Celebrating 7 years of Musical Service!
As of December 1, 2014, we have 282 members, 153 musicians, and 53 males! Join us, today!
Music is what feelings sound like. ~ Anonymous
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Featured Artists: Peggy Duquesnel, Shana Tucker, Lenore Raphael, Bertha Hope
Message from the Executive Director
This year is gone but much was accomplished in 2014. We’re preparing to release our 5th compilation CD of fabulous female composers on January 2, 2015. Can you believe we’ve promoted the music of almost 50 women?! In 2015, we will continue to bring awareness about the music of women with the goal of getting more presenters to include our members in their programming.Personally, I’m feeling very fulfilled. I’ve got one more year to complete my DBA in Business Administration and I’m really looking forward to scheduling interviews with many of our musical members for my dissertation. There is so much data to collect and I trust one year will be enough time to do my study.
Also, in 2015, we may have enough people signed up to hold a Symposium on Women in Arts at some location in Washington, D.C., as I have not heard any response from The White House on this issue, although we have 395 signatures on the petition, which may not be enough to even get a response. What are your thoughts on this event? Is it necessary? Do you, as a female musician feel marginalized in the music industry? Send your response to me at divajc47@yahoo.com.
NEW RELEASES
Our 5th compilation CD is available for orders. Just send your request to me and I’ll invoice you and mail your CDs out before Christmas, if you want them for holiday gifts. Many thanks to the 12 composers on this hallmark CD!
Peggy Duquesnel “Peggy’s latest musical offering is a beautiful double disc of holiday music. Each song is an incredible jazzed up re-interpretation of some of your favorite holiday music and of course there are a few of Peggy’s originals that will keep you interested in her long after the holidays are over simply because of her lovely vocals and impeccable pianos skills.” — Sounds of Timeless Jazz |
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 Christmas is Here (Inst) |
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| Little Drummer Boy (Inst) |
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Follow Jeannette Pina’s South Florida Jazz List every month at www.southfloridajazzlist.com
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Christmas is my FAVORITE holiday. So many great songs – so little time to sing them! This year, I’m excited to present A Different Kind of Christmas Concert in partnership with Desert Spring United Methodist Church of Summerlin, Las Vegas. The program will include performance of sacred and secular holiday songs and instrumental compositions that I just really like a lot (and usually only sing by myself, at the top of my lungs in my car…also, at the grocery store). **********
“A Different Kind of Christmas” Concert
Sunday, December 7, 2014 @ 3:00 PM Desert Spring United Methodist Church 120 Pavilion Center Dr., Las Vegas NV 89144 Free; donations accepted **********
The title, A Different Kind of Christmas, speaks not only to my ChamberSoul style; it’s the name of Desert Spring United Methodist Church’s seasonal fundraising effort. Though concert admission is free, a love offering will be collected to help raise funds to support the building of a Habitat for Humanity home in the Las Vegas community. |
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BERTHA HOPE QUINTET
December 7, 2014 @ 6-10 p.m. at Minton’s in Harlem, NYC
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LENORE RAPHAEL
Hope you are enjoying the season! Wishing you all wonderful, happy holidays.
I just returned from England where I had a wonderful concert in Berkhamsted for the Jazz Society. We had a packed house and a wonderful audience of REAL jazz lovers.
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If you are in any of these places, I would love to say hello
SATURDAY, JANUARY 10 @ 7:30 PM
THE HALLE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER
237 North Salem Street, Apex, North Carolina
with special guest Jim Ketch, trumpet and Jason Foureman, bass and Kobie Watkins, drums
Tickets www.etix.com or call the Halle 919 249 1120 or at the Halle box office
JANUARY 12-17th
California/Hawaii tour
More information next month
For more great jazz listening on the net, tune into http://www.purejazzradio.org –24/7 of great straight-ahead jazz.
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THE MENLO PARK LIBRARY
800 Alma Street, Menlo Park, CA 94025
“One of the West Coast’s most formidable ensembles” ~ All About Jazz
The Montclair Women’s Big Band is a Bay Area treasure. Founded in 1997, by veteran Trumpeter Ellen Seeling, the group is an alliance of some of the region’s most formidable jazz women. Forging a singular blues-drenched sound with a deep Latin pocket and captivating original material, audiences are electrified by the band’s powerhouse ensemble, addictive grooves and inspired solos. This extraordinary swing machine will blow you away!
INFORMATION CALL 650-330-2501 – http://menlopark.org/calendar.aspx?PREVIEW=YES&EID=668
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- Capping off a stellar year, vocalist Catherine Russell returns to New York City in December with seasonal fare and classics of blues, swing, and jazz from her latest highly acclaimed album, Bring It Back (Jazz Village).
- Saturday, December 6: Russell reunites with Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks for the annual Chazen Jazz Concert at Rockland Community College Cultural Arts Center in Suffern, New York.
- Monday, December 8: Russell leads her sextet as the featured entertainment for the Louis Armstrong House Museum’s annual GALA at Capitale in Manhattan with a program that will explore varied and sometimes overlooked chestnuts from Satchmo’s vast repertoire, from New Orleans to Swing to The Great American Songbook.
- Thursday, December 11: Russell and her quartet celebrate the Holidays with a free to the public, noon concert, in downtown NYC at The Winter Garden at Brookfield Place, performing seasonal tunes from favorites to the less well known.
- Saturday, December 13: Ladies Sing The Blues (with Catherine Russell and Charenee Wade fronting a 7 piece band) visits McCarter Theater’s Berlind Theatre in Princeton, NJ, for an evening paying homage to ’20s and ’30s female blues singers like Bessie Smith, Mamie Smith, and Ethel Waters, with arrangements based on the original recordings.
- Tuesday, December 23: Russell makes her debut appearance at Jazz Standard as featured vocalist with Andy Farber’s After Midnight Orchestra, the wonderful 18-piece band that recently wowed Broadway audiences. Leader, saxophonist, and arranger Andy Farber wrote arrangements and played on Catherine’s two most recent albums, Bring It Back and Strictly Romancin’, and will delve into that catalogue as well as unveiling new big band arrangements.
- Saturday, December 27: Russell and her trio venture to New England for a first ever visit to The Side Door, a wonderful new jazz venue in Old Lyme, Connecticut.
- Wednesday, December 31: Russell and her trio ring in the New Year with a New Year’s Eve show at Shanghai Jazz in Madison, New Jersey for the 4th consecutive year.
- Touring continues into 2015 with select Catherine Russell appearances as follows:Friday, January 9 / City Winery / New York, NYSaturday, January 10 / NYC Winter Jazz Fest, Hot Jazz Stage at Carroll Place, New York, NYSaturday, January 17 / Jazz on the Mountain at Mohonk Mountain House (w/ Carolyn Leonhart, LaTanya Hall) / New Paltz, NYSaturday, February 14 / WP Presents at the Shea
Performing Arts Center (Valentines Day Concert) / Wayne, NJThursday, February 19 / Tribeca Performing Arts Center
(Highlights in Jazz 42nd Anniversary) / New York, NYSunday, February 22 / NJPAC – Dorthaan’s Place Jazz Brunch / Newark, NJ
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