Hello everyone, and a welcome hug to our new friend Keiko:-) You sound like an unique person, Keiko. You play jazz piano. I love jazz music. I teach piano at Yamaha music school in Arizona, but I also compose music and arrenge music for work. You say you like Duke Ellington...you must love big band jazz! Tell us more about your piano performance and favorite musics.

Karl, so are you taking some time off from working as a vacation now?? It must be kind of difficult for you to actually go somewhere and do something fun for the vacation because your daughter is studying for a college entrance exam now, right? Wish you the very best for your daughter!!!

Today, I went to a charch with other Yamaha staffs for one of our best students having a performance there. It was a black church (a charch that their congregation is mostly with black people), or better way to say an African-American church. Their church band was soooooo great, and I really enjoyed listenning/singing gospel songs with them. Gabriel, our student, he's going to Japan to perform his own composition which I helped arrenging it into Jazz Quartet in this comming November!! He performed very well, and we all were so proud of him and his co-performers who just flew from California a day before for this Sunday performance.

Take care,
Marsy.