JJ Rhymes JR®
JJ Rhymes performing live

Pianist · South Louisiana

JJ Rhymes

Jazz & Variety | Every standard a room asks for

700+Tunes by ear
15+Years experience
600+Gigs played
1·7Solo to full band

01 / Background

Every kind
of stage.

Bandstand
Dependable, versatile, a music director when it's needed. One call and I'm there, ready for the gig.
Experience
Years backing successful wedding and variety bands up and down the circuit — party bands, corporate ballrooms, and life on the road. Solo cocktail piano to a full dance band.
Adaptable
Reads the cues, reads the charts, and fits right into any gig or stage.
Study
Three years of jazz & classical music education at ULL.
  • Jazz
  • Blues
  • Rock
  • Country
  • R&B
  • Zydeco
  • Cajun
  • NOLA second-line
  • Prog
  • Fusion
  • Film & Game
  • Standards
JJ Rhymes at the piano

02 / Booking

Book a live set.

Solo cocktail piano to a full dance band, shaped to the room. Check my open dates and send the details.

Open the calendar

LAFAYETTE, LA · 30.22°N 92.02°W

JJ
RHYMES

SOFTWARE BUILDER  ///  PIANIST

Self-taught, shipping real software. Full-stack web, AI systems, and MIDI/audio tooling. Below is the index.

SHIPPED APPS
2
STACK DEPTH
FULL
AI / LLM
YES
SELF-TAUGHT
100%
01 / INDEX

I build the tools
I wish existed.

#PROJECTYEARSTACK
001 HARMONIA 2026 PHP · ES-MODULES · WEBMIDI LIVE >>

All-in-one software for music studios: live MIDI lessons in the browser, courses, scheduling, payments, under the teacher's own brand. Designed, built, and shipped solo.

002 MNESTIA 2026 OBSIDIAN · NODE · FREE EXPLORE >>

A free second-brain kit for building with AI agents: modules, concepts, and workflow you own, plus my own training and a curated map of open-source skills to install — wired for durable memory and clean workflow.

02 / MNESTIA · FREE & OPEN

What your AI
brain looks like.

An Obsidian-styled preview  >>

A curated brain — modules, concepts, and workflow, plus my own training and a map to the open-source skills worth installing. Grab a node and move it.

DRAG THE NODES · PHYSICS ON
EXPLORE MNESTIA >>
03 / STACK
  • JAVASCRIPT
  • PHP
  • NODE
  • PYTHON
  • WEB MIDI
  • AI / LLM
  • OBSIDIAN
  • RASPBERRY PI
GITHUB >>
/ ABOUT

Pianist first.
Builder now.

The piano has been the constant since I was ten: study, teaching, and 600+ gigs. Lately I've been putting that same obsession into software, building the tools I wished existed as a working musician. New to that side, and going all in.

See the code side >>
/ CONTACT

Let's make
something.

For bookings Weddings, clubs, corporate, private events booking@jjrhymes.com >> Everything else Collaboration, projects, or just say hi jj@jjrhymes.com >>