Erik - “Die Alte Schule.” The old school. Ger / Eng. Ter. paul / en les guitar / bass ‘avec des notes bleue.’Erik - in guitar acoustic. Alt. blues, rock music … and some blue notes. Left handed guitar player, Erik ~ Ter paul M.Ed., B.A., DePaul University, in chicago Illinois.Learned the traditional blues from legendary poet of the chicago blues, named Byther (smitty) smith. Born: April 17, 1932, Monticello, MS Died: September 10, 2021 Chicago, ILByther (smitty) smith - musician of international renown, performed with Albert King, Bobby Bluebland, Howlin’ Wolf, and John Lee Hooker, as reported in USA Today, to name some of the illustrious personages in the unique genre of music, in “… the blues.”“The poet is one who writes, but does not,’ said Orpheus,” Erik told of his friend Byther Smith.He served as an ‘art,’ and music instructor in guitar, working with staff and students from elementary through secondary levels in private education.Erik ~ stage name ~ an acoustic guitarist, in “… some blue notes.” He had been a student of music composition and theory in the school of music at DePaul University.He engaged in technique and repertoire study in guitar in the chicago musical college at Roosevelt University. Note, if you will please, Erik as confirmation name in the Catholic Church (christian in category phl / rel). He plays the guitar. Erik had performed “live,” on stage at - The cafe des poetes, near the Chopin theater - The “Cotton Club,” in chicago Illinois; All That Jazz - The Blues Club, and Club High Class, in geographic region of the Japans, in Itaewon-dong (seoul, s. korea) in Hong Kong SAR - shenzhen, and in Shanghai on the mainland in China.In the Far East, the sun passed from the clouds over the city of shanghai - PRC.The city was filled, overflowing; the evening fell on the skyline in the urban environs; the breath of life seemed to move through the Jazz capitol of Asia - in the orient. … and, as said by the narrator, in Tales of The Jazz Age, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, “let the music be made.”Then, the music was made.Jazz thrived in shanghai, beginning in the 1920s - an American import in the legacy of music in the Far East.The chromatic tones, in the chinese lyricism, and of the chinese singers on stage were blended and fused in the mixo–lydian scales in American Jazz. The music had been made and the bands played on.“‘The blues’ live through its audience. There is an intimate rapport between the musicians and the listeners, who are themselves playing in silence.” Jørgen - blackhalomusicproductions.com