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- Musician, Songwriter, Singer, Promoter, Composer, Other Jazz professional, Writer, Journalist, Poet, Actor, Educator
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- Voice
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- Washington DC
- How did you find out about TGJN?
- Freddy Redd
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- Trying to stay focus...
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Ladies and gentlemen, we're gonna bring up a young man from Washington DC, George V Johnson Jr. A great, soulful, bebop singer. My opinion, one of the best "BEBOP" Singers in America. He's even written lyrics to my solo on the MAMBO INN! This is a rare treat. Me and Him! We're gonna feature him on a Charles Christopher Parker tune "My Little Suede Shoes" with original lyrics. In fact, he's written lyrics to over 30 of Bird's classic compositions. If you have any questions give me a call~~~~~ LOU DONALDSON
Johnson has written and performs Original Lyrics to over 30 Charlie Parker compositions. Including one of Bird's most celebrated recordings "MY LITTLE SUEDE SHOES"
Music: Cal Massey
Solo: Charlie Parker
Lyrics: George V Johnson Jr (c) 1979
I saw a pretty little girl today. She only lived a half a block away. Although we didn't get the chance to speak. I knew one day that we would finally meet. I used to see her on the busy streets, while walking smoothly with a steady beat. All the fellows that she passed would speak, cause she looked good to everyone she meet. I tried to tell her that I love the way she looked but, I could never get the chance. I only wish that we could someday be together and maybe start a sweet romance. I saw that pretty little girl today, she only lived a half a block away. Now if we only get chance to speak, I'd wipe that girl right from off her feet.....solo...It was a beautiful day in September! and I was busy gazing out my window..and all of a sudden as I looked up to the corner I could see her walking down the street. My she was pretty.....
JAMES MOODY, SONNY STITT AND DIZZY GILLESPIE
hahahahahahahahaha...hey man... This is hip! CBS and All the REST!
ARNOLD STERLING "FEEL THE SPIRIT" CBS and all the rest
HERM HOPKINS - "FEEL THE SPIRIT"
RAYMOND ANGRY - piano "FEEL THE SPIRIT"
JAMES KING - "FEEL THE SPIRIT"
LENNY ROBINSON - "FEEL THE SPIRIT"
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The Washington DC Network Welcomes the Great "JAMES MOODY" and Linda to the Network. Celebrating his 85th Birthday "MOODY'S MOOD FOR LOVE...
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OPENING NIGHT video by George V Johnson Jr.
By George V Johnson Jr
Featured with Dr. Larry Ridley & Jazz Legacy Ensemble
Up Over Jazz Cafe, Brooklyn NY
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Posted on October 4, 2008 at 11:16am —
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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
Events
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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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Workout
December 3, 2009 from 9pm to 11pm – Casale Monferrato
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Luigi Ruberti Quintet
December 4, 2009 at 9pm to December 6, 2009 at 12pm – Naples
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Betty Blue Jazz Band
December 5, 2009 from 6pm to 9:30pm – The Crystal Lounge( near Brooklyn College area)
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ROME NEAL in Concert
December 5, 2009 at 9pm to December 6, 2009 at 1am – The Nuyorican Poets Cafe
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“Grazie”
December 17, 2009 from 6pm to 9pm – Ivrea
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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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Tish Oney - The Peggy Lee Project
January 10, 2010 from 7pm to 8:15pm – The Triad
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Compliment of the day,how is your health including work and business over there, guess fine.
My name is favour, in search of a man who understands love as trust and faith rather seeing it as a way of fun but a mature man with good sense of humor after reading your profile at (www.theglobaljazznetwork.ning.com) ,in fact,i derive interest on you so contact me directly with this email address and here is it(favour.davids@yahoo.com) i believe we can start from here, awaiting to hear from you to enable me send my pictures to you for further introduction.
kisses with love and cherish you.
Please join in the movement and invite all of your Jazz
living, Jazz loving, Jazz playing, listening, writing, embracing
colleagues, friends, partners, collaborators and others who
are curious, knowledgable and fans of the indigenous music
of America that has spanned the Globe and made a difference
in humanity to join us here at TGJN.
Where ever you can place a TGJN link or mention in an interview
would be an amazing boost for us and you.
Our purpose is to broaden the awareness of the music and
all that it influences i.e. art/literature and more. However, we
need your help, assistance and support to make it happen.
We believe Jazz deserves world wide recognition and that the
people who perpetuate the validity of the music deserve exposure
and recognition. BUT! the only way is if each one brings one
can we share the diversity and soul of the form.
PLEASE! take a little time and send a E-Blast to your mail
list and invite your friends and assocaites to help us broaden
our membership.
Thanks
Tamm E
Thanks for joining my Blues People discussion group, this is going to be great with your input and participation. After I get a handle on how many people will be joining us initially, I will get back to you with a general outline and when we will get the discussion started.
Can't wait!
Janie
Thank you so much for adding me as a friend here at TGJN. I had heard of you so I knew your name immediately. But now I can take a closer look since we are friends here.
And that Monk production looks amazing...any chance in the future it will travel to LA? One can only hope! :-)
Thanks again for finding me here.
Best wishes,
Janie
www.joanbowbelgrave.com
or Marcus'
www.marcusbelgrave.net
You will hear both of us there!!!..
jbowjazz@gmail.com!!!
you can e-mail us direct at djmcinc@msn.com or jbowjazz@gmail.com
Blessings... my brother.
Joan & Marcus....
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