For someone who is playing within a tradition, it is important to keep inspiration high, to keep yourself challenged and contributing on a high level. Where perhaps some have fallen victim over time to a kind of creeping fungus of the repertoire, the same tunes played in the same ways time and again, Ken Peplowski has found ways to keep his music very much a thing of today…

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CD rates and the Fed

The Federal Open Market Committee met today for the fourth time this year. Unsurprisingly, rates were unchanged and that means continuing bad news for CD rates .

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CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Keyboardist/Composer Mike Prigodich Releases New CD “A Stitch in Time” from Mexican Mocha Music.

Mexican Mocha Music CD Release Date: July 26th, 2011 Over the past two years Mike Prigodich’s jazz-fusion compositions have begun attracting attention from many well-known national artists. For him, becoming a cancer patient in 2008 was the big wake-up call that got him to start writing new music, construct a band, start booking gigs, and pursue his dream of becoming a professional jazz musician …

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