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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
Jun 3, 20195 min
GRADUATION
CONTINUING EDUCATION MONTH AT THE DIRTY DOG June is here. It is time to safely put the snow shovels away in Michigan. We already are...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
May 27, 20195 min
HOUSE CATS
When my father graduated from Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Tech University the country was in the midst of the Great Depression. He needed a...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
May 20, 20195 min
FREEDOM
VERNA HART 1961 -2019 Verna Hart died last week. Verna’s life and art mirrored the freedom of jazz. Her subject was mostly jazz and her...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
May 13, 20195 min
THE HEALTH OF JAZZ
Sometimes we have to look beneath the veneer to see the health of something. How do we best diagnose someone’s health? A doctor friend of...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
May 6, 20195 min
FINDING YOUR BEAT
“MARCH TO THE BEAT OF YOUR OWN DRUMMER” Henry David Thoreau Last week I was in the Rivera Court at the Detroit Institute of Arts. It was...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
Apr 29, 20195 min
THE MUSIC AIN’T GOING NOWHERE
Times change and things we have loved get neglected. They get set aside for something new. Mold and rust replace bright original...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
Apr 22, 20194 min
THE SWEET SPOT
On April 15 fire ravished Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Images of Our Lady of Paris burning filled our screens last week. We often see...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
Apr 15, 20194 min
Straight Ahead
FAMILY A group of people who genuinely love, trust, care about, and look out for each other. FELLOWSHIP Fellowship is a friendly feeling...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
Apr 8, 20195 min
COMING HOME
COMING HOME This week jazz pianist Johnny O’Neil will be back in Detroit and there will be a homecoming party for him at the Dirty dog...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
Apr 1, 20195 min
FEAR
FEAR CAN BE A SCARY THING Fear can be debilitating. We can be frozen with fear. We can sometimes let fear get the better of us and cloud...
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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
Mar 4, 20194 min
SPRING IS ALMOST HERE
MARCHING INTO SPRING This week New Orleans will come alive with music and parades and along with much of the world folks will go outdoors...
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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 18, 20194 min
2/18 JAMMING
DAVE BENNETT WILL BE FEATURED THIS WEEK AT THE DIRTY DOG JAZZ CAFÉ Expect the unexpected along with the expected when Dave Bennett brings...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
Feb 11, 20195 min
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
The jazz club on the hill in Grosse Pointe will be one year older this week. Eleven years ago it was nudged into being by Gretchen Valade...
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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
Jan 28, 20194 min
RANDY
ON KNOWING SOMEONE LIKE RANDY NAPOLEON Most days, I am besieged by noise and constant announcements of “breaking news”. I hear music and...
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