In This Issue: New Show Announcement New Blog Entry Show Announcement Dust off your fedora and surprise your valentine with authentic jazz music as Jonathan Cummings and Friends perform at the St. Luke’s Heart and Soul Dinner and Jazz fund raising event at 6:00 PM February 11th Cove Rd. & A1A Stuart, Florida. Jonathan Cummings and some of his friends from the Fort Pierce Jazz & Blues Society will be playing everything from Moonlight Serenade to Come Fly With Me. They will be performing …

So much has happened in my life in the last year or so and I have neglected my old friend: The Blog. For the first time in my life, I feel like my life is finally on track. I am in the process of writing my first book (and it is a daunting task), I am making a great income as a musician, and my personal life is finally coming together. There is no way to tell of everything that has happened in one blog so I will have to take it a little bit at a time. Let me start by focusing on my job at St Luke’s …

It has been a long time since I have written an entry so let me update you a bit: It is my goal at this point to be a full time professional musician and I am documenting the process so I can maybe teach it to others in the future but let me give you a simple outline of the plan here. I am playing every Friday night at The Santa Fe Café, I am selling my CDs there and also I have another gig playing my guitar and singing at a church! So now I am looking for one more gig on maybe a Thursday or …

Here I am sitting here waiting for the series finale of lost. First, there is a two hour recap show at seven, then the two and a half hour series finale. Then, after the news, Jimmy Kimmel Live will have Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof. So that is about six hours of Lost!
On one hand, I hope I never find myself this addicted to a show again. But on the other hand, I hope that Lost is not the last time a group of creators and writers make something this great.
Lost was a television event the likes of which have never been experienced before, and like a lot of other fans, I am already having withdrawals even before the last episode has started.
Well, that is one hour a week I will have to be creative or practice or do something worth wile.
Until the next great show, that is.
Please keep supporting your favorite independent musicians.
Till next time,
Jonathan Cummings

This is the first time I have taken an interest in American Idol. I have not watched the show in the past because I think the judging sucks. I mean really sucks. I have a question: What does the word “pitchy” mean? I have been studying music for most of my life and I have never heard the word until I started watching the show. If they mean the vocalist has bad intonation, why don’t they just say it? I judge using the following formula; I take the average of 10 different aspects of …

What an awesome experience it was to play “Herbie” in “Gypsy”! It was truly an enjoyable experience to share the stage with so much talent and so many good people who have now become my friends. One of the very first scenes from the play consisted of a group of young girls; Erin Carolan , Sydney Sabol , Landry Bearden , Tara Windsor , Dallas Williams, Colleen Broome and Katie Rodgers. Erin Carolan (Magician) for being the youngest person on the set she was often times the most …

This is the first time I have had the privilege to work with Nori Tecosky and believe me, it is a privilege. Nori is 19 years old and one of the most mature young people I have worked with. She is very serious about her work which encompasses acting, singing, dancing and she does all of them very well. There is a good reason why Jennifer Jones selected her to play “Gypsy”. This is a character that grows from a naive child, to an independent woman before the eyes of the audience and therefore …

Hello everybody! I hope everyone is off to a great start for this new year and new decade. Let’s make the next ten years better than ever with our goals and endeavors. It seems like it was the year 2000 just yesterday and now here it is 2010. The year 2020 will be here before we know it and the time to design the next ten years of our lives, is now. It is such a pleasure to once again be acting in a Peter & Jennifer Jones production at StarStruck   in downtown Stuart, FL. …

January 1st, 2010! Who’d a thunk it? I remember when I first saw “2001 A Space Odyssey", as a kid. And then the sequel “2010 The Year We Make Contact”. It all seems crazy now because I never imagined being here in this time, but here we are. I haven’t been gigging very much because writing and producing my new CD has been a full-time project.  I have been doing a lot of jingle work as well. I hope to be able to balance everything out this year between jingles, CD …

Labor Day has come and gone and here it is time for the Florida performance season to finally kick in. I have my first date set for Stuart Grill and Ale on 09-20-09 and will probably be playing at the Pelican Café soon after. My goal is to get at least three gigs a week. Back in 2005 when I was gigging five nights a week, I got a little burned out not to mention tired vocal chords as well. I also have permission from the owner of Planet Zero to submit a possible jingle for his radio and …