Chicago is an amazing place to make music. I am grateful for the opportunities and I am humbled by all of the amazing people I encounter. Thank you!

Had a great time in Denmark. The folks were welcoming, food was great and sites were intriguing. We also spent a 1/2 day in Malmo (Sweden). Trip highlight for me you ask? Making music at La Fontaine (the oldest jazz…

It's a new dawn...it's a new day...it's a new life for me...and I'm feeling good! ---Bricusse/Newley

It's such an exciting time to be in Chicago. There are zillions of opportunities to participate in community and city planned events. I really feel like I'm part of something genuine and fresh. I hope you've made your way outside...live…

Greetings Y'all: KJAZZ (88.1 FM) is airing tracks from “Movin' On" for its Los Angeles area listeners (I listen on line too). I had the pleasure of meeting late night DJ, Jai Rich, while attending the World Stage Jazz Festival…

Words and Music = POWER I had the wonderful opportunity of working on Portraits on May 3 at the Park West. Writers, performers, students, teachers and people from all walks of life had their “stories of hope and survival" illuminated…

Greetings Everyone! I feel like sharing! Here we go! GREGG SHAPIRO - Chicago Free Press "Chicago-based jazz vocalist Lucy Smith is both a talented songwriter and a gifted interpreter of other people's songs. Nowhere is that more obvious than in…

Spring is in the Air...and so is the music from Movin' On. Theola Bright from WHIL, 91.3 FM ("serving the Gulf Coast of America.") has featured cuts from the CD and says that she especially likes "Go Down Moses." Dusty…

Wow! What an amazining experience. Sharing the stage with and passing the mic to blues legend Koko Taylor! I'm still flyin' high! Yesterday afternoon Steppenwolf Theatre was bursting with Chicago history. A brainchild of Sylvia Ewing, Music and Memories featured…

Happy New Year! Jacques Jongmans, DJ for Dutch Coast Radio (104.5) in the Netherlands, sent me a note recently. He's playing tracks from "Movin' On" on Thursday nights for his listeners in the beach resort town of Zandvoort. Bob Parzych…

Lucy Smith scores 9/10 from this presenter. Every now and then someone comes along who takes an extraordinary well known song like "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin" and just doesn't cover it. Her version becomes a total musical and vocal…

Greetings! Jazz educator, historian, promoter, radio founder and host (and the list wonderfully goes on...), Dionizy Piatkowski, has sent compliments my way and is airing cuts from "Movin' On" on 88.4/Jazz FM in Mosina, Poland. RIGHT ON!!!