Cultural Whirl

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I've been blessed with great gigs in 2010: January 14, 2010 - Old Dillard Museum with Amazing Musicwomen Diva JC, Jus' Cynthia and Melody Cole February 23-27, 2010 - U.S. Embassy Blues on the Green concert in Kingston, Jamaica, Diva JC with the Maurice Gordon Quartet March 4, 2010 - York College with Diva JC's Amazing Musicwomen concert accompanied by the Tom Zlabinger Trio March 6, 2010 - Langston Hughes Library - Amazing Musicwomen with Diva JC, Bertha Hope and Kim Clarke March 7 and 9, 2010 - The Shrine in Harlem, NY with Diva JC, Bertha Hope and Kim Clarke for the Lady Got Chops Women's History Month Festival See all events at www.wijsf.com/events/events.htm

Jazz is makin' do with taters and grits Standing up each time you get hit Jazz ain't nothin' but soul From 1968 to 1970, I visited every jazz room in New York City. I went from Slug's in the Far East on 2nd Street between Avenues A and B all the way uptown to Club Baron and Small's Paradise. In the Village, I was at the Blue Note, Village Vanguard and Village Gate. Every Jazzmobile was on my list of things to do, whether it was in Queens, The Bronx, Manhattan or Brooklyn. The memory that has stayed with me throughout my Jazz Excursion is the song given to me on a lead sheet by the composer Norman Mapp who also wrote "Mr. Ugly" and "I Worry 'Bout You". This was in 1983, at Freddy's on the lower east side, when I was petitioning the manager for a night to bring my band there. Norman handed me the song, after we had a long discussion at the bar about my two mentors Betty "Bebop" Carter and Joe Lee Wilson . Both of them recorded an...