Mini Post: Happy-Making Brazilian Music (a good way to spend 8 minutes)
An amazing and inspiring jazz arrangement that immediately brings energy and happiness to the listener.
Category: Music
Jazz Alert! Thomas Wenglinski Quintet Streaming from Austin Tonight
A jazzy livestream from Austin, Texas, led by Thomas Wenglinski.
Christmas Jazz: Swingin’ for the Holidays Concert
A live-streamed holiday jazz concert from the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music Jazz Studio gets us into the seasonal spirit at Glover Gardens.
For Your Listening Pleasure: “Jazz Tonight” from Austin PBS
Our Musical Millennial is the piano player for Episode 1 of the new Austin PBS show, Jazz Tonight, and wrote four of the arrangements. Check it out via free livestream.
For Your Jazz Listening Pleasure: Thomas Wenglinski Concert on Friday Night, July 19!
Thomas Wenglinski leads a stellar group of jazz players at Austin’s Monks Jazz Club on Friday, July 19, 2024 – available for livestream.
Do You Remember the 21st Night of September?
Ba-dee-ya, y’all – Happy Earth, Wind and Fire Day! They are on the list of tiny things that make me immediately (and ridiculously) happy. Check out the list in pictures, and a September video.
Jazz for Your Listening Pleasure: The Thomas Wenglinski Quintet at Monks
Two posts in one day! Here’s why: I can’t resist sharing the recording of the Musical Millennial’s jazz gig from last Tuesday night at Monks Jazz in Austin, TX with you. And I can’t wait. Here you go! The Musical Millennial is my son, Thomas…
Jazz for Your Listening Pleasure: Celebrating Disney’s 100th Year
Remember Me from Coco is just one of the fabulous arrangements of Disney songs performed by the HMI Orchestra at the U Miami Frost School of Music.
Who Cares if Niagara Falls When We are Side by Side?
Seagulls recall a jazz standard, Side by Side, and the Glovers of Glover Gardens had an anniversary.
For Black History Month: “Lost & Found: America’s Black Classical Music”
Composer William Dawson’s “Negro Folk Symphony” fell into oblivion after a triumphant and successful debut in 1934. Now it’s back, and it’s worth a listen – to the symphony and the back-story.
One Hombre is No More: Goodbye and Thanks for the Memories to Dusty Hill of ZZ Top
Remembering Dusty Hill and how he and ZZ Top were part of my childhood.
Tonight! Thomas Wenglinski and Joel White Play Live Jazz at Cezanne in Houston
Our Musical Millennial, known to the rest of the world as Thomas Wenglinski, is in town and has a cool gig in downtown Houston.
Live-Streaming Jazz for Your Friday Night Listening Pleasure
There are two Thomas Wenglinski & Paulo Santos performances on Friday, June 18, at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. CDT, and you can watch the stream for free in HD Live on YouTube.
Thomas Wenglinski Sextet at Monks: Jazz for Your Sunday Night Live-Streamed Listening Pleasure
Given the history of playing together, the talent of the musicians and their pent-up energy from not having eleventeen gigs per week like they usually do, this show will be amazing.
A Rainbow for Fred: Thomas Wenglinski “Adjustments Made” Interview, Part 2
The song A Rainbow for Fred is a lilting and yet pensive instrumental that lingers with you long after the last note fades, much like the legacy of the activist Fred Hampton, who was killed in 1969.
On the Outside Looking In
A picture that captures the crazy COVID-19 quarantine situation we are all experiencing, and the beauty of the music school at the University of Miami.
R&B, Soul, Jazz and Gumbo: Thomas Wenglinski “Adjustments Made” Interview, Part 1
The first in a series of articles featuring Thomas Wenglinski and his new album, Adjustments Made.
For Your Listening Pleasure: Adjustments Made, Thomas Wenglinski’s New Album
Check out the new R&B album by jazz artist Thomas Wenglinski, Adjustments Made, as he begins his grad school career at the University of Miami.
Saying Bye-Bye to Austin with a Live-Streamed Friday Night Concert
Live streamed jazz from Austin, TX, Friday night.
Graduation Day 2020
Graduation 2020. Anyone who has ever been proud of their kid knows how I feel, that telltale lump in the throat and feeling that your heart might burst into a thousand pieces of joy-light that shoot out into the universe as sparkles of optimism for the future, theirs and the world’s.
