PORTAPLAZE LIVES AND VISIONS
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PORTAPLAZE LIVES AND VISIONS 
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Greetings Everyone.
I will be at Total Firearms on Saturday June 17th, from 1:00 to 5:00 PM. It will be an open jam and everyone is invited even if you don’t play an instrument. I will also be playing my original Instrumentals. Sounds fun!
Come on out and jam or just sit back and enjoy the music.
Hope to see you there!
Rick Haynes
Greetings everyone. “By The Way” is a new instrumental that I have been working on all summer. Talked the Jazz Band Director at Lansing Community College today and he was interested in my charts, starting this coming spring. Great news. I will be writing out a Jazz Band chart for his Jazz Band. Once “By The Way” is charted, it will be available for Jazz Bands, Junior, High School and College. Get a minute, drop by and take a listen. I hope everyone stays safe and has a great day. Thank you all for your support.
Your friend in music,
Rick Haynes
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Hi everyone,
I have put together a new keyboard instrumental. The song, “The Way” will be written in a Jazz Band format in the near future. I would like to welcome you to take a listen and tell me what you think. Even though I played and wrote this chart, I would rather have musicians to corespondent with. So lend me your ears and enjoy. Thank you so much for your support. Rick Haynes
Merry Christmas everyone. I hope everyone has a safe and happy holidays. I would like to thank each and everyone of you for your support over these years. Stuart Epps have just finished my instrumental “Bass Ball Rocks’!” And he even plays guitar on the song. I would highly recommend his company Epps Music for mastering. I hope you enjoy the song and may you all have a Happy New Year. Your friend in music, Rick Haynes
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About PORTAPLAZE LIVES AND VISIONS
“Creating music starts with a discovery, which leads into an exploration, which leads to the passion and love of creating music.” Rick Haynes
At a very young age I always knew that I loved music.
Born in Plainview Tx, moved to Lubbock Tx at the age of three, I would sit on my swing and make up songs. Music has been in my family for years, from my mother to my grandmother there was always music in the home. At the age of twelve I created a song called “Flutter of the Blue Jays”. I still remember sitting at the old dining room table and putting the song in a score form with my mom helping me write the score. Lubbock Tx was having a song writing contest and I was so excited about admitting my song I couldn’t sleep at all that night. I did not win the grand prize, but I did come in second place. After that the music took hold.
As in almost everyone’s lives, life takes you down a different path. But I never left sight of the goal I so loved as a child, an young adult to the grand age I am today. My love of playing keyboards and writing has done nothing but get stronger with each passing day. Every time I walk by a keyboard I to have play it. Sometimes it can get you in trouble, but not always.
The music I compose is a blend of progressive jazz/rock combination. As being a trombone player thru junior high into college, and placed into the Music Hall of Fame “Who’s Who in Music” in 1978, I found another talent that started on that day sitting at that kitchen table in Lubbock Tx. Writing full jazz band scores, then combine the scores with a rock style, then you get the best of both worlds of music. I just love the sound of horns and orchestration in the music I create.
I am asked how do I get my ideas for songs? My response is that “the music just creates itself” I will sit down at my keyboards and just let the music put itself together. Sure I could just let the world go by and let my dreams just pass away, but since that day I sat in my swing and made up songs, today I am talking to you and I hope you will come and hear me play.
I would love for the world to hear my songs, because that is why they are written. Maybe in time, the music I compose will contribute to the music in time for future and present music lovers too.
Your friend in music
Ricky Donn Haynes
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