As an agent, roadie, bookkeeper, driver and overall general organizer, as well as fellow musician, a big part of what I did was simply get Dorothy in front of a crowd with a piano, a keyboard on the side, enough amperage, a mic and a camera... then let her rip. Here she is doing "Hello Dolly", a signature tune of hers, using all the tools of her trade at age 81 in 2016. She does a shout out to Louis Armstrong, "Satchmo", as she does a trumpet inspired improv on the melody using the trumpet sound on the Yamaha keyboard. Both of us were enamoured, as piano players, originally, with the electronic reproductions of any instrument at all on the keyboard and incorporated that into our playing.
Instant MP3 audio-only file play hotlink from Archive.org
To watch Dorothy in action on this equipment, you'll have to download the MP4 from here.
Other video formats can be accessed from the general format Archive.org page here
Rick and Dorothy performed the piano-keyboard shows in and around Phoenix, Arizona from 2012 to 2019. Their unique duet featured one of them on 88-key piano while the other managed the bass, percussion & lead solo instruments on a portable keyboard ensemble. Vocals & singalongs were often part of the show. Dorothy died in January 2025.
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