[Dixielandjazz] Jazz Peotry Festival

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

Yes indeed there is a new movement in place here folks,

Copus is an act that I frequently consult for and work with from time 
to time as the movement grows,

and Two of St. Gabriel's regular players work shows with Upsurge when 
they are not busy.

while this is not my particular cup of Tea or MKOM   I still respect 
the creativity involved and the efforts these folks are making to find 
an audience, which they are doing and it is growing too.   If More OKOM 
bands would do the same ???? well that is an old old story that most of 
ya'll don't really want to hear again :))  So be it.

Today St. Gabriel's broke some new ground at an African Museum with a 
Mardi Gras Show  and once again blew them away, resulting in several 
new bookings  at substantially more money too,  not that there was 
anything wrong with todays paycheck :)) and a very nice endorsement for 
our Jazz For Kids program.   We may soon do a series there presented by 
the museum.

Again guys  I keep telling you you gotta think outside the box and go 
make the gigs happen.

Amazing thing happened, too,  I sent emails to many N. Ca. OKOm jazz 
fans and posted on this list and NOT ONE member or Okom fan showed up 
and it was also A FREE SHOW.

Does that tell you what's wrong with OKOM nope, cause most of ya'll 
don't think there is really any problem with it at all.

Well we made several hundred new converts today and by the way a lot of 
them were Black Americans too, who were delighted to see and hear some 
Black players playing Real N.O. Jazz, it took us two hours to get out 
of the place,  how did ya'll do.

Rev. Tom Bob


-----Original Message-----
From: barbonestreet at earthlink.net
To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Sent: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 6:51 AM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Jazz Peotry Festival

    NOT OKOM, but a while back list mate Charlie Suhor waxed poetic on 
list
about Jazz & Poetry. Here's a blurb about the First Annual JazzPoetry
Festival in the Bay area of California.

Cheers,
Steve

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

EVENT: First Annual Bay Area JazzPoetry Festival

CONTACT:  Raymond Nat Turner (510) 835-5348 raymond at upsurgejazz.com


DATE/TIME Friday, April 27, 2007 - 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm

FESTIVAL LINEUP:
* Golda Solomon and Saco Yasuma (NYC)
* Avotcja and Modupue (Oakland)
* Adam David Miller and Gael Alcock (Berkeley)
* COPUS (SF)
* UpSurge! (Oakland)

LOCATION: Berkeley Hillside Club 2286 Cedar Street (510) 848-3227
http://www.hillsideclub.org

ADMISSION: $20

The great poet T.S. Eliot wrote "April is the cruelest month." But this 
year
in Berkeley it will be the coolest month! Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM) 
and
National Poetry Month (NPM) have married and their offspring is the 
First
Annual Bay Area JazzPoetry Festival. The event takes place on Friday, 
April
27, 7:00 pm at Berkeley's venerable Hillside Club. Located at 2286 Cedar
Street, the Hillside Club overlooks Berkeley's world- renown "Gourmet
Ghetto" home to some of the Bay Area's best eats.

The First Annual Bay Area JazzPoetry Festival features New York City 
alto
saxophone sensation Saco Yasuma paired with New York poet Golda Solomon.
Time Out New York said "Avant-Jazz altoist Saco Yasuma has a theatrical
bent-but she is not hiding anything. She's got a killer sound and 
soulful
compositions." Dubbed the Medicine Woman of Jazz, "an insightful 
observer of
the scene and narrator of a thousand hipper yesterdays, Golda Solomon 
lays
it all out with streetwise authority on Word Riffs, the second 
recording to
document her compelling partnership of poetry and jazz."-Bill Milkowski,
Jazziz, Jazz Times

Avotcja, poet and host of KPFA's popular Music of the World segment 
"BeBop,
CuBop y Loca Saya" will perform with her band Modupue (Mow-dew-pway) 
voted
Jazz Group of The Year 2005 by the West Coast Blues Hall of Fame. A 
gifted
poet, Avotcja fluidly goes back and forth between Spanish, English and
Spanglish while never veering from truth, justice and the blues.

Adam David Miller, Berkeley's revered, esteemed poet author whose memoir
"Ticket to Exile" is due to publish this coming fall from Heyday Books
performs with cellist Gael Alcock. The classically trained Alcock works 
with
composers and new music ensembles, and accompanies singers, dancers, 
poets,
and artists. Her solo compositions explore jazz, middle-eastern, and 
free
styles of improvisation.

The Bay Area JazzPoetry Festival's eclectic and exciting line-up will
include world beat band COPUS. "COPUS produces music that is part jazz, 
part
classical, cerebral and sexy. Think of COPUS as the love child of Jack
Kerouac and Grace Jones."-Music Connection Magazine." Although I have 
always
been a jazz fan, the spoken word aspect was never one of my favorites. 
COPUS
has definitely changed that perspective. It is my belief that this music
could be legendary if given the opportunity to thrive." -MusicDish.com

Oakland's own UpSurge rounds out the first year festival's lineup with 
their
unique fusion of eclectic jazz and courageous poetry that reaches deep 
into
your soul. Their conscious words, assorted grooves and feels, dissolve
boundaries that separate genres and people. Voted "Best of the East Bay"
(East Bay Express Reader's Poll 2003), critic Lee Hildebrand describes
UpSurge as a "free-pushing jazz band with two strong poets out 
front...fresh
energy."

Festival tickets are $20 at the door. The first fifty audience members
seated by 7 p.m. are eligible for the raffle with prizes from our 
sponsors.
So come on time!



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