Jerry Fjerkenstad

NOR HALL, the author Jerry, thank you for this gorgeous music out of the blue... I like everything about it: the liner notes (especially your mother & the tulips & Anne Frank-- well all of it!), the Amsterdam backdrop, the beautiful variation in the pieces. I will listen to your playing alot-- it's great to have it recorded. From Bill: Dear Jerry - I like your music very much - It has a great calm in it. I play it every day in my studio gallery.. Thank you very much. I hope…

I decided I wanted one more recording session before I started winnowing out which pieces were keepers and which would not make the cut for CD #3 – Soul Migrations. So, it was off to Amsterdam, even though the Euro was gaining strength by the day and airfares were rising. But, I was Jones-ing for a recording session and for the advent of Spring in Amsterdam, tired of seemingly endless Minnesota winter Five weeks prior to the recording date, I descended carefully down my back steps because rain that…

My own music developed from hours and hours and hours of playing piano in the dark with eyes closed, whether on an old beat-up upright in my rented room at college, or on the piano in my hometown church (the pastor always let me know how to get in if I needed to). My piano teacher, Helen, initially tried to get me to adhere to the scales, arpeggios and exercises that are known to groom responsible pianists, but it never worked. She eventually let me bring in popular music and work on that because my…