Lane is Ready For Radio!!

Here’s the link for my song “Lane” it’s here!! : ) Comments are appreciated!!

Lane!

You can get more dope on it from the song page! Lyrics etc…

Wow!! I’m excited about it. : )

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Good News for People Who Love Art!

I know this is Impressionistic! : )

I know this is Impressionistic! : )

Art Galleries and Beyond!

I Played at the way cool Left Coast Wine Bar and Art Gallery on Thurs and Friday night. I had a blast. I love that place. Great room. Art Gallery. The best owners I’ve ever met! : )Tom and Rochelle! Wow!

Love the regular crowd. Emery and Tom and the rest of em.

I loved that my friends came down and hung out. JJ and Kelley showed up Rob and, and, and. What  a treat!

I’ll be there regularly! Check my gig page.

Piano Man!

Piano Man!

Cool!!

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Art is Better With Art! : )

It’s all about Art!!

Last night was awesome! I realized that art is better with other art.

About to Set Up at Edgemar!

I love to play in art galleries.

Yesterday I played with my  fabulous trio in the The Edgemar Center for the Arts! Wow, was it cool. I wish I had more photos.

They have 2 pianos. A baby grand and a Yamaha upright. I played the Grand. With the trio!!

Marty Buttwinick on bass. Wonderful being, beautiful bass playing, and a sense of humor. Doron Eskanazi on the drums. Really there

and creative and always on the money! : )

I have got to do more trio gigs so we can play more.

What A Venue!

But check it out, we were in this beautiful venue. The space itself is an art gallery in a very hip modern building in Santa Monica,

CA, for the opening of a new Play by the amazing Henry Jaglom called “Just 45 Minutes from Broadway.” And there I was  with a bunch of beautiful art loving people and all these celebrities and

making music and people were dancing and…wow!! What a blast.

Tobias, the Studio Manager  and Nicholas, House Manager,  the care takers we’re an absolute pleasure to work with and just, WOW!

That was so much fun.

and  a real  play!! The venue is just plain beautiful and all the people there were just so helpful and motivated. My life is amazing….

The Set! The house was packed and I don’t know about you, but I love a room of people that come out to see the opening of an art Play!!         Now that is  awesome.

The Play

Highly entertaining.  Henry has quite the sense of humor and  he makes his point at least from my perspective that an artist has to  do what he loves no matter what and he’s better off and living more life if he does. It was really entertaining. Such a great cast. Wow, the set!! Real Theater!

Impressive down to the last detail. And Nicholas was commenting to me on the way out how great it was just to be a part of that much art. It’s a real cool group to be able to contribute to. Artists all!

And That’s not All, Folks!

All week was great. Parkway Grill, Monday.Always fun.

The Varnish on Tues. Some really beautiful people came in and one guy even sang a bunch of show tunes, cooool! We had dancers!

My song “Lane” is coming a long well. We tracked the vocals yesterday. : )

It’s getting close. The few people I’ve played it for have really liked it.

Kevin Holt’s song “Believe” is beautiful and getting better daily. : )

Solomon and Tracey and the Musical and, and, and….. Can you say busy?? : )

Motivated!

I’m motivated. I want to create more beauty and make more culture here on Earth. I want to contribute more to the Renaissance that we are starting!! : )

The Artist is also a Photographer!

The Artist is also a Photographer!

Let me know if I can help you to create your beautiful world!! : )

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Creating Beauty for the World is a Full Time Job!

There is so much going on!

I am really busy and that’s good, isn’t it?

I’m gigging (i.e. working)(i.e. playing : ] ) a lot!

I’m working on my songs.

I’m learning all kinds of things: new software, recording techniques etc…..

Gigs

The Varnish is on Tues.  Parkway Grill on Monday. “Left Coast” this coming Thurs. Last Thurs I did Braemar Country Club! Which was beautiful.

They are all fun. All a challenge to keep them fresh and vital and deliver the goods.

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I realized that any music can be elevated to fine art. Even “graphic art” can be fine art. How about that!  I realized that “dinner music” can be fine art and that’s what I am doing, fine art.  That was a good one! My playing is better and my mission is to keep pushing the bar up on the quality and the content of what I’m playing.

(photo- this dude named Matt took these cool photos at the Varnish on Tues)

I’ve been fortunate to be able to play fundraisers with amazing vocalists. Beautiful rooms with wonderful people.

Today I go into some Hollywood studio to record Michael Duff’s Christmas CD!! Cool!!

Gig’s are listed here!

Songs

I’ve been working with Marconi De Morais on my songs. What a learning experience. It’s really a dream come true to be able to work with someone who really has the total professional standard of  music production.  I’m really blown away with the product so far. (although we have  still a ways to go.)

For instance this song was too high for me to sing in the key that I wrote it but, the chords on the guitar that I was playing needed to be played “open” to get the lowest notes of the guitar. So I thought I just had to sing it high. But Marconi suggested we tune the guitar down a whole step.

Wow! It makes so much difference.  Might sound simple. I never knew you could do that.

I even had to use a pick on the song. (me, I never use a pick) So, I’m learning all kinds of new stuff and really raising the bar on the quality of my performance and product.

It’s amazing to be in that situation where I’m realizing that I really did not know practically the first thing about music production. And I’m having to really re-learn so much from the bottom up.

Scary, but wow, exciting! I’m setting the foundation for a totally industry standard of production.

Marconi is amazing!! His you tube web site is here. He’s got this great story of playing for Barry Gordy’s Birthday party and meeting Stevie Wonder there.

http://www.youtube.com/user/purebossa

Everything Else!

Isn’t it crazy how many things there are to delve into? I want to watch the whole DVD of the new Pro Tools recording program I got and spend hours just learning all the features.

(Not to mention the other 25 programs I have.)

Pasadena Fundraiser

Pasadena Fundraiser

I played such a great gig last week at the Bel Air Bay Club. I decided that I should promote to every Country Club in LA and area. And…every restaurant and caterer  and wedding planner and hotel in Malibu and Beverly Hills and Bel Air….

Only question, when do I have time to do that?  And the million other awesome ideas that i have in promotion and production???

Photo’s here! Lot’s on new ones!

Life is amazing!

I love hearing from you. You can make comments or leave a reply on any post on this site.

Let me know if you need anything “music”! : )

Marc

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Never a dull rest for fantastically busy! : )

Big Gig Week!

Played at Parkway and Varnish, an Art Gallery and a wedding  and loved every one  of them.

The Varnish: 20’s, heavy jazz, ragtime-speakeasy cool.Varnish B and W

The Parkway Grill:

If you like the more chill modern, smooth vibe.

Full gig schedule is here!

I liked both of those and…. the

Art Gallery

I had a great gig at the Left Coast Art Gallery! Wonderful place. Played, hung out with art lovers and artists and the coolest proprietors in history!!

Artist View

(by the way-tons of all kinds of photos here)

Tom and Rochelle are the people who own it and they are just plain wonderful people in addition to having keen appreciation for art! : ) They also own the Left Coast Wine Bar and Art Gallery in Glendale across from the Americana.piano from backI got to hang with these be-utiful artists amazing.

marc and jdmarc and erinAnd Saturday…last minute….

Wedding!

Two friends, last minute, beautiful. A wedding.

I had some of the most amazing Chinese Food ever. And I have now been to a wedding that was three languages, Bride- Chinese, Groom-French, the language all of us other nondescripts speak- English.

It was awesome. Great venue and great treat for all. I also played for Barbie Wiggins who is an amazing singer.

Major Production!!

I’m having the absolute pleasure of working with Marconi De Morais on one of my songs. It’s really coming a lot well and I’m learning so much.

Great experience. It is helping me with all of my music I’m doing.

He’s awesome and the song is beautiful.

Songs!

I’m working with a boatload of different people on different songs and the like. And trying to stay up with it all. Catch more songs, demos etc… here!

Life is amazing!!

If you need music let me know.

The right music can make anything so cool. : )

Marc

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