Graham English is a blogging jazz pianist and his web site (click here) has lots of tips and ideas about songwriting, music theory, and ear training.

Birds in the house

Peter Calandra (click to view web site), a composer from NYC, has posted a video of himself performing an improvised jazz composition. See below or click here to view.

Today, on the anniversary of the tragic September 11th attacks, I created a new track, called “Pop Interlude”. It expresses sadness and quiet reflection. Click here to listen. (Created using an acoustic grand piano and a Korg MS-2000B analog modeling synthesizer.)

My cousins, Jacob and Misha, have been working on directing a movie: a documentary film about the aspirations, practices and ways of life of three young Westerners who follow three different eastern spiritual traditions. Visit the movie’s web site.

I wrote an article on some of my thoughts on Learning Jazz Piano (click here to read).

John Pitcher writes an article about jazz pianist Cedar Walton in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (click here), regarding Cedar Walton’s upcoming solo piano appearance in the Rochester International Jazz Festival, this coming Saturday. From the article: […] Yet as a soloist and leader, Walton has always been unfairly underrated. Despite having preceded pianist McCoy…

I was in a rather artsy mood and decided to create an online gallery of poems. However, these poems are the original work of a “poetry robot”, which I created. Given a few words to start the poem, the robot decides what to write by looking at what people have written on popular & highly…

I wrote a song called “Fat Jazz Variations” which expresses my sadness to be leaving the band Fat Jazz after 6 great years of playing with the group. It’s a 4 minute solo piano piece that’s kind of pop/classical. On the last chord I added a 6th to the major chord which I think is…