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The giOutar Limits
Please take a moment to consider the
purposes of these organizations regardless of your interest in
any item or listed products. Thank you for viewing this page.
Musician's
Hurricane Relief Fund .
The
Ennis William Cosby Foundation .
The
Noel Pointer Foundation .
Situations permitting, LittleNewYork (the man behind the curtain)
will conduct auctions which will benefit one or more of these
above organizations.
If you know of a music-based or children's educational foundation
which might benefir in some way children through the majic of
music please tell LittleNewYork about it and we may be able to
put a link to that page. We're all one big family around the
same drum and music is a healing device. These are like Top Cat,
YO!
-Moody Wredmin (Jazz Drummer, Vibraphone; and Iron Kettle
Drum) unk.
BONUS - Join WBGO between Sept 4th 2006 and July 4th 2007, and you
win any auction during that time you can get up to a 5 dollar
discount on shipping for any auction you may win during that
period. Winning bid must be at least $50.00. All you need to
do is send us a copy of your WBGO Membership Card that shows
you are a new or re-newing member in the stated time frame. And
anyway your Donation Premium to keep JAZZ and BLUES ALIVE World-Wide
is a cool inspiration no matter what music you play or listen
to because Jazz IS: Become a member of WBGO JAZZ 88 WBGO Jazz Radio where Jazz
and the BLOOZE and R&B, SOUL and all the food for Rock and
Roll! is kept streaming on the web (and electrostatistically...in
the air) 24 hours a day. DIG!
- Horace Debussy Jones, Clarinetist (piano student age17)
NOW.. a word from the Bottom of the Stairs, at the BASS-MINT
"When ever we do something warm from the heart and do
it musically it reverberates through space and time. Whatever
your heart set your hands to do will be met with tummultous acclaim
by the keepers of the Gate at Liberty Fence.. it's actually much
higher than that but you catch my drift? I don't mean to preach
at you cause I am not into that. But when you do something that
perpetuates music and art and place it here it may take root,
you might yourself even have it made in the shade when you walk
that way again. It's kinda like being recognized for something
but not having to be embarassed by it. Or, when you try and do
a good thing and end up getting blamed for messing something
up. I does get counted for whatever good it did and even more
when you just do it. And if you end up in a situation you cannot
hide from you still will have the invisible who will always deal
you a fair hand, no matter what the folks say down here at the
bottom, or in the middle. Yo see, not only do you get to be famous
in THIS WORLD (like, on the planet) as it is, sometimes. You
will always get to be famous in THAT WORLD where it really counts
an where it all equally good. And, because that's where the best
music is played and where all the musicians are at, or will someday
be. We can listen, play, but we cannot let the blues have its
way. There was this man on the radio the other day taking about
families would play together and support musical actvities, and
even schools what sounded like had good teachers and plenty of
exposure, and musical instruments to go around. That means the
freedom to experience and to choose and maybe even the freedom
to play your heart out if that's what you would like to do.
Imagine. In a country that we consider the Land of Liberty
there are people who don't even have the opportunity to have
time to play, draw, make things by hand, and experience peace
and joy in sharing these things of love, and all types of expression.
There are people who can play well and may never get a job. Gifted
children are consistently unrecognized, and people of all ages
are made to believe that their abilities will be judged, while
the benefits of music study are at the same time discouraged.
No support structure for the many types of music by way of awarness
and venues to make it possibe, not even places to display art.
Our restaraunts and cafes are often barren and unwelcoming of
art, and our shops only sell what is mass-production.
There was a musician talking from the radio about a city where
that cracked bell is suposed to be at. He talked about music
in the home and and people communicating with the understanding
of music. Brotherly (and sistrely) Love that's the name of the
town Phil Adelfia - sounds Italian... Call me cracked if you
want to. But any bell that was rung that much is lke an old banjo
or clarinet that was played so much it ened up looking like Willie
Nelson's guitar. Gotta have some pretty cool indivisables as
town folk to v'been able to let them kids play an instrument
till it wears out. Then you just get a better one and pass the
other onto some wide-eyed kid... in playable shape when possible.
So, when you see music in the home and as a family thing,
you know when you stop over at the wrong time you're gonna get
hauled in by somebody's mom and set at the table, and she'll
make you eat strange food and you better mind your manners. That's
hospitality.
One last note. There is a musician/artist by some device in
every child as part of a balanced society. When a dominant cycle
in any human society is broken and the economy, educational system,
and social structures falter; it is usually because that society
lost track, or misappropriated to much value for arts and entertainment
and forget what, who, why, and when this nation was re-established.
Should be; when you break something you replace it with something
better. When I look at ancient ruins I don't hear nobody playing
trumpet in the background and no cedar flute where those hills
once stood high. The End.
- Michael Fratercangello (Sop/Ten Saxophone)
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