Friday, April 25, 2014
INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY CELEBRATION
APRIL 30, 2014 is celebrated as INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY at various locations throughout the world to highlight jazz and it's diplomatic role of uniting people in all corners of the globe.
It brings together communities, schools, artists, historians, academics, and enthusiasts, all over the world to celebrate and learn about jazz, it's roots, it's future, and it's impact on society.
HERE ARE A FEW WAYS TO CELEBRATE:
*** Play jazz recordings
*** Play video clips of jazz performances
*** Decorate with jazz pics or posters
*** Research jazz roots in your local area
BUT DON'T JUST DO IT FOR A DAY, DO IT EVERYDAY!
To discover more ways to celebrate and a very special event webcast that you can participate in, click on the following link jazzday.com
It brings together communities, schools, artists, historians, academics, and enthusiasts, all over the world to celebrate and learn about jazz, it's roots, it's future, and it's impact on society.
HERE ARE A FEW WAYS TO CELEBRATE:
*** Play jazz recordings
*** Play video clips of jazz performances
*** Decorate with jazz pics or posters
*** Research jazz roots in your local area
BUT DON'T JUST DO IT FOR A DAY, DO IT EVERYDAY!
To discover more ways to celebrate and a very special event webcast that you can participate in, click on the following link jazzday.com
Saturday, April 19, 2014
JAZZ APPRECIATION MONTH
April is National Jazz Appreciation Month. It's celebration highlights jazz as a living historical treasure. After all, jazz is America's original art form.
Keep in mind also, that jazz was created by people of color and transported throughout the African diaspora to all parts of the world. It embodies a spirit of freedom that impassioned an enslaved people in the American colonies to survive the rigors of chattel slavery and rise to be all that they can.
The goal of JAZZ APPRECIATION MONTH (JAM) is to showcase and stimulate the current jazz scene, and encourage all people to join in the celebration.
So check out the special programs going on in your neck of the woods.
Go out to a jazz club or listen to recordings or a jazz radio station, (personally, I listen to wbgo.org, the jazz source. Pandora.com, which is free internet radio where you create your own music station is also an option), support jazz programming in your city, read a book, (I am currently reading, "John Coltrane," a biography by Bill Cole, an oldie but goodie book, copyright 1976, which I found and pulled down from my book shelf and dusted off. I'm sneezing a lot, but I'm reading a lot too.
Hey I remember now, I bought it from a public library book sale many years ago in Brooklyn, New York. Remember when they used to sell discarded books for next to nothing? I think they still do it now!
ANYWAY, get in the swing of things. YOU WON'T BE DISAPPOINTED!
For more info click on americanjazzmuseum.org (Kansas City, Missouri) and then click on smithsonianjazz.org (Washington, D.C.) and then jazzmuseuminharlem.org (New York City)
GO LISTEN TO SOME JAZZ! RIGHT NOW!
Keep in mind also, that jazz was created by people of color and transported throughout the African diaspora to all parts of the world. It embodies a spirit of freedom that impassioned an enslaved people in the American colonies to survive the rigors of chattel slavery and rise to be all that they can.
The goal of JAZZ APPRECIATION MONTH (JAM) is to showcase and stimulate the current jazz scene, and encourage all people to join in the celebration.
So check out the special programs going on in your neck of the woods.
Go out to a jazz club or listen to recordings or a jazz radio station, (personally, I listen to wbgo.org, the jazz source. Pandora.com, which is free internet radio where you create your own music station is also an option), support jazz programming in your city, read a book, (I am currently reading, "John Coltrane," a biography by Bill Cole, an oldie but goodie book, copyright 1976, which I found and pulled down from my book shelf and dusted off. I'm sneezing a lot, but I'm reading a lot too.
Hey I remember now, I bought it from a public library book sale many years ago in Brooklyn, New York. Remember when they used to sell discarded books for next to nothing? I think they still do it now!
ANYWAY, get in the swing of things. YOU WON'T BE DISAPPOINTED!
For more info click on americanjazzmuseum.org (Kansas City, Missouri) and then click on smithsonianjazz.org (Washington, D.C.) and then jazzmuseuminharlem.org (New York City)
GO LISTEN TO SOME JAZZ! RIGHT NOW!
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