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At 2:00am on October 9, 2009, TAMM E HUNT said…
Greetings! Elli

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
At 8:52am on June 22, 2009, jay lewis said…
HI……I WANTED TO INFORM YOU ABOUT A NEW GROUP: ‘BOOKS & VIDEOS’…THE MISSION OF THE GROUP IS; “EXPLORE THE COMPLEXITY OF JAZZ & BLUES; MUSICALLY, HISTORICALLY, SOCIALLY & THEORETICALLY. BROADENING BETTER UNDERSTANDING AND GREATER ENJOYMENT!!
FURTHERMORE, I WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND A INVITATION TO JOIN AND MORE IMPORTANTLY PARTICIPATE,SHARE YOUR KNOWLEDGE AS BROADCASTERS AND HELP CREATE A PLACE WHERE GJN MEMBERS CAN GO TO FIND INFORMATION THAT WILL HELP IN THE PURSUIT OF A BETTER COMPREHENSION & MORE KNOWLEDGEABLE APPRECIATION OF JAZZ.

Check out BOOKS & VIDEOS ABOUT JAZZ & BLUES on THE GLOBAL JAZZ NETWORK:
http://theglobaljazznetwork.ning.com/group/bookvideosaboutjazzblues?xgi=0rQihhb


THANK YOU IN ADVANCE WITH THIS MATTER,
JAY LEWIS
At 11:04am on May 12, 2009, Kate Smith said…
Elli darlin'... can you believe it! I've figured out how to respond. Can't wait for "SONGS SPUN OF GOLD" - Kate.
At 3:54am on December 22, 2008, THE GLOBAL JAZZ NETWORK said…
Hi Elli
THANKS a MILLION for all of your support through out the year.

With great appreciation.
We wish you the very best! 2009

Many in mind and body.
ONE in JAZZ!

TammE Hunt
At 9:43pm on December 7, 2008, THE GLOBAL JAZZ NETWORK said…
Thank You! Elli for promoting TGJN.
Have a wonderful holiday season and
a prosperous 2009.

Joy! & Jazz!
Tamm E
At 5:38am on December 7, 2008, len guardino said…
thanks for the global site...len
At 9:05pm on September 11, 2008, Airborne said…

Airborne the Musical Peacemakers of Contemporary Jazz "Winds of Change" Video www.airbornejazz.com
At 2:27am on July 28, 2008, Katya Sanna said…
DISPERSIONE E RACCOLTA


GIOCOLIERE


L'ARCHIVIO


OSSERVA BENE


HugsguH!
Katya
At 11:58pm on July 21, 2008, roznixonoutandabout.com said…
Elli please let me know if I missed your event, if so I apologize and I will make it up to you...............let me know

Roz
At 6:08pm on July 15, 2008, Tom Reyes said…
Hello, Elli

Sounds like a fun time. I'll have to see how my schedule in August pans out before I can commit to attending the show. Congratulations on the gig, and thanks for being my friend.

Best,

Tom
At 10:25am on July 13, 2008, Peggie Perkins said…
Thank you, Check the link to my website now it should work and my my space is
www.myspace.com/peggieperkins
Thanks for the heads up!
Love & Music, Peggie
At 1:39am on July 13, 2008, Peggie Perkins said…
Dear Elli,
You are incredible!!
Wishing you continued success, I am so luck y to have met you here and to be friends with such an incredible talent! WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
xoxoxoxo Peggie
At 10:46am on June 27, 2008, Nikki Armstrong said…
HI Elli!
Thanks for reaching out! I love your tracks here!
Very beautiful lady!
Hope to come to see you play soon!
All the best,
Nikki
At 10:35am on April 26, 2008, Boguslaw RYCZKO said…
Es muy bonito tu canto Elli.
At 11:58am on April 23, 2008, Arthur Schroeck said…
Hello Elli, good to see you on line.
At 7:47am on April 22, 2008, Robert (Dr. Bob) Morrissey said…
Dear WONDERFUL Elli,

I have just finished listening to your posted songs from "Something STILL Cool"...and I am in love
already with your voice, style of singing, and the
special verve of your jazz music!!! And OH!...how
I wish you had recorded your first CD many years
ago...but we both know that it is better late than
never! And in your new CD all of your lifelong
exceptional jazz talents are SO evidenced...especially
your jazz versions of "Wouldn't It Be Loverly" and
"Imagination"......your music gifts on these tunes are
classic!!......and I have NEVER heard any jazz singer
render them so tenderly well.........AND here it is only
a little past ten in the morning - and my timeless young
old heart is beating love thumps to the rich rhythms of
ELLI FORDYCE...STILL COOL AND HOT...MUSIC!!!

It is just SUPER to be your friend. Thank you for finding me
on The Global Jazz Network. But this is all far too much for
an opening comment to a most welcome new friend...and so
I must close now...so I can immediately visit our other great
friends at CD Baby who...after a couple of clicks of my music
mouse...will be sending me the new music CD of a truly
remarkable jazz singer......YOU......The Stellar Vocal Muse
Elli..............................................................................................

Your True And Timeless Friend
With Love For Your Music and Voice,
XOXO Bob XOXO
At 7:38am on April 20, 2008, HammondCast said…
Howdy from Times Square Elli, thanks for the blast! How's it going? Wishing you best luck with your cd...no business like Music Business Elli! I recommend the iTunes thing if you can get it on there, it's a beautiful thing.

Here's a nice little bossa nova for your day with some SF CA cats on a real old Hammond organ from the 40's that somebod absconded with after I did this hit. It is currently missing in action, true story! Like running off with somebody's baby elephant or something don't ya' know...
Shadow at BRUNO'S LOUNGE SF: JON HAMMOND Trio
Jon Hammond Trio at BRUNO'S LOUNGE with Jon playing the Hammond model BV organ that was there since the 40's until somebody recently absconded with it! Camera by Jennifer, Charles Mcneal tenor sax, Ronnie Smith Jr. drums playing bossa nova classic Shadow of Your Smile as heard on Jon's daily radio show HammondCast early mornings on KYOU & KYCY Radio 1550AM in San Francisco. ©2008 http://www.HammondCast.com Bruno's Lounge, San Francisco, Charles Mcneal, Jon Hammond, BV Organ, Ronnie Smith Jr., Drums, Tenor Sax, Bossa Nova, HammondCast, KYOU KYCY Radio http://ascap.com/network/audioportraits/jon_hammond_ndr/
c u in a minute,
Jon
*Memb. AFM Local 802, Local 6 / ASCAP *there's Cephas over there...how 'bout that, howd Cephas! jh
At 5:48pm on April 16, 2008, Arthur Schroeck said…
Hello Elli, long time no see.
At 10:29am on April 6, 2008, Arthur Schroeck said…
Nice to see you on line. Did you get to see our videos? I posted some of them on this site.
At 7:46pm on April 3, 2008, Arthur Schroeck said…
There are some videos of Linda and I on youtube.com (In search) write in Artie Schroeck. I think there are 5 of them. When you have time. Body and Soul pt. 1 & 2 are good for a start. It was done in 1997 when I had a beard.

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


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