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http://jazzipedia.com

First of all thanks Moonie for pointing me to this network. I want this to be a space for sharing ideas, many of which I'll post here and select others will be posted on the site:
http://jazzipedia.com -- Jazzipedia is a work in progress!

I've been fortunate enough to have made friend's with Joe Pass, Ella Fitzgerald, Jaco Pastorius, Wayne Wright, Chieli Minucci, Milt Jackson, Jack Wilkens, Mike Stern and Leni Stern. I love jazz and especially love the singers and guitarists.

Please take a look at my friend Wayne Wright's page. Wayne was the man responsible for getting Les Paul out of retirement. He played for Peggy Lee, Tony Bennett, George Barnes, Judy Garland and a host of others.
http://waynelwright32.googlepages.com/

Another person certainly worth mentioning is the late great Eddie Durham, who had his hand in many thing.
http://durhamjazz.com

I hope to make this an inviting network!

Mike Ducey's Blog

The Passing of Wayne Wright

Wayne Wright passed away yesterday. This man that played for so many great musicians such as Tony Bennett, Peggy Lee, Les Paul, Judy Garland and George Barnes, to name a few, was everyone's friend. He was one very special person.

I posted a few blogs on him on my website, which convey the character that Wayne was. The blog I posted today was not an easy one. But it definitely is a tribute to him. Please take a look:
http://jazzipedia.blogspot.com/

M.

Posted on May 10, 2008 at 8:30pm —

Jazzipedia

I've been posting some blogs on the website http://jazzipedia The site provides choices for jazz books, CDs, DVDs, jazzy clothes, sheet music and it even has jazz quizzes. Hope you can find the time to check it out!

Mike

Posted on May 1, 2008 at 12:15pm —

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At 8:17am on June 16, 2008, Douye' said…: Mike, thank you so much for your comment. I will check out your site.

At 7:27am on May 10, 2008, Mike Ducey said…: Thank you so much Tracy. I'm really glad you like the site. I was listening to your music and I love your sensitivity and daring riffs. Your band is really excellent too.

I added a blog in the last few days and unfortunately today I have to add one about the passing of one of my best friends, Wayne Wright. This guy played with Peggy Lee, Tony Bennett, George Barnes and was responsible for getting Les Paul out of retirement many years ago.

Hope to talk to you soon.

At 1:29pm on May 1, 2008, Mothershed said…: Hi Mike,

I just visited Jazzipedia.com and it's a great site. I'm looking forward to seeing more from it and visiting it often. I really liked the history on Art Tatum and Duke.

Thank you for your kind words and I hope to have the pleasure of hearing and perhaps performing with you.

Take care and keep in touch. I promise to spread the word about Jazzipedia.com.

Tracy

At 10:26am on April 26, 2008, Boguslaw RYCZKO said…: Saludos, Mike.

At 9:33am on March 13, 2008, Elli Fordyce said…: thanks. Hope the info is useful, a trusted and experienced musican sent it on.

Elli

At 8:58am on March 9, 2008, THE GLOBAL JAZZ NETWORK said…: Thank You Mike for joining the movement @ TGJN

Tamm E

At 7:06pm on March 8, 2008, Elli Fordyce said…: Hey Mike:

Yes, 71 this month, working on #2 I hope this year (last time took nearly 8 years, ugh). Thanks so much for your warm words. They are appreciated enormously. I went to your site but can't tell is that your own site? It looks like it's simply for sales via Amazon, am I missing the point? I just signed up for Amazon (which I guess means B&N also). This is a new world for me, trying to figure it out as I go along.

Best,

Elli
www.ellifordyce.net
www.cdbaby.com/ellifordyce

At 9:40am on March 8, 2008, Jazz Writer Aberjhani said…: Thanks Mike for dropping by and saying hello. Glad you enjoyed the writing and the art. I see you're at jazzipedia.com so will pay you a visit there. Peace and blessings,

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At 9:47pm on March 6, 2008, THE GLOBAL JAZZ NETWORK said…: WELCOME! Mike
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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

Hi Tamm E!

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