Peace on Earth

It’s the first of December and I just got to open the first door of the advent calendar I brought back from Vienna with tasty Lindt chocolate bites – this is going to be a very special season this year! Well, the chocolates are definitely a plus but my...

Happy Thanksgiving – Arts and Community

One of the first principles in new business ventures is to identify the market and customer segments in order to determine the possible success and need of a new idea, a product, a service, any kind of offerings. As artists we often operate the opposite way though...

Ain’t No Mountain High Enough

The story behind the song and especially the SHEroes arrangement to be released March 23, Whaling City Sound – sneak preview: Arrangement and keys: Monika Herzig Leni Stern (guitar), Jamie Baum (flute), Reut Regev (trombone), Jennifer Vincent (bass), Rosa Avila...

To Reharmonize Or to Not Reharmonize

I love Jam of the Week – it’s a Facebook group with 55,000 members by now that contribute impromptu videos every week to a song theme that is posted by Farnell Newton, the mastermind behind the idea. The themes range from specific jazz standards to various...

It Takes A Village

How are you listening to your favorite music right now? My bet is you’re either tuning in to an online or terrestrial station or streaming from one of the favorite services, am I right? We have learned to borrow music – ownership is only for collectors...