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Profile Information
- What is your profession?
- Journalist, Educator
- What Instrument Do you Play?
- Guitar
- Where Are you located?
- Washington DC
- How did you find out about TGJN?
- A friend...Wali Mutazzammil the 13th member of the Global Jazz Network
- About Me:
- Kansas City, Missouri native currently living in the district of Columbia. I grew up playing baseball and listening to the "Music" in the park on Truman Road & Woodland., Parade Park, 18th & Vine...It was all the same park. The park is behind the Jazz and the Negro Baseball Leagues Museums. I believe that the late Great Buck O'Neil sums it up Best for me ...Buck always said "the two greatest things in this world are Baseball and Jazz.... and from Joe Posnanski's The Soul of Baseball ...A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America. "Music followed us. Charlie Parker blew his saxophone on the radio. Lionel Hampton played the vibes over the airline headphones. "Listen!" Buck would insist". The Streets North from Independence Avenue to 18th Street, and east fromThe Paseo to Brooklyn are named for the Count, the Duke, Bird, Ella, and on and on and on. It's not about me as my friend Jamal Muhammad of WPFW Washington, DC says...it's about the Music...in the city I grew up in. We could see Satchel Paige, Buck O'Neil, The late great Hilton Smith, have Ella Fitzgerald stop by the domino table and even hear a jam session in the bandstand after a Sunday Afternoon Monarch's game. We could smell the Bar B Q from Gates, and Arthur Bryant's, hear the Music coming from the Orchid, and the Blue Rooms...I was grown and far away from home before I realized that every boy did not grow up playing Baseball on 18th & Vine a stones throw from the city's Jazz musicians Hall and within earshot of some of the best Music in the land. I said... some of the best. I learned later about New York, Chicago, DC, Baltimore, Detroit, and Philly.
- Website:
- http://www.sajconstruction.com
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Member Quotes About TGJN
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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Saturday JAZZ Nights at Chelsea Wine Bar
November 14, 2009 at 8:30pm to November 15, 2009 at 12:30am – Chelsea Wine Bar
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Orjazz presenta - "La tragica notte del dott. Hives"
November 14, 2009 from 9pm to 11pm – Crevacuore
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Lee Summer's "Just Piano Series" presents...
November 19, 2009 from 7pm to 8pm – Triad Theatre
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Workout
December 3, 2009 from 9pm to 11pm – Casale Monferrato
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“Grazie”
December 17, 2009 from 6pm to 9pm – Ivrea
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Tish Oney - The Peggy Lee Project
January 10, 2010 from 7pm to 8:15pm – The Triad
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Jazz On Edge Volume 2
February 6, 2010 from 6pm to 10pm – Garden Theatre
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Please create some forums and join the groups that interest you. Tell all your Jazz & Blues friends, don't forget all others (smile) and keep the movement growing and glowing @ the destination where great Jazz minds meet 24/7!
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Tamm E Hunt
Welcome to the TGJN and continue to share your story...as I know you, you have much to show and tell around jazz and beyond. TGJN is a great group of people worldwide with a common soul. We all love jazz.
Keeping Jazz Live!
Continue to be and own your great adventures,
Wali
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