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- Jun 3, 2019
- 5 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, 2019
- 5 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, 2019
- 5 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, 2019
- 5 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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- May 6, 2019
- 5 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, 2019
- 5 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, 2019
- 4 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, 2019
- 4 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, 2019
- 5 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, 2019
- 5 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, 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
- Mar 4, 2019
- 4 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, 2019
- 6 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, 2019
- 4 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, 2019
- 5 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, 2019
- 3 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, 2019
- 4 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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