{"product_id":"evenings-last-light","title":"Evenings Last Light","description":"Review\n\n\"'Evening's Last Light' is the perfect music for lovers and people who enjoy quiet, reflective moments. Sweet without being saccharine, spontaneous without being chaotic, each song pulls the listener into a -- Tribune Newspaper 09-22-95\n\nProduct Description\n\n'Mother's Dream'--What do our mothers dream of? 'Karen's Ocean'--The gentle ebb and flow of evening tide on a secluded beach. '2 A.M.'--Still awake, late at night, lost in thought. 'The Bridge'-Fragile, much needed and difficult to build. 'Unexpectedly'--Often it seems the best things come at us from where we are not looking and unexpectedly. 'Evening's Last Light'--The last peaceful light of evening, as the sun sets on a life well lived.\n\nAbout the Artist\n\nAlex Grant\n\nAlex Grant knows that being fired was one of the most positive things that ever happened to him. Raised in a strict, orderly and loving family to be “something sensible, please”, he had followed this direction for forty years, when he was abruptly let go from his job as general manager of a manufacturing firm in Phoenix, Arizona. Although approached by other companies in related fields, Alex decided at that point to really look at his life. “I had always enjoyed playing the piano in the relative safety of my living room, and had a vague but deep desire to do so professionally”, he says thoughtfully. “I finally decided that if I didn’t take this opportunity to pursue what I most love to do, I’d probably kick myself when I was eighty!” Grant’s odyssey actually began much earlier. Growing up in a rigid, academically-oriented environment, he excelled in school, and started at the University of Missouri-Columbia on both a full academic scholarship and a Navy ROTC scholarship. “My dream back then was to fly jets” Alex reminisces. But then, midway through his sophomore year, he started writing music-“it was like a floodgate had opened”. So life-altering was the deluge that Grant very quickly left behind the scholarships and the career plans, left school and took a job as a dishwasher, to the astonishment of both parents and friends. For the next twenty years, Alex worked a wide variety of jobs, all involving hard physical labor which he discovered he loved. He unloaded fishing boats in Alaska, drove forklifts and delivery trucks, worked in a state mental institution and any number of warehouses, eventually arriving at the level of general manager, a position he held for five years before the ax fell in 1994. With much-needed moral support from his wife, Susie, Grant took the leap and began playing professionally in the fall of that year. He is self-taught and as such plays entirely original compositions. “I literally can’t play anything I haven’t written, except perhaps ‘Happy Birthday’ and that rather poorly!”, he laughs. Grant’s signature style of Neo-Classical piano is clearly evident in his emotionally evocative recordings, which are currently receiving airplay on various radio stations around the country, including KYOT-FM in Phoenix, on a nationally syndicated program called “Quiet Music” and on NPR’s “Morning Edition” program. He lives with his wife and two cats in Phoenix, Arizona.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: B00004WG12\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.B00004WG12.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Alex Grant\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Audio cd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Individually inspected: Guaranteed to play perfectly or your money back. Case may show wear and may be in library packaging. Ships Fast!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41509138595898,"sku":"DBV.B00004WG12.G","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/B00004WG12-0.jpg?v=1783390293","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/evenings-last-light","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}