Ciao!
I play classical, forties standards, some jazz, some boogie, and so on. Please be aware of the following: I do not sing. I used to sing, but a frog got into my throat and never left. However, once in awhile, I get carried away, when I'm so into the music and forgetting that I don't sing anymore, start singing along. No one has said anything so far. Either they are deaf or don't mind.
Not everyone can say this...but I can. It's not that I'm bragging, but I am!! In the spring of 2008 I was playing classical music professionally at a grand piano in a Clearwater, Florida hotel. Much to my surprise and delight, Chick Corea, the grammy winning jazz composer, came running up to me, and embracing my waist with his famous hands said: "You're smokin', you're really smokin'"! He just about lifted me off the piano bench. Mario Feininger, a well known European classical concert pianist recently told me that I played from "knowingness." When I was younger I was a folk singer with acoustic guitar, and I took lessons from Jerry Garcia of the "Grateful Dead" an "instant" before he became famous.

Please mail me at jerrye.albert@rocketmail.com to engage me for your event. I am located in Clearwater, Florida close to Tampa.

Monday, April 15, 2013

Today was quite a day for me...in the middle of the night I began playing a riff with my left hand...a jazz riff that I created  spontaneously.  Then I played with it and came up with "You Must Remember This..."  a song from somewhere in an elusive past that slid away one day.  I played it jazz style, with jazz chords (beautiful jazz chords...they are beautiful!) and syncopated, i.e. kind of in between the beats of the left hand.  It was exquisite, if you pardon my saying so.

There's something about creating ... it's a natural high.  Give it a try!  You'll love it!  And I sincerely believe each of us, natively, is creative as a native state of being. Step back from the universe and you'll see what I mean, and do a tap dance while you're at it.  Just playing now.  :D


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