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Watch this Now. Mike League, runner, owner, bassist and feeder of pups is featured as an artist in the New Face of Jazz. As a matter of fact, his interview was one of the absolute best ones I did. If you’re able to, help these guys out!

xo

~Cicily

Can you believe it’s actually here? We can’t. Actually, we can. We worked on it every second of every day for months and months and months. So yeah, we can believe that it’s real. It’s just great to know that it’s real to others!

So go over to AMAZON and get your copy pre-ordered now before we run out!

And, if you are someone who contacted me about reviewing the book, please email me at newfaceofjazz@gmail.com so I can put you on the list. If you’re in education and would like for Ned and I to come to your school for a lecture about the book and a signing party, please email me at the same email address. Also, if you’d like to order the book for your school’s library or for part of your curriculum, please let me know ASAP so I can get the word out to my publisher.

Thanks again for your continued love and support!

Yours,

Cicily Janus
and
Ned Radinsky

I feel like a giant weight has been lifted maybe an inch or two off my shoulders…when it’s really done, that weight will be off of me, in the press, and moving from delivery trucks to the shelves in stores.

Have a great weekend and more news soon.

Yours in Music and Mayhem,

Cicily

Are you on twitter?  Give me a shout and I’ll follow you too.

Hope your summer is going well.  I’m enjoying the scene from my basement well window as I finish the manuscript for the book.  Next summer is not far off.  If you want Ned and I to come to your town, email us or comment on here.  newfaceofjazz@gmail.com  We’d love to hear from you!

Yours,

Cicily

White House Music Series Launches With Jazz

First Lady Michelle Obama will introduce the White House Music Series which will feature artists of all ages who will perform, educate and interact with young people. The series will begin with the Jazz Studio on Monday, June 15th. Students will participate in classes led by jazz experts including Wynton, Branford and Ellis Marsalis. They will then attend a concert featuring jazz greats, Paquito D’Rivera and child protégés Tony Madruga with his ensemble.

The program will shine a national spotlight on music education, highlighting the important role music plays in the creativity and innovation of America’s fabric. The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz is pleased to bring more than 30 talented music students who receive free jazz instruction through the Institute’s “Jazz in the Classroom” program to participate in the Jazz Studio workshops.

Students attending through the Monk Institute are from: Gallery 37 Center for the Arts, Chicago; Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Dallas; Eagle Rock High School, Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, and Washington Preparatory High School, Los Angeles; New World School of the Arts, Miami; New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, New Orleans; and LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, New York City.

Monk Institute students will also attend the Duke Ellington Jazz Festival concert honoring pianist, composer and educator Ellis Marsalis, who also serves on the Institute’s advisory board, on Monday, June 15 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

The Jazz Studio workshop themes include exploration of the core elements of jazz: American History and Jazz; The Syntax of Jazz; Improvisation; The Blues Experience and Jazz; Duke Ellington and Swing. The audience will include 150 instrumental middle school and high school students from collaborating organizations: Duke Ellington Jazz Festival; Duke Ellington School of the Arts; Jazz at Lincoln Center; Levine School of Music; New Orleans Center for Creative Arts; Sitar Arts Center; WPAS Capital Jazz Project, and the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz.

“The powerful force known as jazz is recognized in all corners of our planet as America’s indigenous music and the voice of democracy,” said Herbie Hancock, Chairman of the Monk Institute. “The very spirit of our young people is uplifted by our music and arts education community, whose tireless support has ensured that the heart and soul of our nation will flourish.”

Musicians and educators leading workshops include: Sean Jones, Eli Yamin and others.

Please continue to show your support and we’ll keep you updated too!  If you haven’t signed up for our mailing list, please do at newfaceofjazzmailinglist@gmail.com.

Yours,
Cicily Janus

and

Ned Radinsky

It’s this, the side of jazz that has been so blatantly stolen by the industry who has made a business out of music, which unfortunately it has to be, that has gone missing from the public eye.  I hope to kidnap it from its current place, the inner-side of their thoughts and put it down for you to read and understand and take away a little piece that can bring some light into your life.

If you have specific questions for the artists and want to hear more about them, then please, go to one of their concerts.  Go up to them after the show.  Jazz Standard in NY has a very small venue.  You can sit with the musicians after the show at the bar and speak with them about their lives.  Buy them a drink or a dessert (they’ll never turn down food, as I’ve learned) and you’ll find out too that there is much more to their lives and they’re very willing to share it with you more times than not. They work for deflated incomes, whereas the rest of the world watches their incomes gradually go up over the years. A $200 club gig is still, a $200 club gig, whether you’re playing in 1984 or 2009. It hasn’t changed.  Maybe even, it’s worse.  There are less and less venues to play at and less and less of an audience.  Club owners are hesitant to even book new talent if they don’t have a local draw.  So getting the experience that players like Sonny Rollins or Dianne Schuur had when they were young is impossible.
I can not express enough how much I need and want for you to support this art, this life that is inherently ours.  Don’t let it go to waste, it’s right there in front of you.

Yours,
Cicily Janus

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Cicily and Ned

I’ll also be posting some more excerpts shortly for those of you who are asking for more material to devour.

Thanks for your continued support and love.  I’m astonished by the simple number of hits we’re getting on a daily basis.  Not to mention the crowd we have on Facebook’s group.  You can friend us on both Facebook and Myspace.
KEEP YOUR EYES GLUED TO THE PAGE!

YOURS,

Cicily