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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, 2019
- 7 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
- Jun 17, 2019
- 5 min
GRETCHEN AND EDDIE
Gretchen Valade and Eddie Condon both loved music and music has loved them. They both were blessed to have a passion for a music that...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
- Mar 25, 2019
- 4 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, 2019
- 5 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, 2019
- 4 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
- Dec 10, 2018
- 3 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
- Dec 3, 2018
- 3 min
TEAMWORK
WILLIES’ CORNER TEAMWORK MAKES THE DREAM WORK “AMAZING WHAT YOU CAN ACHIEVE WITH THE RIGHT TEAM. I AM CONSTANTLY REMINDED OF THIS ON A...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
- Oct 12, 2018
- 4 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, 2018
- 4 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
- Aug 27, 2018
- 3 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
- Jul 23, 2018
- 5 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 16, 2018
- 4 min
GRIT
BEING GRITTY Grit has recently caused a stir in education and psychology ever since Angela Duckworth, a psychology professor at the...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
- Jul 9, 2018
- 5 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, 2018
- 6 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, 2018
- 5 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 4, 2018
- 4 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, 2018
- 5 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, 2018
- 3 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, 2018
- 4 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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