Music Life and Times Podcast
1) EP67: Advice from Monk (Part One)
It was around 1960 when Steve Lacy, a saxophonist in Thelonious Monk’s band at the time, wrote down a series of items, pieces of advice that Thelonious Monk had conveyed to him while touring in 1960 a...Show More
2) EP66: Music and the Brain - David Michael Bashwiner
David Michael Bashwiner is a composer, a guitarist, a professor at the University of New Mexico, and at the root of it all, a neuroscientist. He speaks nationally on the subject of music and the brain...Show More
3) EP65: Ronnie J. Frugé - From His Cajun Roots
Ronnie Frugé learned t play guitar as a 10-year-old on a Sears Silvertone acoustic in a town called Iowa (pronounced I-o-way) outside the city of Lake Charles in Southwest Louisiana where, now in his ...Show More
4) EP64: Surgeons Guided by Pianist's Playing
On Easter Sunday, April 20, 2025, surgeons at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida drilled 14 holes in jazz pianist Mark Burnell’s skull and inserted 200 electrodes in an attempt to halt his incre...Show More
5) EP63: Authenticity
Typically people who want to play music want to play the kind of music they like most. And learning to play involves studying and absorbing how the musicians we admire most play. But maturing as a per...Show More
6) EP62: A Life Lesson from Playing Music
Responsibility is one of the life lessons that learning to play music and performing music teach you. Not only do you have to show up, you have to be “on,” that is, playing your best every time you ta...Show More
7) EP61: Play Music; Learn to Express Yourself
Consistent with our recurring theme of how music has a positive impact on our lives, we talk about how music teaches those who learn to play to express themselves better, not just through music but in...Show More
8) EP60: Mark Gresham, Publisher of EarRelevant
A composer, conductor, and journalist, and the founder, publisher, and principal writer of EarRelevant.net, Mark Gresham has been writing about classical and post-classical music and other arts for mo...Show More
9) EP59: Lisa Campbell Albert - Singer, Educator, Author
Lisa Campbell Albert sings and teaches others to do the same. For more than 30 years she has been singing and playing keyboard, leading her and her husband’s blues band, Uncle Albert, performing in an...Show More
10) EP58: Trumpeter Mark Rapp, Founder of ColaJazz
Mark Rapp’s resume as a performing artist is impressive enough. He has performed in jazz clubs and festivals around the world from Croatia, Brasil, Austria, Switzerland, and the US, including back-to-...Show More