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Comment by wen mew on June 18, 2009 at 12:17pm

review of ROBERTA GAMBARINI'S NEW CD "SO IN LOVE", UCLA'S ELLINGTON EXTRAVAGANZA, BILL CUNLIFFE'S BLUES AND THE ABSTRACT TRUTH at www.wenjaz.blogspot.com and JAZZ TIMES!

Comment by Len Dobbin on June 18, 2009 at 11:49am

CODA like JAZZ TIMES would seem to have gone belly-up.
Len

Comment by Djinn Lewis aka Qyot'I on June 4, 2009 at 10:43pm

Aloha All,

My Client, Bill Ortiz (Santana's trumpet player) has completed his latest musical project, 'From Where I Stand'; is there any one with a track record to national publications that would be interested in discussing some story slants?

Comment by wen mew on December 31, 2008 at 12:16pm

www.wenjaz.blogspot.com

Comment by Djinn Lewis aka Qyot'I on November 22, 2008 at 7:09am

Aloha,

Management looking for writers to discuss story slants for the below:

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Contact: Miraflores Music
415.457.5365
info@mee-j.com 15 October 2008

MIGET TO PERFORM AT GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC HALL WITH
VOICES OF LATIN ROCK

North Bay Saxophonist performing with Bay Area Latin Legends

On Wednesday October 29, 2008 at 8 pm North Bay saxophonist Marcia Miget will perform with the Voices of Latin Rock, which includes Bay Area legends Abel Sanchez, Jorge Santana, Gabriel Manzo, Mic Gillette, Bill Ortiz, Marcos Reyes, Tony Menjivar, Gibby Ross and Greg Enrico at the Great American Music Hall at 859 O'Farrell Street in San Francisco.
In Spring of 2007 multi-instrumentalist, educator, composer and producer Miget was invited by guitarist and VOLR coordinator Abel Sanchez to perform with the Voices of Latin Rock at Arizona’s Cesar Chavez Day Celebration. It’s been a mutual admiration society with Marcia performing with the musicians ever since. Multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer and educator, Marcia has most recently performed with the Voices of Latin Rock at Yountville’s Lincoln Theater (to 3 standing ovations) and at Yoshi’s (SF) with Dr. Anthony Brown and the Asian American Orchestra. With skills that cross multiple genres she’s also appeared with Wayne Wallace’s Rhythm and Rhyme, the Northern California Lighthouse Singers 25th Anniversary conducted by Helen Stevens and Stephen Roberts and the Montclair Women’s Big Band. She’s played at Monterey, Stern Grove, Sonoma, Fillmore Jazz Festivals and the International Association of Jazz Educators' Conventions with the African American Jazz Caucus AllStar Big Band (in 2004 was the Featured Artist with the Historically Black Colleges' University Allstar Band). Her last project-as-producer was Passing the Baton: the Miget-Redd Session Part 1 with legendary Bebop pianist, Freddy Redd. Her performance pedigree includes multiple appearances with Carlos Santana, and such notables as Larry Ridley, Jimmy Cobb, Buddy Baker, Kenny Barron, Orestes Vilato, Frank Foster, Pete Escovedo, Donald Byrd, Tyrone Hill of Sun Ra’s Arkestra, Freddy Redd, Anthony Brown and the Asian American Orchestra, Carl Perazzo, Phish, Wayne Wallace, John Santos, Babatunde Lea, Abel Sanchez, Jorge Santana and Prophet, Jaimeo Brown and Dartanyan Brown. Her past band has opened for Chick Corea, Kenny Loggins, Phoebe Snow and performed on MTV with Rickie Lee Jones. She has been the featured performer with the James Cleveland Choir at the Gospel Music Workshop of America, and the Toronto International Association of Jazz Educators' Convention.

About the Voices of Latin Rock - This band represents the artists, musicians, and seasoned players who were responsible for creating this sound known today as Latin Rock! Hand picked and selected from the best of the best, they not only were at the roots of this sound, but also are the players who have been representing this sound throughout the world for over four decades. In the 1970s, Santana and Malo roared out of San Francisco’s Mission District barrio with a hot new sound, combining burning acid guitar wedded to a base of boiling Latin percussion. Their recordings are hailed as pioneering classics of the new sound known as ‘Latin rock’. Santana spearheaded a cultural wave, which represented a totally new art form known as Latin Rock. At one stage Santana were the biggest selling act in the world, outselling even The Beatles. Other Mission based acts such as Malo, Azteca, Dakila, Sapo and Abel & the Prophets also emerged out of that first wave. It was this same talent pool, which fed the ranks of Sly & The Family Stone, Graham Central Station, Tower of Power, Cold Blood and many others. The roster of the band includes members who have played with, or currently play with, bands like Malo, Santana, Sapo, Abel & the Prophets, Azteca, and countless others. Their flexibility and capability allows this band to bring shows featuring many star players and guests from other world known acts. In recent shows the Voices of Latin Rock have featured guest appearances by members of other famous bands such as Marcos Reyes from War, Lydia Pense from Cold Blood, Fred Sanchez & Bobby Espinosa from El Chicano, Lenny Williams and Mic Gillete from Tower of Power, Booker T from the MGs, Jackie Greene, Greg Errico from Sly & the Family Stone and the list goes on. Get the picture?!!
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22 October 2008

MIRAFLORES’ MIGET TO TOUR WITH DR. ANTHONY BROWN AND THE ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA

North Bay Saxophonist performing with AAO at University of Illinois

On Thursday, November 6, 7:30 pm North Bay saxophonist Marcia Miget will perform with Dr. Anthony Brown and the Asian American Orchestra as part of the Marquee Jazz Series at University of Illinois Champaign Urbana’s Foellinger Great Hall.
A mutual admiration society Ms. Miget has been a consistent presence performing and recording with Dr. Anthony Brown and the Asian American Orchestra since 2004, last year playing reeds on the AAO’s tenth anniversary cd, ‘10’. Over the last four years Marcia has performed this big band’s unique repertoire at Yoshi’s (San Francisco), the Oakland Asian Cultural Center, Monterey, Stern Grove, and Fillmore Jazz Festivals.
Having skills that cross multiple genres she performs regularly with the Voices of Latin Rock with performance credits including Wayne Wallace’s Rhythm and Rhyme, the San Francisco All Star Big Band, the Northern California Lighthouse Singers 25th Anniversary conducted by Helen Stevens and Stephen Roberts, the James Cleveland Choir and the Montclair Women’s Big Band. She’s played at several International Association of Jazz Educators' Conventions with the African American Jazz Caucus AllStar Big Band (in 2004 was the Featured Artist with the Historically Black Colleges' University Allstar Band). With a performance pedigree that includes multiple appearances with Carlos Santana, and such notables as Larry Ridley, Jimmy Cobb, Buddy Baker, Kenny Barron, Orestes Vilato, Frank Foster, Pete Escovedo, Donald Byrd, Tyrone Hill of Sun Ra’s Arkestra, Freddy Redd, Anthony Brown and the Asian American Orchestra, Carl Perazzo, Phish, Wayne Wallace, John Santos, Babatunde Lea, Abel Sanchez, Jorge Santana and Prophet, Jaimeo Brown and Dartanyan Brown. Her seminal work, ‘Discovery’, has a roster of prominent Bay Area performers in attendance, such as Paul van Wagenigen, Gary Brown, David Belove, Rebecca Mauleon, Frank Martin and John Worley.

A composer, percussionist, Guggenheim fellow, former director of the Smithsonian’s Jazz Oral History Project, past Grammys Chapter President Dr. Anthony Brown brings personal and academic expertise as a BlAsian by melding Eastern and Western sounds and sensibilities. Using Asian instruments in a Big Band idiom the AAO, under the direction of Dr. Brown, delivers reimagined, redefined Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, and George Gershwin works on the erhu (two-string Chinese violin), shakuhachi (Japanese flute), and suona (Chinese trumpet). Downbeat magazine rated Monk’s Moods a “five-star masterpiece” and one of the four best CDs of 2003. The AAO grew out of a project with an assemblage of players including bassist Mark Izu, who also plays Chinese mouth organ; Hong Wang, on reed trumpet, erhu (two-string Chinese violin), and traditional Chinese percussion; Yangqin Zhao on Chinese hammered dulcimer; trombonists Wayne Wallace and Dave Martell; reed players Melecio Magdaluyo, and Masaru Koga; and trumpeters Henry Hung and Geechi Taylor with Creative Director, Dr. Anthony Brown, on drums.

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MIGET AND EDUCATOR/GUITARIST BOB SCHLEETER ‘FEED YOUR SOUL’

Miget Continuing To Perform 2007 Popular Concert Series

On Wednesday September 24, 2008, from noon to 1:30 Marcia Miget will perform the fourth concert of the popular lunchtime concert series. Occurring on the patio of the First Presbyterian Church, corner of 5th and ‘E’ Streets, San Rafael Ms. Miget will perform with a local name musician or former student in Jazz, Latin or classical genres.
Performing with Marcia is Marin Academy’s Music Director Bob Schleeter, a thirty-year veteran of music performance, creation and education. A graduate of Berklee College of Music Mr. Schleeter studied jazz with Hal Crook, Peter Sprague, Chuck Wayne and Joe Pass. Co-founder of Marin-based jazz/soul/Latin group, The Company She Keeps, Bob created an exciting, rhythm-based ensemble after successive visits to Bahia, Brazil and Havana, Cuba. Guitarist, composer and arranger Bob’s composition credits include four “rock and soul” musicals produced throughout New England and the West Coast. The Boston Globe called his co-creation, Sara’s Jukebox, "’A hit parade of music...the songs are tantalizingly diverse, yet widely appealing.’” As a guitarist and sideman Bob has had equal appeal with a diverse group of musicians, including The Drifters, Del Shannon and longer stints with Shana Morrison, as well as dozens of his own ensembles. Look for his music on www.bigscore.net and www.thecompanyshekeeps.net.
Multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer and educator, Marcia has most recently appeared at Yoshi’s with Dr. Anthony Brown and the Asian American Orchestra and performed with the Voices of Latin Rock at Yountville’s Lincoln Theater. With skills that cross multiple genres she’s also appeared with Wayne Wallace’s Rhythm and Rhyme, the Northern California Lighthouse Singers 25th Anniversary conducted by Helen Stevens and Stephen Roberts and the Montclair Women’s Big Band. She’s played at Monterey, Stern Grove, Sonoma, Fillmore Jazz Festivals and the International Association of Jazz Educators' Conventions with the African American Jazz Caucus AllStar Big Band (in 2004 was the Featured Artist with the Historically Black Colleges' University Allstar Band). Her last project-as-producer was Passing the Baton: the Miget-Redd Session Part 1 with legendary Bebop pianist, Freddy Redd. Her performance pedigree includes multiple appearances with Carlos Santana, and such notables as Larry Ridley, Jimmy Cobb, Buddy Baker, Kenny Barron, Orestes Vilato, Frank Foster, Pete Escovedo, Donald Byrd, Tyrone Hill of Sun Ra’s Arkestra, Freddy Redd, Anthony Brown and the Asian American Orchestra, Carl Perazzo, Phish, Wayne Wallace, John Santos, Babatunde Lea, Abel Sanchez, Jorge Santana and Prophet, Jaimeo Brown and Dartanyan Brown. Her past band has opened for Chick Corea, Kenny Loggins, Phoebe Snow and performed on MTV with Rickie Lee Jones. She has been the featured performer with the James Cleveland Choir at the Gospel Music Workshop of America, and the Toronto International Association of Jazz Educators' Convention.
Based in the Bay Area Miraflores Academie, a California 501(c3), is a preeminent private performance group that has been the foundation for some of Marin’s best musical talent since 1988, as current and graduated students, e.g. James Perdelwitz, Joelle Parrett, Jeff Derby, Jaimeo Brown, Alex Baky, J.J.Byars, Lou Wiskus, Robby Marshall, Isabella Quereshi, Zach Gunsell, Dan Birch, Bram Kincheloe, Elecia Strauss, Seth Paris, Kristina Hoffman, Andrew Capra and Salvador Santana, evidence. These graduates, and many more, were selected for prestigious musical performance groups like the International Monterey High School All-star Jazz Band, California High School All-State Band, California High School All-State Concert Band, the San Francisco Jazz High School Allstars and attend a number of institutions such as Oberlin College, Sarah Lawrence, Berklee School of Music, the New School to Cal Arts, Manhattan School, NYU, USC and UCLA or performing professionally with such names as Bill Watrus, Mingus Big Band, and Greg Tardy. The array of award-winning students from Miraflores have performed in such events as the Duke Ellington Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, the International Association of Jazz Educators’ Convention, San Jose Jazz Festival, San Francisco Jazz Festival, San Rafael’s Italian Street Painting Festival, et al.
You can know more about Miraflores Academie at www.miracademie.org or hear more of Marcia’s music at www.mee-j.com. Look for Miget and listen with your Heart.

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Thank you,

Djinn

Comment by Airborne on September 17, 2008 at 8:22pm

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