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I am a Nubian Queen, mystical by nature, spiritual by design. My story has been written in blood sweat and tears over decades…Life, the desire for understanding and fulfillment has led me to the place where my spirit now resides. Whether I chose or it chooses me the journey has taken me to the path of service.
I am a Child of God, Yoruba, Reiki Master, Advisor, Clairvoyant, Student, Artist, Designer, Entreprenuer, Wifey, Mom, Grandma, Mami Chula, BeLoved, Ms. Deena, Aunt Deena, Bestfriend, Girlfriend, Sistafriend, Romantic, Belly Dancer, Teacher, Role Model, Loctician, Co-Creator…..The list is still in progress.
My mission: To be an instrument of Peace. To help others realize the innate healing power each of us possesses. To be dedicated to a Holistic approach for the integration of the whole body, mind, spirit dynamic.
Sincerely,
Reiki Master
~Deena Collins/Oshuns Touch~
Reiki Healing and the Performing Artist
Our active and sometimes stressful lives can often deplete or interfere with the flow of "Ki". Ki is the life force energy that flows in every living thing and is the source for maintaining health. When Ki is low our ability to function at our best becomes compromised and we are more susceptible to illness and injury. Reiki energy is directed by the "Higher Intelligence" and infuses the spiritual and physical body with rejuvenating life force energy.
While all of us can benefit from the healing power of Reiki the actor, singer, dancer and musician face unique challenges. Performers rely upon their physical bodies for their creative work and financial support. The highly competitive life style of a performing artist can be very demanding. Getting to that next performance, rehearsal or audition takes motivation and personal power. To be spiritually empowered is an integral aspect of personal growth and having physical health is not even an option. As a preventative and complimentary treatment Reiki offers a system that helps you to release stress, build your immune system and develop inner peace. Reiki also helps the actor or singer to center their voice and maintain vocal clarity. Dancers and musicians receiving treatments have decreased joint and muscle pain and stiffness. The deep state of relaxation Reiki induces assist in increasing your mental focus as well as your ability to connect to the "higher self".
Health and wellness is desired by everyone. Having optimum health requires balancing the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual bodies. Achieving that balance brings wholeness and fulfillment to our lives. A regular Reiki treatment works to create harmony in body, mind and spirit. It helps you to stay strong and well, fosters success and brings your creative dreams into reality.
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The thing that is making jazz healthy today is that people are coming out of other backgrounds - from rock, folk, from ethnic music. It's changing the music, and for the better.~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Billy Taylor
Dear Tamm E:
Just a note to tell you that it is nice to read about you!!!
You share so much great info about others and about the music, but nice to know that you are WAILIN' yourself and getting appreciation!!
Global Jazz Network is a really important way for all of us to keep hooked up and informed and to SLOWLY BUT SURELY SPREAD THE MESSAGE AND THE PHILOSOPHY of what Jazz is in its many different forms and what the styles are/is all about.
Just played for Paquito's honoring and received gold medal
John Faddis, save Brubeck, James moody and a bunch of KILLER YOUNG players and we all played and spoke about Paquito and jazz and all fine music
and Roberta Gamborini, who was excellent.
wish you had been there!
Through you, Donald Harrison hooked me up with Pittsburgh Jazz info and I feel like i am living there just reading about all the great happenings.
As Fall is here, I am back to my normal insane schedule, but wanted to write you back BEFORE The STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS goes into effect. I am my own secretary, so I am dedicated but SLOW!
And I can't fire myself as my own secretary or I might get hit with an Age Discrimination Lawsuit (in case I decided to sue myself for clerical incompetence).
As of this moment, a new documentary film is being made about me, to be released a few months after my 80th birthday, which is coming up next year Nov. 17, 2010. (12 months from now).
The film will end with the videoing of the big 80th birthday bash at Symphony Space in NYC and then have snippets of films from the past, with all kinds of fun stuff from the 50's thru today.
It will be called "David Amram: The First 80 Years"
Fortunately, I don't have to edit the hundreds of hours of footage or do new music the score, since the film maker, Larry Kraman is also the founder of Newport Classics recordings and knows all my symphonic as well as operatic, theater, film and jazz and world music work, so I am in good hands!!
The same people at Newport Classics Recordings are also making a Spoken Word series for I-Tunes, with me reading from my three books Vibrations, Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac and Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat.
And they are also recording some of my chamber music compositions and a new jazz record,
Next Spring my opera "12th Night", with libretto by Joe Papp (all words of Shakespeare), is having its eighth production and being FILMED!! Even most dead composers aren't that lucky!!!
This last five weeks I have appeared all over the country at concerts of my music, conducting and playing, doing spoken word with music, jazz, folk and world music festivals, film festivals and readings from my books.
Just the first week of October, I played Lowell Celebrates Kerouac festival in Lowell Mass, then the at midnight , following my last concert there , drove all night to Lagaurda Airport to catch the early Sunday mornng flight for the annual Farm Aid Concert in St Louis, where i played with Willie Nelson's band. The next morning (Monday the 5th , I flew bck to NYC in tme for my monthly concert at Cornelia Street in Greenwich Village.
The next night (Tuesday the 6th) the memorial at Symphony Space for Frank Mccourt, and the next day Wednesday the 7th) the celebration of the new authorized biography of Thelonious Monk with members of his family and musicians I have known since I first arrived in NYC in 1955!!
The 11th i flew off to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates,( i got at least get a few hours sleep) and tried to catch up on over 200 e-mails during the 13 hour flight, before arriving there and performing a concert of global music in conjunction with the score I composed for Teri McLuhan's new documentary feature film The Frontier Ghandi.
Then back in the USA in time to do programs centered around a performance of my Saxophone concerto Ode to Lord Buckley, in Loudoun Virginia ..
Then I went off to Toronto Nov 1st for a concert and appearance at the Diaspora Film Festival .
Now i am back at home hiding out composing and writing!
I am starting my fourth book "David Amram: The First 80 Years", (the same name as the new doc film being made about me), which will be finished at the end of next year and will end, like the film, with the monstro birthday bash concert for my Big 80... 12 months from now....(Nov 17 2010) in New York.
And every day, still finding time to continue composing a new orchestral work, having been doing it while on the run, and now every minute when I can hide out at the Farm in between travels.
And performing whenever possible with my three kids, each of whom have their own bands.
So as the BIG 80 approaches twelve months from now, (2010) while I may be still shy, I am not yet the retiring type.
Most of my ever-changing my schedule info. when i can get my elderly secretary (unfortunately myself) to type it up, is posted on my web page www.davidamram.com under Upcoming Events.
And my e-mail amramdavid@aol.com is always the best way to reach me as I carry my laptop with me everywhere, and Facebook, MySpace, etc., is hard to deal with and not always reliable!
You might find it fun to access an old performance of my 1971 Rondo a la Turca on the Internet for FREE!!!
The person who is conducting the Chicago Symphony and playing the middle eastern flute (who looks like my grandson) is actually a much younger looking me in 1977, recording for a PBS network TV show about my music. Pepper Adams and Jerry Dodgion are also playing.
In 1977, most of members of the Chicago Symphony who appear on the recording of this performance had never heard, much less ever played, very much music from the Middle East, and since I write everything out on paper accurately to indicate the way it should be played, that's what they were playing, and they actually began to sound like the Radio Beirut Orchestra, and suddenly as the piece went on, they started feeling something different than they had ever felt before, as they played.
It is really fun to watch their faces as they started getting ingo the old time magical groove that Middle eastern music creates and takes you into.
During the first few minutes of the piece, you can see the musicians all playing up a storm but looking as if they were thinking that I was an alien from another planet in outer space, and had brought some extra terrestrial music with me for them to play.
And then as the piece progresses, you can see, as well as hear, that by the end of the piece, the idiom of this music got them excited enough to be actually enjoying playing it!!
And playing it really well!
That's what music, like film, novels, poetry, painting, dance, language and good HOME COOKING does for all of us.
It takes you to that place from where it comes, and makes you feel that you now have a new home in a new part of the world.
I send cheers from that endless road and wish you joy and energy for all you do
David
I was just saying that you knocked this out of the park with TGJN. We have needed something like this for so long and I am telling my friends about this. I said that it is sort of like a myspace for jazz but it is actually so much more. This is real. The people here truly love jazz and we know people like that are not your average people.
I have felt for a long time that straight-ahead jazz has been slipping away from us. I have hope now that there will be a resurgence (or shall I say an insurgency:-) to bring this baby back full force!
You just knocked it out of the park. Thanks again.
xoxo,
Janie
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Mel Brown Quartet
March 25, 2009 at 8pm to March 27, 2013 at 11pm – Jimmy Mak's
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New CD release
December 14, 2009 at 1pm to January 1, 2010 at 1pm – My Website
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Saturday JAZZ Nights at Chelsea Wine Bar
December 19, 2009 at 8:30pm to December 20, 2009 at 12:30am – Chelsea Wine Bar
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THE LADIES SOCIAL CLUB-New Year's Eve Party!
December 31, 2009 at 7:30pm to January 1, 2010 at 1:30am – Clarion Hotel
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BACK ALLEY PLAYERS@NUYORICAN POETS CAFE
January 2, 2010 from 9pm to 11pm – NUYORICAN POETS CAFE
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BACK ALLEY PLAYERS@NUYORICAN POETS CAFE
January 2, 2010 from 9pm to 11pm – NUYORICAN POETS CAFE
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Tish Oney - The Peggy Lee Project
January 8, 2010 from 9:45pm to 11pm – The Metropolitan Room
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Tish Oney
January 9, 2010 from 7:15pm to 7:30pm – Hilton Hotel - New York Suite
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Tish Oney - The Peggy Lee Project
January 9, 2010 from 10pm to 10:15pm – Hilton Hotel - Beekman Suite
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Tish Oney - The Peggy Lee Project
January 10, 2010 from 7pm to 8:15pm – The Triad
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Would like to include you as a friend...peace Tschaka
Tamm E
keep doing so great job
Don't be a stranger.
Best,
Elli
THANK YOU FOR THE KIND WORDS ABOUT IT IS WELL. IT WAS A GREAT TIME RECORDING THE CD " MEDITATIONS " TODD LEDBETTER IS A GREAT SAX PLAYER. WE USED WALTER COSBY ON UPRIGHT BASS AND JOHN STODDART ON PIANO. KEEP UP THE GREAT WORD YOU HAVE UNDER TAKEN AS I KNOW YOU SHALL AND GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY ETERNALLY I PRAY, AMEN.
YOUR FRIEND MILTON
Elli
THANK you.
We share some other things beside music (i.e., energy work and holistic stuff). You might like www.zentertainmentnetwork.com, where folks into various art forms and genres along with spiritual paths are beginning to collaborate to help create the kinds of change you describe. Also, my personal favorite: www.energycafelive.ning.com. You'll find some likemindeds there for sure.
Best,
Elli
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