Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Toots Thielemans Press Release - 2009 NEA JAZZ MASTER

[EGS1217@xxxxxxx]

Unfortunately, I didn't know about it...so missed capturing all of you on  
video playing Bluesette....hopefully someone else did?   Incidentally...that's 
wonderful about Toots winning the 2009 NEA  Jazz Master....
 
..but I did get the entire sequence of Michael Peloquin's 10-man line-up  
mentioned earlier by Michael Rubin in which you (SmoJoe) played a great  solo. It 
was a fabulous performance all around and the audience loved  it...
 
..since the jazz jams were held in the bar lounge, the other hotel guests  
got a free concert/party/jazz experience and were just as enthused as the  Spah 
attendees.
 
My trip home Sunday afternoon from Spah turned into a 10-1/2 hour (the  extra 
last hour and a half spent sleeping in the car on the way home doesn't  
count)... travel nightmare involving a cancelled flight, numerous gate  
changes...rerouting to Nashville (which would have been cool if it could have  turned 
into a layover and a visit to Jason, but alas all I got to see  of the City was a 
45 minute mad dash through its  airport) and several other 'bumps' along the 
way...all the while dealing  with a torn rotator cuff...so having to manage my 
luggage with only one arm made  the travelling very difficult.  Shoot...for 
12 hours travelling time, I  could have gone anywhere in the world...yet all I 
was doing was coming home  to NY from St. Louis on a Sunday afternoon.
 
I'm not yet recovered enough to view all 15+ disks to sort them  out, 
especially as I'm now on antibiotics from some flu/cold I managed to pick  up from 
one of the planes...(extremely unusual, and most likely the  results of not 
ingesting enough water/liquids onboard..again all in  an attempt to avoid more 
difficulties travelling with an injured  extremity).  Hopefully next week will be 
soon enough for those anxious to  see anything I managed to shoot.
 
Elizabeth
 
P.S.  Have now viewed the one posted tape of the 10 man L'il  Darling line 
up...and a lot of the participants were in darkness and  difficult to make out.  
Since I taped from a banquet directly in  front of you all...if memory serves 
I believe I did get your faces  clearly...and more in closeup....will check 
asap
 
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Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:54:11 -0400
From: Joe and Cass  Leone <leone@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Fwd: Toots Thielemans  Press Release - 2009 NEA
JAZZ    MASTER
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It was a GREAT honor to play on it with you and William  Galison. A  
dream come true.

smokey-joe

On Aug 15, 2008,  at 5:06 AM, randy singer wrote:

> This evening, as the MD of the spah  2008 jazz jam, I proudly  
> dedicated BLUSETTE, the first song of  the evening to TOOTS  
> THIELEMANS for his new  award.
>
> We love you Toots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> Thank  you for bringing our instrument to life around the world and  
> in  our hearts.
>
> Congratulations on your new well deserved  award.
>
> Best,
>
> Randy  Singer
>
>
>
>>> TOOTS THIELEMANS  BECOMES
>>>
>>> 2009 NEA JAZZ  MASTER
>>>
>>> The highest American  distinction
>>> National Endowment for the Arts announces  the
>>> 2009 NEA Jazz Masters.
>>>
>>>  Washington, DC â The National Endowment for the Arts  announced   
>>> the recipients of the 2009 NEA Jazz Masters Awardâthe  nationâs  
>>> highest honor in this distinctly American music.  The six  
>>> recipients will each receive a $25,000 grant  award, and will be  
>>> publicly honored in an awards ceremony  and concert at the Lincoln  
>>> Center NY on Friday, October  17, 2008, where the Lincoln Center  
>>> Orchestra with Wynton  Marsalis dedicates the program to the  
>>> honoreesâ works  .
>>>
>>>
>>> The six 2009 NEA Jazz Masters  are: George Benson (vocalist and  
>>> solo instrumentalist,  guitar), Jimmy Cobb (rhythm  
>>> instrumentalist, drums),  Lee    Konitz (solo instrumentalist,  
>>>  saxophone), Toots Thielemans (solo instrumentalist, harmonica and   
>>> guitar), and Snooky Young (solo instrumentalist,  trumpet).  
>>> Recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder will receive  the 2009 A.B.  
>>> Spellman NEA Jazz Masters Award for Jazz  Advocacy.
>>>
>>> More information is available at  :
>>>  http://www.nea.gov/national/jazz/press/JazzMasters2009.html
>>>  TOOTS THIELEMANS WORDT
>>> 2009 NEA JAZZ MASTER
>>> De  hoogste Amerikaanse onderscheiding

>  http://www.randysinger.com




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