[Dixielandjazz] Jazz People in Action

[TCASHWIGG at aol.com]

I don't know how many of you on the DJML list get the jazz advocate 
newsletter, but here is an exerpt from it today that shows what can and does happen 
when you constantly promote jazz of All kinds.  The letter to the editor says it 
all.

Congratulations Ron, Don and Rosemary for an obvious job well done.   If they 
can do it in Dayton, Ohio, others can do it where they live as well.

Don't however sit around and wait for a Ron and Rosemary to volunteer in your 
area go start it and help them get it going and stay invovlved and promote 
yourselves and other jazz shamelessly and soon you will get it back to where it 
used to be in your area of the world.
Go get em.

Cheers,

Tom Wiggins

Musical content:  If we all work together, together,  how happy we'll be!



Letter to the Editor from Tim Berens: timb at erinet.com

Ron: I am writing to express my thanks to yourself, Rosemary and Don Henke 
for all the amazing work you have done to promote jazz in Dayton.  I hear the 
same story over and over from musicians who live in other cities -- jazz gigs 
are drying up...people aren't interested in jazz...there is no work for jazz 
musicians...doom and gloom.  And then I read Don's column this week and it is 
bursting at the seams with jazz happening in, of all places, Dayton, Ohio!  It is 
no coincidence that jazz in Dayton has blossomed in the years since you and 
Don have been advocating and promoting jazz with such passion.  I think the 
boom in jazz in Dayton is due more to the work done by the local
Jazz Advocates than to any other person.  I hope that every jazz musician in 
the area stops to take the time to shake your hand and Don's hand to say 
thanks for everything that you have done to promote jazz.  Without an audience, 
musicians will not have a place to play.  Without constant promotion, there will 
be no audience.  All the great work that you, Rosemary and Don do is 
invaluable toward getting the audience to attend jazz events.  I thank you from the 
bottom of my heart for all the energy you put into promoting jazz.  Tim Berens