January song-a-day challenge Day 19: "Breathing In Time" is the short start of a song. I can always write a tune about the beach :-) #songwriter #songwriting youtube.com/shorts/Va6Zu...

Day 18 of my January song-a-day challenge organized by Songwriting for ME. "The Muse Knows" is a reworking of a song I started in 2019! #songwriting #songwriter #rewriting youtube.com/shorts/ZmRJz...

Day 17 of the January song-a-day challenge: "Let Them" combined another lyrics class prompt, a Clyde Stubblefield #funk groove and a bunch of rhyming verbs #songwriting #songwriter youtube.com/shorts/3Wchx...

Day 16 of my January 2026 song-a-day challenge. This is what happens when you put a bunch of unrelated new and old song ideas in a document and mix them together. I added some harmonic adventures and got "The World Rearranged." #songwriter #songwriting youtube.com/shorts/bVrgC...

For day 15 of this year's January song-a-day challenge, a song inspired by this week's #Torah portion Vaera (וארא), where we read the beginning of the story of the Ten Plagues that preceded the Exodus #songwriter #songwriting youtube.com/shorts/lnQRy...

Celebrating #nationalbagelday with my tribute to this favorite nosh I wrote last year. "Bagel Day" youtu.be/qsPKXi3oxwA #bagel #songwriter #songwriting

#TunesOnTuesday shares today's entry in my January song-a-day challenge, a reworking of my Torah Tune "Pay the Band" from a couple of years ago. It's a musician's take on the Torah command to "pay out the wages due on the same day" #JazzSky #songwriter #songwriting youtube.com/shorts/wCV70...

Day 12 of the Songwriting for ME January challenge. "One For the Headache" explains why I couldn't post anything on the 11th. To the tune of "One For My Baby" by Harold Arlen #songwriter #songwriting youtube.com/shorts/ZmOOY...

For Day 10 of the Songwriting For ME January challenge, I'm channeling the ghosts of Tin Pan Alley with "Year After Year" in a classic American songbook style. #songwriter #songwriting youtube.com/shorts/Fqu__...

January song-a-day challenge Day 9: That Song #songwriter #songwriting (trying to channel some Barry Manilow in the music) www.youtube.com/shorts/sVA05...

January song-a-day challenge Day 8: Good Morning youtube.com/shorts/QacYE... #songwriter #songwriting

January song-a-day challenge Day 7: Edge of the Sea (I took a walk on the beach this morning) youtube.com/shorts/YO_80...

if you tried to do this in the us, you'd have a billion dollar conservative moms group lobbying against it 12 hours later and credulous news articles taking their claims seriously in 24 bsky.app/profile/davi...

January song-a-day challenge Day 6: Before You Fall youtube.com/shorts/qHaXw... #songwriting #songwriter

I'm taking a January song-a-day challenge sponsored by Kat and Sarah at songwritingforme.com. One a day, complete or not, warts and all. Day 5: Echoes youtube.com/shorts/D_pgC... #songwriting #songwriter

People have mentioned @51st.news for DC and @hellgatenyc.com for NYC, so let me add some other great local news options: @thetnholler.bsky.social @mississippifreepress.org @lataco.bsky.social @philinvestigates.com @texastribune.org @inquirer.com Keep 'em coming!

Instead check out @zeteo.com @propublica.org @flaminghydra.com @404media.co @wired.com @marisakabas.bsky.social and the like. If you've got an independent site or individual journalist you love, add them to the replies here.

January song-a-day challenge Day 4: On the 10:17 youtube.com/shorts/dPe6d... #songwriting #songwriter

January song-a-day challenge Day 3: Hypnotized youtube.com/shorts/0FGCa... #songwriting #songwriter

January song-a-day challenge Day 2: The Smile In Your Eyes youtube.com/shorts/lGq2G... #songwriting #songwriter

I'm taking a January song-a-day challenge sponsored by Kat and Sarah at songwritingforme.com. One a day, complete or not, warts and all. Day 1: The Mystery youtube.com/shorts/AsDaA...

For some reason this song came to mind... #venezuela "They've got to be protected All their rights respected 'Til someone we like can be elected" youtu.be/HHhZF66C1Dc?...

Good word to use in a lyric, bad way to write one

TunesOnTuesday is ready for the new year with "Let's Resolve," an updated version of my new New Year's song with a contrary opinion about resolutions. Wishing you a safe, sane and swinging year. #songwriter #songwriting #JazzSky #newyearsresolution #newyear ohljazz.com/2025/12/30/t...

Looking back on a productive 2025 & wishing you a safe and satisfying 2026 from St. Croix! 🎶 "Grown Up Since Tuesday" EP + vinyl 🎶 January song-a-day challenge 🎶 EP release show at Blues Alley 🎶 District Fringe debut w/Barbara Papendorp 🎶 Last show with Aaron Myers & the Black Fox Ensemble

Thanks @natalieweiner.bsky.social for posting about the 1959 project again. If you haven't seen it, please check it out. Superb work of reporting and history. #JazzSky

#TunesOnTuesday shares a song about struggling against winter weather in more ways than one. "Curious Weather" ohljazz.com/2025/12/23/t... #songwriting #songwriter #JazzSky

Thanks to @sethcotlar.bsky.social for literally bringing the (historical) receipts

Looking forward to #publicdomainday 2026 on January 1, when a new crop of songs (and books and films and other creative works) enters the public domain web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd.... Let the re-imagining continue! #songwriting #songwriter

This festive season…The 500 Songs Patreon awaits you 🎄🎅 Treat yourself, support the podcast and gain access to a bustling backlog of exclusive episodes! www.patreon.com/AndrewHickey

More #Hanukkah sounds! Enjoy these interpretations of holiday classics, one for each candle! Eight Songs for Eight Days on Bandcamp ohljazz.bandcamp.com/album/eight-... #JazzSky #holidaymusic #חנוכה

#Hanukkah starts tonight! www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFKn... #JazzSky #jewishmusic #חנוכה

#TunesOnTuesday shares the classic "Just the Two of Us," recorded by Grover Washington, Jr and Bill Withers. According to Wikipedia, you have this song to blame for the later explosion of "smooth jazz" #JazzSky ohljazz.com/2025/12/09/t...

We're back in DC to finish our move to the islands, just in time for the first December snow in eight years 🥶 Of course I have a song about it: Snow Day youtu.be/R7_Bcl3AIUQ #songwriting #songwriter #JazzSky #snow

November 26, 2025

Happy #Thanksgiving 🦃 to all who are celebrating tomorrow. Enjoy my song for the season "Thanksgiving With Uncle Rob" recorded with Aaron Myers #JazzSky #holidaysongs #jazzsongs youtu.be/eJqrIHzkzJI

#TunesOnTuesday shares the start of a new song "Lost In the Words" inspired in part by a drum track from the Drumgenius app. Peter Eldridge suggested using a drum track for inspiration in a songwriting session on JazzVoice.com. #JazzSky #songwriting #songwriter ohljazz.com/2025/11/25/t...

@forward.com asks "why are there so many Jews named Irving?" For many of those first generation American Jews, their Hebrew name was their "real" name. Families chose English names to fit into Gentile society. forward.com/culture/7836...

My current fav lyric: "A Dip In the Ocean" from #FountainsOfWayne. Every syllable seems chosen precisely for meaning and sound. #songwriting "Tourists flashing the night From the grottoes And gathering now on the heel-worn planks For a drunken promenade or a mambo" www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIYE...

More superb recommendations from @ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social #JazzSky

#TunesOnTuesday shares the 1972 Philly Soul classic "People Make The World Go Round," which I'm playing this month in some jazz shows on St. Croix with the fine vocalist Venus Dodson. Works great as an instrumental too! ohljazz.com/2025/11/18/t... #JazzSky #jazzpiano

Ponied up for a month of newspapers.com, went right to the New York Daily News and quickly found this gem from Feb 16, 1936.

"They want everyone to know these thugs they’ve deployed to terrorize cities are battle-hardened and impervious to pain. But in court, they're such delicate flowers that if they are, say, lightly grazed by a sandwich, they are entitled to justice because of the horrific assault they have suffered."

#TunesOnTuesday shares my song "Bend Don't Break," celebrating the beauty and resilience of the Caribbean and its people. It's also an encouragement to support relief efforts in Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba and other regions affected by Hurricane Melissa. ohljazz.com/2025/11/04/t...

In praise of #sisu 🇫🇮 from @economist.com (gift link): The Finnish lifestyle philosophy that could save Europe www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

Anyway, yet another reminder that "debate me bros" were always full of shit, and anyone who claims that they were actually about free speech or real discussion over ideas is lying or gullible. www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/t...

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

Jack DeJohnette, just one of the deepest musicians ever, and a personal hero. Here is my obituary for NPR Music.

Thanks @ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social for this comprehensive and personal tribute to the late Jack DeJohnette #JazzSky

Any proposal that starts with the word "convince" is doomed to failure