Mike Shanley

By Mike Shanley Pittsburgh Current Contributing Writer info@pittsburghcurrent.com As Director of Jazz Studies at Queens…

“I’ve never been more excited about learning in my life than I am right now….

By Mike Shanley Pittsburgh Current Music Writer info@pittsburghcurrent.com   Larry Ochs, the tenor saxophonist in…

“Ever since a young age, I was fascinated by heavier, harder music.” By Mike Shanley…

By Mike Shanley Pittsburgh Current Music Writer info@pittsburghcurrent.com   The best way to break the…

“At times his persona eclipsed his music.” By Mike Shanley Stanley Nelson became obsessed with…

By Mike Shanley Pittsburgh Current Music Writer info@pittsburghcurrent.com   Art Imitates Life, the new album…

By Mike Shanley Pittsburgh Current Music Writer info@pittsburghcurrent.com   The photos on Thumbscrew’s second album,…

“When you create something, you have to leave holes in it for the other person…

  By Mike Shanley Pittsburgh Current Music Writer info@pittsburghcurrent.com The Pittsburgh Jazz Days of Summer…