#TunesOnTuesday goes back to the standards with Wes Montgomery's "Road Song" #JazzSky #jazzpiano #solopiano #bam ohljazz.com/2025/02/18/t...
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Tunes on Tuesday: Road Song
YouTube video by Oren Levine
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February 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
#TunesOnTuesday goes back to the standards with Wes Montgomery's "Road Song" #JazzSky #jazzpiano #solopiano #bam ohljazz.com/2025/02/18/t...
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#TunesOnTuesday remembers Roberta Flack with "The Closer I Get To You," her hit duet with Donny Hathaway from 1977. May her memory be a blessing. #JazzSky #RobertaFlack ohljazz.com/2025/02/25/t...
Tunes on Tuesday: The Closer I Get To You
Why this tune? This week’s song is in memory of the great American singer and pianist Roberta Flack, who passed on this week (February 24). She has a special place in the hearts of people fro…
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February 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
#TunesOnTuesday remembers Roberta Flack with "The Closer I Get To You," her hit duet with Donny Hathaway from 1977. May her memory be a blessing. #JazzSky #RobertaFlack ohljazz.com/2025/02/25/t...
#TunesOnTuesday on Wednesday this week, celebrating the 100th birthday of #HemryMancini with my current favorite Mancini tune "Two For The Road" ohljazz.com/2024/04/24/t... #jazz #jazzsky #jazzpiano
April 24, 2024 at 4:08 PM
#TunesOnTuesday on Wednesday this week, celebrating the 100th birthday of #HemryMancini with my current favorite Mancini tune "Two For The Road" ohljazz.com/2024/04/24/t... #jazz #jazzsky #jazzpiano
#TunesOnTuesday remembers the late great Benny Golson with a short "Whisper Not." ohljazz.com/2024/09/24/t... #jazzsky #bennygolson
September 24, 2024 at 1:02 PM
#TunesOnTuesday remembers the late great Benny Golson with a short "Whisper Not." ohljazz.com/2024/09/24/t... #jazzsky #bennygolson
#TunesOnTuesday shares Sam Rivers' beautiful ballad, a jazz standard and jam session favorite. #JazzSky #jazzpiano #solopiano #jazzstandard #samrivers ohljazz.com/2025/08/19/t...
Tunes on Tuesday: Beatrice
Why this tune? This week’s tune is another jazz standard and jam session favorite, Sam Rivers’ “Beatrice.” He recorded it on his 1964 album Fuschia Swing Song, after which i…
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August 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
#TunesOnTuesday shares Sam Rivers' beautiful ballad, a jazz standard and jam session favorite. #JazzSky #jazzpiano #solopiano #jazzstandard #samrivers ohljazz.com/2025/08/19/t...
#TunesOnTuesday (a day late) marks the end of summer in LA with a classic from famed film composer Michel Legrand "Once Upon a Summertime (La valse des lilas)" #jazzpiano #solopiano #JazzSky ohljazz.com/2026/09/23/t...
Tunes on Tuesday: Once Upon a Summertime
Why this tune? I thought this week’s tune “Once Upon a Summertime” was a fine way to mark the end of the season in Los Angeles, where I’m located at present, preparing to re…
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September 23, 2026 at 7:36 PM
#TunesOnTuesday (a day late) marks the end of summer in LA with a classic from famed film composer Michel Legrand "Once Upon a Summertime (La valse des lilas)" #jazzpiano #solopiano #JazzSky ohljazz.com/2026/09/23/t...
#TunesOnTuesday shares a new song "Tell Me About Yesterday," a collaboration with the talented lyricist Mitalee Christman, who I met in Scarlet Keys' weekly object writing class! We're already working on another one.
#songwriter #songwriting #modernsongbook #JazzSky
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#songwriter #songwriting #modernsongbook #JazzSky
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Tunes on Tuesday: Tell Me About Yesterday
Why this tune? This week’s song is a collaboration that started in Scarlet Keys’ weekly songwriting class. Our group meets on Friday mornings to practice “object writing,” a…
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April 14, 2026 at 7:06 PM
#TunesOnTuesday shares a new song "Tell Me About Yesterday," a collaboration with the talented lyricist Mitalee Christman, who I met in Scarlet Keys' weekly object writing class! We're already working on another one.
#songwriter #songwriting #modernsongbook #JazzSky
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#songwriter #songwriting #modernsongbook #JazzSky
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#TunesOnTuesday shares our rehearsal of "Nothing To Say" for our gig at the Lamond-Riggs library DC (6.26, 6:30 pm, 5401 South Dakota Ave NE, free!). Vicki Golding added a beautiful second verse to my song inspired by writers block. #JazzSky #songwriter #songwriting ohljazz.com/2025/06/24/t...
Tunes on Tuesday: Nothing To Say
Why this tune? This week’s tune comes from another rehearsal,
for a show on June 26, 2025 at the Lamond-Riggs
public library in Washington, DC. Vicki Golding, Percy White and I are playing
&…
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June 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
#TunesOnTuesday shares our rehearsal of "Nothing To Say" for our gig at the Lamond-Riggs library DC (6.26, 6:30 pm, 5401 South Dakota Ave NE, free!). Vicki Golding added a beautiful second verse to my song inspired by writers block. #JazzSky #songwriter #songwriting ohljazz.com/2025/06/24/t...
#TunesOnTuesday (on Wednesday this week) marks the start of spring with "You Must Believe In Spring," a seasonal classic by Michel Legrand with lyrics by Alan & Marilyn Bergman #jazzpiano #solopiano #jazzmusic #JazzSky ohljazz.com/2025/04/02/t...
Tunes on Tuesday: You Must Believe In Spring
Why this tune? It’s officially spring, and so time for songs of the spring season. This is one of the loveliest spring songs I know. Michel Legrand and Jacques Demy wrote it as “La chan…
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April 2, 2025 at 7:58 PM
#TunesOnTuesday (on Wednesday this week) marks the start of spring with "You Must Believe In Spring," a seasonal classic by Michel Legrand with lyrics by Alan & Marilyn Bergman #jazzpiano #solopiano #jazzmusic #JazzSky ohljazz.com/2025/04/02/t...
Posting #TunesOnTuesday a day late so I can mark #NationalBagelDay with a song (also day 15 of the SFME January challenge). Here's "Bagel Day" #songwriter #songwriting www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsPK...
Bagel Day (January 2025 Song a Day Challenge Day 15 & Tunes on Tuesday)
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January 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Posting #TunesOnTuesday a day late so I can mark #NationalBagelDay with a song (also day 15 of the SFME January challenge). Here's "Bagel Day" #songwriter #songwriting www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsPK...
#TunesOnTuesday shares an untitled song in progress, building on a theme by my old friend Manisha Shahane that she posted several days earlier. ohljazz.com/2025/05/13/t... #JazzSky #jazzmusic #jazzpiano #songwriter #songwriting #workinprogress
Tunes on Tuesday: May Exploration
Why this tune? Where does a new song come from? This one started with a post by my old friend Manisha Shahane
with the caption “Entered May with this exploration…” She asked me to write…
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May 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
#TunesOnTuesday shares an untitled song in progress, building on a theme by my old friend Manisha Shahane that she posted several days earlier. ohljazz.com/2025/05/13/t... #JazzSky #jazzmusic #jazzpiano #songwriter #songwriting #workinprogress
#TunesOnTuesday goes back to 1962 with "What Kind of Fool Am I" by Newley & Bricusse. I love a good ballad... ohljazz.com/2024/12/03/t... #JazzSky
Tunes on Tuesday: What Kind of Fool Am I?
Why this tune? This week’s tune is a classic written by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse in 1962 for the musical “Stop the World – I Want to Get Off.” Sammy Davis Jr. recorded i…
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December 3, 2024 at 8:33 PM
#TunesOnTuesday goes back to 1962 with "What Kind of Fool Am I" by Newley & Bricusse. I love a good ballad... ohljazz.com/2024/12/03/t... #JazzSky
#TunesOnTuesday celebrates #Passover with an interpretation of the "Song of the Sea" from Exodus 15, sung after the dramatic crossing of the Red Sea. #songwriter #songwriting #JazzSky #pesach ohljazz.com/2025/04/15/t...
Tunes on Tuesday: Down in the Deep (Passover 2025)
Why this tune? This week’s tune is in honor of Passover, an interpretation of the “Song of the Sea” in Exodus 15, which we read during the holiday. It’s another addition to …
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April 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
#TunesOnTuesday celebrates #Passover with an interpretation of the "Song of the Sea" from Exodus 15, sung after the dramatic crossing of the Red Sea. #songwriter #songwriting #JazzSky #pesach ohljazz.com/2025/04/15/t...
#TunesOnTuesday shares Luiz Bonfá's gentle bossa nova classic "The Gentle Rain" ohljazz.com/2025/10/21/t... #JazzSky #bossanova #jazzpiano #solopiano
Tunes on Tuesday: The Gentle Rain
Why this tune? This week’s tune “The Gentle Rain” is a gentle bossa nova composed by Luiz Bonfá that has been in my set lists for a while. Bonfá wrote it for the soundtrack of the…
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October 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
#TunesOnTuesday shares Luiz Bonfá's gentle bossa nova classic "The Gentle Rain" ohljazz.com/2025/10/21/t... #JazzSky #bossanova #jazzpiano #solopiano
Day 28 of the Songwriting For M.E. #songadaychallenge (and #TunesOnTuesday). I wasn't happy with the two songs I was working on, so decided to go instrumental for today's contribution. #songwriter #songwriting #melodica www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrQr...
The 28th Day (January 2025 Song a Day Challenge Day 28)
YouTube video by Oren Levine
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January 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Day 28 of the Songwriting For M.E. #songadaychallenge (and #TunesOnTuesday). I wasn't happy with the two songs I was working on, so decided to go instrumental for today's contribution. #songwriter #songwriting #melodica www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrQr...
#TunesOnTuesday shares "How Do We Know?", musing about the challenges of finding information we can trust with so many sources and people competing our time and attention. #jazzsky ohljazz.com/2024/10/08/t...
October 8, 2024 at 6:54 PM
#TunesOnTuesday shares "How Do We Know?", musing about the challenges of finding information we can trust with so many sources and people competing our time and attention. #jazzsky ohljazz.com/2024/10/08/t...
#TunesOnTuesday celebrates Pat Metheny's 71's birthday with one of his lovely ballads "Always and Forever" #JazzSky #patmetheny
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Tunes on Tuesday: Always and Forever
Why this tune? Tunes on Tuesday celebrates the birthday of the great
guitarist and composer Pat Metheny with one of
his lovely ballads. He recorded this one on his 1992 album “Secret Story…
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August 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM
#TunesOnTuesday celebrates Pat Metheny's 71's birthday with one of his lovely ballads "Always and Forever" #JazzSky #patmetheny
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Everyday I get up and pray to Jah
And he increases the number of clocks
By exactly one
#TunesOnTuesday
Camper Van Beethoven - Take The Skinheads Bowling (1986)
And he increases the number of clocks
By exactly one
#TunesOnTuesday
Camper Van Beethoven - Take The Skinheads Bowling (1986)
December 24, 2024 at 12:08 PM
Everyday I get up and pray to Jah
And he increases the number of clocks
By exactly one
#TunesOnTuesday
Camper Van Beethoven - Take The Skinheads Bowling (1986)
And he increases the number of clocks
By exactly one
#TunesOnTuesday
Camper Van Beethoven - Take The Skinheads Bowling (1986)
#TunesOnTuesday shares another original "Conversation," after several rounds of revision, in the spirit of "the best writing is rewriting" #JazzSky #songwriting #songwriter ohljazz.com/2025/06/03/t...
Tunes on Tuesday: Conversation
Why this tune? I’ve heard from several songwriters that
the best writing is rewriting. I’m following that
principle with this week’s tune. I started working on “Conversation…
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June 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
#TunesOnTuesday shares another original "Conversation," after several rounds of revision, in the spirit of "the best writing is rewriting" #JazzSky #songwriting #songwriter ohljazz.com/2025/06/03/t...
#TunesOnTuesday marks the birthday of the great Hoagy Carmichael with one of his most well-known songs "The Nearness of You" #JazzSky #jazz ohljazz.com/2024/11/25/t...
Tunes on Tuesday: The Nearness of You
Why this tune? This week’s tune is a classic by the great American composer Hoagy Carmichael, born on Nov. 22, 1899. “The Nearness of You” is one of 50 (!) hit songs he wrote in a…
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November 26, 2024 at 1:17 PM
#TunesOnTuesday marks the birthday of the great Hoagy Carmichael with one of his most well-known songs "The Nearness of You" #JazzSky #jazz ohljazz.com/2024/11/25/t...
#TunesOnTuesday shares Frank Loesser's holiday classic "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" which isn't about New Year's at all. #JazzSky #jazzpiano #holidaymusic ohljazz.com/2024/12/10/t...
Tunes on Tuesday: What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?
Why this tune? This week’s tune is a classic by Frank Loesser that has become one of the standards of the American holiday season. Loesser wrote it as a standalone song in 1947, and it was qu…
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December 10, 2024 at 3:59 PM
#TunesOnTuesday shares Frank Loesser's holiday classic "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" which isn't about New Year's at all. #JazzSky #jazzpiano #holidaymusic ohljazz.com/2024/12/10/t...
#TunesOnTuesday learns from #Torah that you should always Pay the Band ohljazz.com/2024/09/17/t... #jazzsky
September 17, 2024 at 7:51 PM
#TunesOnTuesday learns from #Torah that you should always Pay the Band ohljazz.com/2024/09/17/t... #jazzsky
#TunesOnTuesday shares a short musical celebration of the Caribbean roots of the great Sonny Rollins, who we lost this week on May 25. A medley of two Caribbean tunes he recorded: "Hold Em Joe" and "St. Thomas." ohljazz.com/2026/05/26/t...
#JazzSky #jazzpiano #solopiano #sonnyrollins
#JazzSky #jazzpiano #solopiano #sonnyrollins
Tunes on Tuesday: Hold Em Joe / St. Thomas
Why this tune? This week’s tune is a tribute to the life and work of the “saxophone colossus” Sonny Rollins, who passed on May 25. He recorded over 60 albums as a leader and compo…
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May 26, 2026 at 9:00 PM
#TunesOnTuesday shares a short musical celebration of the Caribbean roots of the great Sonny Rollins, who we lost this week on May 25. A medley of two Caribbean tunes he recorded: "Hold Em Joe" and "St. Thomas." ohljazz.com/2026/05/26/t...
#JazzSky #jazzpiano #solopiano #sonnyrollins
#JazzSky #jazzpiano #solopiano #sonnyrollins
#TunesOnTuesday shares "My Country," which I wrote in a burst of inspiration on the morning of July 4 this year. #songwriting #songwriter #july4th ohljazz.com/2026/07/07/t...
Tunes on Tuesday: My Country
Why this tune? Once in a rare while, inspiration strikes and there’s no choice but to follow it. That happened to me on the morning of July 4, when we celebrated the 250th anniversary of the …
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July 7, 2026 at 3:03 PM
#TunesOnTuesday shares "My Country," which I wrote in a burst of inspiration on the morning of July 4 this year. #songwriting #songwriter #july4th ohljazz.com/2026/07/07/t...
#TunesOnTuesday shares the jazz classic "Stella By Starlight." Taking a break from a songwriting workshop on Star Island to re-learn this standard. #JazzSky #jazzstandard #jazzpiano ohljazz.com/2026/09/01/t...
Tunes on Tuesday: Stella By Starlight
Why this tune? I’m posting this week from Star Island, New Hampshire, off the coast of Portsmouth. I’m here for a songwriting workshop led by Scarlet Keys and Susan Cattaneo from the Be…
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September 2, 2026 at 3:21 AM
#TunesOnTuesday shares the jazz classic "Stella By Starlight." Taking a break from a songwriting workshop on Star Island to re-learn this standard. #JazzSky #jazzstandard #jazzpiano ohljazz.com/2026/09/01/t...