Post Category: Performance

Today is the day!  After months of early mornings and late nights and binge-working sessions while my son was at camp, I can finally make this announcement!   The Versatile Musician membership is now...

Shawn Maxwell is an amazing saxophonist and composer based in Chicago and his new record comes out on FRIDAY! We met back in 2000 on a cruise ship and have kept in touch over the years. He wrote 17...

Random Songs I Like Week #15: Ladies in Mercedes is a brilliant composition by jazz bassist and composer Steve Swallow, with hysterical lyrics by British jazz vocalist Norma Winstone.  This song has...

Random Songs I Like Week #14!  Ooh baby baby is a sexy Motown classic by the exquisite Smokey Robinson.  He first recorded this song in 1965 with his legendary group The Miracles.  It has been a huge...

For Random Songs I Like Week #13, I will be singing and playing Shower the People by James Taylor.  This song was featured on the 1976 album In the Pocket, This album features a ton of heavyweights...

The Glory of Love is a wonderful old standard from 1936 that was originally recorded by Benny Goodman and his Orchestra.  I first heard this song in the movie Beaches, starring Bette Midler.  It...