Fantastic Original Songs Played by Real Musicians!

This web site is real different, isn't it? Doesn't at all resemble web sites of other composers and songwriters. Well, neither does the music! Have a listen and see for yourself.

I write in a wide diversity of styles. I'm starting off with R&B, both old school and modern, because that's where I live. But I have songs of many different styles, and it would be well worth your while to add yourself to the mailing list so you can be alerted when the latest gets posted.

Not being sold on my own performance, most of the playing (and all of the singing) you're hearing is being performed by the best players around.

So stay awhile, have a look around, and hear some really cool tunes!

And, oh yes, you should also check out Bruce's Pretty Darn Good Blog (see below). I'm utilizing my many years of music listening and study and you'll find some pretty interesting stuff there. And as a first for many blogs, you can actually hear what I'm writing about!

NOTE: This is a blog you can not only read, but hear. Simply click on the link following the name of a song, and you will immediately hear a clip of it without leaving the page. Following Ella Fitzgerald (see last blog post), probably the next big impression that hit me–really hit me–was the sound [...]

Writing a music history is a daunting task, to say the least. Where do you start? If you’re trying to start at the beginning of a genre like blues or R&B, do you go all the way back to Bessie Smith or Robert Johnson, for example?

You may or may not heard of the “Great American Songbook.” It is a body of music that includes many of the greatest songsters, tunesmiths and lyricists of all time, such as Cole Porter, Hoagy Charmicheal, George and Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern, and number of others, including the cream of the classic Broadway writers (Richard Rogers, Oscar Hammerstien, Lorenz Hart). This catalog of music leads up to (and pretty much ends at) the mid-fifties when rock and roll came along and swept up the airwaves.