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Comment by Ron Kaplan on November 27, 2008 at 4:13pm -
Sorry about the formatting folks!
RonKaplan
American Songbook Preservation Society
http://www.greatamericansongbook.org
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Comment by Ron Kaplan on November 27, 2008 at 4:11pm
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Dear Friends and Music Lovers!
As some of you may know, I am a singer and a great fan of America’s
Classical music...Jazz and the Great American Songbook, known and
loved around the world.
Will you help me to endow a Foundation dedicated to
continuing this legacy for future generations?
Our Mission: To preserve our cultural treasure known as the Great
American Songbook by presenting this music to the public at home
and abroad as Ambassadors of Song. Our purpose is to build
an Organization to stand the test of time and continue this body
of work for the next 100 years and beyond for public benefit.
“In a hundred to a hundred and fifty years from now, I believe that
people will recognize the music of Gershwin and Ellington as the
classical music of our time.” Tony Bennett
You can help me achieve this mission with your
generous donation!
We are looking for Donors who believe in this American Cultural
Legacy and want their name or business associated with the
American Songbook Preservation Society Foundation
as we fulfill our mission.
Our Goal is $25 million, which will underwrite our Foundation
in perpetuity. We are asking that concerned individuals help
us make this happen with their support.
The American Songbook Preservation Society is
a California Charitable Corporation, exempt from taxation
under section 501 (C) 3 of the Internal Revenue Code.
As such, your donations are fully tax-deductible
as allowed by law Tax ID #56-241033
Please mail your donation to American Songbook Preservation
Society 9051-A Soquel Drive, Aptos, California 95003
Email us at: info@greatamericansongbook.org
or call us at (831) 687-0278.
Thank you for your support!
Ronald Kaplan, Executive Director
www.GreatAmericanSongbook.org
….Singing the Great American Songbook
What is the Great American Songbook, also known as the
“Popular Standards”?
It is largely composed of songs written between 1920 and 1960 from
the Tin Pan Alley era through the Broadway stages and sets of
Hollywood musicals.
This era represented a unique period in the history of
American popular music.
It was a period that saw the advent of a new type of songwriting,
utterly original in some respects, but grounded in the simple structure
of the Tin Pan Alley era that preceded it, and strongly influenced by
the musical form known as Jazz (and by the precursors of Jazz:
Ragtime and Blues).
The Great American Songbook is a distinct body of works, which
collectively represent one of America’s true cultural treasures, and
exemplify popular songwriting at its best, with vivid, literate
lyrics set to haunting elusive harmonies and gorgeous melodies
that have come to hold an exalted place in American culture and
around the world.
Of the American Songbook Popular Standards, most were
written for specific spots in shows, films, specialty acts, or revues.
They were the product of professional songwriters and lyricists
working at their craft. In the hands of a capable singer like
Ella Fitzgerald or Frank Sinatra, the Standards serve as a sort of
musical thesaurus of the spectrum of human emotions.
Maybe that’s the reason these songs and this body of work
continue to engender such a deep response to this day.
The purpose of the American Songbook Preservation Society
is to keep these songs in the public consciousness, by performing
them in venues around the country and around the world
with the highest musical integrity and interpretation from a cast
of highly capable Singers and Musicians as Ambassadors of
American Song.
Future Projects: include archiving and organizing historical documentation about the composers and lyricists, the personalities, and their works, as an educational resource for future generations for use in the classroom and the university. In addition, we will record and develop new material for presentation to the public as representative of this body of work. Finally, we will work on a permanent display using modern technology to bring the Great American Songbook and it’s inhabitants to life.
Some of the Great American Songbook Composers and Lyricists
Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington • Billy Strayhorn • Ted Koehler • James Van Huesen • Jules Styne • Rogers and Hammerstein • Lerner and Loewe • Meredith Wilson and Frank Loesser • Harold Arlen • Irving Berlin • Lew Brown • Johnny Burke •Irving Caeser • Sammy Cahn • Hoagy Carmichael • B.G. DeSylva • Howard Dietz • Walter Donaldson • Al Dubin •Vernon Duke • Dorothy Fields • George Gershwin • Ira Gershwin • Mack Gordon • Johnny Green •Oscar Hammerstein II• Otto Harbach • E.Y. Harburg • Johnny Mercer • Ray Noble • Mitchell Parish • Cole Porter •Ralph Rainger • Andy Razaf • Leo Robin • Richard Rogers • Harry Ruby •
Arthur Schwartz • Mac Gordon • Lorenz Hart • Ray Henderson • Jerornre Kern • Burton Lane • Frank Loesser • Jimmy McHugh •
Gus Kahn • Bert Kalmar • Thomas Wright “Fats” Waller • Harry Warren • Richard Whiting • Spenser Williams • Victor Young • Vincent Youmans • Irving Mills, and many others
S I N G I N G T H E G R E AT A M E R I C A N S O N G B O O K
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Comment by DOLORES PETERSEN on November 14, 2008 at 12:23pm -
Babara Morrison will be with us at the Hollywood Studio Bar & Grill celebrating 35 years in the biz starting Friday, December 5th at 8PM. Please stay in touch for updates of all great jazz coming our way. www.myspace.com/hollywoodstudiojazz
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Comment by B. J. Brown on November 10, 2008 at 2:02pm
- Bright Moments! Richmond Jazz Society is celebrating 29 years as Virginia's Jazz Service Organization. We provide outreach prgrams to schools, community centers, senior citizen facilities, etc. Our monthly Guest Educators Series features performances by local, regional and national artists. We sponsor 2 Jazz radio shows, publish a quarterly newsletter; send a monthly VAJAZZ News e-letter and more! We are currently involved in a preservation project to document Richmond, VA's Jazz history. Visit our website at www.vajazz.org for more info. Jazz Network member Karen Briggs will be our special Guest Educator performer on Tuesday, December 9, 2008 at The Capital Ale House in Richmond.
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Comment by Renee Fiallos on November 6, 2008 at 12:37pm -
thanks for the invite.
happy trails
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Comment by Carolyn Harding on November 2, 2008 at 12:49pm - Thank you for the invite... Happy to be a member!
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Comment by She on October 25, 2008 at 11:48am -
Hi all, I'm happy to add the Hyde Park Jazz Society - http://www.hydeparkjazzsociety.org/
They're involved with the Hyde Park Jazz Festival - http://hydeparkjazzfestival.org/ which just finished its second year, and the Checkerboard Lounge, an old Chicago club featuring good jazz - http://www.checkerjazz.org/
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Comment by Kenneth Trusty on October 24, 2008 at 4:25pm - thank you for the invite, look forward to networking with the group.
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Comment by Duo Session or Group Session Quintet on October 23, 2008 at 5:02am -
Hi Jaijai!
Thanks very much for the invitation to join the Jazz Society!
Tuija and Tapsa <3
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INSPIRATIONAL CORNER
Uncle Hugh 'Peanuts' Whalum is my 80 year-old uncle who has FORGOTTEN more about jazz than I've even learned yet! He released his CD "Introducing Hugh 'Peanuts' Whalum" after gigging in the St. Louis scene for over 55 years! Needless to say his voice, his saxophone, his piano... like a fine, aged Merlot. His energy?! I dare not try and keep up. I'm on stage falling asleep by the time he gets going good – cut from a different cloth. Arnette, Coleman, Hamp, Hank... fine cloth.
Why do I bring them up? Because they represent something really important that we now get to enjoy, like they did back then, but now through technology on sites like this, that we've been missing.
The good news, since family – in this case JAZZ FAMILY – and relationships are much more important, more fulfilling... is that I feel RICHER knowing and following you guys music on THE JAZZ NETWORK!
Sincerely,
Kirk WHALUM
www.kirkwhalum.com
"Congratulations on your creativity, energy and dedication to Jazz, knowing and have worked with your Dad ~ its all in the genes".
~Clem De Rosa
Professional Musician, Educator, Arranger, Composer and Band Leader
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Give the gift of some of The Jazz Network Members music for the Holidays!!
Just click your favorite artist, its as easy as 1-2-1-2-3-4!! :-)
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The Jazz Network Holiday Promotion offers its members a spot on the front page to display your CD cover for immediate click-thru for purchase for holiday gifting! Feel free to contact Jaijai for details for now is a good time to start promoting Holiday sales!
If you have interest in having a featured spot, want to be spotlighted, promote a 'gig' or CD release party with a flyer or banner, stream your gigs live from a venue worldwide, give a shout-out for any reason ~ post a press release...have a business we should know about?... or even a "sneak peek" of your upcoming release? How about managers looking for artists, or indie labels looking for submissions...This is the place to do it!
Jaijai is also making herself available to help you promote your artistry with marketing tips that will take you to the next level.
If you are interested in becoming a client, please let her know.
If you want your page designed with your CD cover and special slideshows, or that 'extra special touch' Jaijai will also lend her design skills to those that want that 'extra splash' to their pages.
Contact her here on the site to discuss your creative thoughts!
Happy Networking!
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SPOTLIGHTED ARTISTS
Finding THE JAZZ NETWORK has been an amazing experience for Musique Noire. The opportunity to not only gain exposure among the jazz community, but to also learn and network with others in the jazz world has been invaluable. It is a place where we are all treated equally, whether one is a major label act or an indie artist, whether one plays traditional jazz or any of the "branches" of the jazz Family "tree".
Musique Noire is honored to be spotlighted here and are deeply grateful to Jaijai for creating this wonderful world. We're here to stay!
~ Musique Noire
Jaijai, what a wonderful mission you've undertaken to create such a place for artistic minds to meet and share their hearts. A place to renew faded determinations, and revive lessened momentums. A place to display our wares and reconfirm to one another that we actually are on the right track.
I commend you, Jaijai, for caring so much that you created this castle of the heart for all of us. I want to share my praise for all of the new friends as well as old friends that I've met and will meet here in our castle. Here we can garnish the where-with-all, the strength, the conviction, and the selflessness through our symbiosis, to share our gift to the world with an unbiased agenda.
My mentor, Daisaku Ikeda says of art: "A beautiful flower delights and refreshes the hearts of all people equally, no matter what soil it grows in. That is the power of beauty. The same is true of great art. It is this spirit that the German poet Heinrich Heine sang of when he wrote that once the peapod bursts open, the sugar peas inside are for everyone to enjoy."
Let's be audacious, my friends!
Buster Williams
"It was a pleasure to be featured on the Jazz Network Main Page. This Network is a unique forward step for independence, contact and conversation between artist, promoters/agents and fans.
Thank you Jaijai for offering a professional meeting place. I've met new musicians and rediscovered old friends I haven't seen or heard from in years. May we all continue to expand this network.
~ Will Calhoun
"I think that what Jaijai Jackson has done with the Jazz Network shows how the eternal love for this music is passed down from generation to generation. The fire her father lit in her has burned brightly and has inspired her to pass this torch on to future generations. I'm very proud to be featured and I'm very happy that Jazz has a voice and spirit like Jaijai looking after it."
~ Ron Kearns
I am so honored to be on The Jazz Network with so many wonderful and dedicated musicians. Jazz is the truly American art form and as I travel to other countries I find that their appreciation for jazz is really uplifting. There are so many excellent jazz musicians around the world now and The Jazz Network is helping us to find each other. Thank goodness for people like Jaijai who have dedicated so much time and effort to keep the jazz community together and for opening doors to us that we may never have found.
Regarding education in jazz, having done Master Classes in many places I find students need to take time and learn from the Masters and LISTEN. They should go back in history to appreciate ALL styles of jazz and its development. They need to learn melodies and lyrics (yes, even instrumentalists need to know lyrics) and that jazz is not just a series of modes and riffs. I think The Jazz Network can be an excellent tool for that also.
Thank you Jaijai...you are awesome!
~ Lenore Raphael
"Thank you Jaijai for creating a space for the likes of me! I truly enjoy being featured here and really hope it can give me new contacts and opportunities.
Keep up the good work!"
~ Patrick Rydman
Sweden
"The Jazz Network has come into being at just the right time. I believe that we are forever in need of spiritual and artistic enrichment and the way I see it, music, particularly jazz music, is all about the spirit. The Jazz Network allows us to reach out to our fellow artists across the world, in a way that has not been seen before, enlightening us as to who's out there making hip and happening music and helping to shape the culture. Whether artists approach this music from traditional perspectives or attempt to create new and radical sub-genres of jazz, the Jazz Network
is providing exposure, performance and recording opportunities that we might never have found on our own.
The Jazz Network is an amazing resource for the Jazz community. I'm
honored and happy to be a part of it.
Jaijai, thanks for your faith and what you're doing for the jazz community"
Best,
Nicolas
It’s a rare occasion when you meet someone who you feel a real connection to … Someone who possesses a kind spirit, unyielding generosity and a dedication to the jazz community beyond expectations.
Jaijai, thank you so much for creating such a fantastic website for the jazz community. You’ve helped artists connect with each other around the world.
I’m proud to have The Jazz Network be the first site to promote my latest recording. Words cannot express my gratitude to you for your dedication to the music and the artists.
With much love and gratitude,
Denise Donatelli
Hi Jaijai,
Stopping by to show you some love and tell you just how much I appreciate all you've been doing here, not just for me but for this incredible community of jazz musicians. I see that The Jazz Network is growing in leaps and bounds daily and want you to know that I recognize the importance of what's going on here, musicians having a place to connect with each other, young musicians having a place to meet and be mentored by musicians who have been around the block. You've created a beautiful space here and it's obvious that folks are feeling very much at home. Thanks for sharing your time, your heart, your soul. This is a huge commitment and you've taken it on with such determination. I wish you and The Jazz Network continued success and support you in all you're doing.
~ Marcus
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