Thomas J. West Music

It's hard to believe that it has been less than a week since the official launch of the Music Professional Learning Network website. In the first five days, membership has grown to nearly 300. That's a hundred more than the projected goal of 200 by October! More importantly, the conversations within the groups' forums are dynamic, detailed...

My website has been in existence about six years. For the first three, it was simply a home for my band compositions. Three summers ago, I shifted focus and began writing articles about how modern neurology relates to music learning and sharing my own experience wit...

Well, it took almost two weeks, but my review of Peter Buffett's unique concert/conversation is finally completed. I must say, it was a challenge to come up with the summary comments. "Unique" really is the best description of this concert. Parts of it resonated with me, though not nearly as much as I expected it to. Parts of it were very noble and touchin...

The live blog for this event has been moved to this webpage.

Tomorrow night, Monday, April 19th beginning at 7:00 PM Eastern, I will be attending a unique concert event in center city Phildaelphia. Read more about this fascinating concert/conversation event in my

Here are a few new musically-related folks that I've had some great chats with on Twitter recently:

MeLikeGoodMusic @MeLikeGoodMusic has a really cool website where he features a song by a different underrated artist daily. He spans multiple g...

So now that I am back to school, time is limited. I thought I'd put together a quick list on Follow Friday of people I've met on Twitter. The criteria I used for who I'm highlighting here are simple.

1. They are people who have engaged me in actual real discussion on Twitter rather than just spamming links or ...

I joined Twitter on July 25th after much resistance to the idea. I was first introduced to it by my some good friends who are computer programmers. They've been on board with Twitter since nearly the beginning, when it was mainly for cubicle monkeys who are o...