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MUSICWOMAN LIVE! is an Internet radio show that airs on Wednesday @ Noon to 2 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, with Diva Joan Cartwright (Diva JC), on www.blogtalkradio.com/musicwoman featuring women who compose and perform their own music and men who support them. Call in on 347-677-0782 then #1 to talk. To join the chat room, you must register with www.blogtalkradio.com. This show began in July 2008, and is sponsored by WOMEN IN JAZZ SOUTH FLORIDA, INC. a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that promotes women musicians, globally, through contacts, networks, articles, interviews, newsletters, events, courses, clinics, workshops, lectures, research, history, archives, websites, film, audio and video recording, concerts, performances and recognition. We welcome your ideas for guests and subject matter. Email Diva JC at musicwoman08@yahoo.com and visit our website at www.wijsf.org.
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2010 MARCH GUESTS |
Women's History Month |
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| 3-31-10 Ava Lembert |
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| 3-24-10 To be announced |
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| 3-17-10 JC Cassis |
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| 3-10-10 Lenora Raphael |
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| 3-3-10 Bobby Ramirez and the Miami Jazz Museum - Bobby Ramirez - From humble beginnings at 14, he learned to play saxophone at Brownsville Jr. High School in New York. His interest expanded to flute, guitar, arranging and composing. At age 16, he performed with the Filler Jr. High School big band and wrote his first full arrangement for an 18-piece orchestra. At Miami Springs Sr. High, he was a featured soloist and led small Jazz combos and big Band ensemble at rehearsals and concerts. He studied and performed at Miami-Dade Community College, Florida International University and took individual lessons in Jazz with Gary Campbell, Ed Meina, Tom McCormick and classical flute with Althea Kaplan, Lisa LaCross. He also studied with Don Chippinelli, Gene Greco and Richard Dumbscum. Since the late 1970's, Ramirez has performed in festivals around the world. Websites: Bobby Ramirez and Miami Jazz Museum |
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2010 FEBRUARY GUESTS |
Black History Month |
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| 2-24-10 Diva JC will be performing for the American Embassy Blues on the Green Concert in Kingston, Jamaica. Take this opportunity to listen to archived shows during this week. |
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The group evolved out of a vocal technique workshop organized by Beatriz Malnic and Loren Oliveira in 2001. Since then, these two musical directors have brought together a cast of almost 60 women, who volunteer their voices and time promoting and preserving the rich multicultural Brazilian heritage fostering multicultural exchange, music appreciation, and education. |
A non-profit organization, Brazilian Voices is a vocal ensemble that performs at cultural community and philanthropic events. Brazilian Voices aspires to incorporate the best of Brazilian culture throughout the world. |
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2-10-10 Pianist Bertha Hope was born and raised in Los Angeles, during the 1960’s Bertha along with her late husband, legendary pianist Elmo Hope, collaborated on some fine jazz music, some of which was first published as recently as 2000. She has worked extensively over the years to transcribe many of the Elmo Hope compositions so that they can be performed and in addition, pay tribute to one of “be-bop’s” underrated contributors. To that end, Bertha has formed a working group called ELMOllennium,” which features, Walter Booker (bs), Leroy Williams (dr), Virgil Jones (tr), Charles Davis (ts), Roni Ben-Hur (g), Amy London (guest vocalist). For a number of years Bertha Hope was an artist-in-residence under the auspices of “The New Jersey State Council on the Arts.” Through that program, she performed in New Jersey state-wide workshops. Some of the musicians with whom she performed during that period were Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Foster, Nat Adderley and Philly Joe Jones. Ms. Hope is the leader of “The Bertha Hope Trio” that toured extensively throughout Japan. She is a composer and arranger with several recordings under her own name: “In Search of Hope” and “Elmo’s Fire” (Steeplechase); “Between Two Kings” (Minor Records) and her latest on the Reservoir label, “Nothin’ But Love.” Bertha Hope holds a B.A. in Early Childhood Education. She currently teaches an advanced jazz ensemble at The Lucy Moses School, and an Introduction to Jazz Program at Washington Irving H. S. which is sponsored by Bette Midler. Her legacy continues as her children carry the musical torch. Read more. . . |
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2-3-10 Alexis Caputo is a Florida & New York based Performance Artist, Poet, Writer, Activist and Director of Project Witness that provides tailored artistic and educational workshops for multiple platforms. Her newest project, SOULED OUT with first time choreography by Michelle Grant-Murray and a second visit with choreography and collaboration by Lutricia Welters of Jubilee Dance Theatre is debuting at the Langston Hughes Cultural Center in New York for Black History Month 2010. Known for her written works, including "Truths Carved from the Belly", "Woman of the Drum", "The Proud Pilgrim" and "Deconstruction & Deliverance", Caputo has emerged as an original voice in theatre, poetry and performance. Caputo has presented original performances at notable off Broadway theaters - The Harlem Theatre Company, Abron’s Art Center • Henry Street Settlement and Dixon Place. A Bahamian- American, Caputo worked as a journalist profiling people throughout the Caribbean, exploring issues of culture and identity. |
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2010 JANUARY GUESTS |
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1-27-10 Best Plays - Diva JC plays her favorite uploaded music. |
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Bassist Carline Ray is a New Yorker. She began as a pianist and singer for groups. She played guitar and sang with The International Sweethearts, an all-female jazz band. She sang with Erskine Hawkins. She is soloist and concert chorister of Schola Cantorium, Camarata Singers, Bach Aria Group and American Opera Society and in studio with Patti Page, The McGuire Sisters, Della Reese, Sylvia Syms, Bobby Darrin and Quincy Jones. Ray received the Fender Precision jazz electric bass from band leader Luis Russell, her husband. Performed with Skitch Henderson, Sy Oliver, Peter Duchin and Mercer Ellington’s big band; in trio with Mary Lou Williams, Seldon Powell, Marian McPartland, Tiny Grimes, Benny Powell, Budd Johnson, Melba Liston and Carrie Smith; and in the pit orchestra and choral groups with The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Schools: Julliard and The Manhattan School of Music. Taught at Medgar Evers College, Hunter College, William Patterson College and The New School of Social Research. Catherine Russell is a New Yorker. Her father, Luis Russell, was a native of Panama , a pioneering pianist/composer/bandleader and Louis Armstrong's musical director. With Carline Ray, her mother, Catherine shares an uncommon legacy of music. Catherine started at 5, as a professional dancer with Katherine Dunham. At 9, she released her first album of children’s educational records. American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She toured Europe with Carrie Smith’s gospel group with Carline Ray on bass. A one of a kind singer and musician, she’s toured with Steely Dan, David Bowie, Cyndi Lauper, Paul Simon, Jackson Browne, Michael Feinstein, Carrie Smith, and Rosanne Cash. |
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Trumpeter Art Wilson played trumpet with Otis Redding and valve trombone
with Sam & Dave and Bobby Blue Bland. He also prepared arrangements
for the last two bands.
Today, his company is Blues Band and his label is Blues Band Records, in Fort Lauderdale, FL Wilson's CDs are CITY PROJECT and THE COMPANY I KEEP Websites: www.bluesband.net |
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12/2/09 Songwriters - For the month of December, this show will air, featuring Christmas music from Mzuri and Melody Cole. HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL! We'll be back in 2010 with all new guests! Love and music, Diva JC NOTE: Special Time: 2-4 p.m. Do you write music? Instrumental or lyrical songs? Join us for a discussion with songwriters and how their creative juices flow. Joan Cartwright is the first woman in the world to publish a Jazz and Blues Song Book that contains 41 original compositions, some instrumental, some lyrical. 11 have been recorded on her CDs Feelin' Good and In Pursuit of a Melody. |
December 2, 2009 - SPECIAL TIME Wednesday @ 2 - 4 pm EST 347-677-0782, #1 to talk |
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