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I could always disappear into live jazz. Live jazz has been a wonderful addiction that I have never been able to shake. Players with...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
Oct 7, 20198 min
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
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
Feb 25, 20196 min
LOFTY PLACES
Photo from The Japan Times JAZZ JOURNALIST KYOSHI KOYAMA This week I read of the passing of Kiyoshi Koyama. Kiyoshi Koyama isn’t a name...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
Feb 4, 20193 min
FEBRRRUARY
RANDY NAPOLEON VERSUS THE POLAR VORTEX Something called the polar vortex sent dangerously cold weather into the north central states last...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
Dec 17, 20184 min
THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT
THE WEEK BEFORE CHRISTMAS WEEK As the holidays loom and undone tasks build. it would be easy to slip into grumpiness. We will have to...
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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
Nov 12, 20184 min
STAFF
GETTING ALONG TOGETHER IN NOVEMBER On these cold November evenings the Dirty Dog must assemble a staff that has rid themselves of any...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
Oct 22, 20183 min
FRIENDS
FRIENDS The Charles Boles Quartet is a band that has a healthy accumulation of experiences and stories from life and from being 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
Aug 15, 20184 min
CHARLES
Charles Boles A week ago I wrote a blog about my memories of jazz. I included a story that the great Detroit jazz pianist Charles Boles...
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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 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 11, 20184 min
THE CREATIVE PROCESS – EDITING
Separating the good stuff from the stuff that isn’t needed is the hardest task in the creative process, but editing makes things better....
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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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