away from home for a few weeks. I have found a place or two where I can take some time to look around at my...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
Jun 17, 20195 min
GRETCHEN AND EDDIE
Gretchen Valade and Eddie Condon both loved music and music has loved them. They both were blessed to have a passion for a music that...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
Mar 25, 20194 min
The Zone
Life is generally pretty good. I spend most of my life enjoying lolling about and sometimes doing the things that allow me to happily...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
Mar 18, 20195 min
GEORGE ” SAX ” BENSON
Just over a week ago Willie Jones passed a note to a visiting pianist from New York, Emmet Cohen. Emmet then informed a sold out audience...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
Mar 10, 20194 min
LOCAL WARMING
Global warming has become a sexy subject There is a lot of talk about rising temperatures and the effect that this will have on our...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
Dec 10, 20183 min
DETROIT JAZZ, A HOLIDAY STORY
DETROIT JAZZ, THE BOOK One of Detroit’s greatest assets is her first class hard working musicians. Jazz drifted up the Mississippi River...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
Dec 3, 20183 min
TEAMWORK
WILLIES’ CORNER TEAMWORK MAKES THE DREAM WORK “AMAZING WHAT YOU CAN ACHIEVE WITH THE RIGHT TEAM. I AM CONSTANTLY REMINDED OF THIS ON A...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
Oct 12, 20184 min
A GWINNELLIAN RENAISSANCE
PLAYING, COMPOSING, ARRANGING, EDUCATING AND JAZZING Judy Adam’s Dirty Dog Jazz Café blog about Scott Gwinnell’s new CD led off with:...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
Sep 3, 20184 min
DETROIT JAZZ FESTIVAL
EXPOSING A CITY’S SOUL & SPIRIT Every year I think that the new jazz year starts with the Tuesday following Labor Day. The previous jazz...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
Aug 27, 20183 min
A MOVING EXPERIENCE
THIS WEEK THE DIRTY DOG JAZZ CAFÉ IS CLOSED AND MOVING TO BE PART OF DETROIT’S GREAT JAZZ FESTIVAL Why would the smart gang at the Dirty...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
Jul 23, 20185 min
MEMORIES
As we go through life we all have memories of both delicious and dreadful moments. We have fond thoughts when we hear the music that was...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
Jul 16, 20184 min
GRIT
BEING GRITTY Grit has recently caused a stir in education and psychology ever since Angela Duckworth, a psychology professor at the...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
Jul 9, 20185 min
RESILIENCE
RESILIENCE is the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. Resilient is a word that is often used to describe Detroit....
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
Jun 25, 20186 min
June 25 CREATIVE PROCESS – SHARING
THE FINAL STAGE OF THE CREATIVE PROCESS: SHARING YOUR ART Once an artist has put his final touches on a piece of art he is faced with a...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
Jun 15, 20185 min
THE CREATIVE PROCESS – INTERPRET
There must be a new way to look at this Taking the usual and making it interesting is the artist’s task, adding a dab of paint or a note...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
Jun 4, 20184 min
OBSERVING
THE CREATIVE PROCESS Jazz musicians, painters, writers and all artists have their own approach to creating. Last week I described what my...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
May 28, 20185 min
EXPLORING
For a very long time I have been fascinated by the ability of jazz musicians to create new music on the fly and make it look easy. We all...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
May 14, 20183 min
BACK HALL
Dave Bennett will bring his band to The Dirty Dog this week. Before the lights are turned down and the music begins, the Dirty Dog Jazz...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
May 7, 20184 min
PASSION OF TEACHERS
ARTS PROGRAMS TO THE RESCUE We can be deeply but quietly affected by passion, or get carried away. but it sure helps to have a little in...
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