Win a FREE autographed Skafish PROMO What’s This? CD!

Welcome to Week 3 of the 7 week Skafish 2009 holiday season giveaway contests:
Week 2 was once again a fantastic success with a lot of entries and here are the Week 2 giveaway contest winners: Cyndy Sarwacinski (US), Marc Versini (France), John Reid (UK), Gareth Williams (UK), and Greg Zagrocki (US). Don’t give up if [...]

Meet one of our Week 1 winners!

When Glinda Harrison sent out the prizes to the 5 winners for Week 1, she invited then to submit a picture of themselves with their Skafish 2009 Holiday contest prize for the blog. We just got these two pictures of Week 1 winner Larry Leibowitz from Florida who won an autographed copy of my first [...]

Win a FREE Skafish Holiday Jazz PRESS KIT with CD!

Welcome to Week 2 of the 7 week Skafish 2009 holiday season giveaway contests:
Week 1 was a great success, a lot of fun and here are the winners: Tony M, Cheri Kerr-Smith Schoen, David Van Puffelen, Mikael Dehn, and LarryL. There is a new contest each week for the next 6 weeks, and we’ll be [...]

Recalling the making of Tidings of Comfort and Joy – a Jazz Piano Trio Christmas!

On August 6, 2005, when long time Skafish partner Glinda Harrison had an intuitive flash for me to do my first holiday jazz record, I initially had a good gut feeling about it, but I took about a week to percolate on the idea to make sure it was truly the right choice for me.
When [...]

Win a FREE autographed Skafish Holiday Jazz CD!

Welcome to Week 1 of the 7 week Skafish 2009 holiday season giveaway contests:
Starting today, Sunday, November 1st and every Sunday for the next 7 weeks through December 13, 2009, I will be holding contests to give away 5 copies of a different Skafish item each week.
Now with me writing that pious religious classic “Sign [...]

Call to action-Help stop hunger in less than 5 minutes

In less than 5 minutes, you can help to stop hunger and it won’t cost you a penny. Here’s all you have to do: Go to this webpage, The Hunger Challenge and you will see a list of hunger facts and suggested tweets. Then, just tweet (on Twitter) one of the facts listed on the [...]

Chicago Reader story on Warner Brothers’ re-release of Urgh! A Music War

I wanted to let everyone know that the Chicago Reader did a story about the re-release of Urgh! A Music War by Warner Brothers in which I was interviewed and quoted.  The article came out in print yesterday and posted online today, 9-3-09.  Here is the link if you want to check it out: http://bit.ly/6MggL
Also, you might enjoy [...]

Urgh! A Music War re-released – sort of…

Once again, the strange and twisted saga of the film Urgh! A Music War logs another installment in its nearly 30 year history, as Warner Brothers films has released it as a made for order DVDR from their website on August 4, 2009. 
I’m sure that many of you will be excited to finally see [...]

Incredible web search engine!

The most beautiful web search engine experience yet. Here’s what I got when I searched for Skafish: http://www.spezify.com/#/skafish
 

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They did what with my guitar?!

Chicago’s O’Hare International airport became the launching pad for You Tube’s newest video sensation. Just posted this past Tuesday (July7, 2009) on the same day as Michael Jackson’s Los Angeles memorial, the song United Break Guitars by Canadian musician Dave Carroll has already had over 2 million views.
When Dave Carroll, a member of the folk [...]