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MARTIN LUTHER KING JR AND JAZZ
JAZZ FAN DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. This week we celebrate the life of Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Few Americans have achieved as much...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
- Jan 14, 2019
- 4 min
A GOLDEN AGE OF JAZZ?
THE GOLDEN AGE OF JAZZ Early in the new year I saw a headline in the New York Times. The article made the case that jazz was possibly...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
- Jan 7, 2019
- 3 min
2019
NEXT YEAR IS HERE I often put things off that need to be done and some things that I would really like to do…. until the next year. The...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
- Dec 31, 2018
- 2 min
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Saying goodbye to 2018 It was a year of change. For many, things seemed to be getting better, for others it was at best confusing....
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
- Dec 24, 2018
- 2 min
THE HAPPIEST OF HOLIDAYS
FINDING WARMTH AND GOOD CHEER DECEMBER 26 JOHN OSLER ...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
- Dec 17, 2018
- 4 min
THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT
THE WEEK BEFORE CHRISTMAS WEEK As the holidays loom and undone tasks build. it would be easy to slip into grumpiness. We will have to...
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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
- Nov 21, 2018
- 5 min
THE ARTS, MUSIC AND OPPORTUNITY
GROWING UP WITH ART “You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.” – John Mason My Dad’s drawings filled his studio. I have never been...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
- Nov 19, 2018
- 3 min
GIVING THANKS
GIVING THANKS NORMAN ROCKWELL THE HARVEST The blessing of the harvest happens around the world signaling that the growing season is over,...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
- Nov 12, 2018
- 4 min
STAFF
GETTING ALONG TOGETHER IN NOVEMBER On these cold November evenings the Dirty Dog must assemble a staff that has rid themselves of any...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
- Nov 5, 2018
- 4 min
VOTE FOR JAZZ
JAZZ AND DEMOCRACY America’s music, jazz reflects the best principles of our political system when it is working. PLEASE VOTE! This...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
- Oct 29, 2018
- 3 min
NOVEMBRRR
REMEMBERING NOVEMBER We used to rake the leaves into a pile, then we jumped into the pile, and then we burned them. The smell of burning...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
- Oct 22, 2018
- 3 min
FRIENDS
FRIENDS The Charles Boles Quartet is a band that has a healthy accumulation of experiences and stories from life and from being jazz...
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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
- Oct 8, 2018
- 4 min
THE WORLD’S BEST JAZZ CLUB
I will keep asking this question until someone tells me that maybe it isn’t, and why. I haven’t heard any jazz artists say that this club...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
- Oct 1, 2018
- 5 min
CORNERING WILLIE
“No problem” Willie Jones WILLIE’S CORNER This week Willie Jones makes his first post in what we will call Willie’s Corner. Willie...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
- Sep 24, 2018
- 4 min
GROUNDBREAKING NEWS
On September 20 there was a groundbreaking event in our town. Gretchen Valade has a habit of breaking new ground. Last week she took this...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
- Sep 17, 2018
- 4 min
WHAT COMES AROUND
Dave Bennett will be playing for four nights at the Dirty Dog Jazz Café this week. For all four nights the place will be packed. it will...
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JOHN OSLER'S UPBEAT Admin
- Sep 10, 2018
- 4 min
DETROIT SHINES
The 2018 Detroit Jazz Festival revealed again the resilience of our jazz music and showed us what it takes to keep the music alive and...
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