The Beaufort Gazette: Marsalis trusts New Orleans will rebuild

The Beaufort Gazette: Marsalis trusts New Orleans will rebuildMarsalis trusts New Orleans will rebuild
Published Tuesday September 13 2005
The Associated Press
PARIS (AP) - New Orleans native Wynton Marsalis says he feels a profound sense of loss about Hurricane Katrina's devastation of his hometown, though he trusts in the people's will to rebuild the city.

In an interview published Monday, the jazz musician told Le Monde newspaper he was counting on international aid, despite the federal government's initial lukewarm reaction to offers.

"Please, please, please," he said. "I know that, at first, (President) Bush claimed he didn't want aid. But governments don't reflect the spirit of the people, their feeling."

Marsalis, who is among the performers at Jazz at Lincoln Center's benefit concert Saturday in New York City, said he felt "a sense of loss, a great and deep loss."

But "New Orleans will be rebuilt," he said, adding that money wasn't the issue. "It's a question of will."

Jazz 101 at Jazz at Lincoln Center :: eJazzNews.com : The Number One Jazz News Resource On The Net :: Jazz News Daily

Jazz 101 at Jazz at Lincoln Center :: eJazzNews.com : The Number One Jazz News Resource On The Net :: Jazz News Daily Jazz 101 at Jazz at Lincoln Center
Posted by: eJazzNews Readeron Monday, September 12, 2005 - 07:13 PM
Jazz News Jazz at Lincoln Center Opens 2005-2006 Education Season!
Back by Popular Demand:
Jazz 101 for Adults and WeBop! for 2-5 year olds

August 8, 2005 (New York, NY) Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) welcomes back the popular adult education series, Jazz 101, to the organization’s home, Frederick P. Rose Hall. Designed for jazz fans and novices alike, the series features in-depth and general overview classes. “Respecting the past, nourishing the future and providing educational opportunities for young and old are some of the essential elements of Jazz at Lincoln Center and there is never a better time than today to advance the cause of jazz,” said Derek E. Gordon, President of Jazz at Lincoln Center.



In The Jazz 101 course, The Intro, author and Rutgers Professor Dr. Lewis Porter, discusses the basics of jazz, including such questions as “Why was Edward Ellington called ‘Duke?’” and “How did Louis Armstrong revolutionize jazz?” The class runs from September 21-November 8, 2005, Wednesdays at 6:30 – 8:30pm in the Edward John Noble Foundation Studio. In Kansas City is Swing Territory, Executive Director of the Jazz Museum in Harlem and Grammy-Winning author, Loren Schoenberg leads you on a trip to Kansas City without ever leaving Frederick P. Rose Hall. This class provides insight on the first city celebrated in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s “Jazz from Coast to Coast” season, and the musicians that were responsible for the unique Kansas City sound. The class runs September 21-November 8, 2005, Wednesdays at 6:30 – 8:30pm in the Edward John Noble Foundation Studio. Registration for each term is $240 per person and is available by calling Subscription Services at (212) 258-9999.

This season, Jazz at Lincoln Center welcomes the return of WeBop!, is the early music education program in which children ages 2-5 and their parents/caregivers sing, move, and play with the soulful rhythms and great melodies of jazz. WeBop! teachers lead children to a greater understanding of jazz, of their national musical heritage, and, ultimately, of themselves. WeBop! is produced in collaboration with Teachers College, Columbia University. The three terms of classes, each 8 weeks long, take places on Tuesdays and Saturdays in The Louis Armstrong Classroom. Please see times in the listings below.

The Jazz 101 and WeBop! classes are just two of the hundreds of programs and services offered by Jazz at Lincoln Center each year. Jazz at Lincoln Center is committed to educating the public, especially young people, about the rich heritage of jazz, its great works and musicians, and the relationship between jazz and other disciplines. Educational programming at Jazz at Lincoln Center is an integral part of the organization’s philosophy, and all activities and publications reflect and enhance its central mission. Jazz at Lincoln Center education programs reach over 110,000 students, teachers, and audience members a year and include Jazz for Young PeopleSM concerts, the Jazz for Young People Curriculum, Jazz Talk, Education on Tour, Jazz in the Schools, jazz publications and print music, and the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival.


Listing Information:
Producer: Jazz at Lincoln Center
Class: Jazz 101: The Intro
Taught by Dr. Lewis Porter
Date/Time: Every Wednesday, September 21-November 8th, 2005, 6:30 – 8:30pm
Place: Edward John Noble Foundation Studio, Broadway at 60th Street
Tickets: $240 for eight-week class, available by calling Subscription Services at (212) 258-9997 or via www.jalc.org

Producer: Jazz at Lincoln Center
Class: Jazz 101: Kansas City is Swing Territory
Taught by Loren Schoenberg
Date/Time: Every Wednesday, September 21- November 8th, 2005, 6:30 – 8:30pm
Place: Edward John Noble Foundation Studio, Broadway at 60th Street
Tickets: $240 for eight-week class, available by calling Subscription Services at (212) 258-9997
or via www.jalc.org.

Producer: Jazz at Lincoln Center
Class: WeBop!
Synchopaters, 2-5 year olds
Date/Time: Every Saturday, September 17- November 8th, 2005, 11:30-12:15 am
Place: Armstrong Classroom, Broadway at 60th Street
Tickets: $240 for eight-week class, reservations can be made by calling at (212) 258-9999, or via www.jalc.org.

Producer: Jazz at Lincoln Center
Class: WeBop!
Stompers, 3-5 year olds
Date/Time: Every Saturday, September 21- November 8th, 2005, 10:30 – 11:15am
Place: Armstrong Classroom, Broadway at 60th Street
Tickets: $240 for eight-week class, reservations can be made by calling at (212) 258-9999, or via www.jalc.org.

Producer: Jazz at Lincoln Center
Class: WeBop!
Gumbo Group, 3-5 year olds
Date/Time: Every Tuesday, September 20-November 10th, 2005, 10:30-11:15 am
Place: Armstrong Classroom, Broadway at 60th Street
Tickets: $240 for eight-week class, reservations can be made by calling at (212) 258-9999, or via www.jalc.org.

Producer: Jazz at Lincoln Center
Class: WeBop!
Stompers, 2-3 year olds
Date/Time: Every Tuesday, September 20-November 10th, 2005, 9:30-10:15 am
Place: Armstrong Classroom, Broadway at 60th Street
Tickets: $240 for eight-week class, reservations can be made by calling at (212) 258-9999, or via www.jalc.org.

Jazz at Lincoln Center is a not-for-profit arts organization dedicated to jazz. With the world-renowned Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra and a comprehensive array of guest artists, Jazz at Lincoln Center advances a unique vision for the continued development of the art of jazz by producing a year-round schedule of performance, education, and broadcast events for audiences of all ages. These productions include concerts, national and international tours, residencies, weekly national radio and television programs, recordings, publications, an annual high school jazz band competition and festival, a band director academy, a jazz appreciation curriculum for children, advanced training through the Juilliard Institute for Jazz Studies, music publishing, children’s concerts, lectures, adult education courses and student and educator workshops. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis, Chairman of the Board Lisa Schiff, President & CEO Derek E. Gordon, Executive Director Katherine E. Brown and Jazz at Lincoln Center board and staff, Jazz at Lincoln Center will produce hundreds of events during its 2005-06 season. In October 2004, Jazz at Lincoln Center opened Frederick P. Rose Hall - the first-ever performance, education, and broadcast facility devoted to jazz. For more information, visit www.jalc.org.

For more information on JALC, please visit www.jazzatlincolncenter.org
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Dee Dee Bridgewater's J’ai Deux Amours :: eJazzNews.com : The Number One Jazz News Resource On The Net :: Jazz News Daily

Dee Dee Bridgewater's J’ai Deux Amours :: eJazzNews.com : The Number One Jazz News Resource On The Net :: Jazz News Daily CD Reviews: Dee Dee Bridgewater's J’ai Deux Amours
Posted by: muzikmanon Monday, September 12, 2005 - 08:59 PM
CD Reviews Artist: Dee Dee Bridgewater
Title: J’ai Deux Amours
Genre: Jazz
Label: Sovereign Artists
Website

How does a little jazz music French style sound? Listen to Dee Dee Bridgewater and find out for yourself on her amazing new album J’ai Deux Amours.

Dee Dee is an enormously talented vocalist that travels through a tune in French or English, or in some cases back and forth. I found this to be not only immensely entertaining, but also a stunning exhibition of versatility.

Her voice is pleasing, soft, and filled with the rhythm of jazz and blues. It warms your soul and gets your feet in motion at the same time. Several tracks got my attention on this contemporary jazz excursion.



I must pay tribute to the musicians that allow this songbird to do her thing first. Louis Winsberg (lead guitar), Ira Coleman (bass), Marc Berthoumitux (accordion), and Minino Garay (percussion, drums) are all exceptional musicians that play with flair and style. When you first hear this, you are saying to yourself, “I need an interpreter, I do not understand French”, well let me tell you something-that thought leaves your head quickly. Once you hear Dee Dee singing, you find yourself immersed in the music and even without understanding one word, find a comfort level and understanding of where she is coming from. It happens somehow, if the music is good it never matters which language the vocals are in because if the feeling is there, it comes through the music with lucidity.

“Ne me quitte pas” is a delightful number. Its airy atmosphere and lighthearted warmth secures your belief in what this album is all about, everything that happens after that is icing on the cake.

Dee Dee Bridgewater seems to be having a ball while switching from French and English in the happy go lucky “Dansez sur moi (Girl talk).” It is one of the best tracks on the album, filled with funky fun. Perhaps the most unlikely occurrence is to hear her do some scatting in French on “Les feuilles mortes.” I cannot say that this something I have ever heard before. I am sure its common in France but it is entirely new and different for this listener. This is how the album closes out, leaving you in wonder of everything you just heard. I did have to listen a few times to “get it” but it was better with every listen. Its actually quite simple you know, if you appreciate good jazz, anything out of the ordinary like this is a real treat and entirely unique. If you seek all of the above, check out this artist, its entertainment at its very best.

Clarence “Gatemouth“ Brown Dies, 81 Feature Story

Clarence “Gatemouth“ Brown Dies, 81 Feature StoryClarence “Gatemouth“ Brown Dies, 81
12-Sep-2005
Written by: Jaimie E. Gusman

Brown, a music icon, died in Texas this past weekend from lung cancer and the destruction of a sentimental place, New Orleans.

Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, 81, died in Texas this weekend, according to his keyboard player. The Grammy Award-winning singer and guitarist was suffering from lung cancer and was also heavily affected by the devastation which occurred in New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina.

Brown won a blues Grammy in 1982 for his album "Alright Again!" and was a revolutionary electric guitar player who helped make the instrument an important part of popular American music.

His 60-year-long career included being the drummer for blues legend T-Bone Walker and a friend of Lightnin' Hopkins. He managed to avoid the label of "bluesman" by playing a range of styles such as blues, big band, Cajun, country, jazz, and rhythm-and-blues.

New Orleans musician Joe Krown, who played beside Brown for 15 years, said he died on Saturday after evacuating to his brother's home in Orange, Texas just before Katrina hit the Gulf Coast on August 29. Krown said that Brown was diagnosed with cancer last year and was not doing well to begin with, and news that Katrina had destroyed New Orleans and his Slidell community, left him even weaker.

"It was just devastating. There was nothing to go back to," said Krown. "He lost the will to live." Brown was born in 1924 in Vinton, Louisiana, and raised in nearby Orange.

New Orleans Musicians Ask if Their Scene Will Survive - New York Times

New Orleans Musicians Ask if Their Scene Will Survive - New York TimesSeptember 8, 2005
New Orleans Musicians Ask if Their Scene Will Survive
By BEN RATLIFF

New Orleans is a jazz town, but also a funk town, a brass-band town, a hip-hop town and a jam-band town. It has international jazz musicians and hip-hop superstars, but also a true, subsistence-level street culture. Much of its music is tied to geography and neighborhoods, and crowds.

All that was incontrovertibly true until a week ago Monday. Now the future for brass bands and Mardi Gras Indians, to cite two examples, looks particularly bleak if their neighborhoods are destroyed by flooding, and bleaker still with the prospect of no new tourists coming to town soon to infuse their traditions with new money. Although the full extent of damage is still unknown, there is little doubt that it has been severe - to families, to instruments, to historical records, to clubs, to costumes. "Who knows if there exists a Mardi Gras Indian costume anymore in New Orleans?" wondered Don Marshall, director of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Foundation.

"A lot of the great musicians came right out of the Treme neighborhood and the Lower Ninth Ward," said the trumpeter Kermit Ruffins, temporarily speaking in the past tense, by phone from Houston yesterday. Mr. Ruffins, one of the most popular jazz musicians in New Orleans, made his name there partly through his regular Thursday-night gig over the last 12 years at Vaughan's, a bar in the Bywater neighborhood, where red beans and rice were served at midnight. Now Vaughn's may be destroyed, and so may his new house, which is not too far from the bar.

On Saturday evening Mr. Ruffins flew back to New Orleans from a gig in San Diego, having heard the first of the dire storm warnings. He stopped at a lumberyard to buy wood planks, boarded up 25 windows on his house, then went bar-hopping and joked with his friends that where they were standing might be under water the next day.

The next morning he fled to Baton Rouge with his family, and now he is in Houston, about to settle into apartments, along with more than 30 relatives. He is being offered plenty of work in Houston, and is already thinking ahead to what he calls "the new New Orleans."

"I think the city is going to wind up being a smaller area," he said. "They'll have to build some super levees.

"I think this will never happen again once they get finished," Mr. Ruffins added. "We're going to get those musicians back, the brass bands, the jazz funerals, everything."

Brass bands function through the year - not only through the annual Jazzfest, where many outsiders see them, and jazz funerals, but at the approximately 55 social aid and pleasure clubs, each of which holds a parade once a year. It is an intensely local culture, and has been thriving in recent years. Brass-band music, funky and hard-hitting, can easily be transformed from the neighborhood social to a club gig; brass bands like Rebirth, Dirty Dozen and the Soul Rebels have done well by touring as commercial entities. Members of Stooges Brass Band have ended up in Atlanta, and of Li'l Rascals in Houston; there could be a significant brass-band diaspora before musicians find a way to get home to New Orleans. (Rebirth's Web site, www.rebirthbrassband.com, has been keeping a count of brass-band musicians who have been heard from.)

The Mardi Gras Indian tradition is more fragile. Monk Boudreaux is chief of the Golden Eagles, one of the 40 or so secretive Mardi Gras tribes, who are known not just for their flamboyant feathered costumes but for their competitive parades through neighborhoods at Mardi Gras time. (Mardi Gras Indians are not American Indians but New Orleanians from the city's working-class black neighborhoods.) Mr. Boudreaux, now safe with his daughter in Mesquite, Tex., stayed put through the storm at his house in the Uptown neighborhood; when he left last week, he said, the water was waist-high. He chuckled when asked if the Mardi Gras Indian tradition could survive in exile. "I don't know of any other Mardi Gras outside of New Orleans," he said.

These days a city is often considered a jazz town to the extent that its resident musicians have international careers. The bulk of New Orleans jazz musicians have shown a knack for staying local. (Twenty or so in the last two decades, including several Marsalises, are obvious exceptions.)

But as everyone knows, jazz is crucial to New Orleans, and New Orleans was crucial in combining jazz's constituent parts, its Spanish, French, Caribbean and West African influences. The fact that so many musicians are related to one or another of the city's great music families - Lastie, Brunious, Neville, Jordan, Marsalis - still gives much of the music scene a built-in sense of nobility. "Whereas New York has a jazz industry," said Quint Davis, director of Jazzfest, "New Orleans has a jazz culture." (Speaking of Jazzfest, Mr. Davis was not ready to discuss whether there will be a festival next April. "First I'm dealing with the lives and subsistence of the people who produce it," he said.)

And most jazz in New Orleans has a directness about it. "Everyone isn't searching for the hottest, newest lick," said Maurice Brown, a young trumpeter from Chicago who had been rising through the ranks of the New Orleans jazz scene for the last four years before the storm took his house and car. "People are trying to stay true to the melody."

Gregory Davis, the trumpeter and vocalist for the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, one of the city's most successful groups, said the typical New Orleans musician was vulnerable because of how he lives and works. (Mr. Davis's house is in the Gentilly neighborhood; he spoke last week from his brother's home in Dallas.)

"A lot of these guys who are playing out there in the clubs are not home owners," he said. "They're going to be at the mercy of the owners of those properties. For some of them, playing in the clubs was the only means of earning any money. If those musicians come back and don't have an affordable home, that's a big blow."

Louis Edwards, a New Orleans novelist and an associate producer of the Jazz and Heritage Festival, said, "No other city is so equipped to deal with this." A French Quarter resident, Mr. Edwards was taking refuge last week at his mother's house in Lake Charles, La.

"Think of the jazz funeral," he said. "In New Orleans we respond to the concept of following tragedy with joy. That's a powerful philosophy to have as the underpinning of your culture."

In the meantime, Mr. Boudreaux, chief of the Golden Eagles, has a feeling his own Mardi Gras Indian costume is intact. He was careful to put it in a dry place before he left home. "I just need to get home and get that Indian suit from on top of that closet," he said.

Washington DC Jazz On The Mall October 1st 2005

Events InfoJAZZ ON THE MALL: FREE
WAYNE SHORTER QUARTET, featuring
Brian Blade, John Patitucci, Danilo Perez;
WALLACE RONEY SEXTET;
THE DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND;
CHUCK BROWN; JERRY GONZALEZ &
THE FORT APACHE BAND; SUNNY SUMTER THE NATIONAL MALL * 12:00-8:00PM
SYLVAN AMPHITHEATRE
FREE
INTERNATIONAL JAZZ SHOWCASE:
ANTOINE RONEY & AFRICAN DRUMMERS BOHEMIAN CAVERNS * 8:30/10:30PM
LARRY CORYELL TRIO BLUES ALLEY * 8:00/10:00PM
CELEBRATING THE U STREET LEGACY U STREET CORRIDOR
Jazz groups performing in clubs along the historic U Street Corridor**

Jazz at Lincoln Center Hosts the Higher ground Hurricane Relief Concert :: eJazzNews.com : The Number One Jazz News Resource On The Net :: Jazz News D

Jazz at Lincoln Center Hosts the Higher ground Hurricane Relief Concert :: eJazzNews.com : The Number One Jazz News Resource On The Net :: Jazz News Daily Jazz at Lincoln Center Hosts the Higher ground Hurricane Relief Concert
Posted by: editoron Tuesday, September 06, 2005 - 08:19 AM
Jazz News Jazz at Lincoln Center Hosts the
Higher Ground Hurricane Relief Concert
Benefit for the Victims of Hurricane Katrina

The evening will feature New Orleans native son, Wynton Marsalis and many special celebrity guest artists and speakers.

September 17, 2005, 7pm
Frederick P. Rose Hall
Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center
Broadway at 60th Street
Rose Theater

Tickets go on sale September 8, 2005
Tickets are available at:
Jazz at Lincoln Center Box Office
Broadway at 60th Street, ground floor

www.jalc.org

Center Charge: 212-721-6500

Dave Holland Conducts Fall Residency with Steve Nelson :: eJazzNews.com : The Number One Jazz News Resource On The Net :: Jazz News Daily

Dave Holland Conducts Fall Residency with Steve Nelson :: eJazzNews.com : The Number One Jazz News Resource On The Net :: Jazz News Daily Dave Holland Conducts Fall Residency with Steve Nelson
Posted by: editoron Wednesday, September 07, 2005 - 08:25 AM
Jazz News Jazz Bassist Dave Holland Returns to NEC for Residency, September 20 -22

Performs in Concert September 21 with Vibraphonist Steve Nelson, Coaches Student Performance September 22
Presents Free Masterclasses September 20 and 21

Jazz bassist Dave Holland, Visiting Artist-in-Residence, returns to New England Conservatory September 20 for a fall residency that includes concerts and masterclasses. He will be joined by vibraphonist Steve Nelson in one performance and one class, both on Wednesday the 21st. He will coach students who perform his music in concert, on Thursday the 22nd.

The bassist, bandleader and composer, who was a full-time member of the NEC faculty from 1987 to 1990 and was awarded an honorary degree in 2003, renewed his relationship with the Conservatory last year. As Visiting Artist-in-Residence, he will conduct two residencies each year, one in the fall semester and one in the spring. Vibraphonist Steve Nelson, a Pittsburgh native and graduate of Rutgers University, is a member of the Dave Holland Quintet and has recorded three discs as leader of his own band.

Both masterclasses and concerts are free and open to the public. The schedule follows:
Dave Holland Residency, September 20—22, 2005

September 20, 2005
1 p.m. NEC’s St. Botolph Hall: Masterclass with Dave Holland

September 21, 2005
1 p.m. NEC’s Brown Hall: Masterclass with Dave Holland and vibraphonist Steve Nelson
8 p.m. NEC’s Jordan Hall: Concert with Dave Holland and vibraphonist Steve Nelson


September 22, 2005
8 p.m. NEC’s Brown Hall: Concert with NEC jazz students, playing music of Dave Holland


For more information, call the NEC Concert Line at (617) 585-1122 or visit NEC on the web at www.newenglandconservatory.edu/concerts


ABOUT NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY
Recognized nationally and internationally as a leader among music schools, New England Conservatory offers rigorous training in an intimate, nurturing community to 750 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral music students from around the world. Its faculty of 225 boasts internationally esteemed artist-teachers and scholars. Its alumni go on to fill orchestra chairs, concert hall stages, jazz clubs, recording studios, and arts management positions worldwide. Nearly half of the Boston Symphony Orchestra is composed of NEC trained musicians and faculty.


The oldest independent school of music in the United States, NEC was founded in 1867 by Eben Tourjee. Its curriculum is remarkable for its wide range of styles and traditions. On the college level, it features training in classical, jazz, Contemporary Improvisation, world and early music. Through its Preparatory School, School of Continuing Education, and Community Collaboration Programs, it provides training and performance opportunities for children, pre-college students, adults, and seniors. Through its outreach projects, it allows young musicians to engage with non-traditional audiences in schools, hospitals, and nursing homes—thereby bringing pleasure to new listeners and enlarging the universe for classical music and jazz.


NEC presents more than 600 free concerts each year, many of them in Jordan Hall, its world- renowned, 100-year old, beautifully restored concert hall. These programs range from solo recitals to chamber music to orchestral programs to jazz and opera scenes. Every year, NEC’s opera studies department also presents two fully staged opera productions at the Cutler Majestic Theatre in Boston.


NEC is co-founder and educational partner of “From the Top,” a weekly radio program that celebrates outstanding young classical musicians from the entire country. With its broadcast home in Jordan Hall, the show is now carried by more than two hundred stations throughout the United States.

Jammates Launches Jazz Jukebox Featuring GA Jazz Artists :: eJazzNews.com : The Number One Jazz News Resource On The Net :: Jazz News Daily

Jammates Launches Jazz Jukebox Featuring GA Jazz Artists :: eJazzNews.com : The Number One Jazz News Resource On The Net :: Jazz News Daily Press Releases: Jammates Launches Jazz Jukebox Featuring GA Jazz Artists
Posted by: eJazzNews Readeron Wednesday, September 07, 2005 - 12:43 PM
Jazz News Atlanta / LaGrange Georgia 9-7-2005… Jammates LLC turns up its online jazz jukebox. This complimentary feature area on the jammates.com website profiles participating Georgia jazz artists wanting to extend their music and brand to an expanded audience. The jukebox offers a full-length track by and artist profile for each participating jazz musician or group. From anywhere in the world, jazz fans now have the opportunity to quickly listen to and learn about music offerings from Georgia's fine crop of jazz artists.



"We have a good start", comments Coe Cloud, Jammates partner and director of promotional services. "But, it's only a beginning. We need more participation to really provide value for the fans. The Jammates Jukebox V1.0 features a nice cross section of jazz genres – vocal, straight-ahead, latin, fusion, smooth jazz - even dixieland. We believe there are hundreds, not dozens, of Georgia artists who deserve to have presence; and over time, we hope to identify and program as many as practical." Paul Hammock, Jammates partner and director of production, adds "We have a number of submissions in the pipeline for review. Plus, with our upcoming recording schedule, we'll certainly be bringing more compelling music to the market."

"Independent artists don't have the time to do it all – play, market and merchandise." says Jammates managing partner, Pat Patten. "We're in the production and promotion business. It's the least we can do to offer up a little bit of exposure to the artists we know and serve. We encourage all Georgia jazz musicians to continue submitting their material for review and inclusion". Jazz fans and interested musicians can listen to some terrific tracks as well as learn more about the submission requirements on the "artists" page of the Company's website. http://www.jammates.com/artists.html

Jammates LLC is a Georgia-based music production and promotion company focused primarily on the southeastern jazz music market. More information is available on the Company's website: http://www.jammates.com

Katrina's Effect On Jazz Musicians

I just spoke with Ernest Gregory of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He informed me that among others Wynton's Marsalis's parents home, Herlin Riley's home, Michael White's home and Vicor Goines parents home were destroyed by hurricane Katrina.

John H. Armwood

New Orleans Sings The Blues - Forbes.com

New Orleans Sings The Blues - Forbes.comNew Orleans Sings The Blues
Tom Van Riper, 09.02.05, 6:00 PM ET

It takes a lot to get a real jazzman out of New Orleans.

Early Monday, Alan Toussaint was still at his piano as Hurricane Katrina bore down on the city, with no intention of getting up.

"I had planned on staying. I've been through many storms before," says the renowned jazz and r&b musician, whose home near the New Orleans fairground now sits partially submerged in water.

The bulk of the industry that has brought in hundreds of millions of dollars to New Orleans is driven by locals, some of whom don't know where they'll sleep tonight, let alone work, according to Hank O' Neill of Chiaroscuro Records, a New York-based jazz label.

"Most [musicians] who play New Orleans live there. It's not a place where people go to play," says O'Neill.

John Anello of Cexton Records adds, "The business will be altered for a long time due to the interruption of regular gigs, like weddings and parties. And, of course, the casinos and convention businesses employ several musicians."

Toussaint was lucky. He finally decided to check into the nearby Astor Hotel just before the storm arrived. He avoided harm, but his house, filled with all the tools of his long-time trade, didn't.

"I'm sure my place is flooded, and that all my equipment is ruined," Toussaint says. Helpless to get back and check his house right away, he made his way to Baton Rouge, La. From there, he caught a flight to Houston, where a connecting flight took him to New York. That's where he'll bunk in with friends for the foreseeable future--though he's already intently looking ahead to going home.

"I'll continue my writing from here for at least a couple of weeks," says Toussaint, who, at 67, has curtailed his performance schedule in favor of writing and producing music. "When I get the signal that it's OK to go back, I'll pick up the rubbish and start fresh."

Toussaint and the others whose livelihoods are on hold are eyeing one gig in particular that does draw its share of outsiders andis considered the most important to go on as scheduled. That would be the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, a ten-day extravaganza filled with world-class performing talent in jazz, blues and gospel.

Drawing upward of 300,000 music lovers from all over the world, the event has filled every hotel room in the city each spring since 1970, pumping millions into the local economy.

Organizers are hopeful the city will be ready for it by April 2006, but they can't be sure.

"The next few months will be critical in determining whether we can put it on," says George Wein, who runs Festival Productions, the show's organizer. "It will depend on how operable New Orleans is, and how much the city's image changes."

For now, Festival Productions will set up an office in Memphis and move ahead as if the show will go on. Indeed, officials of the production company say Baton Rouge is a possible alternative--which would keep it in Louisiana, at least.

The company also organizes the Essence Music Festival, billed as a tribute to African-American women, which is now in its 12th year. Held each year in the Superdome, the event helps fill local hotel rooms during Fourth of July week, which is otherwise the dullest and stickiest time of the year.

While physical conditions make each show's future uncertain, Wein isn't worried about being left holding the bag if he cancels after the musicians have committed, confident they won't ask for their money if there's a reasonable notice period.

"When you've been doing this as long as we have, there's a trust," he says, before adding that if the shows can go on, it just might be the best one yet. "In a way it will be easier, because everyone will be anxious to come to New Orleans next year."

Hurricane Relief - Jazz at Lincoln Center :: eJazzNews.com : The Number One Jazz News Resource On The Net :: Jazz News Daily

Hurricane Relief - Jazz at Lincoln Center :: eJazzNews.com : The Number One Jazz News Resource On The Net :: Jazz News Daily Hurricane Relief - Jazz at Lincoln Center
Posted by: eJazzNews Readeron Friday, September 02, 2005 - 03:26 PM
Jazz News JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ANNOUNCES
HIGHER GROUND HURRICANE RELIEF BENEFIT CONCERT -
WYNTON MARSALIS, BILL COSBY, PETER CINCOTTI, ELVIS COSTELLO, PAQUITO D’RIVERA, ABBEY LINCOLN, DIANA KRALL, JON HENDRICKS AND MORE TBA!

SEPTEMBER 17 at 7pm
ROSE THEATER, FREDERICK P. ROSE HALL, NEW YORK CITY

BROADCAST ON NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO, XM SATELLITE RADIO,
WBGO JAZZ 88.3 FM, AND OTHER BROADCAST PARTNERS TBA
CD will be produced and released by Blue Note Records with all profits going to relief funds

New York, NY (September 2, 2005) Jazz at Lincoln Center today announced plans to produce the Higher Ground Hurricane Relief Benefit Concert on Saturday, September 17 at 7pm at Rose Theater in Frederick P. Rose Hall on Broadway at 60th Street in New York City. The concert will seek to raise funds for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. Bill Cosby will host the concert and Wynton Marsalis Peter Cincotti, Elvis Costello, Paquito D’Rivera, Abbey Lincoln, Diana Krall, Jon Hendricks and more tba.

The Weekly Online!

The Weekly Online!Help-A-Jazz Musician Campaign

ATLANTA (Sep. 1) - The Southeastern Organization for Jazz Arts (SOJA), The Atlantajazz group, the WRFG 89.3 FM Jazz Music Department & WBCX 89.1 FM seeks to provide aide to displaced Jazz musicians from New Orleans.

This is not a fund raiser nor are we collecting money!

As a result of the tragedy in New Orleans, we are seeking concerned people in Atlanta and the surrounding areas who are willing to open their hearts and home to take in a Jazz musician (and, in some cases, their families) providing them with beds, baths, and meals.

These unfortunate victims of Hurricane Katrina have no where to go and no where to work during this disastrous time. We are also seeking to find employment for these musicians during their time in the Atlanta area so that they will be able to support themselves and their families.

If you are interested in helping, please contact:

Phil Clore or Scott Fugate at:
help-a-jazzmusician@hotmail.com

WRFG Jazz Music Department
wrfgjazz@hotmail.com

Southeastern Organization for Jazz Arts
soja_ga@hotmail.com

TVNow Entertainment: A Little Daily News

TVNow Entertainment: A Little Daily NewsWynton Marsalis: Folks watching the Friday night benefit concert on NBC saw the master musician in prime form, blowing jazz licks on his horn with enough soul to energize the entire planet. He was in a zone. Let's hope BET lets him bring that horn to the network studio next Friday, September 9, when he joins a huge list of entertainers to help BET with its telethon to raise much needed aid for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Scheduled to begin at 7:30pm, the event will feature many entertainers who will make personal appeals for help. Some of the major players listed as participants include Alicia Keys, Master P, Usher, Diddy, Jay Z, Chris Rock, Stevie Wonder, Brandy, Erykah Badu and many more. Telethon viewers will be encouraged to call designated toll-free phone numbers to make financial pledges to the Red Cross relief efforts.