USA: The Last Note: Document 50 Figures in Jazz and Blues with the Jazz Foundation and photographer Richard Corman

To Our Friends and Supporters, We are happy to announce a new project: the Jazz Foundation has created an Indiegogo campaign. With your help, we can produce the next historic documentation of jazz and blues in America. Join us as we go deep inside American music, creating intimate portraits of 50 artists who have helped shape jazz and blues scenes throughout the U.S. this past century. Together, we will invite them to tell their stories, capturing on film and video the unique corners of history in which they lived and which they continue to represent. In this way, we will help to ensure the history of jazz and blues is kept alive. We have included a detailed description of the The Last Note below. Our goal is to raise $67,500 or more to fund this project in the next 45 days. Please spread the word. Support on Indiegogo in any denomination is appreciated. Check out the perks! Find our campaign here and donate now: www.igg.me/at/jfa-last-note Additionally, we are auctioning stunning prints from Richard Corman's renowned "Madonna NYC 83" series to benefit the project. View that auction here: https://www.charitybuzz.com/catalog_items/871800?preview=1 Yours in service, Wendy Atlas Oxenhorn The Last Note: A Film Project to Document 50 Great Figures in Jazz and Blues Very often, great musicians devote themselves to their music for a lifetime but find acclaim only after they have passed. That is a loss for our culture and for our record of history. My name is Wendy Oxenhorn. As Executive Director of the Jazz Foundation of America, I have fought for 15 years to make sure professionals in jazz and blues have the resources they need to survive and continue their work. In that time, I've had the honor to know many extraordinary souls. When I see these souls pass away, I am saddened and afraid that all evidence of their lives and their works will be lost. Last year, I met someone capable of spotlighting legendary artists for historic preservation. Richard Corman is a New York-based photographer who has traveled the globe for more than three decades capturing the essence of the human spirit. He has created definitive portraits of icons like Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Muhammad Ali, Robert De Niro, Paul Newman, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Madonna. With your support, Richard wants to hit the road with videographer Alan Gastelum to meet with accomplished jazz and blues musicians in their homes across the U.S. Their conversations will be filmed and photographed to produce intimate profiles documenting many of the individuals responsible for jazz and blues in the last century. From the Jazz Foundation headquarters, I will coordinate over one month of appointments with fifty of the most incredible artists I have known. In March of 2016, these portraits will become available at no cost on our website. For every big star in music, there are also hundreds more people who made up the scene that gave that star a voice. In jazz and blues, those scenes continue to dot the country, thriving in lesser-known clubs and boisterous, invitation-only jams, in extraordinary bonds between artists, and in tireless devotion to music. With your support, Richard and Alan will travel to Memphis, New York City, New Orleans, Detroit, and more beginning January 2016. We will meet these artists in their homes and record this oral and visual history directly from the people who lived it. Preserve the memory of the New Orleans jazz and blues musicians displaced by Katrina. In the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, the Jazz Foundation worked to rehouse and create work for over 1,000 New Orleans musicians and their families. These artists live far from their New Orleans roots, but this project will ensure many of them do not fade from its history. It rarely happens that people capable of documenting these rich dimensions of American history have the resources to do so. Between 1937 and 1942, folklore scholar Alan Lomax traveled the country to meet with and record foundational artists like Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, and Jelly Roll Morton on behalf of the Library of Congress. Before him, this music was considered by many to be vulgar and primitive. Lomax fought to preserve it and give it a place in our history such as it has now. In 1960, photographer William Claxton and musicologist Joachim-Ernst Berendt journeyed across America to document jazz and blues, leaving behind an invaluable trove of American culture. Join us on this journey and please make this work possible with a contribution. Spread the word to those who share our belief: the living history of jazz and blues should not be lost. www.igg.me/at/jfa-last-note www.jazzfoundation.org

Peter & Will Anderson Sextet in Concert at Louis Armstrong House Museum August 17, 2013

Peter & Will Anderson Sextet in Concert at Louis Armstrong House Museum August 17, 2013 Final Concert of the Museum’s Hot Jazz Cool Garden Summer Concert Series

Louis Armstrong House Museum welcomes Peter & Will Anderson Sextet, one of NYC’s hottest jazz bands, to Louis's house on Saturday, August 17, 2013 at 2pm.  This is the final concert in the museum’s Hot Jazz / Cool Garden Summer Concert Series and it’s a must-have ticket this summer. To top off the irresistible sounds of this sextet, the concert includes a complimentary sample of red beans n’ rice (Louis’s favorite recipe) & sweet tea all served up in Louis’s garden.  Advance tickets are $18 and include a historic house tour pass (good for six months).  Tickets can be purchased online at LouisArmstrongHouse.org.  Advance purchase is suggested; only limited tickets available at the door for $20. About the Peter & Will Anderson Sextet: The Peter & Will Anderson Sextet features Peter and Will Anderson - the two Juilliard-educated masters of the clarinet and saxophone. They will be bringing along trumpeter Jon-Erik Kellso (who just performed to a sold-out crowd in Louis’s garden with his EarRegulars on July 20), pianist Ehud Asherie, bassist Clovis Nicolas and drummer Phil Stewart. Peter and Will Anderson’s expertise has made them saxophonists of choice for Wynton Marsalis, Jimmy Heath, the Village Vanguard Orchestra, Wycliffe Gordon, Michael Feinstein and the New York City Ballet.  Leading their own ensemble, they’ve performed at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, Iridium, Symphony Space, Blues Alley, East Coast Jazz Fest, Mid-Atlantic Jazz Fest, New Jersey Jazz Society, Pennsylvania Jazz Society, 54 Below, Highlights in Jazz, Buck-Hill Skytop Music Fest, Treetops Music Fest, Central Illinois Jazz Fest, Jacob Burns Film Center, Louis Armstrong House, Bickford Museum Theater, Stony Brook and Michigan State Universities.                          They have produced and performed in two highly-acclaimed off-broadway jazz shows at 59E59 Theaters in 2010 and 2012, honoring Artie Shaw and the Dorsey Brothers, the last of which sold out for 30 consecutive shows.  Peter and Will are featured in HBO’s Boardwalk Empire and on the Grammy-winning soundtrack with Vince Giordano’s Nighthawks, with whom they frequently perform. “Virtuosos on clarinet and saxophone” (New York Times) and “Remarkable” (Wall Street Journal), identical twins Peter and Will Anderson have distinguished themselves as top-level jazz players and composers in New York City. Their recent CD, Correspondence, has been garnering rave reviews. “They’re two young men who seem to have been implanted with a lifetime of experience at birth,” Marc Myers wrote in a review of the CD. “Now they have jazz world by the tail. It will be interesting to see how they swing it.” About the Louis Armstrong House Museum: The Louis Armstrong House Museum is located at 34-56 107th Street in Queens, New York. The museum is open Tuesday – Friday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and Saturday/Sunday from 12:00 noon – 5:00 pm. Currently on exhibit: Swingin’ with the All Stars: Louis Armstrong & Baseball now through August 31st and is free with museum admission. Parking is available in the neighborhood and the museum is accessible by subway via the 7 train. Thanks to the vision and funding of the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, the Louis Armstrong House Museum welcomes visitors from all over the world, six days per week, 52 weeks per year.

Contact Jennifer M. Walden Director of Marketing Louis Armstrong House Museum jennifer.walden@qc.cuny.edu @ArtGalNYC  718.909.5271

 
 

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Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum and WHEDco's Bronx Music Heritage Center Present Latin Jazz Great Bobby Sanabria

On Friday, August 2, Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum and Bronx Music Heritage Center will present Latin jazz great Bobby Sanabria and his band, Quarteto Aché (positive energy), for its First Friday! from 6:00-8:00 p.m

They brought the audience to their feet last year—there wasn’t a non-dancing foot in the Mansion or on the grounds—and they’re coming back for more. On Friday, August 2, Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum and Bronx Music Heritage Center will present Latin jazz great Bobby Sanabria and his band, Quarteto Aché (positive energy), for its First Friday! from 6:00-8:00 p.m.
"This band rockets between bop, straight-up and charging, to the langourous bolero, to galloping Cuban timba, to rhythms from Puerto Rico and Brazil and the Caribbean...it is propulsive, slangy, and above all historically literate," Ben Ratliff, The New York Times.
A Bronx native and 7-time Grammy nominee, Sanabria is a drummer, percussionist, composer, arranger, conductor, and bandleader who has performed with Dizzy Gillespie, Tito Puente, Paquito D’Rivera, Afro-Cuban jazz godfather Mario Bauzá and other jazz legends. Sanabria, Quarteto Aché’s musical director and drummer, will be joined by Peter Brainin on tenor and soprano saxophones, Enrique Haneine on piano and Andy Ealau on acoustic bass. Bobby Sanabria’s music has been featured on numerous Grammy-nominated albums, including the soundtrack to 'The Mambo Kings' and other movie soundtracks, and on television and radio. He is the associate producer of the award-winning documentaries 'The Palladium: Where Mambo Was King', and 'From Mambo to Hip Hop'. A graduate of the Berklee College of Music, Sanabria is on the faculties of the New School and the Manhattan School of Music, and conducts Afro-Cuban Jazz Big Bands at both schools. In 2011, he was named Percussionist of the Year by the Jazz Journalist Association. Sanabria’s latest CD, 'Multiverse', with his electrifying 19-piece Big Band, was released last August and received two Grammy nominations.
First Friday! music at Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum is made possible with public funds from the Bronx Council on the Arts through the New York State Council on the Arts decentralization program.
Free Transportation and Refreshments:
In addition to enjoying the music, visitors may explore the mansion, stroll the grounds and partake of light refreshments from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. The free Bronx Seaside Trolley makes a continuous loop from the Bx29 bus stop at Pelham Bay Park/#6 Pelham Bay Park subway station to Bartow-Pell and to City Island.
First Friday! begins at 5:30 p.m. Quarteto Ache’ will play from 6 to 8 p.m.
Registration requested: call 718-885-1461 or email info(at)bpmm(dot)org. Cost $10 adults, $8 seniors & students, BPMM members free.
Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum is located at 895 Shore Road, Pelham Bay Park, Bronx, New York. To arrive by public transportation, take the #6 Lexington Avenue Local subway to Pelham Bay Park station, followed by the Westchester Bee-Line #45 bus direct to the mansion gate. For driving directions, please visit http://www.bpmm.org. The mansion and carriage house are open to the public for guided tours on Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. The gardens and grounds are open daily from 8:30 a.m. to dusk. Mansion admission is $5 adults, $3 seniors and students; free for children under six. Visiting the garden and grounds is free.
The Bronx Music Heritage Center (BMHC) is committed to preserving and promoting Bronx music, cultivating Bronx artists, spurring neighborhood revival, and making cultural programs accessible to the community. For more information: bronxmusic.org.
The Women’s Housing and Economic Development Corp. (WHEDco) reaches 35,000 people annually through energy-efficient and affordable homes; early childhood education and youth development; family support; and home-based childcare microenterprise and food business incubation. WHEDco’s Bronx Music Heritage Center furthers its mission to make the Bronx a more beautiful, equitable and economically vibrant place to live and raise a family. For more information: http://www.whedco.org.

 

Tour of Louis Armstrong’s New York home a must for jazz lovers

WHAT: Louis Armstrong House museum
WHERE: 34-56 107th St., Corona (Queens) New York City
HOURS: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Friday, noon to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday
ADMISSION: $10 general and $7 students, seniors and children
TOURS: Every hour on the hour

Armstrong ‘firsts’
* In 1936 he became the first African-American jazz musician to write an autobiography, “Swing That Music.”
* That same year he became the first African-American to get featured billing in a major Hollywood movie, “Pennies From Heaven” with Bing Crosby.
* In 1937 he became the first African-American entertainer to be the host of a nationally sponsored radio show when he took over Rudy Vallee’s “Fleischmann’s Yeast Show.”,
Read more at Herald-Review.com

Louis Armstrong House Museum Announces Hot Jazz / Cool Garden Summer Concert Series

NYC’s summer concert season just got very cool with the Hot Jazz / Cool Garden 2013. Three hot NYC jazz bands will play in Louis’s Garden this summer: Bria’s Hot Five with Bria Skonberg on July 4^th – Louis Armstrong’s birthday, Jon-Erik Kellso and the EarRegulars on July 20^th and Peter & Will Anderson Sextet on August 17^th.  Each concert is at 2:00 pm. Concerts include complimentary red beans n’ rice (Louis’s favorite recipe) & sweet tea. And, since Louis always celebrated his birthday on July 4^th birthday cake will be served during the Fourth of July event to celebrate!

For the first time, the museum has launched advance ticket sales for this series. All advance tickets include a Historic House Tour pass (good for 6 months).  Advance single tickets are $18. A series subscription is available for $45 and includes reserved VIP seats.  Tickets at the door are $20. Advance tickets can only be purchased online at LouisArmstrongHouse.org.

Meet the Bands:
·  On Thursday, July 4^th Bria’s Hot Five with Bria Skonberg will perform with Adrian Cunningham, reeds; Sean Cronin, bass; Darrian Douglas, drums; and Dalton Ridenhour, piano.  Hailing from Chilliwack, BC, and now living in New York City, award winning trumpeter/vocalist/ composer Bria Skonberg is "poised to be one of the most versatile and imposing musicians of her generation." She recently earned a 2013 Jazz Journalists’ Association nomination for “Up and Coming Jazz Artist of The Year.”

·  On Saturday, July 20^th Jon-Erik Kellso and The EarRegulars perform.  Since moving to New York City in 1989 to join Vince Giordano's Nighthawks, trumpeter Jon-Erik Kellso has enjoyed performing concerts and festivals all over the world with many of jazz greats, as well as co-leading The EarRegulars with guitarist Matt Munisteri at the Ear Inn on Sunday nights since 2007. He recently played a week at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola with Wynton Marsalis' Louis Armstrong Continuum.  In addition to Kellso and Munisteri, The EarRegulars will also feature Harvey Tibbs on trombone and Vince Giordano (featured on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire) on bass.

·      The Peter and Will Anderson Sextet perform on Saturday, August 17^th, featuring the two Juilliard-educated masters of the clarinet and saxophone. They will be bringing along trumpeter Jon-Erik Kellso, pianist Ehud Asherie, bassist Clovis Nicolas and drummer Phil Stewart. “Virtuosos on clarinet and saxophone” (New York Times) and “Remarkable” (Wall Street Journal), identical twins Peter and Will Anderson have distinguished themselves as top-level jazz players and composers in New York City. Their recent CD, Correspondence, has been garnering rave reviews. “They’re two young men who seem to have been implanted with a lifetime of experience at birth,” Marc Myers wrote in a review of the CD. “Now they have jazz world by the tail. It will be interesting to see how they swing it.”

About the Louis Armstrong House Museum:
The Louis Armstrong House Museum is located at 34-56 107^th Street in Queens, New York. The museum is open Tuesday – Friday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and Saturday/Sunday from 12:00 noon – 5:00 pm.  Travel directions and more at LouisArmstrongHouse.org or 718.478.8274.

Currently on exhibit: Swingin’ with the All Stars: Louis Armstrong & Baseball now through August 31^st and is free with museum admission.

Parking is available in the neighborhood and the museum is accessible by subway via the 7 train.

Thanks to the vision and funding of the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, the Louis Armstrong House Museum welcomes visitors from all over the world, six days per week, 52 weeks per year.
 

Contact Jennifer M. Walden Director of Marketing Louis Armstrong House Museum NYC Black History Month 5 Boro Tour jennifer.walden@qc.cuny.edu @Q_TheaterGal  718.909.5271

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Smithsonian Celebrates Global Reach of Jazz during Jazz Appreciation Month

Smithsonian Celebrates Global Reach of Jazz during Jazz Appreciation Month (via PR Newswire)

National Museum of American History Adds Artifacts from Jazz Greats Weston and Hernandez Donation Ceremony: 10:30 a.m. April 9, Open to Media WASHINGTON, April 9, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History will mark the 12th annual Jazz Appreciation Month…

Louis Armstrong House Celebrates Jazz Appreciation Month

Louis Armstrong House Celebrates Jazz Appreciation Month

Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month with Louis Armstrong! The Museum’s got West End Blues …   Louis Armstrong House Museum is celebrating Jazz Appreciation month in style this April. 85 years ago, Louis Armstrong recorded one of his all-time masterpieces, "West End Blues," one of the most important records in jazz history. For Jazz Appreciation Month, the Museum’s historic house tours will feature an ultra rare recording of Louis Armstrong performing "West End Blues" live at Freedomland in 1961. This performance was recently donated to the Museum’s Archives by the son of Freedomland sound engineer Peter Denis. Previously unissued and not in any discographies, it will be featured only during Jazz Appreciation Month! This recording compliments the Museum’s current exhibit, Louis Armstrong at Freedomland that closes April 30, 2012.   And there’s more …   And if that wasn’t reason enough to visit the Museum this April, three incredibly rare CDs from the late Gösta Hägglöf's "Ambassador Records" label of Sweden are only available for sale in the Museum’s gift shop beginning April 2nd. These three volumes, beautifully remastered, of Louis Armstrong's 1940s and 1950s Decca recordings are available exclusively at the Museum. (Sorry mail order is not available.)   These gems are:   Because of You 1950-1953: A collection of Louis Armstrong's best-loved pop singles including "A Kiss to Build a Dream On," "La Vie En Rose" and "I Get Ideas," as well as duets with other legends such as Bing Crosby, Louis Jordan and Ella Fitzgerald. Heavenly Music 1949-1957: A compilation of some of Louis Armstrong's most beautiful performances, including many arrangements by Gordon Jenkins ("Blueberry Hill," "That Lucky Old Sun," "When It's Sleepy Time Down South") plus the entire rare 1957 album, Louis and the Angels. Moments to Remember 1952-1956: This disc collects some of Louis's most rare recordings of the 1950s, including his 1953 date with "The Commanders," duets with Gary Crosby and a session of Benny Carter arrangements including Louis's cover of The Platters' "Only You."   Louis Armstrong at Freedomland:   The Louis Armstrong at Freedomland exhibit, which runs through April 30th, is the story of the early 1960s and is in many ways a story of freedom. In the United States, African-Americans were growing more vocal in their struggle for Civil Rights. A nation turned with hope to young president John F. Kennedy to lead them through the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was constructed in August 1961, splitting one of Europe’s biggest cities in half. The Vietnam War was beckoning.   Brought down by the often-volatile reports on the nightly news, Americans looked for escape through sporting events, television and even in amusement parks, most notably Disneyland. On June 19, 1960, Freedomland U.S.A., “The World’s Largest Entertainment Center,” opened in the Bronx in front of a crowd of 63,000 guests. Though the 85-acre park was larger than Disneyland, it was already in debt by its second year and would close in 1964 after just five seasons. Louis Armstrong performed there in 1961 and 1964. The Louis Armstrong House Museum’s vast collections contain many precious artifacts and previously unseen photographs by Jack Bradley, helping “Louis Armstrong at Freedomland” to paint an intimate portrait of Armstrong on stage and off during this turbulent time in history, spreading joy to fans young and old with his integrated band of All Stars.   Planning Your Visit:   The Louis Armstrong House Museum is located at 34-56 107th Street in Corona, Queens. The museum is open Tuesday – Friday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and Saturday/Sunday from 12:00 noon – 5:00 pm.  The last tour of the day is at 4:00 pm. The gift shop, exhibit area and garden can be explored before or after the tour.   Admission is $10.00, $7.00 for seniors, students and children; and free for LAHM members and children under 4. Groups with reservations enjoy a discount on admission.  Parking is available within the neighborhood and the museum is accessible by subway via the 7 train.   For more information go to www.LouisArmstrongHouse.org or call the Museum at 718.478.8274.   Click here to download a picture.   Thanks to the vision and funding of the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, the Louis Armstrong House Museum welcomes visitors from all over the world, six days per week, 52 weeks per year.

Contact Jennifer M. Walden Director of Marketing Louis Armstrong House Museum NYC Black History Month 5 Boro Tour jennifer.walden@qc.cuny.edu @Q_TheaterGal  718.909.5271

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