From info at nygeekgirls.com  Mon Mar  9 09:04:58 2009
From: info at nygeekgirls.com (Roberta Piket - New York Geek Girls, Inc.)
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:04:58 -0000
Subject: [members-announce] Roberta Piket Trio - Please save the date -
	Small's Monday April 6th
Message-ID: <000001c9a050$9a953f70$cfbfbe50$@com>

visit www.robertajazz.com for live performance video of the trio and more
_______________________________________

To be removed from this mailing list please reply and let us know. 

From muzikmuse at comcast.net  Fri Mar 13 14:04:53 2009
From: muzikmuse at comcast.net (Willard Jenkins)
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:04:53 -0000
Subject: [members-announce] New Independent Ear content
Message-ID: <20090313180446.AE57F180CC@77.patternbook.com>

New Content in The Independent Ear webzine at www.openskyjazz.com
<http://www.openskyjazz.com/> :

 

*	Anecdote #4 from the forthcoming book African Rhythms: the
as-told-to autobiography of Randy Weston by Willard Jenkins

 

*	The complete lineup for the upcoming 30th anniversary Tri-C JazzFest
(Cleveland, OH)

 

*	Playlists for Ancient Future, the radio program

 

*	A new Artist's P.O.V.: the latest installment in our ongoing series
of artist conversations focuses on pianist-composer Ethan Iverson of The Bad
Plus

 

*	The complete lineup for Tribeca Performing Arts Center's 2009 Lost
Jazz Shrines concert series; this season we focus on the late, lamented
Bradley's

 

*	A review of Dream Lucky, Roxanne Orgill's fascinating new book
taking us back to the late 1930s on a journey through the Reno Club and a
nascent Count Basie, the White House and Roosevelt era contrasts between FDR
and Eleanor, and to Harlem's famed Savoy Ballroom Goodman vs. Webb battles
of the bands

 

*	The Monday Night big band tradition, with recent sightings of the
Mingus Big Band, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra (not at the Vanguard but on the
road in Columbia, MO!), and percussionist-composer Adam Rudolph's large
ensemble project

 

.and as always, your feedback is welcomed and encouraged.

 

Peace,

Willard Jenkins

www.openskyjazz.com <http://www.openskyjazz.com/>  

Home of The Independent Ear

 

Or if you prefer snail mailing:

Open Sky

5268-G Nicholson Lane  #281

Kensington, MD 20895

 


From weathfd at earthlink.net  Sun Mar 29 08:51:22 2009
From: weathfd at earthlink.net (Carole Weatherford)
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 08:51:22 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
Subject: [members-announce] Billie Holiday book reviewed
Message-ID: <18265982.1238331082763.JavaMail.root@mswamui-cedar.atl.sa.earthlink.net>

by Larry Reni Thomas @ www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=32346

Carole Boston Weatherford
High Point, NC
New York Times best-selling author & prize-winning poet 
Becoming Billie Holiday, a fictional verse memoir
Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane

From david at adlermusic.com  Tue Mar 31 16:14:06 2009
From: david at adlermusic.com (David R. Adler)
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:14:06 -0400
Subject: [members-announce] Adler on jazz and protest
Message-ID: <C5F7F1CE.E351%david@adlermusic.com>


Dear JJA friends and colleagues,

I've just published an essay on the vexed relationship between jazz and
political protest:

http://www.z-word.com/z-word-essays/jazz-and-protest%253A-a-reappraisal.html

Thanks for reading and hope to be in touch.

Kind regards,
David Adler


--
http://www.adlermusic.com
http://lerterland.blogspot.com