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I’ll Be Your Sous-Chef, Baby!
If you know about you know that I’m not asked too cook often. But I love to sous-chef for my husband, and wrote this song about it, which my Creative Admin-Guy, James, claims is one of the world’s raciest G-Rated songs. In my search to create a definitive...
The Recording Conundrum
It all started with a conundrum about my new album – the one I’m recording now. Despite a Grammy Nomination – an honor that’s specific to ‘recording artists’ – I’ve never considered myself a ‘recording’ artist (and yes, that image is my Grammy Nomination medal). I’m a...
Who’s Your Muse?
It was an experiment. And what I discovered was … He’s my muse. Thinking of him, playing for him, I was able to do what I hadn’t been able to do for 7 years, which was release newly recorded music. I sent them to him as a valentine, then released them as a...
Love Songs for Peter
In the 2nd grade I bought a pack of valentines for everyone in the class.This year I made only ONE – and I made it by hand for my beloved friend Peter.It’s a jazz-harp collection of 4 classic jazz standards: “As Time Goes By,” ...
Making Peter’s Valentine
I started working on it weeks ago, a limited-edition Jazz-Harp Release that started as a personal Jazz Valentine for Peter. I chose the tunes and practiced them. Then I started recording them every morning, putting them on my iPod and listening to them on my daily...
The Laboratory is Open
Monday I did an experiment. I asked for listening help to decide which cuts to use on a I fell apart when it did. I started crying and stomping through the house and eating the cat food. (OK, I didn’t really eat the cat food but I thought about it.) Enter James. My...
Jazz Valentine Listeners Needed!
Update: We are working on a new plan because Deborah really wants your feedback – Stay tuned… (Bea – Wed. 2/13, 6:50am) Update: This plan is not working … …despite all the incredible help I was offered by listeners, Soundcloud makes it so confusing and...
Jazz Valentine Project
I have a very special friend, Peter, and I like to make him a very special Valentine every year. Peter is a long-time collaborator whose vision & support led to my Grammy Nominated project “Invention & Alchemy.” If you’ve been to one of my...The World of Imperfect Completion
Welcome to the most uncomfortable world in my personal universe: the world of imperfect completion. It’s nothing like the world where I feel safest: on stage, performing live, incorporating anything unexpected into the performance itself, bouncing off...
