[Dixielandjazz] New Orleans Benefit CD

[Len Nielsen]

Bob

Will you be getting purchase info and if you do, will you post it to the 
list?

Thanks

Len Nielsen



Robert S. Ringwald wrote:
> Press Release - September 21, 2005
> 
> "ARIZONA CLASSIC JAZZ SOCIETY TO RELEASE BENEFIT CD FOR NEEDY JAZZ
> MUSICIANS IN NEW
> ORLEANS & GULF COAST AREAS STRICKEN BY HURRICANE KATRINA."
> (Phoenix, Arizona)
> 
> Today Helen Daley, President of the Arizona Classic Jazz Society 
> announced their
> putting together of a Relief Jazz CD to help some of the more needy jazz 
> musicians
> in Louisiana and other Gulf Coast states devastated by Labor Day's 
> Hurricane Katrina.
> "With five of our country's top jazz bands performing on "Darkness.on 
> the Delta"
> and Banu Gibson, New Orleans' famed Jazz vocalist, on eight of the 17 
> selections
> on this CD", Ms. Daley said that she hopes "that some 5,000 CDs will be 
> sold during
> the coming months, allowing the Jazz Society to send some $50 thousand 
> to agencies
> that will earmark the dollars so received for the many jazz musicians, 
> who lost not
> only their homes, but also their instruments".
> Joe Hopkins, a jazz clarinetist himself (who plays at the "Chances Are 
> Restaurant"
> in Scottsdale twice weekly) has already donated one of his better 
> saxophones recently
> and says of this relief project, "What a wonderful way to help rebuild a 
> jazz musicians
> life, and at the same time remember "that genre" of music that New 
> Orleans made famous
> for this country: our most notable contribution to the Music of this 
> World - Jazz."
> The Relief CD's executive producer, Barker Hickox allowed that without 
> three bands
> volunteering to help him "build" this new CD, "it plainly would not have 
> happened."
> The Buck Creek Jazz Band of the Washington, DC area; The Titan Hot 7 
> from Nashville,
> and John Sheridan's "Sine Qua Non-5", each "donated two or three cuts to 
> help extend
> the length of "Darkness on the Delta" to its current 70 plus minutes of 
> great jazz!
> Furthermore, two of the CD's bands will be appearing for the Jazz 
> Society 's Jazz
> Weekend Festival on November 10
> -13 at the San Marcos in Chandler.
> The Titan Hot 7 and the Sine Qua Non - 5 will be there plus several 
> other top traditional
> jazz groups like High Sierra
> The original vinyl recording with Banu Gibson and her band and The 
> World's Greatest
> Jazz Band of Yank Lawson and Bob Haggart was recorded and released back 
> in the early
> 80's under the title "Jazz me Blues".
> "Indecently Vic Richardson, Downbeats' trombonist of the year back in 
> the 70's, several
> times, yet has two vocals on this CD, which makes it a collectors item, 
> says CD producer
> Barker Hickox. (He ran for Sheriff here in Maricopa County in 1976!)
> $10 from every CD sold will be sent monthly to a nonprofit (501-C3) 
> organization
> in the Louisianan area for the aid and assistance of Jazz Musicians in 
> the area.
> 
> 
> 
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