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The New Mexico Jazz Workshop (NMJW)

"The New Mexico Jazz Workshop is a non-profit organization that promotes Jazz Education and Performance."

The New Mexico Jazz Workshop (NMJW) is the oldest nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization in the state, dedicated to the American improvisational art form known as Jazz. The NMJW is the premier Jazz presenting and education organization in New Mexico. Through concert presentations and educational programs for children and adults, the NMJW promotes awareness and appreciation for Jazz and fosters understanding between cultures. While the organization is committed to showcasing the best and very broadest interpretation of Jazz, it is also concerned with the creation of programming that is responsive to the unique regional and cultural aspects of New Mexico. This is accomplished by fostering a local music scene and collaborating with other community and artistic organizations.

Contributing to the quality of life in Albuquerque and the state for nearly 32 years, our organization plays a critical role in enhancing the cultural vitality that makes our state great. Over the past several years, the Jazz Workshop has grown to be one of the leading arts organizations in Albuquerque boasting an audience of over 25,000. Through four different annual concert series, we present a wide diversity of music including Jazz, Blues, and Afro-Cuban Salsa. Our concerts and assembly programs each year support local musicians and present the greatest names in Jazz, Blues, Afro-Cuban Salsa. We believe that teaching our children about this culturally diverse and uniquely American art form is imperative. The NMJW proudly offers education programs that reach 10,000 students throughout the state each year.

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Sunday Jazz Brunch - $24.00
Lucia’s at The Hotel Andaluz
125 Second Street NW
Downtown ABQ

Please click on the NMJW or the Jazz Brunch logo above for more details and additional schedules.

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Jazz Education Programs

All classes are taught by the Outpost team comprising saxophonist, Kanoa Kaluhiwa; drummer, Sharon Eldridge; and trumpeter, Paul Gonzales. We aim to build positive attitudes, trust, teamwork, cooperation, confidence, compassion, and a sense of humor—everything you could ever want from music. Both Youth and Adults will perform a recital for family and friends at the end of their second session. It is expected that students will have their own instruments to bring to class. Outpost will provide a piano, a drumset, and guitar & bass amplifiers.

SPRING 2013 JAZZ & LATIN MUSIC CLASS SCHEDULE

BEGINNING FEBRUARY 11!

Monday,Tuesday & Wednesday
February 11 - April 17

Jazz Improvisation & Latin Music Classes for Youth

Kanoa Kaluhiwa, Sharon Eldridge, Paul Gonzales and César Bauvallet

The afternoon Jazz Improvisation classes taught by Paul Gonzales, and Sharon Eldridge focus on the rudiments of music and improvisation including rhythmic training, scale work, form in music, and musical improvisation. The NEW Latin Music class is taught by César Bauvallet, and is open to youth and adults. Students are invited to express themselves freely on their respective instruments as well as on percussion instruments. The emphasis is on musical expression as an individual in a group setting. Each teacher has a slightly different approach and our goal is to place together, students of similar levels as well as to form a balanced ensemble in terms of instrumentation. Advanced Level classes taught by Kanoa Kaluhiwa focus more specifically on the jazz repertoire, covering music theory, ear training, solo development, song forms, and various rhythm section approaches. ALL classes aim to build positive attitudes, trust, teamwork, cooperation, confidence, compassion, and a sense of humor—skills and values which will serve participants well beyond the workshop and throughout their entire educations and lives. Fun will be had by all!

Participants must bring their own instruments to class (piano, drums and amps will be provided). Come a few minutes early to the first class to register.

Tuesday & Wednesday Evenings
February 11- April 17

Jazz Improvisation Classes for Adults

Taught by Kanoa Kaluhiwa & Paul Gonzales, & César Bauvallet, The NEW Latin Music class is taught by César Bauvallet, and is open to youth and adults (who are at, at least an intermediate level of knowledge and skill) will focus on learning to understand and play Latin music and rhythms. The Jazz Improvisation Classes for Adults focus specifically on jazz and cover music theory, ear training, solo development, song forms and various rhythm section approaches. Our goal is to provide a truly quality experience for small ensembles comprising adults of similar abilities. All classes aim to build positive attitudes, trust, teamwork cooperation, confidence, compassion and a sense of humor. While a certain proficiency on instruments is expected, this class is for aspiring musicians, retired or rusty musicians, closet jazz fanatics, those who want to learn more about jazz—in short, if you want to be there, we want you and a good time will be had by all. The final class will feature a recital by the students.

Participants must bring their own instruments to class (piano, drums and amps will be provided)

MORE CLASS OFFERINGS AT OUTPOST

In addition to Jazz Ensemble Classes, Outpost offers other class opportunities for the youth of the community.

For more information, please click the Outpost logo above.

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Rio Grande Jazz Society
The Rio Grande Jazz Society is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization devoted to the preservation and promulgation of traditional jazz, Dixieland, and swing. It came into being in the late 1980s, moving through several meeting venues before settling in at the Edelweiss German-American Club, where it meets on the third Sunday of most months.

At the monthly meetings, there's usually a featured band at 1:30, followed by four or five jam sessions. The jam sessions are unrehearsed, and can be quite interesting. Much depends on how many musicians show up on a given Sunday, what instruments they bring, and what tunes they can all agree upon.

The Society also sponsors informal jams every second and fourth Monday, 5-7 PM at the GAC. Musicians bring their fake books, and we have a lot of fun playing familiar tunes and developing new material to play at the monthly meetings. These sessions are open to all aspiring jammers. For more information, please contact the organizer.

To encourage the continuation of jazz, the Society also gives awards to aspiring young musicians.

For more information and up-coming events, please check their website (click on the logo above).

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Patti Littlefield / Mark Weaver duo

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A self-taught singer, Patti Littlefield performs all types
of music from R&B to bebop, from jazz to blues to rock. She has recorded songwriter's
demos for Ken Hirsch, Teddy Vann, Billy Cioffi and the late Doc Pomus, and has recorded with Luther Vandross. Patti has worked as a studio singer on bothcoasts (New York and Los Angeles) and has performed locally in New Mexico with David Parlato, Pete Amahl, Lewis Winn, and Robert Fox among others. She has also participated in special projects with poets Mark Weberand Jimmy Santiago Baca. In resonance, Patti teams up with one of Albuquerque's finest low brass players, Mark Weaver, for an unusual and experimental exploration of spatial sound: no chordal instruments, basically just tuba and voice, refashioning material that ranges from standards to jazz and pop tunes and original compositions.

Mark has been playing low-brass instruments since 1970, recording and performing in a broad variety of ensembles in the southwest US and on the west coast, including numerous live music projects for theater and film. Over the years Mark has performed with Jeremy Barnes, Rob Blakeslee, J.A. Deane, Harris Eisenstadt, Lisa Gill, Malcolm Goldstein, Chris Jonas, Jeff Kaiser, Butch Morris, Tatsuya Nakatani, David Parlato, Roswell Rudd, Damon Smith, Biggi Vinkeloe, Michael Vlatkovich. His many recordings appear on record labels such as Leaf, Carrot Top, Newsonic, Nine Winds, pfMENTUM, Plutonium, and Balance Point Acoustics.

Contact: Mark Weaver at 505-255-8046 mw@toast.net www.plutoniumrecords.net

“Littlefield is a self-assured vocalist who brings the voice of each song to life…without strain. She’s so natural the listeners will be ready to run off with her… Weaver’s horn only heightens the drama. He provides a resonant grounding, and his didgeridoo playing…adds an exotic touch and conjures an eerie atmosphere.”

(David Dupont, Cadence Magazine Oct 2009, p.219)

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Music Links Of Interest

www.jazzresources.org

A companion website to jazzsantafe.com dedicated to helping the jazz community find whatever they need in one (virtual) location. Information listed will cover music-related ealth injury resources, therapeutic health aids for the hands and wrists, where to study jazz, where to find gear, and much more. There is a complete (so far) listing of musicians who teach different insturments for anyone looking to learn to play on the Education page.

If you haven't already heard about us and have
info we could use, contact Lou Levin at loulevin@yahoo.com.

all about jazz

All About Jazz is the leading jazz music website for both enthusiasts and industry professionals.
Our mission is to serve jazz and improvised music from a global perspective by advancing musicians, facilitating education, and increasing public awareness of the players and their medium. Our unique position as the leading jazz Web site enables us to leverage information technology in order to organize and disseminate information, opinion, and music itself. As the primary repository for jazz content, we aim to provide a haven for jazz enthusiasts, neophytes and industry professionals. And by stimulating personal expression, we also hope to advance progressive ideas and exchanges which will help shape the future of jazz.

Jazz of Enchantment

For Profiles and Radio Interviews of many New Mexico Musicians, please check out the website:

www.newmexicojazz.org

JazzMonthly.com is an online publication of interviews, reviews, news and entertainment covering all genres of Jazz. Our “Features" provide an insight into the experiences, efforts and opportunities of Artists and their rise to recognition in the field of Jazz. Also featured, are industry professionals that have made major contributions in shaping and re-shaping the music world as we see it today.

This is a terrific non-profit musicians’ website providing informationn about master classes, career management, music business and marketing, where all musicians can receive support, guidance, and expert resources to help them navigate the challenges and maximize the opportunities available to them within the music industry.

Check it out!!

The most celebrated jazz networking site that honors the legends, features new artists, promotes music education and live jazz worldwide!

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The place where jazz lovers love to stay!www.biscochitoholidaycasita.com

PAUL SLAUGHTER PHOTOGRAPHY FALL 2010

Hello Friends and Fellow Jazz Lovers,

I personally print my photographs with archival pigment
inks on Hahnemuhle rag paper, one of the most archival papers available. When framed under UV glass, prints will last over 100 years before any fading might occur, according to Wilhelm Imaging Research, the definitive authority on the longevity and preservation of inks and paper.

The average size of an actual printed image is 11.5 x
16.5 inches which is printed on archival 13 x19 inch
paper, and is presented in a 22 x 28 inch archival white matte. My collectors say the print presentation is absolutely stunning. A collector in Chicago has the “The Three Ladies of Jazz,” Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae, and Nancy Wilson adorning their downtown condo.

Jazz Heals!
Paul
miles

For print orders and information please contact me
at: paul@slaughterphoto.com or call 505-988-3179.

Photo: Miles Davis © Paul Slaughter, The Troubadour
West Hollywood, California, 1975

Book's Cover is Sonny Rollins, The Lensic, Santa Fe 2 2007

Paul's book

Paul Slaughter / Jazz Photographs 1969-2010,

with a Foreword by the renowned jazz musician Charles Lloyd, is now published. Go to www.blurb.com to take a sneak preview of the book. Order a copy if you are so inclined. The hard cover book with dust jacket is 12x12 inches (larger than the preview), 80 pages, with 81 photographs of jazz greats, including classic images of Miles, Dizzy, and Duke, to more modern images of Redman, Metheny, Lloyd and Marsalis. Photographs are in black and white and some in color. They have been selected from Paul’s extensive collection of jazz photographs he has created from 1969 to the present.

For information to order a signed copy of the book send an email:
paul@slaughterphoto.com.

The book is $ 125.00 and will soon become a collectors book.

"Paul Slaughter's images sweep you up close to the artist, providinga touching look at the creative forces that make jazz soul-enriching."—Marc Myers,
JazzWax.com

Santa Fe's Community Music Center The Candyman Education Program has top-knotch instructors available for private lessons. Please contact Education Director, Milton Villarubia, at 983-5906 to check on the availability of teachers and to schedule a time for your lesson.

Individual lessons allow our faculty to tailor the lesson curriculum to the needs, interest and ability of each student. Instructors continually assess each student's ability and help motivate them to the next level in their learning.

Thinking of visiting Colorado? To find out where jazz is played in northern Colorado towns, please check:

Kevin MacInness - Jazz NoCo
Supporting Live Jazz and its Musicians in Northern Colorado

info@jazznoco.com
www.jazznoco.com

If anyone has something new or special of interest to jazz lovers, please contact me at:

Irene Irene Campos
(The Baroness of Jazz)
info@jazzsantafe.com
505-473-5302 (H)
505-660-9877 (C)

Photo © Victoria
Rogers

Jazz Education Programs

SPRING 2013 JAZZ & LATIN MUSIC CLASS SCHEDULE BEGINNING FEBRUARY 11!

Jazz Improvisation & Latin Music Classes for Youth

Jazz Improvisation Classes for Adults

SPRING 2013 JAZZ & LATIN MUSIC CLASS SCHEDULE

BEGINNING FEBRUARY 11!