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MUSICWOMAN with host Diva Joan Cartwright (Diva JC), features women who compose and perform their own music and men who support them. Music, the sound of the spheres, begins in the womb! ~ Diva JC Call in on (515) 602-9603, hit #1 to talk to the host. http://wijsf.org
Rotraut Jäger is a Swiss German flautist, composer, and teacher in Zurich, Switzerland. She studied classical and jazz music in Mainz (DE), Zurich/ZHdK (CH) and New York at the Manhattan School of Music (US). This freelance musician has her own projects and is a guest musician at home and abroad. She studied flute at Peter-Cornelius-Konservatorium der Stadt Mainz as a State Examined Music Teacher in 2000 and performance in 2002. At Zürcher Hochschule der Künste she received a performance diploma in 2006 with Philippe Racine. She studied jazz from 2003-2006 with Günter Wehinger and Christoph Grab, and with Dick Oatts and Steve Wilson at Manhattan School of Music from 2006-2007. Rotraut participated in workshops and masterclasses with Peter Lukas Graf, Robert Dick, Michel Debost, and Moshe Epstein. Also, she was in a workshop, Música Popular Brasileira in Brasil, and took private lessons with Ali Ryerson, Frank Wess, and Dave Liebman in New York. She performed with Miles Griffith (voc, US), Earle Davis (tp, US), Roland Gebhard (g, DE), Vicente Cortes (g, CH/ES), Karime Amaya (Flamencotanz, ES) and The Skatalites (JAM). She is a private flute teacher in charge of various ensembles and workshops. In March 2020, she released her first album, Sonafari, with her band Rotraut Jäger Sonambique. In October 2023, she released her second album, Dynamite, co-produced with Swiss Radio SRF2 Kultur.https://redplanetflute.comhttp://wijsf.org
Dr. Ginger Cornwell is an international saxophonist, vocalist, speaker, photographer, recording artist, funeral coordinator, talk show host, writer, producer, music teacher, and marketing specialist. She chairs the Christian Education for Miracle Fellowship Gospel Ministries, Inc. and is an Associate Pastor with Rehoboth New Life Church Alliance. She plays saxophone and has sung with the Voices of Ebenezer AME Church directed by the late Rev. Dr. Donald Vails and the Prince of Praise, Minister Byron Cage. She sang with The Inspirational Sounds of Joy of Gethsemane United Methodist Church directed by Evangelist Jacqueline Stevens. She performed at the Dedication Ceremony for the Ocean Cheonjeong Palace in Gemundo, Korea, the Pre-election Prayer Service for Washington, D.C.'s Mayor Vincent Gray, The Duke Ellington Theater, The Kennedy Center, and The United States House of Representatives Rayburn Building. Ginger recorded spoken word CDs and her first musical CD, A Change Has Come Over Me, referencing her spiritual and physical healing. Her rendition of Praise Is What I Do is a perennial request at live engagements. Produced by Ginger and her husband, Martin Cornwell, lead guitarist and band leader of Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, the CD is an instrumental and spoken word collection from the heart of the artist. A Lupus survivor, Ginger created SUPUL - Reverse Lupus that assists Lupus patients. Ginger was a WYCB radio Talk Show Host, and produces and hosts Sing To The King Gospel Artist Showcase television broadcast and A Pinch Of Ginger Radio Talk Show.http://gingeronsax.comhttp://wijsf.org
Manon Mullener was born in 1997 in Switzerland. She is a pianist from a musical family. She started playing piano at age 4 at the Conservatoire de Fribourg. At 17, her passion for jazz and Latin music led her to Cuba, where she deepened her knowledge. Back in Switzerland, she continued at the Bern University of Music with Colin Vallon and Django Bates. In 2019, she recorded her first album, "Reflejos," with Peruvian pianist Cesar Correa and Zurich percussionist David Stauffacher, performing in Switzerland and abroad. In 2023, she released "Insomnia," the first album of her quintet, followed by a European tour of fifty concerts. Le Temps described her as “the next generation of Swiss jazz musicians to watch closely.” Manon has performed at numerous clubs and festivals in Switzerland, France, Germany, Spain, Mexico, and Colombia. In January 2024, she played at the Havana Jazz Festival in Cuba, performing as a duo with Emmet Cohen, Dayramir Gonzalez, and Jorge Luis Pacheco. In 2024, she received a grant from the Canton of Fribourg, which allowed her to spend four months in New York working on her second album, scheduled for release in spring 2025. Her project was selected by the Jazz à Vienne festival in France to represent Switzerland, receiving support from the JazzContreband festival. Her next album STORIES recorded in New York will be out in 2025.http://www.manon-mullener.chhttp://wijsf.org
We are so excited about the upcoming 1st Annual Musicwoman Festival produced by Women in Jazz South Florida, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that promotes women musicians, globally.In this podcast, we welcome Media Director Mimi Johnson and featured Spoken Word Artist Papadook The Poet. Also, invited are featured artists Rita Graham (GA), bassist Kim Clarke (NYC), Lenore Raphael (NYC), Ragan Whiteside and Carol Albert (GA), Jus' Cynthia (FL), Sibongile Buda (JCFI Music Ensemble of South Africa), and Jarvis Evans (GA).We will discuss this exciting 3-day event and give away 3 sets of tickets to callers.For details, see http://musicwoman.arthttp://wijsf.org
Colette Michaan is a flutist, bandleader, and producer who was born and raised in New York City by immigrant parents from Egypt and Syria. She is intercultural in her origins, history, identity, relations and resonances, and her music has naturally been informed by many cultures. Colette has always loved how music undeniably engages people across borders. While performing Jazz and Latin music, primarily, Colette explored many genres, by collaborating with musicians in Africa, Asia, South America, and the Caribbean. Colette has been performing locally and internationally with her own band, as well as with other artists since the late 1970’s. Her self-produced recordings include First Cause (2004), Querencia (2010), Incarnate/Encarna (2014), Heaven & Earth (2017); Earth Rebirth (2023). Each album reflects a milestone in her ongoing process, and can be heard on all major streaming platforms. Colette’s work is inspired by something traditional, something original, and something new. “I play music that expresses my personal journey. My intention is to inspire joy, to move people to feel, enjoy, reflect, to come together and celebrate life!”https://www.colettemichaan.comhttp://wijsf.org
Jarvis Evans hails from Miami, Florida. He finds inspiration in every turn of events. From 2005 to 2010, Jarvis participated in American Idol’s Season 9 & 10 as a Semi-Finalist. Jarvis is a favorite at Broadjam.com, the largest independent music network. His songs reached #1 on the charts several times. Jarvis has performed at Underground Atlanta Heritage Arts Festival, where he charmed the audience. Jarvis played the lead in a new Gospel Musical in Atlanta, called One Step at a Time. Also, he performs smooth and jazzy sets with legendary accompanist guitarist Dean Coppolino at the Uptown Restaurant & Lounge. From 2010 to 2015, Jarvis Evans speared on CW's TV Show Before The Fame. From 2015 to 2020, Jarvis hosted and performed at the Multicultural Kwanzaa Christmas Expressions and Atlantic Station Tree Lighting Ceremony. In 2018, Jarvis performed for Sony Records at Kilwin’s Atlantic Station in Buckhead. In 2020, Jarvis Evans pursued film and photography, directing his music video the for release of Welcome To Paradise and other music releases and clients. Jarvis appeared on VG 39 and other inspirational platforms in Toronto Canada, in 2021. He released his new comeback single Relight Your Fire, available on digital platforms.http://jarvisevansmusic.comManagement & Booking: Mimi Johnsonwww.CausticEntertainementGroup.comCausticent@gmail.comwww.wijsf.org
Barbara Bruckmüller is a composer and jazz pianist born in Vienna. She was influenced by the sounds of Hollywood Jazz, from the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. She studied piano early on for seven years, but it took time for her to discover her passion for jazz. She studied jazz piano with Paul Urbanek at the Gustav Mahler Conservatory in Vienna, in 2004. Barbara's inspiration and role models lie in the great Big Band leaders and composers Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Oliver Nelson, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis, Gil Evans, Joe Henderson, and Maria Schneider. In 2009, she founded her Big Band to capture the sound and dynamic energy of the swing bands and dance orchestras of the past that fascinated her since childhood and served as the foundation for her own musical vision.Her debut album Barbara Bruckmüller Big Band released in 2013, with original compositions, was awarded the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik. Two years later, she released her second album, in tribute to her late mother and her hometown of Vienna, in which she arranged traditional Viennese songs for the Big Band and infused them with a fresh swing. Barbara is currently working on her next album project, THREE VIEWS OF A MUSICAL PIECE: A Chain of Moments – Suite in Five Movement with Cuban pianist and composer Aruán Ortiz, scheduled for Fall 2024.http://barbarabruckmueller.comhttp://wijsf.org
Wendy Vaughan hails from Caracas, Venezuela. She is a singer, songwriter, and saxophonist. Her musical journey began in her childhood. She began composing in her thirties. Born to Cuban and Dominican parents, her family moved to New York City when she was 4. Wendy's musical journey began 12, in Houston, Texas, when she discovered the saxophone. She attended the High School of the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston and San Jacinto College Central in Pasadena, where she was lead saxophonist in one of country's finest Jazz bands. Her diverse musical style was inspired by Jazz and Latin music infused with spiritual and personal growth themes. Early in her career, she performed on international stages like the JVC Festival in Nice, France, with BB King and Woody Hermann. She garnered praise and solidified her reputation as a rising star in the Jazz community. Wendy is in the construction and home improvement industry in a thriving business in Houston, Galveston, Corpus Christi, Dallas, and Florida. She gained national recognition as a juror in the Enron trial, resulting in a features in Inc. Magazine and on CNN, FOX News, and CBS, speaking about ethics in business. In Galveston, Wendy inspires listeners with her soulful melodies and profound lyrics. Her debut album, Through Children's Eyes, made waves on Christian stations. Her new album, Necessary Chaos, is a captivating and introspective collection of songs. Wendy Vaughan remains a talented artist, blending genres and creating music that resonates deeply with her audience.http://wendyvaughanmusic.comhttp://wijsf.org
Alison Crockett is a vibrant vocalist who has performed and recorded in a wide range of genres including neo-soul, acid jazz, R&B, gospel, funk and electronica. Following breakthrough success as a featured vocalist working with DJ King Britt and British jazz-rap group Us3, Alison continued to evolve musically, recording diverse projects: the jazz EP “That’s Where You Go” in 1999, critically acclaimed R&B album On Becoming A Woman in 2004, dance/electronic album The Return of Diva Blue in 2006, jazz album Bare in 2007, 2012 political multi-genre patchwork album Mommy, What’s A Depression in 2012, and Brazilian-inspired EP Obrigada, recorded in São Paulo, Brazil and released in 2018.Alison has been teaching vocal technique for over 20 years to people of all ages and genres. As a voice teacher for Highbridge Voices, a professional children’s training choir in the Bronx, NY, she taught children between the ages of 7 and 15 how to sing in styles ranging from opera-based European classical music, musical theater, to R&B and pop stylings. She also has a vibrant private studio, which includes both aspiring singers as well as well-respected professionals. Alison is certified in Somatic VoiceWorkTM the LoVetri Method.Alison Crockett - Levine Musichttp://wijsf.org
Jessie Laine Powell hails from Lexington, Kentucky. She grew up with her talented siblings, listening to gospel music. Jazz vocalists Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Nancy Wilson, and Shirley Horn, along with the Lawrence Welk Show stirred her soul, dominating her musical taste. Her love for the stage, orchestras, and Jazz standards led her to Hollywood, California, where she opened for Nancy Wilson. She added countless television, theatrical, and radio appearances to her resume. After years out West, Jessie returned to Lexington, where a fateful meeting with a church friend lead to a musical partnership with producer and Jazz artist Eric Copeland, who collaborated on her debut album On the Edge with Gospel, Soul, and Jazz songs.Later, Jessie landed a role in the movie Heart of a Champion, directed by Richard Fitzpatrick, who sought music and soloists that conveyed the message of hope and perseverance. Jessie’s vocals impacted the movie soundtrack, greatly. From 2015 to 2018, Jessie’s tour schedule, included an annual performance at the East Hawaiian Jazz Festival, where she performed at multiple venues and churches, providing her melodic voice and inspirational lyrics with notable Jazz musicians. Jessie’s singles include Like No Other Love, On The Edge, and Love Supreme, featuring Marion Meadows. Jessie leaves her fans feeling renewed and motivated as she takes you on an intimate musical journey.2023 ALM Academy of Local Musicians Hall of Fame2023 LEX Music Awards Lifetime Achievement Award2023APPY Award Nominee for Best R&B Artist and Best Jazz Artistwww.jessielainepowell.comwww.wijsf.org
Fatimah M. Jackson is a unique and diverse writer, self-published author, spoken word artist, and song writer. From Western Pennsylvania, she dreamed of becoming a singer and songwriter as a child. In her pursuit of that dream, she attended California State College where she majored in Music Composition, Human Services and now she is living that dream. From childhood, or as her mother would say, since she could talk, Fatimah has always had a yearning to sing. Impressively, she sold her first song at the age of 11! This shy, yet talented woman of God has been credited as a Ghostwriter as well as co-writer of movie scripts, skits, plays, and Faith-based meditations. Her personal motto that she lives by is “Free your mind of everything that will hinder you from the peace GOD has for you.” In her free time, Fatimah enjoys singing, songwriting, talking to God and riding her Canadian Canam Spyder F3 motorcycle. She is an advocate for various causes including Indigenous American and local Poverty. Fatimah’s breakthrough as an author emerged with her first nonfiction short story entitled “From Darkness to Light” published in 2009 in Hope for Today magazine in New Jersey. Growing stronger and taking a leap of faith, she is now author of the self-published book “Held Hostage by a Stranger: A Message from the Most High”. Fatimah currently resides in Atlanta Georgia with her husband. For more information about Fatimah and her works, visit www.fatimahmj.com
Adria Shahid hails from Columbus, Ohio. She is a vocal stylist and songwriter who developed an ear for music by listening to and singing with her father a musician and vocalist. Her mother is a pianist and vocalist. With the tutelage from her parents, Adria was destined to be a musical artist. Adria’s musical journey began with one of the top Midwest cover bands. She shared her story with the debut project, Waarrioress of Love, which is inspired by her life experiences. This repertoire of music represents her personal struggles, and the common struggles we human beings share. Listen for the pain, love and joy throughout this album! Adria’s talent has been fine tuned by working in the music industry, booking national acts, locally, and sharing the stage with them. She is one the first music agents to book national acts, locally, in the sophisticated intimate atmosphere of one of Ohio’s Premier supper clubs. She has performed with artists like Maysa, and hosted, introduced, and performed as warm up act for Ledsi, Lalah Hathaway, and Eric Benet. Also, she sang with Bob Baldwin. She performs with her home grown band, International Smooth Jazz artists, Urban Jazz Coalition, National Recording Artist NexLevel R&B Jazz Band. Adria travels. nationally, to perform for The National Democratic Black Caucus Conference in Washington DC, and at the African American Historic Lincoln Theater’s Annual Gala in Columbus, Ohio. Adria’s music is playing on internet and on radio and is marketed, internationally, on playlists in the USA, UK, Italy, the Carribean, and in Africa! This is just her musical beginnings! Be on the lookout for more music from your Sister Adria! She will perform in West Palm Beach on Saturday, November 4, 2023.https://adriashahid1.comhttp://wijsf.org
You are invited to the launch of Musicwoman Magazine online.
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We will talk with some of the featured artists about their musical adventures.
d Vocalists t Janice Harrington 8 t Donna Singer 10 t Denise King 14 t Mzuri Moyo Aimbaye 18 t Michele Hendricks 20 t Fiona Ross 24 t Yeny Silvia Dalmau Brindis 26 d Talent Spotlight t Adriana Herrera Fuentes 30 t Yudianis Quintana Changuita 31 d Horn Players t Ginetta Silvi 36 t Naomi Joy 38 t Paula Atherton 40 t Tomoka Nomura-Jarvis 42 t Sarah Marie Hughes 44 d Special Features t Vi Redd 47 t Musicwoman Mothers & Daughters 48 d Health Corner by Lydia Harris 52
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ZIZA MUFTIC Is a Johannesburg based musician with roots in Zagreb, Croatia. Her musical upbringing started as a Western classical violin player, then a classical singer. Today, her main form of expression lies in jazz vocals, composition and music education. Ziza’s vocal range stretches from Jazz to Western classical repertoire. Her sound is a unique blend of Balkan and Eastern European folk songs with the American and South African Jazz styles. Ziza sings in many different languages, English, Croatian, Hungarian, Portuguese, isiXhosa and isiZulu. She is currently working on her third studio album titled ‘Ziza Muftic: Singing in tongues’, featuring a female a cappella ensemble, AmaNanule. This album explores voice as an instrument, through many languages and rhythms. This is a link to a recent concert of Ziza Muftic and her band:https://youtu.be/cX_PtRJV5IoRead more at http://www.zizamuftic.com/biohttp://www.wijsf.org
Kim Clarke is an American bassist from New York. She is the founder of Lady Got Chops, a nonprofit that promotes the gig announcements of women in jazz, in the month of March, Women's History Month.Her 21st Anniversary LADY GOT CHOPS WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL 2023 featured the music of our Living Jazz Legend, educator, composer, pianist Bertha Hope, the centennial of her husband the late great Bebop pianist composer Elmo Hope and the promotion of WOMEN IN THE ARTS and Sciences in general. In celebration of the 20th Annual Festival LADY GOT CHOPS Women's History Month Music and Arts Festival Inc. sponsored four scholarships for High School Girls; one in honor of Professor Barry HarrisThe Keeper of the Bebop Flame and the other three in honor of Lillithe Meyers the owner of the Jazz Spot, the birthplace of the LADY GOT CHOPS Women's Jazz Festival.http://ladygotchops.comhttp://wijsf.orghttps://issuu.com/joancartwright/docs/musicwoman_2021_full_document
Laurie Towers is a bassist within New York City’s “downtown” scene of free improv, new music and punk-laden experimentalism. Over the past twenty-five years she’s brought her R&B-driven counterpoint and chops to venues in Manhattan and Brooklyn, sharing the stage with an array of musicians in the nexus between rock, jazz and the avant garde. Towers also made her mark in the upstate artists’ community of Woodstock NY where she was referred to as a “bass wizard” in a ‘Woodstock Times’ review. As a member of the Red Microphone, she recorded with revolutionary poet Amina Baraka for the legendary ESP-Disk label. Also a successful business owner and host of her feminist radio show, Towers’ tenacity and activism have guided her journey, offering a model of empowerment for women in the arts and more. Towers has also been a member of the Dissident Arts Orchestra from the start. Creating downtown-style improvised scores to silent films. On Halloween, the Orchestra crafted a unique soundtrack to the FW Murnau terror classic ‘Nosferatu’ with Towers’ pulsating, throbbing fretless bass offering the vampire a voice to be reckoned with. Capping off her rebel yell for women’s rights, Laurie Towers created ‘She’s Raising the Bar’, a weekly podcast, in 2012. As its producer and co-host, she’s engaged an array of woman actors, writers, vocalists and entrepreneurs and broadcasted her show live from the NYC Women’s March, in the heat of battle.The Spirit of Billy Bang with Amina Barakahttp://laurietowers.nethttp://wijsf.org
You know that my life's work is bringing awareness to the WORLD about the disparities and inequities of earnings by women musicians.On Friday, February 24, 2023, at 4 p.m. EST, my guests Melba Joyce, Rita Graham, and I discuss this issue.You are invited to login or call (563) 999-3046 to listen in or talk to us.Look forward to this interview!Thanks,Dr. Joan Cartwrighthttp://wijsf.orghttp://blogtalkradio.com/musicwoman
Dorothy Lawson is a Canadian-born cellist. She completed degrees at the University of Toronto, the Vienna Academy and earned MM and DMA degrees from The Juilliard School. Dorothy is an Artistic Director who composed, performed and recorded, nationally and internationally, for 25 years. She is a founding member of ETHEL, the widely acclaimed, GRAMMY®-winning New Music string quartet. Her achievements include, touring and recording with Kurt Elling, performing with Ron Carter as a regular member of his Nonet for 20 years, building three multimedia shows for the Brooklyn Academy of Music, a ten-year, ongoing residency at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and an ongoing artist residency at Denison University, in Ohio. She teaches in the Preparatory Division of Mannes College at the New School in New York City.
This special edition of MUSICWOMAN Radio features two sultry songwriters whose music plays in rotation in my car, day after day, week after week, month after month.
Sharon Rae North released Silhouette in 2022. I put the CD that she mailed to me in June in my CD player and let it play throughout July, August, and September. The songs crept into my subconcious mind and I found myself singing them in my sleep!
Douyé sent her CD Journey to me several years ago. I played it over and over in my car, which had a magnificent sound system. At the beginning of October, I began listening to it, again, and the same thing happened. I'm singing her songs in my head, night after night, waking up to her music in my head. Also, she recorded Blue Bossa by Kenny Dorham with my lyrics!
So, they are my guests and we will discuss their songwriting process. You may listen to them on Spotify, YouTube, iTunes, Amazon, and wherever else you listen to streamed music.
Love and Music,
Dr. Diva JC
https://www.sharonraenorth.com
https://douyemusic.com
http://joancartwright.com
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My Internet is down. We rescheduled this show for Friday, November 11, so tune in at 4 pm EST for Sharon Rae North and Douyé Theartist
This special edition of MUSICWOMAN Radio features two sultry songwriters whose music plays in rotation in my car, day after day, week after week, month after month.
Sharon Rae North released Silhouette in 2022. I put the CD that she mailed to me in June in my CD player and let it play throughout July, August, and September. The songs crept into my subconcious mind and I found myself singing them in my sleep!
Douyé sent her CD Journey to me several years ago. I played it over and over in my car, which had a magnificent sound system. At the beginning of October, I began listening to it, again, and the same thing happened. I'm singing her songs in my head, night after night, waking up to her music in my head. Also, she recorded Blue Bossa by Kenny Dorham with my lyrics!
So, they are my guests and we will discuss their songwriting process. You may listen to them on Spotify, YouTube, iTunes, Amazon, and wherever else you listen to streamed music.
Love and Music,
Dr. Diva JC
https://www.sharonraenorth.com
https://douyemusic.com
http://joancartwright.com
http://wijsf.org
Wendy Kirkland is a pianist and singer in the UK. Her musical career began at 10, when she started piano lessons. She won a scholarship for lessons from Derbyshire Music and took her ABRSM piano grades. She switched to jazz in her teens and was a dance class pianist, accompanist to singers, and a keyboardist in club bands. She was persuaded to sing by guitarist Bill McCreath. Wendy reached people turned off by instrumental jazz by communicating with the audience through songs. Her album, Piano Divas (2017), a tribute to the female pianist singers of jazz, began her ascent to recognition as a singing pianist. The ability to sing, comp, and craft solos on the piano and vocal scat lines is her forte. Her influences were Diana Krall, Eliane Elias, and Dena DeRose. Her second release, The Music’s On Me (2019) was “a huge leap forward,” according to Jazz Views. Both albums prompted ACE funded tours around the UK and constant radio airplay. In 2020, Wendy and guitarist/bassist husband Pat Sprakes entertained with a daily dose of Latin American music on Facebook, entitled Latin Lockdowns. After 86 performances, they moved on to other musical endeavors. They received messages from people who missed the videos that were “a ray of sunshine” in the lockdown. She performs on Hammond organ with Organik Fource, featuring her husband Pat Sprakes on guitar and sax, Organik Trio Goes To The Movies, and The Organik Cookbook, celebrating the early soul-jazz albums of George Benson. https://wendykirkland.comhttp://www.wijsf.org
Fiona Ross was enrolled in dance, drama and singing lessons at the age of two, piano at age six. At what moment did Fiona make a conscious choice to pursue a career in music? There was never a time when there was any other choice. By eight years old, Fiona was starring in London's West End. She is a vocalist, pianist, composer, and producer known for creating her own contemporary jazz sound with fast-paced Latin jazz, vintage Jazz club, a little neo soul along with heart wrenching ballads that demonstrate. She is an artist who has received incredible reviews and awards for all of her albums. She performed at 606 Club, Pizza Express, Bulls Head, Nells Jazz and Blues, and Toulouse Lautrec. Her music is on radio stations worldwide, including 40 stations in the USA, and in Canada, Italy, France, Germany, Australia, Netherlands, and Spain. Fiona's accolades include Best Jazz Song from the World Songwriting Awards for ‘For My Dad', Outstanding Achievement Award from the Global Music Awards and International Female Songwriter of the Year from International Singer Songwriters Association. She was featured in Tinnitist, Jazziz, Record World Magazine, Jazz Corner, Ink 19, and Jazz Quarterly, and in the top ten of most played videos in Tinnitist. Fiona’s song ‘Mistress’, recorded live in a stairwell, is included in the British Library archives. Fiona was featured on television, in print ads, and jingles. https://fionaross.co.ukhttp://womeninjazzmedia.comhttp://www.wijsf.org
Naomi Joy Nelson is a multi-talented instrumentalist, educator, author and speaker on a mission to liberate, educate, and motivate others through her personal experience. Trained as both a Musician and Educator with a ministerial background, Naomi combines her love of outreach, music and education into a harmonious presentation. A graduate of Florida A&M University, highly sought out musician, minister, and speaker, Naomi has been a voice of inspiration to many. She has engaged audiences, students, as well as her community as a multi-talented instrumentalist, educator, and now author and speaker. Naomi holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Music Education, is a current student with the University of Florida’s master’s degree program, and teaches instrumental music as an Orange County Public Schools Band & Orchestra Director. Naomi Joy is available for music ministry, entertainment, recordings, solo accompaniment, weddings, funerals, and special events as a solo artist or with full band.
http://www.naomijoy.co
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Jackie Pickett hails from Pennsylvania. She began her career as a section bassist with the Jacksonville, Florida Symphony Orchestra. She is Principal Bassist of the Columbus, Georgia Symphony Orchestra and LaGrange Georgia Symphony Orchestra. Pickett serves as Principal Bass of the Colour of Music International Black Classical Musicians Festival. She is an Artist Affiliate at Agnes Scott College. The American double-bassist obtained her Bachelor of Music degree with high honors from West Virginia University; her Master of Music degree from Yale School of Music; and her Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her musical abilities cover a wide range of performance genres from album credits with Hip-Hop Artist Monica (The Makings of Me, 2006) to Classical recordings with the Nashville Chamber Orchestra (Conversations in Silence, 2008). Pickett was bassist with the Nashville Chamber Orchestra (Orchestra Nashville) and Atlanta contemporary Ensemble Thamyris. Both ensembles recorded and commissioned numerous new works by composers such as Michael Torke, Tania Leon, Trey Anastasio, Alvin Singleton, Terry Riley and Pauline Oliveros.
www.lowbinternational.org
https://csoga.org/jacqueline-pickett
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Dottie Kelly was born in West Palm Beach, FL, on March 13. She moved to Clearwater, FL, where she attended St. Pete Junior College and earned her Associates degree in accounting. Dottie sang in a Baptist church, which is where she developed her talent for singing. She would later follow her Aunt Betty Padgett, a well-known singer out of Ft. Lauderdale, FL, to her various shows. Aunt Betty Padgett eventually asked Dottie to sing background with her and Joey Gilmore. From that point on, Dottie has traveled to various states, and opened for many artists from around the world. Those experiences mixed with pure raw talent, have made her a bona fide soul singer. Dottie released her 1st promo CD in 2012 and Single Dec 2020. "I Don't Want No Man Like You". Now released CD on March 18, “Dancing Shoes”. She performed with Darrell Raines, Otis Cadillac, TKBlu Band, Ladies of Soul, and the legendary Joey Gilmore Band. Her soulful voice and natural stage presence is a force to be reckoned with. Dottie Kelly is a powerhouse blues singer, with over 20 years of performing experience. Once you hear Dottie Kelly sing, you will be sure to book her for your next event.
Dottie Kelly and Rock The House Band
West Palm Beach, Fl
561-252-0567
dkelly4950@gmail.com
info@dottiekelly.com
https://dottiekelly.com
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Raymond Rivera was born in Lansing Michigan. His father and mother moved to East Chicago, Indiana and, when Ray was 14, they began living in Puerto Rico where he started playing drums in church. He studied in The Music School Juan Peña Reyes for three years. I had the privilege to perform in lots of seminars with Peter Erskine, Alex Acuña, Horacio Hernandez, and John Riley. He studied music with the most renowned drums. Ray has three CDs as a drummer and executive producer. Ray performed with Raymond Ramirez, Richard Roberge, Tony Batista, Rafael Torres, Kenneth Morales, and Mariano Rodríguez. Ray teaches drum students at the Luiz & Pena Academy in Humacao, PR.
Familia (2021) Tu Verdad (2011) The Miracle (2008)
Piano, flute, saxophone Jose Valentino Ruiz
Bassist Jose Ruiz
www.raymondriveramusic.com
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Madhuri Jagadeesh was born into a family of musicians and artists, trained in the Indian Classical arts. Her connection with jazz began as a six, when she heard Ella Fitzgerald'sTisket-a-Tasket. She learned the rhyme in school and her grandfather, a harmonica player, taught her other songs, including Stormy Weather that she thought was his composition! As a teen, she listened to jazz on vinyl. There were no opportunities in Bengaluru to sing jazz, so she joined an all-girl pop and rock band. Her training in Indian classical music continued but income came from doing retro and popular music. Her graduate studies were in psychology, sociology, and literature. She completed her Master's in Literature and became a learning and development consultant. She sang with a band that performed at weddings, clubs, and hotels. She met her husband, Jagadeesh, who plays guitar, in 1993, while auditioning for a jazz band. He introduced her to modern jazz, experimental, and fusion music. In 2006, they started MoonArra. Both were interested in European Classical music. MoonArra fulfilled their passion to create original music and to tell stories. In 2008, a friend and bandleader joined the organizing committee of Java Jazz 2009 in Indonesia. MoonArra received a special mention at the festival. Their first album consisted of songs by Jagadeesh. One composition Road to Pondy was released online and featured in a compilation of a boutique label in New York. Indian Accent was released on Rock and Raaga and Times Music. In 2012, they performed at Asiabeat Anthology Festival in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and at Morocco’s Tanjazz Festival in 2015.
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Fostina Dixon is from Wilmington, Delaware where she studied with Robert Boysie Lowery. Fostina is a composer, vocalist, and jazz soloist who plays soprano, alto, and baritone saxes; flute; and clarinet. As a young woodwind instrumentalist, she played for Delaware All-State Band and American Young Symphonic Orchestra in Europe. She studied with Frank Foster, Buddy Collett, Vic Morosco, Joe Viola, Andy McGhee, and William Bowie. She performed at jazz clubs, colleges, libraries, churches, community art centers, Jazzmobile, theaters, and abroad. She was a soloist with Abbey Lincoln, Barry Harris, Earl May, and the Big Apple Jazzwomen. She played with Gil Evans, Roy Ayers, Tom Browne, Charlie Persip, Melba Liston, Cab Calloway, Slide Hampton, Frank Foster, Joe Williams, Nancy Wilson, Bobby Vinton, Sammy Davis, Jr., Prince, and Marvin Gaye for four years. She was in the big bands of Gerald Wilson, Jimmy Cleveland, and Leslie Drayton.
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Radha Thomas was born in Tamil Nadu in India. She is The Indian Council for Cultural Relation’s worldwide ambassador of jazz. Thomas is one of the country’s most beloved jazz vocalists. She writes, arranges, and composes original music. As a teen, she headlined Human Bondage, India’s popular rock band in the 1970s. She loved jazz and combined the tonal complexities of jazz with the rhythmic nuances of Indian classical music. Thomas (nee Shottam) represented India at European jazz festivals. In New York, performed for 20 years with musicians Michael Brecker, John Scofield, John Faddis, Alex Blake, Buddy Williams, Harvey Mason, Anthony Jackson, John Abercrombie, Ryo Kawasaki, Joe Farrell, Joe Giglio, and Ron McClure in NYC’s jazz clubs, including Sweet Basil, The Bottom Line, and Alice Tully Hall. Mirror of my Mind showcased her talents in the USA time in 1979. Four of her novels have been published. Men On My Mind’ and ‘More Men On My Mind (Rupa Publications), The Cauliflower Diet (Penguin/Random House), Dog Tails, donated to a dog shelter. In 2022, she began The Indie Dog, a podcast to tackle the problem of street dogs in India.
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Biggi Vinkeloe resides between Sweden and California. She performs with the NetArt Lab Ensemble with Sarah Weaver and musicians from three continents. Biggi appeared with BIRDS, a composition of Wendy Reid, California, with musicians from Europe and the US. She facilitated a workshop for flute students at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. She had done live-streamed performances in duo with Nema Vinkeloe Uuskyla for Indian audiences, in collaboration with Global Culture and SCEAD Foundation. Biggi has a digital release with Ken Filiano, Barre Phillips, and Peeter Uuskyla from a live recording at the Jazz Festival Vancouver. She did a collaboration with NAB trio and the Kurdish poet Hakim Mirza and got his poems translated from Sorani to Swedish, then she translated them into English. Their first live-streaming had more than 1600 views, mostly in Iraq. Her discography includes Parenthesis, My Soul Is A Bird with NAB Trio, and a digital CD on Golden Lion Records in Sacramento that was a live recording from before the pandemic with Biggi, REV, Don Robinson on drums, and Lisle Ellis on bass. Biggi led a summer camp for adult amateur musicians for ear training and improvisation with the Stans Häftigaste Orkester (SHO), the city’s most amazing orchestra at a barn in the countryside. They had two concerts in person and live-streamed concerts with NAB. For Global Jazz Women Hang with Sibongile Buda in Pretoria, South Africa, which is a Zoom conference every Thursday, Biggi edited a book with 80 biographies of amazing musicwomen, worldwide. Next year, they will publish the second edition of the collection with 80 biographies!
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Laura Jane hails from Michigan. She is from a multi-cultural family. She started singing at three and her first professional performance was in the children’s chorus of the Opera Grand Rapids, where she performed in the operas, Carmen and Tosca. She performed in theater and musical productions and recorded radio commercials for Honda. She starred in television commercials for Meijer’s Grocery Stores. Laura Jane attended the Boston Conservatory of Music for two years and finished her education at the University of The Arts in Philadelphia, with a degree in Music and Theatre. In Philadelphia, Laura Jane stumbled across superstar songwriting and producing team Gamble and Huff, who owned the building that housed her school. It was the home of the Sound Of Philadelphia. She found herself in the studio, singing with Billy Paul and producer Dexter Wansel. Laura Jane is a singer-songwriter and vocalist to the superstars. Laura Jane was in a girl group with a development deal with the label. Her studio experience began there. Her first independent project was To My Planet Boo, produced by three-time Grammy-winner Xavier Dphrepaulezz aka Fantastic Negrito. Two singles Summertime in the City and The Journey gained critical acclaim. Her second album Everything Changes was produced by Jameson Trotter. Her catchy singles include Lift Me Up with Chad Wright, Noriko Olling, and Julian Miranda, and Dear Rita, an ode to her mother. Love is the Answer is vocals and percussion by Gilmar Gomes from Brazil. She performed her original music in London, Prague, Kyoto, Monaco, Budapest, New York, and Los Angeles. During the 2020 pandemic, Laura Jane composed Weep Willow, her newest EP.
http://laurajanemusic.net
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Gunhild Carling is a Swedish jazz musician, singer, and songwriter. A multi-talented musician, Carling can play several different musical instruments, including the trombone, trumpet, harmonica, ukelele, banjo, and guitar. She sings and dances. Carling was born in Gothenburg, Sweden on May 7, 1975. She is the daughter of Hans Carling and Aina Carling, both accomplished jazz musicians.
Besides her parents and herself, Gunhild Carling's siblings are all accomplished musicians. Carling and her family perform around the world as The Carling Big Band, with Gunhild headlining the group. In addition to playing jazz music at their shows, they perform acrobatic stunts and other talents. Carling also guest performs with orchestras and choirs around the world on her own.
On January 1, 2022, Gunhild Carling became the new International President of Women in Jazz South Florida, Inc.
She will perform at the Arts Garage, in Delray Beach on Saturday, February 5, 2022.
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Vikki Romero, La dama del Sentimiento, was born on March 30 in Brooklyn, New York. She is an international recording artist known as The Lady Of Sentimental Feelings. Vikki is a producer, musician, arranger, and composer. At 10, she moved to Puerto Rico where she took music and guitar lessons. She sang in groups with her brother Victor Romero. She continued her musical studies and jazz vocals at The Hess Conservatory in Florida. Her influences were José, José, The Prince of the Voice, and Barbra Streisand. She worked with producer Richard Carpio for several years, cultivating her American audience. Vikki sings in English and Spanish. She recorded her first album Pa 'Ti Na' Ma with salsa and other genres. Vikki Romero hosted a television show on Channel 14, called The Valentina Show. She participated in several TV programs including The Blanquita Amaro Show, El Show de Rolando Barral, the internationally acclaimed Sábado Gigante, and Despierta América. Vikki sang with popular artists like Celia Cruz, Victor Romero and his orchestra Salsarengue, Tito Nieves, Andy Montañez, Tito Puente JR, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Richie Ray and Bobby Cruz, Luisito Carrion, Frank Bello, Freddy Lugo and his Tropical Flavor, Giovani Hidalgo, Andy Guzman, Tony Vega, Raul Gallimore and Orchestra Inmensidad, and Willie Panamá. Her publishing company is Miracle Victoria Songs Enterprise LLC
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Marcia Foster Dunscomb is a composer, author, educator, and pianist. She was a contributing author for the Thelonious Monk Institute for Jazz (Jazz In America), a consultant to the International Piano Teaching Foundation (IPTF), Educational Consultant in Jazz for the National Museum of American History, and Jazz Editorial Assistant for Jazz Expressions (Warner Bros. Publications). Works in print include Melody Maker, Let’s Begin, Let’s Read Music, and Let’s Improvise (Melody Maker Press); Evolution of Jazz (McGraw-Hill);and Anatomy of Music (McGraw-Hill). Marcia is a contributing author and editorial assistant for Jazz Pedagogy: the Jazz Educator's Handbook and Resource Guide (Warner Bros. Publications); Teaching Jazz - A Course of Study (MENC/IAJE); and Jazz Studies Guide (MTNA/IAJE). She is a contributing author for numerous publications. Marcia is the National Music Credentials Officer for the National League of American Pen Women. As a clinician and adjudicator, she is a pioneer in the field of teaching jazz and improvisation to young children. She presented for the International Association of Jazz Education (IAJE), National Piano Foundation, and Stan Kenton Summer Jazz Camps. She was Director of Education for South Florida Friends of Jazz in Fort Lauderdale, Director of Education for Baldwin Piano & Organ Company, Atlanta, Georgia, and a music faculty member at the New World School of the Arts and Florida International University, in Miami, Florida.
Host: Diva JC
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Bianca Jones is a North Carolina native and New York-based actor and director. Bianca is Broadway World 2019 Best Actress for Denver Center’s LAST NIGHT AND THE NIGHT BEFORE by Donnetta Greys. Bianca’s favorite role is her origination of Berta in BERTA BERTA by Angelica Cherie (Contemporary American Theater Festival, NBTF). Regional: The Wedding Gift (CATF), DISGRACED (Asolo), KING LEAR (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), Marcus Or the Secret of Sweet (Studio Theater), A Civil War Christmas (LongWharf), Radio Golf (St. Louis Black Rep) including Williamstown, Yale Rep, Roundabout, Signature, National Black Theater Festival. TV/Film: FBI, Prodigal Son, Blindspot, Last OG, Punisher, Oceans 8, Madame Secretary. Training: NCSA, SUNY Purchase (BFA), Yale School of Drama, and London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (Masters in Directing). She is an Associate Director of the Broadway play Chicken and Biscuits.
Barbara Collin has over thirty years experience in high profile booking and management agencies such as ICM, Agency for the Performing Arts, John Levy Enterprises, The Berkeley Agency and as CEO of her own company, Collin Artists. She has represented many national and international recording artists.
Barbara’s current roster ranges from jazz, blues to world, Latin, R&B, pop and more. She taught at the Musicians Institute in Hollywood, CA, teaching the course, “Agents & Bookings”. Her company, Collin Artists provides artist representation and services, including booking, publicity, promotion, research, seminars, and consulting.
https://www.mi.edu/faculty/barbara-collin/
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Edlene Hart is an international soul singer from Yonkers, NY. She began singing at five, in church, where she was groomed by Mr. John Simmons, the Master Keyboardist and Musical Director for many well-known artists. She studied music at the Performing Arts High School and Queens College. Edlene performs in many languages and several genres including opera, Broadway, Jazz, spirituals, and contemporary music, which led to an acting role in the play The Legacy at The National Black Theatre in Harlem. A powerful and sultry singer, Hart will captivate an audience with her explosive stage presence. In New York, she was dubbed Chocolate Thunder and in South Florida, she is The Singing Bus Lady who can take you anywhere you want to go! Edlene shared the stage with Whitney Houston, Eryka Badu, Issac Hayes, The Delphonics, and Melba Moore, and opened for Tony Bennett. She toured with a gospel group, throughout Europe and South Africa. She was a songwriter and producer for Total Look and The Style, the iconic rapper Chuck D's female recording artists in the 1990s. She was a songwriter with Grammy award-winning drummer Lenny White, which led to jingles. She sang commercials for Folgers Coffee, McDonald's, and New Jersey Community Bank. BMI Songwriter, Member of Women in Jazz of South Florida, Inc. and the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County. https://edlenehart.comhttps://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070916119016https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiVcRvMeD7lvgW99xkTFyCw
William Theodore Carney III is the son of Philadelphia jazz notables, organist Trudy Pitts and drummer Mr. C. Known as TC The 3rd, this powerful jazz vocalist is well-versed in the art of jazz vocal styling. His CD, Life Force Jazz was recorded live at the Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz and The Performing Arts. TC grew up around Masters of this music, so, he decided to capture some of this great talent on a first-class recording. With his legendary friend, Norman Connors, TC III created an All-Star cast for a concert. Al Young of the Philadelphia Daily News described it as the "Greatest show in thirty years." Jon Hendricks wrote the liner notes. TC III sings with Gary Bartz on Song For Debra, written and arranged by Elmer Gibson. Joey DeFrancesco is on ROME ALONE with TC's lyrics, written to Don Braden’s If I Were A Bell and on Rahsaan Roland Kirk's Bright Moments, with lyrics by Todd Barken, who manages Dizzy's Club at Jazz @ Lincoln Center in NYC. Trudy Pitt's solo on Abby Lincoln's Bird Alone is tremendous! His second CD, The Music released on October 1, 2021.
"A vocalist gifted with good taste and impressive chops." - Hot House New York
"One of the top male vocalists singing jazz, today." - AllAboutJazz.com New Album: The Music on Spotifyhttp://www.lifeforcejazz.comhttp://tcthe3rd.comhttp://airplaydirect.com/music/tc3jazzhttp://wijsf.org
Mary Fineman is from Baltimore, MD. She is an award-winning composer, pianist, singer/songwriter, and teacher, living in Oakland, CA. She writes about the ordinary and turns it into the sacred, reminding us who we truly are. Her music traverses a large territory with songs reminiscent of Carole King, Schubert, and Sondheim. Her piano works evoke Satie and Copland within her unique landscape.She studied music theory with Grace Newsom Cushman and piano with Philip Cohen and Lauretta Altman in Montreal. She studied jazz at McGill and taught at Concordia University and Temple Junior College in Texas. Mary was a freelance accompanist for instrumentalists, dancers, and one classical whistler. Her music trajectory changed, suddenly, in 2003, when, she began hearing her own music, after visiting an energy healer. In 2014, she was commissioned by the James Irvine Foundation to orchestrate her song cycle It's About Love, performed by the Oakland Symphony under Maestro Michael Morgan. Mary has performed at the Paramount Theater, Piedmont Piano Company, the Marsh Berkeley, Hayward City Hall, Steinway Piano, and numerous fundraisers and house concerts. She’s a participant in NACUSASF.org and CCPAS.org, and a proud member of the National League of American Pen Women. Mary is involved in recording over 80 works, including songs, piano, and ensemble pieces. She released four CDs with new CDs and a piano book planned for 2021. http://maryfineman.comhttp://wijsf.org
Ashley Kervabon-Stoyanov is the founder and CEO of #WomxnCrush Music, a non-profit arts organization in its 4th year of creating opportunities through community for inspiring, rising womxn songwriters. It is unveiling its biggest, BOLDEST fundraising campaign in history starting July 14 with its #WCM BOLD initiative. This campaign will invite supporters to contribute to its year-long giving program as the thriving organization continues its steadfast pursuit to level the playing field for its community in the overwhelmingly male-dominated music industry.
http://www.womxncrushmusic.com
IG: @womxncrushmusic
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Valerie Romanoff hails from New York. She won BEST WORLD ALBUM at the 15th Annual Zone Music Awards. Valerie creates music in many genres, including new age, jazz, rock, blues, world music, and funk! Her celebrated all-original music is geared toward the meditation, yoga, and spa markets. She performs live, engaging audiences with up-tempo dance and groove music. Whether she plays festivals and gatherings with her new band SPIRIT JAM, or high-profile private events around the world as co-founder and creative director of Starlight Orchestras, Valerie is known for her bright presence onstage, her skill in crafting a range of musical experiences, and her talent for bringing together world-class performers. And, while she is a multi-instrumentalist, nothing defines Valerie as much as her captivating and energetic electric guitar playing!
https://valerieromanoffmusic.com/
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Dr. Kathleen Riley is a musician, researcher, author, Optimal Performance Coach, and Certified HeartMath® Trainer, Dr. Kathleen Riley integrates music, science, mindfulness, and the intelligence of the heart to heal from stress and trauma, sustain resilience and optimize performance.
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Larry Cantwell is from New Jersey and attended The College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA, in history, during the tumultuous late 1960's, when he left college to pursue a music career. He traveled in New England with Soul and Rock bands, then returned to New York, where he advanced his music studies. He took advantage of diverse programs and talent in New York, while working in assorted one-man and club date bands. Influenced by Nat King Cole and Stevie Wonder, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, songwriter and composer LC Wells offers thoughtful fusions of rock, jazz, and soul. His original music is co-produced with Jay Dittamo. He has worked with luminaries such as Bucky Pizzarelli, Mike Longo and the late, great Gloria Lynne. Wells' newest recordings have tapped into the long held social justice tradition of music. Unafraid to tackle issues that continue to affect our world, LC believes that shining a light on these topics is one of the greatest gifts of our musical heritage. “Love is love and deserves to be celebrated, but by calling out social injustice and demanding human rights for all, we can help provoke change.” LC’s philosophy takes it all on with fearless determination. Wells lives and works in New Jersey, where he teaches private music lessons. His song, "I Wish It Would Snow," sung by Gloria Lynne in her last recorded performance, appeared in a Lifetime original film starring Gladys Knight and Taraji P. Hensen. soundcloud.com/lcwells
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Lindsay Manfredi is a renaissance woman. She has been in the music industry for over 20 years. She is a two-time TEDx speaker and co-founder of Girls Rock Indianapolis, a nonprofit rock and roll summer camp for girls 8 to16, since 2010. She is the bassist for the alternative rock band, COLD which sold one million records in the US, and her recent album, The Things We Can’t Stop (Napalm Records, 2019) that debuted at #34 on Billboard. She is endorsed by Ernie Ball and Diamond Guitars, who are custom building two bass guitars, the Maverick and Hailfire ‘LM’ series basses for her. Manfredi is a singer/songwriter with music featured on Fitfluential Radio. She does studio work with Geno Lenardo (Filter, Chevelle). Manfredi partnered with Tricia Meteer in Equinox Farms that produces hand-pours luxury candles for bands and brands when she is not touring. For 10 years, Manfredi owned Linzstar Inc., a ghostwriting and social media marketing company, until music took over her life. She was a featured speaker at Blog Indiana and on other social media marketing panels including, The Combine in Bloomington, IN, and she was featured in Indianapolis Monthly Magazine as an up-and-coming artist in 2013. Manfredi lives in California. She released her first book, UNFUCKWITHABLE: A Guide to Inspired Badassery.
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Kingsley, Black Indie Pop Artist released two women’s empowerment singles I’m Fine and Therapy with videos produced by and featuring all Black women. She partnered with a women-led makeup company to launch a set of lipsticks named after her singles. Her EP drops in May. iamkingsley.com
IG/Twitter: @yokingsleymusic
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Kingsley, Black Indie Pop Artist released two women’s empowerment singles I’m Fine and Therapy with videos produced by and featuring all Black women. She partnered with a women-led makeup company to launch a set of lipsticks named after her singles. Her EP drops in May. iamkingsley.com
IG/Twitter: @yokingsleymusic
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In 2018 Palm Beach International Jazz Festival Organization, LLC (100% minority-owned; African-American woman) was founded by international jazz vocalist and recording artist Yvette Norwood-Tiger. Her mission for the Palm Beach International Jazz Festival is to present highly acclaimed jazz artists from around the world and South Florida in a wonderful live concert setting in Palm Beach County. Each year, the Palm Beach International Jazz Festival hires over 30 musicians, in addition to technical and front-of-house staff during the one-day event. Our wish is to continue to support jazz musicians by holding the festival in 2021 - especially during a time when live jazz music is being drastically affected by the pandemic.
This year, due to COVID-19 constraints, festival seating capacity and tickets will be significantly reduced to give concert goers safe distance and comfort while enjoying live jazz in a concert setting. In joint celebration of UNESCO's International Jazz Day which is chaired by jazz great Herbie Hancock, the 3rd annual Palm Beach International Jazz Festival is scheduled for April 24, 2021, at the Raymond F. Kravis Center - Rinker Playhouse.
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Gwen Laster is a Detroit violinist and awardee of the National Endowment for the Arts, Jubilation Foundation, Puffin Foundation, Arts Mid-Hudson, Lila Wallace, and Cognac Hennessey Jazz Search. Motor City's exciting urban and classical music culture influenced her improvising and composing. Her parents loved jazz, blues, soul, and classical music. She studied with inspiring music teachers in public school. After earning two music degrees from the University of Michigan, she relocated to New York, where she collaborated, performed, and recorded with Anthony Braxton, Nona Hendryx, Aretha Franklin, Wadada Leo Smith, William Parker, Danny Elfman, Sun Ra Arkestra, Tyler, the Creator, Gladys Knight, Emeline Michel, Andrea Bocelli, David Foster, Alicia Keys, Rhianna, Shaggy, Andrew Baba Lamb, Natalie Cole, Solange, Mark Anthony, J Lo and Shakira at President Obama’s Inaugural Neighborhood Ball. She played local jazz clubs and subbed on Broadway in Miss Saigon, Beauty and the Beast, Carousel, Wicked, Porgy and Bess, and The King and I. Laster led ensembles, orchestrating and composing string arrangements. She founded Creative Strings Improvisers Orchestra (CSIO), a music education ensemble teaching young strings players improvisation, composition, and global ensemble music. CSIO facilitated workshops at El Sistema Ravinia, Harlem School of the Arts, St. Ann's School, Blue Mountain Chamber Music Festival, Wappingers Schools, Poughkeepsie Day School, Interlochen Summer Institute, Sphinx Performance and Preparatory Academy, Eastman School of Music, Center for Creative Education, Howland Cultural Center, Bard College as an adjunct Jazz Violin professor, and Beacon CSIO online classes.
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Nina Kennedy is a world-renowned concert pianist, orchestral conductor, and award-winning filmmaker. She gave her first piano recital at nine and was a soloist with the Nashville Symphony, playing Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue at 13. She holds a master's degree from the Juilliard School where she studied with Leonard Bernstein. Kurt Masur was her conducting mentor, during his tenure as music director with the New York Philharmonic and L'Orchestre National de France. For 12 years, she lived and performed in Europe, residing in Amsterdam, Vienna, Cologne, and Paris.
Nina wrote the script for a short film by Alberto Ferreras of HBO that was screened at the Berlin International Film Festival, New York's New Fest, and film festivals in Frankfurt, Jerusalem, London, Los Angeles, Munich, Oslo, Philadelphia, and Sydney.
Nina produced and directed the documentary about her father entitled Matthew Kennedy: One Man's Journey. He was the director of the Fisk Jubilee Singers. The film was screened at international film festivals including the African Diaspora Film Festival in New York, the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles, and Nashville's International Film Festival (NaFF), and the International Black Film Festival of Nashville. Nina won the Rosetta Miller Perry prize for Best Film by a Black Filmmaker.
Nina Kennedy is the host of The Noshing with Nina Show, an award-winning cable television talk show at Manhattan Neighborhood Network. She authored Practicing for Love: A Memoir.
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Roberta DeMuro hails from Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. She started singing at five, in the church choir. She grew up with annual music festivals and conservatory vocal training. Much to her music teacher’s dismay, she decided to sing pop music for a living. The piano playing came much later when she was singing professionally. She called it on-the-job training.
Roberta performed in a variety of theatrical shows, including “Annie Get Your Gun” and “Hello Dolly” as Jeanette in The Full Monty. Roberta feels fortunate to be a professional musician that allowed her to travel to Acapulco, Mykonos, Greece, Scandinavia, Germany, England and to perform on cruise ships, including Norwegian, Carnival, the Yankee Clippers, and American Cruises.
Roberta is a snowbird, spending half the year in Bar Harbor, Maine, and the other half in Boynton Beach, Florida. She performed for Maine Governor Jock McKernan’s 42nd birthday party at the Blaine House, at former Maine Senator William Cohen’s re-election party, and at the fundraiser for World Peace organized for former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, who was the peace negotiator for Britain and Northern Ireland.
March 27, 2021 Livestream
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Donna Weng Friedman is an award-winning pianist, soloist, chamber musician, teacher, curator, and app developer. With WQXR, she produced Heritage and Harmony, a virtual concert series celebrating Asian Pacific Heritage Month. She co-created and co-hosted HER/MUSIC; HER/STORY (WQXR), and a concert series of women composers, past and present. She was the guest speaker on TEDx Santa Barbara’s series Making Waves: Conversations with Influencers and Disruptors. In January 2021, she was featured on the National Women’s History Museum’s series, Sundays@Home, honoring women who inspire others. At the National Women’s History Museum, she will launch two educational programs in 2022, featuring female BIPOC role models for school-aged girls of color. She performed solo with symphony orchestras, made her New York debut at the 92nd Street Y, and performed at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. She curated the Donna Weng Friedman Master Class Series at Princeton University, where she serves on the Music Department’s Advisory Council. She holds a B.A. from Princeton University and a Master's in Music from Juilliard. She recorded Frames of Life and created TheMusicBeeClub interactive classical music apps for children produced by David Frost. www.wqxr.org/story/heritage-harmony/www.wqxr.org/shows/her-music-her-story/music.princeton.edu/events/donna-weng-friedman-%E2%80%9980-master-class-series http://wijsf.org
Mimi Johnson and her daughter, Muki Williams star in The Ma and Pop Show in Atlanta, Georgia, monthly. They are direct descendants of our host Dr. Diva JC.
http://www.themaandpopshow.com
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Dottie Kelly talks about the making of her single "I Don't Want No Man Like You".
Host: Dr. Joan Cartwright
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Tanya and Nick Yalley own and operate the Sugar Plum and Growling Grumbler Bookstore in Lake Worth, FL
Members of Women in Jazz South Florida will appear at the book store on the third Thursday of each month beginning in March 2021 from 7-10 p.m.
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Music is the mastery of mind. It keeps you in a place of being for moments at a time. Get caught up in its labyrinth. Leading through a thousand doors to one simple end. Love. ~ Diva JC
New York native, Kim Clarke, is a parent, bassist, composer, bandleader,
website developer, educator, and earring designer. She performs alternately on the Acoustic Bass, Electric Upright, four and five-stringed Electric Bass Guitar as the situation demands. Kim founded Lady Got Chops.
Despite the ravages of the current Pandemic, the LADY GOT CHOPS FESTIVAL is in evolving into new platforms of communication online, with like-minded individuals who Celebrate women's excellence of contribution to humanity during March Women's History Month by either performing, promoting, or attending events or showingsProvide a hosting space for the artist for dates of performance or showBenefit from the promotion of their art or venue that generates fellowship through participationNetwork with the public, musicians, artists, and venue ownersValue the education provided by the elders who are experienced in the artsHave a progressive outlook, while maintaining a realistic view of the climate of the arts and life. http://kimclarke.mysite.com/bio1.html
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Gayelynn McKinney discusses the making of her new CD Zoot Suit Funk, released TODAY!
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This is a preview of the music on the new CD of Gayelynn McKinney who will discuss the making of her new CD Zoot Suit Funk tomorrow, January 15, 2021, when it is released!
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Gail Jhonson is the leader of the fabulous, all-women ensemble Jazz in Pink. Today, she will talk about their new CD Joy!
Website:
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Host: Dr. Joan Cartwright, http://drdivajc.com
This podcast is in tribute to Richard Bridgeforth, the founder of the 2020 1st Annual All-Star Women in Jazz Festival, blending art, contemporary, Latin, smooth, and traditional Jazz, in the first-ever event of its kind in Lawton, Oklahoma, a new location annually to hear the best jazz music from a female artist from around the nation. Scheduled Lineup with Paula Atherton, Carol Albert, Ragan Whiteside, Sunnie Paxson, Candace Woodson, Andrea Brachfeld, Joyce Spencer, Heidi Tann, and many more. We are looking forward to seeing you at this history-making event in May 2021.
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Richard Bridgeforth is the founder of the 2020 1st Annual All-Star Women in Jazz Festival, blending art, contemporary, Latin, smooth, and traditional Jazz, in the first-ever event of its kind in Lawton, Oklahoma, a new location annually to hear the best jazz music from a female artist from around the nation. Scheduled Lineup with Paula Atherton, Carol Albert, Ragan Whiteside, Sunnie Paxson, Candace Woodson, Andrea Brachfeld, Joyce Spencer, Heidi Tann, and many more. We are looking forward to seeing you at this history-making event on November 27th -28th. Friday 6:30 pm - 10 pm /Saturday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
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Joan Faulkner and Joanne Bell join us from Germany. Harriet Lewis and Cynthia Utterbach join us from the U.S.A. They are the Three Ladies of the Blues. The Three Ladies of Blues Show has been exciting European audiences since 2005. The group traveled to several exotic locations with great musicians like Bobby Durham, Reggie Johnson, Reggie Moore, Doug Sides, Wayne Dockery, Sangoma Everett, and the ladies Joan Faulkner, Joanne Bell, Cynthia Utterbach, and Harriet Lewis. There was never a dull moment on or off stage. Music Director Gustav Csik said, "I’m inspired for the opportunity to share my talents with this show because the ladies always give their very best."
Joan Faulkner and Joanne Bell join us from Germany. Harriet Lewis and Cynthia Utterbach joins us from the U.S.A. They are the Three Ladies of the Blues. The Three Ladies of Blues Shows have been exciting European audiences since 2005. The group traveled to several exotic locations with great musicians like Bobby Durham, Reggie Johnson, Doug Sides, Wayne Dockery, Sangoma Everett, and the ladies Joan Faulkner, Joanne Bell, Cynthia Utterbach, and Harriet Lewis. There was never a dull moment on or off stage. Music Director Gustav Csik said, "I’m inspired for the opportunity to share my talents with this show because the ladies always give their very best."
https://joan-faulkner.com
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Ragan Whiteside is a Soul Jazz flautist, vocalist, and songwriter and she is at it, again, with her latest single, “JJ’s Strut” from her upcoming release Five Up Top. “JJ’s Strut” is a feel-good song for the ages, treating the listener to a much needed 4-minute break from the craziness of 2020. It is the 3rd single from Ragan’s upcoming album, following on the heels of 5 consecutive Billboard Top 10 hits “Reminiscing”, “Jam It”, “Early Arrival”, “See You at the Get Down”, and Billboard #1 and Smooth Jazz Network’s song of the year “Corey’s Bop,” which made Ragan the first female flautist to hold the #1 spot on three major smooth jazz charts, simultaneously. A musical prodigy since the age of five, Ragan found her way to the flute after the piano, the violin, and a turn with the drum set. She attended the Cleveland Institute of Music and the prestigious Harid Conservatory, where her sound was honed with the tried-and-true classical training, graduating with a Bachelor of Music Performance degree. Ragan Whiteside is a resident of Atlanta, GA, and tours globally. Stay tuned for Ragan’s 5th album, Five Up Top, to be released in Summer 2020! Five Up Top is Soul-Jazz Flautist Ragan Whiteside’s 5th studio album, showcasing a collection of 5 songs with funky grooves and soulful melodies that are Ragan’s signature sound.
http://raganwhiteside.com
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Lauren Kinhan hails from Massachusetts and resides in New York City. Whether on her four highly-acclaimed solo albums, a member of the beloved New York Voices, or co-founder of two supergroups, Moss and JaLaLa, singer/songwriter Lauren Kinhan has forged her own path as a performer, composer, producer, arranger, educator and now curator. Her monthly vocal series, Vocal Mania co-produced with Janis Siegel once was land locked, but since the pandemic they have rebranded it Vocal Gumbo and taken it to the online superhighway. Forging new ways to stay connected, collaborate and keep music performance alive, this program has taken on fulfilling that need plus added a talk show format that covers a multitude of topics ranging from music, the pandemic, Black Lives Matter, politics, education, depression, activism, and of course, cooking! Downbeat gave Lauren’s 2017 A Sleepin’ Bee 4 1/2 Stars for her loving tribute to the late great Nancy Wilson. Prior solo releases include Avalon, a journey in a new mother’s brain, and Circle in a Square, a 50-year birthday present to herself highlighting all she’s learned thus far. Phil Ramone produced her debut, Hardly Blinking, calling her “a true songstress.” Other highlights include her contributions on Bobby Mcferrin’s Vocabularies and Ornette Coleman’s Sound Museum, Three Women. Lauren is on the adjunct faculty at New York University and is a graduate of Berklee College of Music.
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PART II - Sandra Izsadore is a singer, activist, author, and humanitarian born in Los Angeles, California. She is a graduate of Redlands University. She was featured in the Tony Award Broadway Musical FELA! with Michele Williams of Destiny’s Child, Saycon Sengbloh, and Paulette Ivory. She was featured in three documentaries: Beware of Mr. Baker, about drummer Ginger Baker, Finding FELA, and My Friend FELA. During the late 1960s, Sandra revitalized Africa’s revolutionary genius FELA KUTI. Upon meeting Sandra, Fela’s musical and political ideas changed, radically, and Afro-Beat was born. Sandra is the only vocalist featured on Fela’s music. The song Upside Down, which was a hit in 1977, is considered an Afro-Beat music classic. It is through her single-handed influence as a midwife for this genre that Sandra Izsadore is called The Queen Mother of Afro-Beat. Sandra Izsadore was immortalized in Fela’s biography Fela Fela This Bitch of a Life written by Carlos Moore in 1982. One chapter is dedicated to her. She lives with her husband in Los Angeles.
https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2019/11/08/an-immersive-world-of-sandra-izsadores-fela-and-me/
https://sandraiszadore.com
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Jeannie Cheatham is a legendary vocalist, pianist, songwriter, bandleader, and author. In 2012, she received the Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition for Outstanding and Invaluable Service to the Community. Jeannie was Woman of the Year for Wisconsin Women of the Arts with Judy Chicago. She is the author of Meet Me With Your Black Drawers On: My Life In Music available at Amazon Books, Barnes & Noble, Wordery, and University of Texas Press. http://www.jeanniecheatham.comhttp://wijsf.org Host: Libra Sene, National President of Women in Jazz South Florida, Inc.
Joan Faulkner is The Voice. She began singing Gospel music as a child. Her repertoire includes jazz, blues, soul, and pop. She even has a techno smash single in Austria and Belgium. She’s come a long way for the daughter of a preacher man and she will certainly go much much further, given her perfect professionalism and stunning stage presence. The Voice is behind some of Germany’s best-selling musical exports. Star producer Frank Farian called Joan “the best voice in Germany.” She has performed with Boney M. and Milli Vanilli on “Blame it On the Rain.” Joan Faulkner is one of the best American voices on the Continent. Her aura has inspired audiences in Tiger Palast, the prime European variety theater, and captivated the masses at Dortmund’s Westfalenhalle. She was featured at Frankfurt’s Alte Oper with the Georg Dalaris Orchestra. Ray Charles and Percy Sledge chose Joan to open for them in Germany. In 1989, Joan was the German Artist of the Year and she received the NAACP 1991 Award. Her show “3 Ladies of Blues” began in 2001, at a jazz festival at the Stadthalle open-air in Burghausen, Germany. Read more at www.joan-faulkner.com
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Mimi Johnson hails from The Bronx, NY. She resides in Atlanta, GA. She is the owner of MJTV NETWORK that provides you with the best entertainment for you and your family! We are geared to targeting all markets globally that are interested in positive influential tv. We are MJTV "THE GENIUS TV NETWORK" & We are producing one TV show at a time to give you the best television ever! As we continue to grow, we ask that you grow with us. We are a family-oriented Television network that provides programming for the entire family!
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For Entrepreneurs and Business Owners, we offer affordable commercial advertising spots, product placement, and mentions for our television programming. You may contact mjtvnetwork@gmail.com for inquires and ad placements.
Mimi Johnson is the Media Director for Women in Jazz South Florida, Inc. www.youtube.com/mjtvnetworkwww.mjtvnetwork.infowww.mimijohnson.netwww.wijsf.org Host: DrDivaJC
Sandra Izsadore is a singer, activist, author, and humanitarian born in Los Angeles, California. She is a graduate of Redlands University. She was featured in the Tony Award Broadway Musical FELA! with Michele Williams of Destiny’s Child, Saycon Sengbloh, and Paulette Ivory. She was featured in three documentaries: Beware of Mr. Baker, about drummer Ginger Baker, Finding FELA, and My Friend FELA. During the late 1960s, Sandra revitalized Africa’s revolutionary genius FELA KUTI. Upon meeting Sandra, Fela’s musical and political ideas changed, radically, and Afro-Beat was born. Sandra is the only vocalist featured on Fela’s music. The song Upside Down, which was a hit in 1977, is considered an Afro-Beat music classic. It is through her single-handed influence as a midwife for this genre that Sandra Izsadore is called The Queen Mother of Afro-Beat. Sandra Izsadore was immortalized in Fela’s biography Fela Fela This Bitch of a Life written by Carlos Moore in 1982. One chapter is dedicated to her. She lives with her husband in Los Angeles.
https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2019/11/08/an-immersive-world-of-sandra-izsadores-fela-and-me/
https://sandraiszadore.com
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Donna Singer hails from Upstate New York, where she and her siblings were introduced to the world of jazz. She and her twin sister, Dawn, were raised in a family of jazz enthusiasts who listened to the music of great jazz artists like Nancy Wilson (“Guess Who I Saw Today,”) Billy Strayhorn, (“Take the A Train” with Duke Ellington), Sammy Davis Jr, (“Hey There,” and Count Basie (“April in Paris”). Her great love for the music helped her evolve into a powerful jazz vocalist whose music has been played throughout North America, South America, Europe, Australia and Africa.
A graduate of the New York Academy of Theatrical Arts, Donna also studied at The Juilliard School and has kept music close to her heart. She established Dr. Donna's School of Song where aspiring musicians can begin their journey in the world of music. She shares her gift with young and adult students by providing mentoring and training in piano and voice. She has been a member of The National Guild of Piano Teachers (a division of the American College of Musicians) since 2006. Read more at http://donna-singer.com/bio
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Andrea Brachfeld hails from New Jersey. She tours with her group, Andrea Brachfeld and Insight, featuring Bill O’Connell, Harvie S, and with Jason Tiemann, The Bill O’ Connell Jazz Latin Quintet, featuring Andrea Brachfeld, Bill Connell, and the Afro Caribbean Ensemble (ACE), and The Bill O’ Connell Quartet / Dave Valentin Tribute Band featuring Lincoln Goines and Robby Ameen where we recently came back from a tour in Japan playing at the Cotton Club. In June 2017, Andrea was awarded a grant from the prestigious organization, Chamber Music America and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, to compose a new jazz work. Her CD, If Not Now, When? was released on Jazzheads in May of 2018, and reflects this new music. Her newest Brazilian project, Brazilian Whispers was released on Origin Records on January 17, 2020. It features Bill O’Connell, Harvie S, Jason Tiemann, Roni Ben-Hur, Lincoln Goines, T Portinho and Chembo Corniel playing mostly Antonio Carlos Jobim compositions along with three original compositions by myself and Bill.
https://andreabrachfeld.com
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Jeannie Cheatham is a legendary vocalist, pianist, songwriter, bandleader, and author. In 2012, she received the Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition for Outstanding and Invaluable Service to the Community. Jeannie was Woman of the Year for Wisconsin Women of the Arts with Judy Chicago. She is the author of Meet Me With Your Black Drawers On: My Life In Music available at Amazon Books, Barnes & Noble, Wordery, and University of Texas Press. http://www.jeanniecheatham.comhttp://wijsf.org Host: Libra Sene, National President of Women in Jazz South Florida, Inc.
The youngest of 16, Warren Byrd was encouraged to sing in the church choir from age 4 and embrace big band jazz as well. This grew into a passion for bebop jazz, especially the music of Charlie Parker, Oscar Peterson. He began noodling on piano at age 9 and composing music at about age 11, primarily self-taught. In 1972 he studied Piano and Music Theory from that age, most notably with his church music director Thomassina Neely and his South Catholic High School music teacher R. Leslie Childs. His pursuit of theatre amassed him extensive performing credits throughout his teen years. By high school graduation in 1983, he’d earn a full scholarship for Classical Voice at Hartt College of Music. He would soon abandon this to pursue his first love: jazz. He continues to take on projects of his own, freelance with many Southern New England jazz and pop music acts as well as other international artists and acts. His deep respect for all arts, his experiences in the theatre as a youth, his work with Dance, his extensive touring schedule, all kinds of gigs and performances of diverse styles, his willingness to absorb old and new, his curiosity of all artifacts of the human spirit may be reflected inversely in his work motto: “Music speaks free-spirit tongues unleashing grace on souls dancing toward daring peace.”
http://warrenbyrd.com
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Jodylynn Talevi lives in Hartford, CT. She is a talented singer/songwriter. In 2019, Jodylynn took on the job of graphic designer of Musicwoman Magazine. For 22 years, Jodylynn worked as a graphic design, marketing, and media professional in the Arts, Education, Newspaper, and Business fields. She creates logos, promotional materials, including brochures, postcards, posters, signage, social media/web artwork, magazine & catalog layouts, multi-page documents, and CD/DVD covers and faces formatted to printer specs ready for upload to manufacturing companies. She can create a whole start-up package including the logo, colors, business cards, promotional material, and artwork for social media and web page. She is a good listener and will suggest a plan that will deliver the highest rate of return. Comfortable in a one on one environment or within a team where each contributor’s expertise is utilized and therefore the highest quality finished product is achieved.
Jodylynn is a songwriter, creating in many genres including, jazz, blues, rock, and pop. She has placed songs in films and PSAs. She can write from concept, scripts, or already created compositions that need lyrics and melody. She spent many years studying music and honing her writing skills. She loves the collaboration process of working on either music or design projects, finding it to be very rewarding. Recently, she starting playing guitar again.
https://www.broadjam.com/jodylynntalevi
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Jesse Jones Jr. is a Miami native and a saxophonist extraordinaire. Jesse is one of those hidden treasures that you want to share with the world. He overwhelms you with his infectious positive attitude and dynamic stage presence. Jesse attended Mississippi Valley State University where he excelled in music. His journey began in Miami where he listened to a neighbor practice his sax while playing along with Cannonball Adderly albums. "I loved that sound and I was going to be a musician for the rest of my life." After college, Jones joined the military and the US Navy Show Band. He traveled in North and South America where he developed his showmanship. Besides playing the sax, clarinet, and flute, Jesse sang, tap-danced, and did comedy. He had a natural gift for getting the crowd to become part of his act. After the military, Jesse lived in Boston, until he moved back to Miami, where he signed with Fantasy Records in 1996, and produced his first CD Soul Serenade. His CD The So Then Collection was released in 2009. He combines the hard-bop influence of Cannonball Adderley, the funk of Hank Crawford, and the sweetness of Paul Desmond, along with the most unusual scat singing that drives jazz audiences wild. Jesse performed with Donald Byrd, Blue Mitchell, Dextor Gordon, Joe Williams, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Eartha Kitt, Clark Terry, Allan Harris, Ira Sullivan, Melton Mustafa, Dr. Lonnie Smith, and Monty Alexander.
https://jessejonesjrmusic.com
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Bree Noble is a music marketing & business coach, best-selling author of "The Musician's Profit Path", recognized speaker, and award-winning podcaster. As founder of both Women of Substance Radio and The Female Entrepreneur Musician, Bree is a champion and go-to resource for Indie artists in all genres. Her most popular offerings are her Female Musician Academy and her Rock Your Next Release program.
FEMusician & Female Musician Academy Team
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Avery Sommers is thrilled to be part of The Mabel Mercer Foundation 30th New York Cabaret Convention. Her other favorite concert appearances include Carnegie Hall, The Palm Beach Symphony Orchestra, and the Kravis Center. Avery is an award-winning actress/singer whose voice has been called a powerhouse by the New York Times. She was honored to replace Nell Carter on Broadway in Ain't Misbehavin'. On National Tour, she delighted audiences as Matron Mama Morton in Chicago (with Chita Rivera and Joel Grey) and charmed them as Jewel in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (with Ann-Margret).
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Emmelyne Kemp was born in Chicago. She is a pianist, vocalist, bandleader, Broadway composer, actress, lecturer, and an American music researcher. She is a protégé of Eubie Blake. She is best known as a Broadway composer and actor for Bubbling Brown Sugar.
Eubie Blake chose her to record his music on his EBM label. She performed her original songs on THE GUIDING LIGHT and CAPTAIN KANGAROO, appeared on ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT and OH BOY, BABIES! on NBC. In Woody Allen's film, SWEET AND LOWDOWN, Emme is shown in jam session scenes with Sean Penn. She has appeared in Dick Hyman's Jazz in July series at the 92nd Street Y, the Schomberg Center's Women in Jazz Festival, and received an Audelco Pioneer Award for her theatre contributions.
This former piano prodigy, three-year military woman and international artist was commissioned through the Chicago Defender to create her Echoes Out of Time theatre piece, received a National Endowment for the Arts award as well as awards from IWJ and the NAB&P Women.
An American music researcher, Ms. Kemp studied at Northwestern University, Berklee College of Music and New York University. She played at Carnegie Hall with the NYU Jazz Ensemble under Jimmy Giuffre and has appeared on numerous college campuses and at festivals. Emme's lectures and writings form a significant overview of popular culture.
"...one of the most accomplished female multitalented artists in the business." - BALTIMORE SUN
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Yvette Norwood-Tiger composed some new music. Strong (Joshua 1:9) came to me in a dream, while I recovered from surgery and radiation treatment for a brain tumor in 2012. It was a message from God of encouragement because I did not feel strong. I wanted to share this message with those who need encouragement. After my recovery, my husband, Stephen, and I went to listen to jazz because I missed live music. I met Elijah Gee at All That Jazz Restaurant in Sunrise, FL. Elijah helped me compose Strong by arranging and producing the song. It was my first original composition. Elijah’s friend, rapper Alexander Starr writes and performs positive rap music and his prowess was an excellent addition to Strong, recorded and released as a single in 2016. In 2014, I returned to performing with Eric & the Jazzers. One night at the Kreepy Tiki in Fort Lauderdale, keyboardist Ken Burkhart played his original song “Long Lost Friends”. I was enthralled by the melody and Latin beat. I asked him if I could add my lyrics to it and he agreed. The words came to me based off the title. We all experience saying goodbye to a loved one and hoping we can be together, again. My favorite verse is “When one I’ve lost has returned, for the yesterdays I yearn. I travel through my heart and pray we never part, again.” Long Lost Friends was recorded and released in 2019 on LOVE IS.
http://yvettenorwoodtiger.com
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Born August 1927, in Akron, OH, Jeannie Cheatham is a pianist, composer, and author of Meet Me With Your Black Drawers On. Her musical style was shaped in the church choir. She began piano lessons when she was five and went on to play in the school band. She and Jimmy Cheatham taught at the University of Wisconsin before moving to San Diego, in 1978, where they made their home.
http://jeanniecheatham.com
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Zita Steglich-Ross is the CEO of Steglich Ross and Associates. With over 30 years in the meetings and convention industry, Steglich Ross and Associates is your partner to take your event to the next level. We champion a highly collaborative process with our clients, which resulted in work that strengthens brand equity and builds engagement. The strength of our team is its diversity. Located in Orlando, Florida the number one meeting destination in the United States, Steglich Ross leverages a team of industry experts. From inspiration to execution, our team partners with yours to define your mission and develop your goals. With a pulse on the latest in event marketing, our team provides customized solutions designed to engage and motivate. From traditional initiatives to new media, we work with you to develop, design and deliver a customized targeted plan.
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Linda Harris shares her song "He Will Find Me" and "Drummer Boy" from her holiday CD Come Home For Christmas!
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Dee Daniels is a crowd pleaser, a musician’s musician. Whether accompanying her self at the piano, fronting a trio, big band or symphony, she is a unique talent who transcends musical borders with her jazz styling, infused with gospel and blues flavouring. The stepdaughter of a Baptist minister, Dee was born and raised in Oakland, CA. Though she graduated with a B.A. degree in Art Education, music was always a big part of her life. However, she didn’t discover her true calling to it until after teaching art in a Seattle high school for a year. She then joined a band, resigned her teaching position, and the rest is history! Since that day, Dee has traveled throughout the world with her music. She has shared the stage and/or recorded with numerous legends of jazz including Houston Person, Monty Alexander, John Clayton, Russell Malone, Cyrus Chestnut, Ken Peplowski, and Lewis Nash to mention a few. Her diverse career has seen her in clubs and prestigious music halls around the world, on theater stages, television and radio, performances for royalty, international dignitaries, and on many recordings as leader or guest. Dee has also established herself as a jazz vocalist in demand by the classical world, performing her three symphonic Pops programs with orchestras in the US, Canada, and Europe. Organizations and institutions in and out of the music industry have recognized Dee with awards for her contributions in music, education, fundraising, and community service.
www.deedaniels.com
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C. Akua Wright, CNHP is a holistic health consultant and educator. She is an energy medicine practitioner and a holistic health doula. Foremost, Akua is a Sacred Woman! In October 2018, she established a Non-Profit, Sacred Women Temple to assist women who have been the victims of Womb Trauma. She is passionate about healing womb trauma. Sacred Women Temple is a safe environment with experienced professionals to assist you in every stage of healing, whether it is from domestic violence, rape, childhood molestation, abortions, hysterectomies, ovarian cancer, infertility, cysts, or fibroids. Akua offers group healing classes and sessions to women circles, veterans, and seniors. She has assisted individuals with cancer, stroke, PTSD, depression, sexual assault, and abuse. Akua was one of 35 Keynote speakers for the Energy Medicine & Healing Summit 2019 sponsored by the Shift Network! She resides in South Carolina.
We are a Mobile Healing Platform - 843.631.6173 - sacredwomentemple@gmail.com
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Meri Ziev was born on April 12, in Pearl River, NY, where her love of music and art began. At 12, she and her mother moved to Fort Lauderdale. She trained with greats like Ann Hampton Callaway and Marilyn Maye, who Ella Fitzgerald dubbed “the greatest white female singer in the world!” Meri is a perpetual learner. She attended Swing-Time Jazz Bootcamp with Gabrielle Stravelli, in New York City, this summer. Meri continues to take voice and Jazz lessons, locally. Prior to her shift into the Jazz scene, Meri garnered awards for outstanding performances in musical theatre and established a Cabaret Series at the Lake Worth Playhouse. She studied for three summers at the St. Louis Cabaret Conference. Also, she studies with Tony Award winner, Faith Prince. Meri is also a certified Speech-Language Pathologist. She combines her love of communication, engaging an audience, and sharing music by creating lecture-performances for local retirement communities. Recently, she completed a studio recording with music director and arranger Phil Hinton, formerly with the BBC Orchestra. Meri performed with the Jupiter Jazz and Performing Arts Society. She is a regular at Jazz on J Street in Lake Worth, Florida, hosted by Blanche Williams. Legends Radio host and founder of the Society for the Preservation of the Great American Songbook and the Connecticut School of Broadcasting, Dick Robinson said Meri has, “a great voice, filled with passion!” Meri will be a Board Member of Women in Jazz South Florida in 2020-2022.
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Kimj was born in Glen Cove, N.Y. to Edith and Herbert Jenkins. Her father played guitar, keyboard, and timbales. A salsa lover, her father listened to the music of Willie Colon, Little Vega, and Mongo Sanataria, while her mother listened to MJQ, Carmen McCrea, Sarah Vaughn, Sonny Rollins and Miles Davis. At 9 years old, her Uncle David introduced her to John Coltrane's My Favorite Things, attuning Kimj to the sax. Shortly after that, Kimj found a silvertone alto sax in the attic. She took it to Mr. Hodges, her school music teacher who played bass. Hodges showed Kimj scales and she was hooked. Kimj attended Westbury, Hempstead public schools, and graduated from Fordham University in 1985. She is self-taught. She performed in several bands. In the band Special Assignment, Kimj met Michael Carpenter who introduced her to the EWI. In 2001, she became a soloist. Over the years, Kimj acquired the passion for other instruments and now she plays 12 instruments. She composes and writes lyrics that she sings during her performances. Kimj moved to Florida in 2009, when her mother passed. Her father died in December 2018. Kimj got her love and passion for music from them. She has a home studio thanks to their support and encouragement. In 2010, Kimj met Dr. Joan Cartwright of Women in Jazz South Florida. She is an active member and has performed with the Amazing Musicwomen Ensemble for three years. She performs throughout South Florida where she resides.
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Barbara Rubenstein was born on June 23 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Littlestown High School where she was Valedictorian, Adams County's Junior Miss and winner of numerous Pennsylvania State Baton Twirling Championships. Barbara was musically trained at Ithaca College's School of Music with a degree in Music Education as a clarinet major. Her 34-year teaching career included positions as an instrumental music teacher and band/orchestra director in Dallas, Texas, Rochester, NY, and her last 30 years prior to retirement in Victor, New York. In addition to teaching concert, jazz, and marching band, adjudication preparation, and conducting musical productions, she was the Coordinator of the District Music Department and supervised student teachers for 25 years. Barbara is a member of NAFME, NYSSMA, and FMEA. She is a life member of Sigma Alpha Iota and an honorary member of Tri-M. From 2006-2011, she served on NYSSMA's Executive Council as Zone Representative of the Genesee Region, acting as a liaison between local teachers and the state council, and overseeing adjudication festivals and All-State concerts for nine counties. She and her husband, Todd, moved to Palm Beach County in 2013, and have three grown children. Locally, she has performed with the Royal Palm Beach Community Band where she served as Associate Conductor (2014-2016), and the New Gardens Band, acting as interim/substitute and guest conductor (2014-2017). In 2017, she assumed the position of Music Director of the Boynton Beach Gold Coast Band.
www.goldcoastband.org/barb.html
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Geetu Hinduja is from Mumbai, India. She is a folk singer and guitarist in various genres - alternative, soft rock, pop, indie. Geetu tells vivid stories that transport the listener to the landscape of her mind. Her music is music for the soul. Training included Indian classical music under Neela Bhagwat, bhajans under P.D. Jalota, and with jazz vocalist and composer Mili Bermejo. She sang with the Mumbai choir Stop Gaps. Her music reflects her hopes and dreams, the struggle to belong, and her identity as a woman in Indian society. From Rumi’s poetry to reflections of Mumbai’s street life, from Adi Shankaracharya’s contemplation of the self to the hypocrisy of modern life – all find expression in her powerful voice and memorable melodies. Dancing Free was released in 1993 and, 19 years later, she released her Hope Faith Time & Me (2012), showcasing her musical and philosophical evolution. That album was dedicated to her sister Jyoti, who died fighting breast cancer in 2010. Geetu has toured, since 2009, performing originals and covers of Joan Baez, Natalie Merchant, Dido, Suzanne Vega, Bob Dylan, Alanis Morissette, and Bonnie Raitt. She performed at Kala Ghoda Festival in Mumbai, Jadhavgadh Music Festival, 18 Degrees Festival, Shillong, live for Anita Dongre (LFW, 2014), Celebrate Bandra Festival, and the International Aids Conference, Blue Frog in Mumbai, TLR Café in Delhi, Max Mueller Bhavan for Pune Jazz Club, NGMA, and the Jaipur Literature Festival 2014.
http://www.geetu.in
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WIJSF International President Biggi Vinkeloe (sax, flute) will perform with The Howard Trio with Amy Bormet (p) and Tina Raymond (d) at the 9th annual Washington Women in Jazz Festival on March 31, 2019, that features a Young Artist Showcase, business panels/discussions, jam sessions, and a diverse series of concerts celebrating women in jazz. Created by Amy Bormet in 2011, Washington Women in Jazz hosts an annual festival (WWJF) each March to celebrate the women of the DC jazz community.
Amy Reed is a visual artist and composer living in Sacramento, CA. She is the founder of Ma, a series that supports creative work by women at Gold Lion Arts, a performance/education space she co-creates with Ross Hammond. She studied extensively with Sarah Flohr. She allows her painting practice and her composing practice to inform her extensive research into performance, video, sound, improvisation, and listening. Recent work: Solo electric guitar, Ione’s 20th Annual Dream Festival; virtual Artists-in-Residence dream duo with ecologist Dr. Leo Polansky, large ensemble work with Phillip Greenlief, and an active duo with Ross Hammond performing original and traditional material. http://www.washingtonwomeninjazz.comhttp://maseriesarts.orghttp://www.wijsf.org
Carol Albert hails from Hiram, GA. Audiences across the globe have enjoyed Carol Albert's performances in venues from Europe to the United States. Carol performs as a solo artist and a high-energy show with her All-Star band of session and touring musicians. A Billboard artist, Carol Albert features a full array of jazz and fusion with spirited piano melodies, dreamy vocals, punchy percussion textures, and hypnotic ambiances. A fluent pianist, keyboardist, vocalist, and composer, Carol performs her unique sound with her contemporary jazz charting on popular renditions like Mas Que Nada and her original Billboard-charting hits. Carol cemented her place in the Contemporary Jazz scene with a new album which includes collaborations with top artists of Contemporary Jazz.
Carol’s newest single Femme Flight charted at #14 on Billboard Smooth Jazz Chart and is still rising. The single was released in January 2019 and will be included on her new album to be released in 2019. Carol celebrates three songs from her album Fly Away Butterfly, which made it to the Billboard Smooth Jazz charts. After paving the way with four popular radio singles in 2017, Carol entered 2018 with a Top 5 Billboard Hit, the single Fly Away Butterfly, that remained on the Billboard Chart for 18 weeks. Her Billboard single Chasing Waterfalls was on Billboard for 10 weeks in 2018. The popular remake of Mas Que Nada released in 2017, and is still played on SiriusXM Watercolors.
www.carolalbertmusic.com
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Libra Sene is a native New Yorker. She started singing at a very early age in a musical family. Her uncle Herbert Tisdale was a celebrated trumpet player who toured with several jazz greats. He encouraged Libra's love of music and learning. She attended the High School of Performing Arts. Soon after completion, Libra was recruited by the girl group MUSIQUE that had the chart-topping hits In The Bush, Keep On Jumping, and Summer Love. They toured Europe and Las Vegas and appeared on television and dance programs. Libra went solo to develop her night club act, performing Jazz and Soul. At a New York club, Ornette Coleman was so impressed with Libra's voice that he hired her to sing on the soundtrack of his film Box Office directed by Josef Bogdanovich. Libra became one of New York's most popular Jazz and Neo-soul artists. She sings standards and blends them with her own unique repertoire. Her performances leave the audience wanting more. Libra performed at Birdland, S.O.B 's, The Blue Note, and B.B. King's, and regularly at Ashford and Simpson’s Sugar Bar. Her one-woman show, SONG BIRD, was well-received in Europe, The Middle East, and West Africa. Libra resides in West Palm Beach where she continues to share her joy and love of music.
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Laurie Dapice hails from Utica, NY. She had vocal training with tenor Pasquale Caputo, then moved to Manhattan, in 1998. She studied at Mannes College of Music and New School University of Jazz and Contemporary Music, receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Performance and Music, in 2006. During her senior year, she had a weekly show Jazz Fever in Harlem and opened for trombonist Benny Powell. In 2008, she was one of New York’s top 12 Jazz Singers in the Jazzmobile competition and was in the top four. One month later, she headlined at the Zenith Sky Lounge in the Marriott Hotel in Japan. Her first album, Parting the Veil, was recorded at Bennett Studios in Englewood, NJ. She performed at Dream Hotel, Night Hotel, Savoy, Lexington Lounge, Alhambra Ballroom, Sweet Rhythm, Apollo Theater, Minton’s Playhouse, Kitano Hotel, and House of Jazz in Montreal Quebec. In July 2013, she performed with Jazz Forum in the Ella Fitzgerald Celebration at The Hudson River Museum’s amphitheater in Yonker’s where Ella grew up. She performed in Utica, NY, at Munson Williams Proctor Institute’s Annual Art and Music Festival and opened the Spring Jazz Series at Utica Public Library in a sold-out concert. She performed with Billy Harper, Barry Harris, George Mesterhazy, Michael Kanan, Rufus Reid, John DiMartino, Santi Debriano, James Weidman, Paul Lieberman, Elias Bailey, and Benito Gonzalez. Laurie is a 10-time award-winning Jazz Singer, lyricist, and musician, winning awards from ASCAP, Billboard Magazine, ASCAP Plus Awards, and USA songwriting competitions.
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Mariea Antoinette is a native of San Diego, California. She is a groundbreaking, national recording artist, and the world’s premier soulful, Jazz Funk Harpist. Her performances have taken her across the US and abroad. She attended Universary of California San Diego, majoring in music. She studied harp performance at the University of Arizona for her Master’s degree. She performed for the Los Angeles Southeast Symphony Orchestra as principle harpist, since 2007, and for public and private events, including for First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama. Mariea’s latest CD is entitled Straight From The Harp - Special Edition, which reached the Top 5 of the Smooth Jazz Global and Billboard Charts and was considered for Grammy nominations in five categories. Mariea’s newest single Overture debuted in the Billboard Top 5, held #1 position on the Smooth Jazz World Listener Chart for four weeks, and is #3, currently. In March 2018, she received the Black Women in Jazz and the Arts Award in Atlanta, the Black Music Award in LA in September, and the San Diego Prestige Award for Best Instrumentalist in October. Mariea is a musician that celebrates who she is and passionately follows her own creative path.
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Destiny Muhammad hails from Oakland, California. She is a recording and performing artist, bandleader, composer, and producer. Her genre Celtic to Coltrane™ is cool and eclectic with a feel of Jazz and storytelling to round out the sonic experience. Destiny opened for The Oakland East Bay Symphony and smooth jazz artist Gerald Albright, shared the stage with jazz masters Marcus Shelby, Omar Sosa, Ambrose Akisemuire, and Azar Lawrence. She headlined for Women in Jazz concert series, the AfroSolo Yerba Buena Gardens concert festival series, Sunday’s in the Redwoods concert series, Fest Sundiata, and Jazz Center in her Tribute to Alice Coltrane’s signature album Journey in Satchitdananda. She has done dance and music collaborations Dimensions Dance Theater Company, Dimensions Dance Theater Rites of Passage, Jetaun D’Armand and Dance Theater of The Gospel, Robert Henry Johnson, and Collette Eloi and El Wah Movement Dance Theater. Destiny is the principal harpist for the Eddie Gale Inner Peace Orchestra, the Oakland Community Orchestra and performs with The AWESOME Orchestra. The Destiny Muhammad Jazz Trio that follows in the footsteps of Jazz harp legends Alice Coltrane and Dorothy Ashby, who recorded with Freddie Hubbard, Frank Wess, Bill Withers, and Stevie Wonder. The Destiny Muhammad Jazz Trio is a sleek and soulful ensemble designed to showcase Muhammad’s soaring vocals and transporting string work. Whether interpreting jazz standards or her original tunes, Muhammad turns every piece into a soulful adventure.
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Linda D. Harris hails from Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts. A military brat, Linda lived in many places. She attended the University of Maryland and graduated with a BS in Business Administration in 1978. She is the owner of Carson Properties. Linda is the mother of one daughter, a son, and a granddaughter. Although, Linda said, “Music is my life!” she did not know that until 2016, at 61, when her husband left after decades of marriage, the kids grew up and all at once, she was alone. “So, what do you do. You sing for God’s sakes. You sing loud and strong. Reinvent yourself and live like you’ve never lived before,” Linda declared. In July 2016, she took a jazz performance workshop and after eight weekly sessions, performed on stage in front of hundreds, and received rave reviews. From there, she traveled abroad in Goteborg, Paris, Dubrovnik. Linda won third prize in a Dave Koz contest. Stateside, she performed in New Orleans, in Washington D.C. at Bethesda Jazz and Blues, Twins, JoJo, Alice Cultural and Jazz Society, Henley Park Hotel, Marriott Hotel, Carlyle Club, Blue Sunday and Robert Harper Books and Music. Linda released her first CD Shaking of the Dust (2017) with her original title tune. “It is the anthem of my unintended reinvention,” she said. Now, she is working on a release of original tunes in November 2018. In collaboration with Felipe Paccagnella, they have composed six tunes. A real estate management and investments expert for 30 years, Linda enjoys the flexibility of a career that sustains her while nurturing a career that soothes her soul!
Linda D. Harris resides in Mitchellville, Maryland.
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Gail Jhonson was born in Philadelphia, PA. Her fascination with the piano began at 10. By 14, Gail had played her first gig. Since then, she’s traveled the world. Gail graduated from Berklee College of Music with a B.A. in Composition. She moved to Los Angeles, where she’s performed with Norman Brown, Mindi Abair, Bobby Womack, Ray Parker Jr., Pink, Milli Vanilli, Morris Day, and Rain Pryor. On TV - The Jay Leno Show, BET, several videos, Gospel Theatre, Jazz Festivals with Cindy Bradley, Peabo Bryson, Jeff Lorber, and Patti Austin. In 2010 and 2011, The American Black Music Association awarded Gail a Spotlight Award in Los Angeles as "Best Jazz Musician." Her daughter Tamina performed and won “Best Jazz Vocalist.” Gail’s CD “Pearls” garnered the nod in the 51st Annual Grammy Awards, a featured artist on the SummerStorm Tour, hosted by Norman Brown, for whom she has been music director for many years. Gail leads the female ensemble Jazz in P!nk, with Karen Briggs, Althea Rene, and Mariea Antoinette. Her band is "3 Piece Suit". She is an educator and author of 3 music method books; composer for the musical “Overcome, Overjoyed” -showing at The El Portal Theatre/North Hollywood.
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Edlene Hart is an international soul singer from Yonkers, NY. She began singing at five, in church, where she was groomed by master keyboardist and musical director John Simmons. A powerful, sultry singer, Hart captivates an audience with her explosive stage presence. Dubbed “Chocolate Thunder”, she is also The Bus Lady in South Florida. Learning from the best, Edlene has shared the stage and recorded with Whitney Houston, Peggi Blu, Eryka Badu, Glen Jones, Issac Hayes, The Delphonics, Melba Moore, and Milara. Also, she opened for Tony Bennett. Hart toured Europe and South Africa singing gospel music. Edlene worked in top bands like The Funk Junkies, The NY Soul Sisters, The F&G Band, Groove Buffet & Steve Wexler, and The Top Shelf Band. Today, she resides in South Florida where she performs jazz, funk, pop, R&B, and Smooth Jazz with The Edlene Hart Band, Spellbound, and The Chill Factor Funk Band.
Sandra I. Lizano is a pre-arrangement expert and consultant with National Cremation Society. Her forte is educating people about the benefits of pre-arranging their end-of-life event.
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Dr. Lei Lewis is a Master People Connector and Exponential Growth Consultant and Founder, CEO, and Publisher of Women of Wealth Magazine, which is a multi-culture, nationwide, full-color magazine that operates with leadership and diversity in the forefront. WOW Magazine is in airports around the nation, Barnes & Nobles, and Books a Million. She is the founder of Men’s Business Quarterly Magazine (MBQ), KAT’s our Kids, and Teen Magazine positioned to influence wealth creation. Dr. Lewis founded WOW Global Power Summit and the Billionaire Roundtable Intensives. Dr. Lewis is a graduate of The University of GA Law School. She worked for Judge Carol Hunstein of the Georgia Supreme Court and for State Representative Mary Margaret Oliver. She practiced law for 20 years and traveled to London, Paris, Amsterdam, Germany, Nigeria, and South Africa. Dr. Lewis is an international motivational speaker and an ordained minister. She received many awards including a Resolution from the Georgia Legislative House and Senate from Senator Donzella James and State Rep Darshun Kendricks for Community Leadership and the Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award in November 2016. On November 18, 2018, Dr. Lewis will receive the Women’s Empowerment Award from the South Florida Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. On November 19, 2018, she will receive the Media Empowerment Award from Dr. Shirley Clark. She is the author of Eye of the Storm and Conversations with Wealthy Women. She is a U.S. Army veteran. She is the Founder and President of the State of Georgia National Women Political Caucus (NWPC).
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Andrea Brachfeld was born on May 3 in Utica, New York. She is a flutist, composer, and educator. She graduated from The High School of Music and Art and the Manhattan School of Music. Some artists she has associated with are Tito Puente, Ray Barretto, Hubert Laws, Nestor Torres, Dave Valentín, Paquito D’Rivera, Hilton Ruiz, Steve Turre, Wycliffe Gordon, Wallace Roney, and Bill O’ Connell among many others. Her breakthrough performance as the flutist for the popular Latin band Charanga ’76, catapulted her into Salsa history and fame as the first female flutist to play this music in the United States. Her many awards include the “Louis Armstrong Award for Outstanding Student” from Jazz Interactions in 1974, twice the recipient of the Latin New York Music Award, the Chico O’Farrill Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006, the “Pionero Award” in 2010, the “Best Jazz Flutist” by Hot House Magazine in 2015, and Downbeat Magazine referred to Andrea as “one of the finest jazz flutists around.”
Andrea tours with her group Andrea Brachfeld and Insight, featuring Bill O’Connell, Harvie S and Jason Tiemann, the Wallace Roney “Universe” Orchestra, and The Bill O’Connell Quartet / Dave Valentin Tribute Band. In June 2017, Andrea was awarded a grant from Chamber Music America and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to compose a new jazz work. Her new CD, If Not Now, When? will be released on Jazzheads in May 2018, reflecting this new music.
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Sandra Kaye honed her class act in a little bar in Dallas, TX, where she spent her formative years. She played the Hideaway Clubs for 8 years. Sandra moved in many musical directions with her style from Jazz to R&B, with jingles for radio and television. Today, she performs with several big bands in the United States. She performed in Asia for over six years. She was the opening act for Dionne Warwick, Patti Austin, The Platters, The Drifters, David “Fathead” Newman, Monty Alexander, Blue Lou Marini and Johnny Taylor. Iconic Performances include: The Beaux Art Ball, Duke Ellington Birthday Celebration, The National Anthem performance for The Texas Rangers,The Shelley Carrol/Brad LealI Big Band, The Curtis Bradshaw First Reunion Orchestra, The Dallas Jazz Orchestra, The Galen Jeter Orchestra, The Alan Glasscock Orchestra, The Vecho Vecencio Group,The JZ’s Big Band under the directions of Nicholas Bolucas, The JZ’s Big Band under the direction of Alec Haavik, The Rolf Becker Music Company and The Shanghai Conservatory Big Band. Sandra performed throughout the United States and Internationally in Japan, China, Italy, France, Greece, Spain, Turkey and West Africa. She was the resident vocalist at The Waldorf Astoria Shanghai in the famous Long Bar from April 2011 to April 2016, with a repertoire of songs from the Great American Song Book such as Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, Ain’t Misbehavin, and My Funny Valentine. Her new CD, Here's To Life, will release in March 2018.
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Kizie N. Washington is a native New Yorker. She is a professional violist who embarked on her musical journey at a very early age. Her musical training on the viola began at age five. Ms. Washington began her training on viola with Mrs. Nettie West and furthered her studies at Ithaca College Suzuki Institute in Ithaca, New York. During her formative years of training in New York, Ms. Washington had the distinct honor of performing with the New York Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall (Maestro Leonard Slatkin conducting) and with the Philadelphia Orchestra (Maestro Wolfgang Sawallisch conducting). In addition to her training in classical music, Ms. Washington has enjoyed success as professional model, dancer, choreographer, and singer in a variety television and magazine appearances during her life. She credits her diverse experiences in the performing arts for shaping her overall approach to music making. Ms. Washington currently performs both on the violin and viola in a number of orchestras and chamber ensemble groups throughout South Florida.
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Yvonne Faddis-Stroud was born in Oakland, California, into a musical family with her brother, jazz trumpeter Jon Faddis. She played piano since three. Yvonee has an incredible ear for music and, when she hears a song, it goes straight to her fingers. Her repertoire contains countless compositions, including jazz, blues, classical, Broadway, R & B, Motown, movie and TV themes, spirituals, and even video games. She majored in visual art, however, Yvonne performed regularly with the college jazz band and composed and performed original music for theatrical productions. She secured her first gigs improvising accompaniment to silent movies and leading her own jazz quartet in the Oakland area. In Northern California, she was a musical director at Oakland Ensemble Theater, played solo piano at country clubs, restaurants, and boutiques, and became the house pianist for Nordstrom’s in Walnut Creek. She collaborated in the studios of Fantasy Records with the chart-topping R&B group the Whispers, among other local groups. Since moving to Chicago, she has performed with Make Music Chicago and played for receptions for Orbert Davis’s Chicago Jazz Philharmonic. She has a television show, Yvonne’s Piano, which airs on Chicago’s WJYS TV 62. She produced 23 half-hour episodes, featuring her arrangements of jazz and popular tunes in solo and trio settings featuring bassist Larry Gray and drummer Joel Spencer. Also joining her were Sylvia De La Cerna, violin; Josh Ramos, bass; and Charles Heath, drums.
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Lori Williams hails from Washington, DC. Williams is turning a corner in 2017. In possession of a most impressive resume as a performing artist, educator, songwriter, producer, support vocalist and musical theater actress, her reputation, and level of respect are top shelf and unimpeachable. However, Washington, D.C.-native Lori is electing to let her hair down to pursue a more relaxed passion path in the realms of the Quiet Storm and R&B-leaning Soul-Jazz. Kicking off this current (and surely to evolve) direction is a special double-A-sided single “I Like the Way You Talk to Me” (which she co-wrote with prolific contemporary jazz producer/keyboardist Bob Baldwin) banded with a tasty remix edit of her recent cover of the Isaac Hayes gem “Déjà vu” (made famous in 1979 by Dionne Warwick). This single will lead into the forthcoming release of her fourth album, Out of the Box.
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Larry Reni Thomas, a native of Wilmington, NC, is a writer, radio announcer, and lecturer based in Chapel Hill. His articles appeared in Downbeat and The New York Times. He is the author of The True Story Behind The Wilmington Ten (KHA Books, 1993) and Rabbit! Rabbit! Rabbit!: A Fictional Account of The Wilmington Ten Incident of February 1971 (KHA Books, 2006). Thomas wrote The Lady Who Shot Lee Morgan, an article about Helen Morgan, who killed jazz trumpeter, in 1972. The book was published in 2014. Thomas' lecture, The Carolina Jazz Connection with Larry Thomas, was presented at schools, colleges, universities, libraries, and public places, since 2008. He was named Jazz Hero in 2014 by The Jazz Journalists Association; received the Fifth Annual Donald Meade Legacy Jazz Griot Award at The Jazz Education Network conference in 2016, and has been a Downbeat jazz critic since 2012. Thomas is also the host of “Sunday Night Jazz” on WCOM-FM, Chapel Hill-Carrboro, NC.
Email: lrt0393@hotmail.com
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Shantal Maure is a singer and composer, born in Grand-Mère, Québec, Canada. Today, she resides in Montreal. She has been in the music industry for 25 years. In the early 1990's, she joined the group JLM, a techno-euro-dance act and recorded Come Into My Life in Belgium, in 1994. The band sold over 1.5 million copies of the first single Come Into My Life and have been #1 in the Northern Countries. The was signed under many important labels, including Toco International-England, Game Records-Belgium, Panic Records-France, and Sony Music-Canada. After facing major problems with their manager, the band split up. Shantal got back on stage where she explores the old jazz standards and performs throughout Québec in clubs like Salle André Mathieu in Laval. Also, Shantal traveled to the USA to perform. Back in Canada, she works on original material which will release soon.
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Jacqui Sutton hails from Houston, Texas. She draws on over 20 years of musical and stage experience to leave her personal stamp on her favorite songs. She got her start as a singer as a member of a vocal jazz ensemble called Jazzmouth, founded by Bay Area vocalist and composer Molly Holm in the early 1980s. At the time, heavyweights like Bobby McFerrin and Tuck & Patti were ascendant, and these, among many other Bay Area musicians, were her influences as she sought to master the jazz idiom. When she moved to Portland, Oregon 4 years later, she was exposed to bluegrass music while learning how to contra dance. The sound of the banjo, mandolin, and fiddle would continually intermingle with jazz in her ears, and over the ensuing 20 years, this melding coalesced into the Frontier Jazz sound.
Frontier Jazz is a sound that Jacqui believes could have only been created in Texas. It’s not what she expected when she and her husband moved from New York (by way of Madison, Wisconsin) back in 2008, but much to her surprise and joy, the Houston-based musicians who make up the Frontier Jazz Orchestra turned out to be the perfect bandmates to help her interweave the predominantly jazz/bluegrass sound with the musical influences that she has been attracted to most of her life.
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Antonia Wilson was born in Nassau, Bahamas and resides in South Florida. She began studying piano and violin at four. She attended Suzuki Violin Summer Camps at Manhattan School of Music in NY, the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music (ABRSM), and Trinity College London. She has a B.A. in Music and a Master’s in Education. After college, she taught music for Miami-Dade Public Schools and worked with faith-based organizations as Music and Arts Director or a piano/organ accompanist. She was a featured composer at Southeastern African American Collegiate Festival Consortium and now works on the staff. Antonia is the artistic director for her group, Legato Vocal Ensemble in South Florida. She has performed and produced concerts in the Bahamas, Mexico, and Spain. Also, she partnered with artists in Russia, Cuba, France, and the USA. In 2015, this arranger and producer released a CD Me and Hymn and four promotional videos, highlighting sacred songs with fusions of classical, gospel, R&B, and jazz. She is producing a collection of contemporary pieces with two music videos from her project The Sower and The Seed with a track Love Joy Peace and Harmony sung by UK soul singer Josh Stone. In August 2016, Antonia participates as a Bahamian composer at the American Cantat 8 Music Festival hosted by the Ministry of Tourism in Nassau, Bahamas.
www.antoniawilsonmusic.com
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Sheila Linda Firestone is from the Bronx, NY. She is a composer and educator with an M.S.Ed. from Florida Atlantic University. Sheila has created new music since 1987. She writes ballads, neo-classical music, sacred and choral works, songs for children, and published a meditation CD. She is retired from teaching Communications and creating curriculum for gifted elementary students in Miami-Dade Public Schools for 25 years, through grants and awards. Dr. Anne K. Gray identified Sheila in her Pulitzer Prize nomination book, The World of Women in Classical Music. Also, she is in Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in America, and Who’s Who in Education. In 1996, she was Teacher of Note by Young Patroness’ of the Opera. Currently, Sheila is the President of the Boca Raton branch of The National League of American Pen Women. She is a member of Sigma Alpha Iota, a national music fraternity. She is a member of the Delian Society, an online network of music composers who create collectively composed suites. She is a member of The Women Cantor’s Network, and a past president of Miami Dade County’s Council for Exceptional Children. One of her most important works is “Miriam and the Women of the Desert,” ©2016 is an opera about Miriam and the Women of the Desert; an opera telling the story of the Exodus through the eyes of Miriam. Parts are available for piano, voice, chorus, and small ensemble with clarinet, violin, cello, and piano parts.
www.sheilafirestone.com
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Kim Clarke is a native New Yorker. She is a bassist and composer. She is a parent, bassist, composer, bandleader, website developer, educator, and earring designer. Most known for her electric bass playing with Joseph Bowie's Defunkt, she toured with Joe Henderson and Joanne Brackeen. She performed locally with Art Blakey, Marylou Williams, Bertha Hope, Harold Ousley, Jimmy Heath, Jaki Byard, George Braith and Space Island, Rashied Ali, Junior Cooke, Steve Coleman and Five Elements, Teri Thornton, Lester Bowie, Andy Bey, Louis and Gerald Hayes, Lionel Hampton, Donald Byrd, Donald Blackman, Candido, Patato, Little Jimmy Scott, Dr. Billy Taylor, Olu Dara, Screamin Jay Hawkins, Philly Joe Jones, Marylou Williams, Sharon Freeman, and Geri Allen. She is the founder and producer of the LADY GOT CHOPS Women's History Month Music and Arts Festival, Inc. that has the mission of globally elevating Women's History Month through the promotion of women's contributions, artistic and otherwise, during the month of March. It is a grassroots institution providing free promotion to women artists and bookings in celebration of Women's History Month. Incorporated in December 2015, the festival became a 501(c)(3) not for profit corporation in 2017. In 2018, LADY GOT CHOPS will celebrate its 16th year.
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Mireia Carbonell was born in Barcelona in 1979. She studied classical piano and guitar at 13. In her twenties, she studied guitar at Sabadell’s Conservatory, electric bass guitar at Aula de Música Moderna i Jazz de Barcelona and played bass in bands. In 2001, she earned a Mention Through Composition Competition at Sabadell’s Conservatory and won first prize, in 2002. In 2005, she studied at Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC) where she graduated in electric bass. Her thesis was on Ona Laietana's Music, an underground genre from Barcelona, famous in the 70s, that was marginalized by the establishment. The absence of bibliography led Mireia to interview many musicians from this period. On 2010, she moved to Amsterdam, where she played with the Victor Sams duo and Sound of Persia and started her music project Periscopi Inverit. Mireia studied with bassists Jordi Ruiz, Ignasi Zamora, Gary Willis, Josep Pérez Cucurella; the pianist Ignasi Terraza, and mentor drummer Lucas van Merwijk. Mireia worked as a bass player in bands, musical theatre, and a circus company in jazz, funk, pop and world music. She taught music in Barcelona, Catalonia (2002-2010), and as a private tutor in Amsterdam (2010-2013). She lives in London, where she performed with Nelson & Friends afro-beat band, Blue Croon, a jazz band, Sonia Dali electro-jazz band. In July 2015, she recorded Kendi Yolumda and got a record deal with Topkapi Müzik. Currently, she performs with Koroleko afro-beat band, Malunga soul songwriter and with some jazz bands as a side player.
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Dr. Evelyn Bethune, selected as A Phenomenal Woman 2015, and one of the Most Influential Women in Business for 2012 and 2014 by the Daytona Beach Business Journal, is the granddaughter of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, and CEO of The Bethune Publishing House, Inc. She is the founder of MMB Institute, a mentoring and instructional foundation for young people of all ages. She is a published author, lecturer, and motivational speaker working to expand knowledge of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune and to ensure the continuation, growth, and development of her legacy by encouraging and promoting education and community service in a variety of platforms. Bethune Publishing House, Inc. publishes books that are motivating, educational, and visionary. “I write so others can learn,” says Dr. Evelyn Bethune. Bethune Publishing was started to empower community writers to publish their work and give voice to life stories, moments in time, and creative imaginations. “Everything we do, every project selected, has a direct relationship to the faith-based concept of 'educate to serve'.” We must produce more positive images, words, and concepts that open new avenues of seeing the world. Literacy is a true road to freedom. Without literacy, we remain in the invisible shackles of ignorance. Education is our center of gravity. Education is our point of departure and becoming better human beings through shared knowledge is our ultimate destination.”
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Kat Riggins was born Katriva Riggins in Miami, Florida on February 7, 1980. She grew up in a household where there was always background music. She was drawn to the smokey gritty sounds of Bessie Smith, Sam Cooke, Nina Simone, Tina Turner, Denise LaSalle, Etta James, Ray Charles, Koko Taylor, Janis Joplin and the list goes on. She sang in local programs, church events, and family gatherings with her sister and cousins. At 23, Kat landed a gig in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida with a piano player. Since then, she has performed throughout Florida, New Orleans, Vietnam, Thailand, China, South Korea, Curacao, Belgium and The Netherlands so far. Kat's style is a blend of the blues, hip hop, pop, rock, gospel, and country music. Her first two songs were Seoul Music and an original album Lily Rose. Her latest album, aptly named after her band Blues Revival is a loud and proud declaration of her love for the blues. It is a clever mashup of gospel-blues, blues-rock, funky blues, contemporary and traditional blues, with BLUES being the operative! With this and albums to come, Kat Riggins' goal is to be a part of the musical revolution to awaken the masses and introduce them to the sincerity behind blues music. "I thank God that my passion is my purpose. That is to help preserve this endangered species called The Blues."
http://katriggins.com
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Rochelle Marie Lightfoot was born in Miami, FL and raised in Dallas, TX. She is a gifted vocal phenomenon. She started singing at 18 months old. A few years later she began singing at churches, community events, and state competitions, often placing first in the talent category. During middle and high school, she also learned to play the viola, flute, and percussion instruments. After high school, she obtained management degrees from Miami Dade College and Florida International University. Rochelle Lightfoot, "The Sweetheart of Song" is an American multi-genre singer, songwriter, and spokesperson. She is known for her thunderous big voice and powerful rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner, during an NFL Miami Dolphins football game in 2013, and internationally for U.S. Soccer WNT in 2016 on ESPN Sports. As a mezzo soprano, she shares a warm and colorful range, and is sought after for her velvety vocals and spirited performances.
www.rochellelightfoot.com
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Antonia Wilson is a Bahamian-American residing in South Florida. She began studying piano and violin at four. She attended Suzuki Violin Summer Camps at Manhattan School of Music in NY, the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music (ABRSM), and Trinity College London. She has a B.A. in Music and a Master’s in Education. After college, she taught music for Miami-Dade Public Schools and worked with faith-based organizations as Music and Arts Director or a piano/organ accompanist. She was a featured composer at Southeastern African American Collegiate Festival Consortium and now works on the staff. Antonia is the artistic director for her group, Legato Vocal Ensemble in South Florida. She has performed and produced concerts in the Bahamas, Mexico, and Spain. Also, she partnered with artist in Russia, Cuba, France, and the USA. In 2015, this arranger and producer released a CD Me and Hymn and four promotional videos, highlighting sacred songs with fusions of classical, gospel, R&B, and jazz. She is producing a collection of contemporary pieces with two music videos from her project The Sower and The Seed with a track Love Joy Peace and Harmony sung by UK soul singer Joss Stone. In August 2016, Antonia participates as a Bahamian composer at the American Cantat 8 Music Festival hosted by the Ministry of Tourism in Nassau, Bahamas.
www.antoniawilsonmusic.com
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Lourdes Valentin was born in the Bronx, NY, from Puerto Rican parents. She graduated from Miami Dade College, where she was trained in the classical, jazz, pop and musical theater genres. After working for two years to develop her music career by working with other bands, she formed a quartet. She experimented with different ideas to develop the concept she uses, today. Lourdes’ concept involves different genres, unique arrangements, lots of improvisations, rich, exciting rhythms, and solid, warm lyrics that inspire and uplift the spirit of her audiences. The concept changes as she has new experiences and explores new territories in the music world. Her work experiences have been an adventurous journey from Jazz festivals in Florida, a Billie Holiday Tribute contracted by Cristian Dior, Soloist with The Great Miami Symphonic Band. Often, Lourdes is contracted by foundations, corporations and creative brides to write personalized songs. Presently, she is collaborating with The Miami Big Sound Orchestra as the lead female singer. Her blog connects her on personal level with her audience. This process created an idea for a future foundation called Heaven's Girl, a name given to her by her pianist. It reminds her of how Lester Young named Billie Holiday. The mission of the foundation is to help women know their value and discover and use their talents to become entrepreneurs.
www.lourdesvalentin.com
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Women in Jazz South Florida, Inc. is a non-profit organization that promotes women musicians, globally. This episode features two songs from the 6th CD of women composers released in March, 2016.
Debbie Pierce Taft's song is Tough Love. Debbie Pierce - SaxGiuseppe Pucci - DrumsBrad Keller - KeyboardsDave Wilkenson - Bass
Love Simon's song is Amarachukwu.
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Barbara Evans' career started when she worked on the set of the CBS soap opera "The Guiding Light" where she met Meg Ryan and Marisa Tomei and was immediately bitten by the Hollywood bug. She took off to Europe and succeeded as a professional runway model. While in Europe, she picked up several languages and toured as a vocalist, hosted talk shows, and appeared as an actress on popular TV networks. However, real opportunity knocked at her door when she was offered a once in a lifetime chance to perform for the great tenor Pavarotti. She moved back to the United States and turned music into a full time passion. Barbara charmed legendary producer Quincy Jones with her signature vocals and has shared the stage with Mariah Carey, Michael Bolton, and the Blues Brothers. Her song list consists of a variety of singing styles and languages, including Jazz, Pop, Disco, Motown. and Top 40, all performed with a select group of talented musicians.
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Millissa LadySong works in information technology but, on occasional nights, she hosts The LadySong Show, an online music and entertainment program at http://Netlyme.com
Millissa grew up in Birmingham, England, where she was trained and sang with a youth chorale, singing cantatas, spirituals and gospels in churches. Millissa traveled throughout Europe and the Caribbean taking part in choir festivals. Millissa lived New York until she moved to South Florida. Her vocal ability and management experience led her to manage several choirs.
Millissa has been writing songs for over 25 years. Though an inspired songwriter, Millissa never took it seriously. However, she entered a song writing competition and was encouraged when the song came second. Millissa plans to be a published songwriter.
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Fran Friedman (Frankie) has been a bassist for several decades. She was a full time player in the 70’s, when live bands filled the clubs 7 nights a week. She went back to school in the early 1980’s and became a clinical psychologist, but continued playing in local clubs in Cleveland, OH. While her roots and first love are in the blues, Fran has enjoyed playing a variety of classic rock, R&B, and pop, along with high energy blues throughout the years. After relocating to Florida in 2012, she connected with the local blues scene and became the bass player at a Saturday night blues jam in Lauderhill. Always interested in connecting with and promoting other female players, she started a Facebook group South Florida Women in Music as a free forum for local women musicians to promote their events. Her company, Breakout Productions produced a sold-out event called Three Diva Night, highlighting several of South Florida’s female performers, including Mary Jane Cunningham, Sistah Mary Beth, and Rachelle Coba, whom she backed with Frankie’s Backline Blues Band. Currently, she has a new projects, including another Diva night in 2016. Fran welcomes female singers, instrumentalists, songwriters, and those who support them to join South Florida Women in Music on Facebook to grow a thriving community for local women in music. Promote yourself shamelessly!
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Brent Charles hails from Long Island, New York, this unique vocalist comes from a large musical family that spans the globe. Demonstrating deep warm tones to a vibrant whistle register and producing C3’s to D7’s effortlessly with a vocal range of more than four octaves, Brent Charles sings in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Hebrew and has a musical range from Pavarotti, Sinatra and Barry White to Ne-Yo, Prince, Phillip Bailey, and Bruno Mars. Traveling extensively Brent developed a keen interest in various forms of art early in life. Since his father wanted him to have a secure future with a “real job”, Brent initially studied computer technology & engineering and worked with his father at IBM for a short while before eventually embarking on a U.S. & South Pacific tour. Receiving a full scholarship in 2003 to the University of Miami Frost School of Music furthered his musical growth and desire. Although Brent is also a professional S.A.G. eligible actor/model and a professional visual artist (abstract & surrealism; mediums - acrylics, oils, and watercolor), his primary focus is unquestionably his first love, music. Brent is the 299th member of www.wijsf.org and our 54th male supporter.
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Blanche Williams was hooked on the beauty, genius, and history of jazz since her father introduced her to jazz, through music reels he brought back from overseas, while in the Air Force. On November 2, 2014, Blanche began a weekly hour-long Sunday drive to take flute lessons from Grammy Nominated Music Educator Melton Mustafa Jr. Her dedication and passion helped her become a member of the Palm Beach State College Jazz Combo, Lake Worth Campus, within a year of playing. Her stage name is Fluteity, representing the continuous flow and flexibility that jazz allows. Blanche gained notoriety as host of XM Satellite Radio show Greatness By Design in DC (2003-2010), interviewing the world's most fascinating jazz legends Sonny Rollins, George Duke, Nancy Wilson, Lalah Hathaway, and Quincy Jones. She conducted stellar panel discussions and covered historic events including front row coverage of the Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama. She is President of Greatness By Design LLC, specializing in team development, leadership training, and strategic planning. She holds an Master’s in Leadership with BA in Communication Studies and is the author of How To Design Your Mind For Greatness and contributing author in Chicken Soup for the African-American Woman’s Soul, Black Girls Guide: How To Be A Sister, and Tuesday Morning Love: 52 Commentaries and Weekly Affirmations to Honor the SoulWithin the Souldier. She established and convened National Black Women’s Town Hall Meetings (2008–2010), garnering a private invitation from First Lady Michelle Obama to the White House.
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Rita Graham’s career as a jazz vocalist was jump-started when Ray Charles produced an album of lush standards for her in 1969. The album, Rita Graham Vibrations is the only major project that Ray Charles produced for a female artist on his label Tangerine Records (TRC-1507). As the lead vocalist in Rita and the Tiaras, Ms. Graham recorded the UK Northern Soul Classic, Gone with the Wind is My Love (Rita and the Tiaras). A stint as one of Ray Charles’ Raelettes was followed by a two-year featured spot with the Harry James Orchestra, on European and Far East tours, and a series of recordings produced by TV composer Mike Post. Rita was featured with jazz great Oscar Peterson, Mercer Ellington and the Duke Ellington Orchestra, and comedian Redd Foxx. She originated the role of Coretta Scott King in Woodie King Jr.’s production of the Martin Luther King, Jr. documusical, Selma, off-Broadway. Read more at www.ritagraham.com
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Doreen Ketchens was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Doreen’s Jazz New Orleans has represented New Orleans and the United States in Africa, Asia, Canada, Europe, South America, Russia and the United States. They have performed for four United States presidents, including Bill Clinton, George Bush Sr., Ronald Reagan, and Jimmy Carter. The band also boasts 23 volumes of CD’s and 3 DVD’s. In addition to being a superb performer, Doreen is an outstanding educator. She performs in schools around the world, educating students of all languages, spreading the culture and music of New Orleans.
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Melba Joyce was born in Dallas, TX and grew up under the musical influence of her mother and grand parents. Her father, Melvin Moore, a prominent vocalist with the jazz and swing bands of his era, including Dizzy Gillespie, was also one of Melba's influences. After moving to Los Angeles, Melba was noticed by musicians and opened for Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, and Smokey Robinson & the Miracles. She is a graduate of Antioch University West in Los Angeles, California. In addition to jazz vocal appearances, Melba appeared in the Tony Award-winning Broadway show Black and Blue, as understudy to all three principal characters: Linda Hopkins, Ruth Brown, and Carrie Smith. She starred in the launching of the show's world tour. Melba appeared in major and minor cities in the world from Amsterdam to Beijing, London and Bordeaux; to New York, Dallas, Beverly Hills, and Little Rock, Arkansas. Melba Joyce toured war-torn fields of Vietnam to entertain the troops, an experience that raised her social conscience. When Melba returned, she was a panelist for the Congressional Black Caucus of Women in Jazz Forum. She produced the first Women in Jazz Festival at Harlem's Schomburg Center for Black Culture; and became a principal in the Day of the Child Series for UNICEF. With funding from the National Endowment For The Arts, she produced Jazz For Special People, a musical education series for the handicapped.
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Although this event was cancelled due to a lack of registrants, we are airing this show to discuss the reasons why we called for the Symposium on Women in the Arts. It seems that women in music do not understand the importance of unifying to address the severe marginalization of women in music in performances, music programming, and receipt of financial benefits from grants, across the nation. At www.wijsf.org, we are committed to supporting and promoting women in music, globally. We shall continue to do what we can to increase the profiles of our musical members.
Sandra Kaye was born on November 4, in Dallas, Texas. The only daughter of a minister, she grew up singing gospel music and was often featured in church socials as a young girl with various choirs and girl groups.
Sandra started her professional career by winning an amateur contest at the West End Cabaret Dallas, in 1987. She established herself as the consummate artist. She attributes her success to having a good rapport with great musicians, many hours of practice, countless gigs and frequent visits to open mic nights of local night spots and other American cities.
Her first experience of big band was with the Shelley Carroll Big Band and she has been featured with the Curtis Bradshaw's First Reunion Orchestra, The Dallas Jazz Orchestra, The Galen Jeter Orchestra and the Vecho Vecencio Group.
Presently, Sandra Kaye is on a 3-month hiatus from her 4-year contract at the Long Bar at the Waldorf Astoria in Shanghai, China, where she returns on October 1, 2015.
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Currently living in Los Angeles, Amy K. Bormet is an active pianist, vocalist, arranger, and composer. The quintet from her debut album, Striking, was featured as part of the 2012 Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival at the Kennedy Center. In 2011, Amy created the Washington Women in Jazz Festival in Washington, DC, and continues to serve as executive director.
In addition to her piano performances, Ms. Bormet is a prolific composer. She was commissioned to arrange her composition “Lightning” for the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra and Howard University's Afro Blue, which premiered on the National Mall as a part of Jazz Appreciation Month. She has been commissioned to write for the Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra, Howard University Jazz Ensemble, and the Brad Linde Ensemble among others. Her music is featured in short films, radio dramas, and audio books.
Amy is an alumna of the Kennedy Center's residency program for composer/performers, Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead, and the inaugural Mary Lou Williams Emerging Artist Workshop. She received her master’s degree in jazz studies from Howard University in 2010. As a member of the Howard University Jazz Ensemble, Amy toured Japan, and performed at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater with NEA Jazz Master McCoy Tyner.
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Women in Jazz South Florida, Inc. released its 5th compilation CD of 12 fabulous female composers on January 2, 2015, featuring the original compositions of 12 members: Carolyn Wilkins - Mary LouSharon Rae North - The Way You Make Me FeelSigrun Jording - Lullabye For Mrs. JonesJoan Cartwright - Loneliblue 1981Mimi Johnson - Don't Stop LoveGail Jhonson - Ms. GCarol Garrett - Live On PurposeRagan Whiteside - FunktuationKaren Daniels - I'm On To YouPeggy Duquesnel Malbon - Old FriendsColleen Chanel - Fly Like An Angellaraina_c - Shed Light This CD is available with the other four WIJSF CDs at www.wijsf.com/compcds.htm
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Cilene Bosch was born in Brasil, moved to Los Angeles at 4. She moved to Nashville in 1995, where her daughter attended college. She worked in travel and hospitality, until she worked as marketing manager for Media Play a Big Box multi-entertainment retailer with stores nationwide and handled 11 stores, overseeing marking and promotions. She worked with music labels to drive sales, organized in-store point of purchase displays and events in collaboration with a video company, offering independent artists consignment in a retail environment, featuring a video of artists, looped on a TV near the display of their product. The concept was put in stores in a nine-bank screen display, countrywide. Many indies performed in the stores. Cilene received the Music Woman to Watch Award from Music Woman in Nashville. She founded Women of Music Music of Women (WMMW) that presented concerts, networking, showcases, media, radio play, retail sales of music, when there was no Facebook or YouTube. By connecting with international organization her members received radio play, interviews, and were hightlighted in her monthly newsletter that featured industry experts. In June 2000, she Voice Records became the WMMW record label. With 11 chapters in U.S. cities and abroad, the launch party was hosted at Warner Brothers Headquarters on Music Row. Cilene was Honorary Committee member of Donne de Musica in Rome, Italy, and three WMMW artists participated in their jubilee. Due to her father’s illness, Cilene closed WMMW in 2004, but she remains interested in supporting women in music.
Dr. Donna Singer is a graduate of the New York Academy of Theatrical Arts, with formal training at Julliard. She is an international recording artist, who is an electrifying and dazzling show-stopper with a remarkable repertoire of jazz, swing, and R&B. Her cool, sultry, vibrant, and playful voice has wowed audiences in intimate cafés, theaters, and concert venues. Donna has a wholesome presence that is fun, energetic and memorable. Her music is played on radio stations in the U.S. and on the Europe Jazz Network. Take the Day Off: Escape With Jazz was #20 on 2012 CMJ Jazz Charts with radio airplay on 175 stations in the U.S., Netherlands, Canada, UK, Japan, and Germany. Jazz in the Living Room is available for purchase online. It will be released internationally in January 2014. Kiss Me Beneath The Mistletoe was #23 on the 2012 CMJ Jazz Charts. To accommodate the growing demand of followers, Donna’s CDs are available on iTunes, CDBaby, Rhapsody, GooglePlay and Amazon, in USA, UK, Germany, and Japan. Her YouTube videos have over 500,000 views. She has organized concerts in upstate New York for fundraisers for United Way, Federation for the Homeless, and St. Baldswick Day, and other concerts in NYC and at Jazz Festivals.
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Cheryl Dyrithe Barnes is a Cleveland native living in Southern California. She is a classically trained jazz singer with remarkable depth, range and technique. Beloved around the world as a captivating live performer, Cheryl shied away from making records for nearly a decade. Cheryl Barnes harbors fond memories of music’s presence throughout her early life. “My father, Calvert Barnes, played music 24 hours a day in the house from his collection of old 78s and LPs – all the big bands, all the singers, all the jazz. Then on the radio he enjoyed the rich beautiful melodies of Mantovani and the 101 strings. No rock n’ roll allowed in the house!” Raised Catholic, Cheryl – unlike many Black singers - did not grow up in gospel yet sought and loved that and ALL music just the same. In 2014, Ms. Barnes returns with her fourth and finest album Listen to This, produced by Rahn Coleman and featuring her husband Phil Cabasso on piano, saxophonists Rickey Woodard and Pete Christlieb, pianists John Hammond and Joel Scott, and trumpeter Nolan Shaheed. Ms. Barnes is the quintessential performer, wowing audiences worldwide with her unerring sense for creating and sustaining a musical and personal rapport, be it within intimate club settings or commanding concert stages. The lady has shared the stage with Quincy Jones, Wynton Marsalis, Lou Rawls, J.J. Johnson and Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr.
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A dynamic duo, The Diva & Daughter Joan Cartwright and Mimi Johnsondotnet come together to discuss their accomplishments in 2014 and goals for 2015 and beyond. Joan is pursuing her DBA in Business Marketing, while Mimi owns and operates an online TV network - www.mjtvnetwork.info targeting all markets globally that are interested in positive influential TV.
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Diane Ellis is from Chicago, Il. She is a muli-instrumentalist that performs and teaches.
Mimi Johnson is The Arts Reporter. She is the daughter and heir to the throne of Diva Joan Cartwright (Diva JC). Mimi is an accomplished vocalist, songwriter and actor. Her premiere stage play "Woman: The Musical" in which her mother and 17 other talented actors and musicians were cast debuted in March 2013. Mimi produces a weekly WEBTV Show "The Arts Reporter". Her newest endeavor is the production of "The Siblings Sitcom" that will debut on MJTV Network at YouTube on November 1. Filmed in Atlanta at Mark Squared Studio, this sitcom promises to tickle your funny bone. Mimi serves as the Secretary of Women in Jazz South Florida, Inc. and is featured on the second, third and fourth compilation CDs of fabulous female composers. www.mimijohnson.net www.wijsf.org
WEB TV Host, Vocalist, composer, producer, playwrite, marketing mogul Mimi Johnson is The Arts Reporter, a prolific artist and the Secretary of the Board of Women in Jazz South Florida, Inc. She is also Diva JC's daughter and, together, they will set your heart on fire with The Diva & Daughter Experience. www.mimijohnson.net www.joancartwright.com www.wijsf.org
My guest is event planner Marika Guyton, CEO of AboutU4U, LLC, a certified event planner. www.aboutu4u.com Since 2007, Women in Jazz South Florida, Inc., has been a 501(c)(3) non-profit, educational organization that promotes women musicians, globally, through events, concerts, performances, clinics, lectures, workshops, articles, interviews, newsletters, courses, contacts, research, history, archives, websites, film, audio and video recording, and recognition. www.wijsf.org
Ron Weber and his members are celebrating 21 Years of Great Jazz! South Florida JAZZ is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation now celebrating its 21st anniversary! The organization is open to any jazz enthusiast and members are eligible to purchase discounted tickets and subscriptions to SFJ-sponsored events. They also receive the acclaimed quarterly newsletter, RIM SHOTS!, especially designed to raise your HQ (Hip Quotient). Website: www.southfloridajazz.org. Contact Diva JC at divajc47@yahoo.com and visit our website at www.wijsf.org. See our radio guests at www.wijsf.com/radio.htm
Women in Jazz South Florida, Inc. is proud to present its third compilation CD with 10 fabulous women composers. Guests: Dotti Anita TaylorKathy Yolanda Rice www.wijsf.org/radio.htm www.wijsf.org
Flutist, vocalist, and songwriter, Ragan Whiteside is taking the Contemporary Jazz world by storm. With her unique style and soulful vibe, this triple threat is bringing the flute back into mainstream focus. Ragan began her musical journey at 5. She played the piano, drums, and the violin, but found her true love in playing the flute. From there she went on to study classical music. She attended the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Harid Conservatory, where she earned a Bachelor of Music-Performance degree. Winner of the Capital Jazz New Artist Competition, she released her debut album, Class Axe in 2007. Her sophomore release, Evolve showcases her melodious musicianship as a flutist, her sultry vocals, and soulful compositions. www.raganwhiteside.com
Diva JC and Mimi Johnson welcome vocalist and composer Nick Mathis to discuss their roles as music service providers. The shift from being a musician to being a music service provider requires conscious reflection on the status and responsibilities of the latter professional. Knowing what the customer wants, coupled with caring creates a business atmosphere for marketers to grow their market share. In the music industry, this philosophy holds true. Jazz musicians that work a lot are savvy about negotiating attractive venues, spreading the word and compiling a fan base. Every business relies on the value proposition, that is, reasonable exchange that results in emotional pleasure. It behooves music service providers to seek jobs at luxurious venues, where people connect, while enjoying good wine and food at a great destination. Links: Joan CartwrightNick MathisMimi JohnsonWomen in Jazz South Florida, Inc.
Last week, we discussed what makes musicians feel good about being music service providers. This week, we will discuss the properties of music that make it a healing mechanism among people all over the planet. Join Host Diva JC and her guests: Nelson HarrisonNick MathisMimi JohnsonWomen in Jazz South Florida, Inc. MUSICWOMAN RADIO MUSICWOMAN BLOG
What is it that makes you feel good about being a music service provider? Host: www.joancartwright.com Guests: www.jeanniecheatham.comwww.jussent.comwww.mimijohnson.netwww.wijsf.org Blog: www.musicwoman.wordpress.com
Joan's paper “Conscious Inclusion of Women Musicians” that discusses the omission of women from small combos and big bands, except all-female bands, and the importance of hiring women musicians for music projects, especially, jazz projects was accepted by the BAS Conference, May 17-19, 2012, in Romania. Her song “The Glory Road” was chosen for the Donne in Jazz 2012 performances in November-December 2012. Donate to Joan's travel project at United States Artists. R&B, Soul, House Jazz Sensation Mimi Johnson is in "They Rose Above It All" and begins her TV Show "The Arts Reporter" in April. Joan and Mimi operate Women in Jazz South Florida, Inc. The Jazz@MCC series begins April 2. www.joancartwright.comwww.mimijohnson.netwww.wijsf.org
Diva JC and Mimi Johnson speak with two composers featured on Women in Jazz South Florida, Inc. Compilation CD Volume II: Lenore Raphael - Johnny JazzSelf-Animation - Don't Tell MeBeverly Lewis - Panarama of Good Hope Visit our website: www.wijsf.org Purchase CD - www.wijsf.com/compcd2.htm Radio Show Page: www.wijsf.com/radio.htm
Diva JC and Mimi Johnson speak with two of the composers from Women in Jazz South Florida, Inc. Compilation CD Volume II: Joan Cartwright - Dreamin' Linda Dachtyl - Tone Wheel Grease Sonya Carlton - Mountains We Climb Visit our website: www.wijsf.org Purchase the CD: www.wijsf.com/compcd2.htm
Diva JC and Mimi Johnson speak with two of the 10 composers from the Women in Jazz South Florida, Inc. Compilation CD Volume II: Dee Daniels - Midlife Crisis JUANITA - I Already Love U Mimi Johnson - Puerto Ricanya Visit our website: www.wijsf.org Purchase the CD: www.wijsf.com/compcd2.htm
Diva JC and Daughter Mimi Johnson talk about the 3 Queens Project in Atlanta, GA
The 3 Queens Concert Series
Sunday, Nov 20, 2011 @ 7 p.m. Our Place Cafe, 3387 Main Street College Park, GAFacebook
with Queen Nef, Mimi Johnson and Nefertiti and The nefTUNES with Michael Middlebrooks, Musical Director www.musicwoman.wordpress.comwww.joancartwright.comwww.mimijohnson.netwww.wijsf.org THE DIVA + DAUGHTER EXPERIENCE
Diva Joan Cartwright brings you the best of Jazz and Blues! Mimi Johnson is the R&B, Soul, House Jazz Sensation! Together, they will definitely light your fire!!! http://fyicomminc.com/the-diva-daughter-expericence.htmhttp://joancartwright.comhttp://mimijohnson.nethttp://wijsf.org
Women in Jazz South Florida, Inc. is proud to announce our FIRST Compilation CD Volume I available online at this link. The music is divine and we're already gearing up for Volume II to be released in March 2011. Support women's music! Happy New Year 2011!
A discussion of the term "Diva" what it means, who is a diva. The positive and negative connotations of the term have put some female artists in a very tricky light. Call in to give your opinion of this title at 347-677-0782. Featured music is from the CD "Quite Now" by Tutu Puoane.
Our guest for today has a family matter and could not be with us. So, I'll just be playing music and talking about our upcoming events.
In this economic climate many musicians are having to reinvent themselves and come up with alternate ways to make a living. Diva JC is joined by singers Jus' Cynthia and Teri Wilson and others to discuss this issue.
Diva JC welcomes other blogtalkradio hosts to discuss the medium and technology. Andrea Garrison, Judy Joy Jones, Jace Harnage, Tania Maria Xavier, Anita Davis Defoe and George V. Johnson, Jr.
In August, Diva JC will be on vacation and feature some past shows.
In September, the show time will change from 6-8 p.m. to 12 Noon to 2 p.m. EST.
Musicwoman Live Radio Guests
This is my first anniversary show and I feature tunes considered best plays of the year from July 16, 2008 thru July 8, 2009. This has been a unique experience and I've enjoyed every single show and guest. ARCHIVES
Interview by Len Pace of WLRN with Diva JC about her books and music. Website: Joan Cartwright
Discussing the STATE OF JAZZ in America, today, Diva JC is joined by Jazz DJ Ed Williams formerly with "Maiden Voyage" at WLIB-FM in New York City from 1966 to 1970; jazz aficianado and vocalist Matt Anderson from San Diego; and clinical psychologist and musician Dr. Nelson Harrison from Pittsburgh, who played trombone with the Count Basie Orchestra. Website: Women in Jazz South Florida, Inc.
Diva JC talks about the business of CD production, manufacturing and distribution with Linford Ellis of Alpha Music Mfg. Corp., a full audio multi media facility manufacturing vinyl,CDs &DVDs for independent record & video companies. They specialize in short & large runs for corporate promotion. Offering over 20 years of experience and a wide variety of services, Alpha is commited and dedicated to do whatever it takes to meet your requirements. They pack and ship anywhere. President and Plant Manager Ellis began his career as research and development engineer at CBS Records in the United Kingdom.
Grammy-nominated flautist, pianist, composer, author Rubyana is the consummate musician. Her music speaks for itself and she discusses her music and career with Diva JC.
Singer and composer Kaitlin McGaw grew up in Boston and graduated with honors from Harvard University before moving to San Francisco. Like fellow Harvard grads Bonnie Raitt, Rivers Cuomo, and Yo-Yo Ma Kaitlin left the academic realm to pursue music (though recently someone called her a "genius" behind her back). From the age of four, Kaitlin was jumping on stage to perform, joining children’s music performers RosenShontz onstage to sing and dance with them at the first live show she attended. She was on stage throughout her childhood, only slowing down while at Harvard where she studied African-American Studies, followed by literary research in post-apartheid South Africa. On November 8, Diva JC embarks upon a Borders Book Tour with her book, IN PURSUIT OF A MELODY and the companion CD. The book contains her memoirs and the history of Women in Jazz, plus 40 original songs and 35 poems. Also, in the book is a lecture on the business of music - So, You Want To Be A Singer?
Diva JC talks with saxophonist Carol Sudhalter in Queens, NY and Dallas vocalist Sandra Kaye about their musical projects.
Also, visit www.wijsf.org and www.internationalwomeninjazz.com
Jazz DJ Jay Edwards joins Diva JC for a discussion of the pros and cons of radio stations vs online radio shows
PART III Metaphysics of Music with musician/composer Dr. Nelson Harrison, who calls Jazz "the soundtrack of the community" and singer/composer Nick Mathis. Websites: Nelson Harrison, Nelson Harrison's Network, and Nick Mathis. Also, see these sites: Women in Jazz South Florida, Inc. and Jazzmen
PART II of New Age Music and how it activates our Divinity. Amethyst Dreams is Linda Dachtyl's new CD with lovely pieces that soothe the soul and open the chakras to Divine Light. Show host Diva JC is joined by musicians and spiritual activists to discuss music in the New Age and how it activates our Senses sand Divine Memory. Websites: Diva JC's Spiritual Website, Bones of The Homeless, We welcome callers to put in their two cents! 347-677-0782 #1 to talk. Let your Divine Voice be heard.
[Edited] Linda Dachtyl’s approach to B3 organ composition is to study the masters of the genre for inspiration and add her experiences from playing and studying theory in various genres even outside of jazz or blues and her organ compositions reflect those goals. Dachtyl composes for percussion ensembles, also. - www.dachtyl.com. B3 organist Trudy Pitts discusses the power of playing organ. She also plays piano and composes and records her own music. On September 14, she will play the pipe organ at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia - www.trudypitts.com
Linda Dachtyl’s approach to B3 organ composition is to study the masters of the genre for inspiration and add her experiences from playing and studying theory in various genres even outside of jazz or blues and her organ compositions reflect those goals. Dachtyl composes for percussion ensembles, also. - www.dachtyl.com. B3 organist Trudy Pitts plays organ and piano and composes and records her own music. On September 14, she will play the pipe organ at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia - www.trudypitts.com