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  4. Renee Fiallos
  5. Nick Mathis
  6. Suzanne Brooks
  7. Linda Dachtyl
  8. Trudy Pitts
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  10. Rita Graham
  11. Dr. Nelson Harrison
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  14. Pamela Wise
  15. Kaitlin McGaw
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  19. Linford Ellis - NSL Mfg.
  20. Aurora Flores and Elva Mason
  21. Hey Rim Jeon and Ginetta
  22. mZuri's Christmas CD
  23. Denise Mininfield
  24. Andrea Brachfeld
  25. Mimi Johnson
  26. mZuri
  27. Marcia Miget
  28. Cheri Maree
  29. Julie Davis + Kelly Dow
  30. THE STATE OF JAZZ
  31. Yayoi Ikawa
  32. Kim Clarke
  33. Margo Reymundo
  34. Lenora Helm
  35. Jana Mashonee
  36. Gayelynn McKinney
  37. Aziza Miller
  38. Maggie Brown
  39. Hilary Canto
  40. Randi Fishenfeld
  41. Cathy Segal-Garcia
  42. Saskia Laroo
  43. Amrita Cottrell
  44. Lynne Arriale
  45. Kathy Yolanda Rice
  46. George V. Johnson, Jr.
  47. Teeny Tucker & Linda Rodney
  48. July 1 - Marion Hayden
  49. July 8 - Vinx and Antoine Smith
  50. July 15 - Best Plays @ Noon
  51. July 22 - Radio Hosts
  52. July 29 - Jeffery Smith/Robert Roberson

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Dear Friends and Colleagues:
We are getting feedback for the call for scores. Please pass on this call to your members. This is a dramatic situation - how would any of us feel without music! Please HELP!!!

Patricia Adkins Chiti, President
Fondazione Adkins Chiti:
Donne in Musica
Via Riboty 23
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adkins.chiti@donneinmusica.org

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Joan, Thanks for the article on these lovely ladies of song. You are the only person I know that truly keeps the lives of female vocalists, composers and instrumentalists, and others in print. If they send me music, I'll make sure they are featured on my show and other radio shows.

John Edwards
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Red Oak, GA 30272

Jay (WCLK 91.9 FM)

Jay Edwards is an On-Air Announcer for WCLK 91.9 FM. He hosts Jazz Tones on Sunday's 9-11pm. He has also written line notes for jazz artists and articles for magazines. His career has been over twenty years in radio and voice-overs.

Email: jay@atlantajazz.info

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AUGUST 2009

Dear Subscriber,

August heat is upon us. Summer is in full force. This week, WIJSF, INC. members convened on Hollywood Beach, Florida. Great plans are in the making.

We've heard the 52nd show of MUSICWOMAN LIVE! In August, reruns of the best shows will play, while I'm on vacation. Our July guests included bassist Marion Hayden and four incredible male vocalists, George V. Johnson, Jr., Robert Roberson, Jeffery Smith and Vinx. We also heard from my favorite online radio hosts.

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Marion Hayden is one of the nation's finest proponents of the acoustic bass. She creates a rich, dark tone and a very advanced rhythmic concept. Classically trained, she honed he skills in private studies at the prestigious University of Michigan, Michigan State University, and the many jam sessions in Detroit's various jazz clubs. An accomplished composer and educator, Hayden is bass instructor in the jazz department of Tri-C College, Cleveland, OH, and is on faculty at the University of Michigan School of Music. She has performed or recorded with such luminaries as Marcus Belgrave, Roy Brooks, Kirk Lightsey, Ralph Peterson, Kenny Burrell, Regina Carter and James Carter. Hayden’s mainstay on the Detroit scene is her band Straight Ahead, an all female ensemble that plays frequently around the Detroit-Metro Area. Visions is her debut solo recording. http://cdbaby.com/cd/marionhayden

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JEFFERY SMITH

“As a baritone, Smith has drawn obvious comparisons to Billy Eckstine and Johnny Hartman. He's rich yet light, the flourless chocolate cake of a weight watchers dream! A Little Sweeter may be the most vital album this year!” (April 20, 1998 • Bruce Handy, TIME)

“Jeffery Smith has continually reaffirmed a talent and a personality that are exceptional!” (Universal Jazz Magazine 1999)

“There’s a buzz about vocalist Smith. A Little Sweeter caused heads to turn, and Down Here Below, isn’t any different. Smith is proficient at crafting wonderfully textured pop songs. They stick to you - whether you want them to or not! (October 1999 - Nate Guidry, JAZZTIMES)

“Jeffery Smith stands as a snappy comeback to those who ask if there are any vocalists left who could sing with the same warm, deep-rooted intonation of Johnny Hartman or Joe Williams. And as frontman for Claude Bolling’s big band, Smith acquired his vocal chops honestly”! (November 15th, 1999 - Drew Wheeler, Amazon.com CD Now)

“Down Here Below” is a diverse and solid set of songs and performances, a vibrant arrangement of “Afro Blue”, an exquisite duet with Dianne Reeves, plus stunning versions of two signature tunes written by the great Abbey Lincoln, that establish Jeffery Smith as “the male vocalist to watch!” (1999 - BORDER Books Review)

“Dear Jeffery I was impressed with your concert. I loved your repertoire and the passion you put in your singing. I felt that your version of “Detour Ahead” was tremendous, one of the best versions of this classic I’ve ever heard!”(August 14th, 2000 - Jacques Emonds, Programme Director, of the Ottawa International Jazz Festival)

Jeffery Smith was born September 14, 1955, in Queens, New York. He singing under the influence of his mother, Ramona (a classical singer to whom he dedicated his 1995 debut album “Ramona”, produced and accompanied by Shirley Horn on Gitane/Verve.

At 18, Jeffery moved to Los Angeles, where he worked as a singer, actor and artist. In 1980- 81 he starred in the production of “Hollywood & Highland” produced on the east coast by Lee Strasberg and on the west coast by Robert Greenhut. Jeffery received the 1981 Drama Critic’s Award from Drama Logue Magazine.

 In 1985, Jeffery returned to New York to co-star in “Jesus Christ Superstar”, “Hair” and Tom O’Horgan’s production of “Capitol Cakewalk”. He performed in many major clubs through 1991.

In 1991,  Jeffery, moved to Paris for 7 years, working with French pianist, composer and bandleader Claude Bolling. He recorded four albums and made two world tours with Bolling’s Big Band, performing for royalty and dignitaries of Europe and Asia. He made jingles for French commercials, Carte Noir Coffee, and Hyundai.

In 1995, Jeffery signed to Universal/Verve

for a 3-album contract. He starred in Duke Ellington’s “A Drum is a Woman” at Paris’ Palias Chaillot, Nationale Theatre du France, and co-starred with Dee Dee Bridgewater in “Cabaret” and her “Peace & Love” music video. He had three sold-out concerts at “Paris Olympia” and is one on of the most revered male jazz vocalists in the industry, today.

Jeffery's U.S. debut in 1998, was with his self-produced (2nd Verve) recording “A Little Sweeter” with the Kenny Barron, Ray Drummond on bass, and Ben Riley on drums. This recording ) earned the highest critical acclaim. Time hailed it as “The most vital albums of the year”.

In 1999, Jeffery's third recording “Down Here Below” featured Dianne Reeves, and violin virtuoso, Regina Carter. In 2001, he performed two concerts in tribute to Louis Armstrong at Lincoln Center with Wynton Marsalis, and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. 

He recorded two songs for a compilation album of Duke Ellington’s music, featuring Freddie Cole, Joe Lovano, Grover Washington Jr., Joe Beck, Joe Locke, for Todd Barkan’s 32nd Street Label. He co-produced the single, “Listen Love” for the Japanese Group “UFO”.

Jeffery directs Tri-Loxodonta, Inc., a non-profit, production company that produced the 1st Annual Smitty’s Quarry Jazz Festival at Opus 40, in Saugerties, NY, August 2-5, 2007, where Jeffery was joined by: Regina Carter, Ernie Watts, Pete Levin, Winard Harper, and Chanda Rule.

 
Robert Robeson 

Born: 10/10/1959

Instruments: Vocals/Piano

Music studies: Delta College Music - Composition

Performances: Latitudes in Paris, L'Arc Paris, Piano Zinc Paris, The Red Piano Poznan, The Blue Note Poznan, The Piano Bar Poznan, the Vampire Club Lodz, The Casino Krakow, The Casino Poznan, San Francisco Bar Paris, The Atlas Club LA, Bake Potato La, Holly Street Bar and Grill Pasadena.

Performed with: Joan Cartwright, Yolanda Graves

Recordings: Dedication, Swinging with Mother Goose to be released in September; How to be released in October. Website: www.robert-roberson.com

 

Vinx

One man. One voice. One drum. As you will discover, Vinx is much more. Vinx's music transcends languages and borders. Vinx attended Kansas State University and performed with the Kansas State Jazz Band. In 1978, Taj Mahal invited Vinx to perform with him at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. Vinx played with Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Hornsby, Lou Reed, B.B. King, Herbie Hancock, Kenny G. and Woody Harrelson. In 1990, Sting and Miles Copeland signed Vinx to Pangaea/I.R.S. Records. Following Vinx's performance on Sting's Soul Cages CD, Vinx recorded his first release Rooms In My Fatha's House for Pangaea. In 1992, Vinx released his 2nd CD titled I Love My Job in Santa Fe, New Mexico, featuring Zap Mama, Patrice Rushen and Dan Kuramato. Vinx released his 4th CD Lips Stretched Out, in 1996. Vinx work with Washington D.C.'s famed Eastern High School Choir with a grant from AT&T. In 2002, Will Downing recorded "Don't Talk To Me Like That" by Vinx and Brenda Russell. Vinx works with the US State Department as a Cultural Attaché to promote HIV awareness in Mozambique. He toured Sierra Leone to raise funds for the Ballanta Music School in Freetown. He is Professor Vinx at Berkelee School of Music in Boston. He is planning an international DRUM/DANCE Festival and more Songwriter Soul Kitchen Retreats at his 1906 Georgia plantation home/studio, and he travels to Accra Ghana as an artistic director. Vinx completed "50 Memoirs of a Hip Old black Man" a 4-volume CD with 50 songs and DVD, available at www.vinx.com 

Antoine Smith

Antoine Smith is a "phenom". This gifted young, 16-year-old composer and pianist has talent, ideas, and musical gifts far beyond his years. Antoine is a "Leo," born on August 1, 1992 in Euclid, Ohio. He comes from a wide range of family members who have performed as musicians, singers, dancers, composers, managers, and teachers. He is a first rate drummer and pianist who composes and plays contemporary jazz and other genres. He plans to enter an excellent music college, and continue his studies in composition and performance. Go for it, Antoine. The world is yours." Larry A. Russell, CEO, Turn On Records. Call Antoine Smith Toll Free: (888) 286-0397 or Email: antoine_smithjazz@yahoo.com

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Vocalist/Jazz Historian Joan Cartwright traces the origins of Jazz from the West Coast of Africa to the clubs of Harlem. This presentation highlights the life, times and tunes of America’s premiere Blue and Jazz Women from Bessie Smith to Betty Carter and beyond. Selections include compositions of Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Cole Porter, Norman Mapp and Joan Cartwright. (1-2 hours) - 2009

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