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Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Lines . . .

. . . Written in Early Spring
BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

I heard a thousand blended notes,
While in a grove I sate reclined,
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.

To her fair works did Nature link
The human soul that through me ran;
And much it grieved my heart to think
What man has made of man.

Through primrose tufts, in that green bower,
The periwinkle trailed its wreaths;
And ’tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes.

The birds around me hopped and played,
Their thoughts I cannot measure:—
But the least motion which they made
It seemed a thrill of pleasure.

The budding twigs spread out their fan,
To catch the breezy air;
And I must think, do all I can,
That there was pleasure there.

If this belief from heaven be sent,
If such be Nature’s holy plan,
Have I not reason to lament
What man has made of man?

(from http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/181415)
Source: The Longman Anthology of Poetry (Pearson, 2006)

Hope
from Ambience & Wine
©2012 Raymond M. Jozwiak
available at CD Baby

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My latest solo offering, Just More Music by Ray Jozwiak, featuring original, instrumental piano music will be released April 7, 2014 Just More Music by Ray Jozwiak

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Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Now . . .

For my ninth release, I have decided to dispense with the hyperbole, intricate poetic descriptions, buzzwords and self-aggrandizing verbal excesses and issue a collection of Just More Music.

Just More Music by Ray Jozwiak is here . . .

. . . NOW!!!

Clarity
from Just More Music by Ray Jozwiak
©2007 & 2014 Raymond M. Jozwiak
Available Now

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Monday, April 6, 2015

Scared . . .

. . . or belligerent?!!

(According to Reuters)

". . . Big Wall Street banks are so upset with U.S. Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren's call for them to be broken up that some have discussed withholding campaign donations to Senate Democrats in symbolic protest, sources familiar with the discussions said. Citigroup has decided to withhold donations for now to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee over concerns that Senate Democrats could give Warren and lawmakers who share her views more power, sources inside the bank told Reuters. JPMorgan representatives have met Democratic Party officials to emphasize the connection between its annual contribution and the need for a friendlier attitude toward the banks, a source familiar with JPMorgan's donations said. . ."

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Sunday, April 5, 2015

Two . . .

. . . more days . . .

Creative musician, Baltimore-based Ray Jozwiak offers recordings and performances of eclectic, instrumental solo piano (and piano-based) compositions that have been referred to as 'Fractured Jazz' laced with generous amounts of 'Improvisational Terror Tactics.'

Ray has been nominated for a WAMMIE Award in the Jazz Instrumentalist category, named Baltimore Magazine's BEST LOUNGE PIANIST and was a finalist in the Mid-Atlantic Song Contest for the composition ALWAYS YOU.

Performances in and around Baltimore include the 13th Floor Lounge-The Belvedere, The Kiss Cafe, Gardel's Supper Club, The Full Moon Saloon, The Baltimore Songwriters Association, Border's Books and Music, GBMC, Tyson's Tavern, Elk Run Vineyards and appears regularly at The Brewer's Alley Songwriters' Showcase.

For the last couple of years, I have been working with founders of the Baltimore icon prog-band OHO (and former members of Ful Treatment) for a present-day OHO power trio crankin' out OHO classics, new material and selected 'covers' when live for your aural stimulation. Check it out at http://www.ohomusic.com

Ray's music (CDs CHROMATOSE, CRITIC'S CHOICE and PUT A FINGER ON IT and FOR THE RIDE and digital downloads-only ANOTHER SHOT, AMBIENCE & WINE, BLACK & WHITE THEN BACK and his latest "2014") are available for purchase at http://www.cdbaby.com/all/rjozwiak as well as a host of cyber-outlets for download.

The music incorporates, conjures, channels, borrows, steels, and respectfully pays homage to cartoon theme songs, childrens novelty tunes, pop, country, Polish folk songs and dances, hymns, the Beatles and the British invasion, prog and art rock from Gentle Giant to Egg, Myron Floren and Lawrence Welk, Buck Owens and the Buckaroos, Merle Haggard, Cannonball Adderly, Vince Guraldi, Wynton Kelly, Fats Waller, McCoy Tyner, John Coltrane, Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Eric Dolphy, Frank Zappa, Keith Jarrett, Thelonious Monk, Elvis Costello, Ani DiFranco, Bob Zacharcko, Jay Graboski and David Reeve and more.

Available
from Just More Music by Ray Jozwiak
©2007 & 2014 Raymond M. Jozwiak
Available April 7, 2015

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Saturday, April 4, 2015

Where . . .

. . . Words Do Not Reach

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Friday, April 3, 2015

Playground . . .

Teaching for the future . . .

One father is supervising the recreation of his young son at the neighborhood playground on a warm, sunny, spring afternoon. The child is totally absorbed in his activities on the swing set, climbing bars and sliding board alone, in sequence and then back again. The father finds that his participation has metamorphosed from a formerly active playing partner/spotter/parent hovering around or actually physically on the equipment itself, into a passive overseer on the sidelines. Eventually a group of four or five adolescent males tumble haphazardly down the block directly across the street from the playground. The bright, crystalline Sunday atmosphere is shattered by a harsh ringing (to the father) of a string of current and colorful profanity followed by uproarious laughter on the part of the group. The young boy at the playground is distracted from his joyful reverie by the laughter an looks up in the direction of the young men in the distance. The father is somewhat, but not noticeably to his son, perturbed by the events.

Should the father:

A. Retrieve his child from the playground and march furious and determined to the group and immediately lecture the teenagers on the inappropriateness of their verbal onslaught with his son’s attention (and maybe or maybe not, his interest) captured by the unusual development but absorbing all aspects of it (including the profanity, which his father has repeated in the course of the harangue)?

B. Quizzically and humorously suggest to his young son that, since the sound of the ice cream truck’s bells was perceived in the distant direction of home, he believed the two of them would greatly benefit from the pursuance and overtaking of that very truck with the object being the purchase and consumption of a delightfully cool and satisfying ice cream?

(Our future depends upon your answer.)

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Thursday, April 2, 2015

Bears . . .

. . . further investigation, don't you think?

(from http://gawker.com/did-clintons-backdoor-adviser-illegally-lobby-for-putin-1693111549
Hillary Clinton says there is nothing to hide in her scandalous personal email account, now apparently half-deleted. But leaked emails from her longtime confidant Sidney Blumenthal show that he and another former official from Bill Clinton's administration were secretly lobbying the secretary of state on behalf of a billionaire in the former Soviet state of Georgia who was seeking closer ties with Putin's Russia—seemingly in violation of a federal law designed to prevent foreign powers from covertly wielding influence within the United States.

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