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...

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...

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...

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....

FINDING WARMTH AND GOOD CHEER DECEMBER 26                                                                                   JOHN OSLER  ...

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...

DETROIT JAZZ, THE BOOK One of Detroit’s greatest assets is her first class hard working musicians. Jazz drifted up the Mississippi River...

WILLIES’ CORNER TEAMWORK MAKES THE DREAM WORK “AMAZING WHAT YOU CAN ACHIEVE WITH THE RIGHT TEAM. I AM CONSTANTLY REMINDED OF THIS ON A...

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...

GIVING THANKS NORMAN ROCKWELL THE HARVEST The blessing of the harvest happens around the world signaling that the growing season is over,...

GETTING ALONG TOGETHER IN NOVEMBER On these cold November evenings the Dirty Dog must assemble a staff that has rid themselves of any...

JAZZ AND DEMOCRACY America’s music, jazz reflects the best principles of our political system when it is working. PLEASE VOTE! This...

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...

FRIENDS The Charles Boles Quartet is a band that has a healthy accumulation of experiences and stories from life and from being jazz...

PLAYING, COMPOSING, ARRANGING, EDUCATING AND JAZZING Judy Adam’s Dirty Dog Jazz Café blog about Scott Gwinnell’s new CD led off with:...

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...

“No problem” Willie Jones WILLIE’S CORNER This week Willie Jones makes his first post in what we will call Willie’s Corner. Willie...

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...

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...

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...