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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 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 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
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
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
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 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
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
Apr 30, 20184 min
TEACHERS
TEACHERS This past week Sean Dobbins brought some of his jazz students to the Dirty Dog Jazz Café where his Trio was featured. These...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
Apr 23, 20185 min
SEAN
DRUMMERS NEED LOVE TOO It always seemed to me that drummers were having all the fun and so had to be hidden. Behind or to the side of the...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
Apr 16, 20185 min
FAMILY EVENT
FAMILY/ FRIENDS Last week Rodney Whitaker played bass with Sasha Vasandani at the Dirty dog. Rodney’s wife Cookie was also in the house....
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
Apr 9, 20184 min
IS THE DIRTY DOG JAZZ CAFÉ THE BEST JAZZ CLUB IN THE WORLD?
I will keep asking this question until someone tells me that maybe it isn’t, and why. I haven’t heard any jazz artists say that this club...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
Mar 26, 20185 min
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND JAZZ
Our family accompanied me on spring break to St Louis where I had some business to do. The trip was timed so that we could spend time at...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
Mar 19, 20184 min
PAINTING OUTSIDE THE LINES
“EVERY CHILD IS AN ARTIST. THE PROBLEM IS HOW TO REMAIN AN ARTIST ONCE WE GROW UP.” PABLO PICASSO There must be a new way to look at this...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
Mar 12, 20182 min
EYES
THE EYES HAVE IT Shut your eyes and see. James Joyce De’Sean Jones was the first of of three saxophone players leading bands at the Dirty...
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