The Music Building

Hey again bloggers or whoever could be reading this blagh. And so this is another one of those posts that I find myself posting when that get rich internet quick thing is not working and that Google page rank update wants to send me in search of a fifth full time job. And so I found myself at The Music Building the other day, this really cool building with music studios near that Port Authority Bus Terminal and Penn Station in New York City where all or at least some of those musicians go to rehearse for those gigs, that has really cool graffiti and art all over their walls and throughout the hallways and boasts of musicians alumni such as Madonna, Billy Idol, Metallica, Blondie, Interpol and more as having passed through their building. And The Music Building's Recording Studios brochure reads something like "Since 1979, the Music Building has been New York City's largest and most historic music rehearsal facility...." And so this was one of those networking and jam session nights that I found myself at to listen to one of those bands jamming as in those photos posted above, one without a flash and so dark that you can barely see it. And that's a whole another Music Building photo story. And the bands that jammed that night, well they rocked. Have a great Music Building day and more.

Occupy Psychiatry

 

And on this day finds itself as Occupy Wall Street Day 490 and Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Together those global revolutions of a movement are still moving fast. And then there's Occupy Psychiatry.  And so I received this email in that email inbox on this day to where I find myself reposting it on this blog as follows. Psychiatry Kills. Abolish forced psychiatric treatment. Occupy Wall Street And Psychiatry Worldwide.

Hello,

Last week, I let you know about PsychRights' Letter to the President's Task Force on Gun Violence, which pointed out (1) that a mental illness diagnosis is essentially useless as a predictor of violence and (2) the gun violence discussion needs to include the role of psychiatric drugs in causing violence.  PsychRights was not the only one making these points.  

However in the rush to pretend to do something, but in the absence of the political will to do anything meaningful about gun violence, a mob mentality has developed to further restrict the rights of people diagnosed with mental illness and force them to endure harmful, counterproductive, psychiatric interventions.  In other words, the only thing that all of the players at the table can agree to is, in effect, "Psychiatric Profiling."   

New York rushed through a law that expands state and federal criminal databases of people labeled as mentally ill, unconnected to any actual crime or act of violence, and expanded outpatient commitment (forced drugging in the community).

President Obama's proposals yesterday include much the same. 

In effect, the reaction has been to promote Psychiatric Profiling.   To protest this alarming rush to increased psychiatric oppression Tina Minkowitz, and others, have called for and launched the Occupy Psychiatry Event, National Day of Action to Stop Mental Health Profiling 1/21/13 MLK Day. 

The idea is for people to take action this Monday, January 21, 2013, on Martin Luther King Day.  Please "join," take photos, videos, etc., and post them to National Day of Action to Stop Mental Health Profiling 1/21/13 MLK Day.

This Day of Action is devoted to:

·         To protest the scapegoating of people labeled with mental illness by politicians, media, gun control advocates and the pro-gun lobby

·         To protest the discriminatory and coercive provisions of President Obama's actions and proposals.

·         To protest the "NY SAFE Act" rushed through NY's legislature and signed by Gov Cuomo.

·         To invoke our connection to Martin Luther King Jr. and the values and traditions of nonviolence:

:We are a nonviolent community
:Many of us have been traumatized by violence and do all we can to stop it
:We are being labeled and profiled wrongly as violent, because of the actions of a few individuals
:Forced psychiatry is violent
:The new laws being enacted - in NY and likely at the federal level and in other states - will further restrict our civil liberties and constitutional rights
:We are protesting nonviolently for our civil and human rights

*To affirm and celebrate our "creative maladjustment" to a society that pits neighbor against neighbor with a duty to report thoughtcrimes and eccentricities to the state

("Creative Maladjustment" comes from several of King's speeches, including a 1967 speech of King to the American Psychological Association where he called for an International Association to Advance Creative Maladjustment, see http://www.psychologytoday.com/print/53556. David Oaks and MindFreedom International have taken up this call as part of the Mad Pride movement, http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/mental-health-global/iaacm. We honor David and wish him well in his recovery from serious injuries and surgery.)
 
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On Martin Luther King Day, January 21, 2013, people everywhere are invited to hold demonstrations, vigils and any other nonviolent acts of expression and protest, to inform the public about our point of view and gather in solidarity.

Again, please "join" take photos, videos, etc., and post them to National Day of Action to Stop Mental Health Profiling 1/21/13 MLK Day.

Or Tweet.  You can use hashtags #OccupyPsychiatry #StopMHProfiling and #CreativeMaladjustment

And New York City will be having an event as part of this action that reads something like as follows:

Stop Psychiatric Profiling event 1/21/13 in NYC:
the disability caucus of occupy wall street is organizing a silent demonstration at Grand Central Station information booth (center of the rotunda, down the ramp on the main floor) from 3-5 this coming Monday afternoon
The Disability Caucus of OWS will be holding a silent vigil Monday, January 21, 2013, 3 to 5pm inside Grand Central Station (W.42nd and Park Ave.) in Manhattan and assembling at the Information booth in the middle of the rotunda.
Why?
*To protest the scapegoating of people labeled with mental illness by politicians, media, gun control advocates and the pro-gun lobby
the contact persons are
Danny and Nadina: 212) 366-0432 nadina@disabilityculture.org
Ditto....and that Occupy Psychiatry @ Grand Central Station YouTube video that finds itself posted above, well that was posted on this day of Martin Luther King Day.
For all things alternative to the Mental Death System, Mindfreedom.org.

#Gun Violence and #Gun Control

Hey again bloggers, or whoever could be reading this blog? And on this day finds itself another one of those days where I find myself wondering what to post on this blog in an attempt to maintain content for this blog and my other blog whenever blaghers block possible. And so I find myself posting about the latest headline news and trends as in those hash tags above, gun violence and gun control. A topic that has been spurned by headlines such as the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting that has spurned even more discussions and groups such as Occupy the NRA, One Million Moms 4 Gun Control, Mayors Against Illegal Guns and NRA will participate in White House gun violence meetings. And so on that blogger thought I find myself posting those same blog posts that I have posted on this blog time and time again that find themselves below.

Sunday, May 13, 2007

Review My Guns?

So I received this blogger opportunity to review guns the other day. Guns...Guns???? I still cannot believe the idea that I received a sponsored opportunity to write about guns. Aren't I supposed to be against guns? I believe guns should be outlawed and removed from every person on the planet. Everyone throw away your guns. Guns are the worst invention ever. What am I supposed to say about guns, guns are great? Let's all go buy a gun now and shoot each other? Because as far as I know, guns are usually used to kill people. And I still cannot comprehend the idea that it is possible not only to advertise guns on the Internet, but to buy a gun over the Internet. How is that possible? Am I dreaming? At first I thought it was an art site because their website referred to art. But when I visited their site I saw guns. Oh, art guns and art supplies. Art for painting and drawing. I like art. Art is cool. But where are the paints and brushes to go along with the guns? All I see are images of guns all over the page; and the words sniper. Sniper!? What?, And grenade, air systems, tactical vests, masks, hoppers, barrels, harnesses, and brand names TIPPMANN A5 Tippman A-5 Marker Gun FLATLINE EGRIP SET-2,Spyder MR1 Military Tactical Paintball Marker Gun Sniper Set, Opened WGP Trilogy PRO Paintball Autococker Marker Gun and other scary sounding brand names. Oh my goodness, this can not be real. I must be hallucinating. Do I dare Google the word gun and see what websites come up? Are gun shops now all over the Internet? Help! Okay, so I Googled the term "Paintball Gun", what the heck is a paintball gun? Oh, a blow gun, what is that? Well anything with the word gun in it I am not a fan of except maybe a water gun. At least I had the option to not take the review. Does this mean the gun shops will not want to be my friend anymore? And what does this have to do with a No Police State. Happy Mother's day.

 A Gun Knife Show

And one this day here on planet earth according to that Gregorian calendar on the wall finds itself another one of those Sundays that has rolled around, the day of the sun, the day of rest, the sabbath, or is that Saturday. And yet I find myself blogging away. Okay, it's actually Saturday according to that Gregorian calendar on the wall. This is just another one of those posts from my other blog. And so this post happens to be about a Kansas City Missouri Gun Knife Show . A Kansas City, Missouri gun and knife show? What? Hugh? Doesn't that inner city seemingly bombed out of a ghetto war zone of a city where the only stores open are the churches and liquor stores and one has to be in before dark to avoid not being able to be in before dark, and the latest fashion trends are white t shirts being sold in stores the length of full length dresses for everyone to wear already have enough guns and gun violence going on other than to have gun expo advertisements being advertised all around town as if that town could be the wild wild west or something straight out of one of those cowboy and indians television shows in need of even more gun violence. And as I last I remember reading, isn't that zip code of 64130 of where the highest crime rate in Kansas City Missouri occurs already known as The Murder Factory ? And yet those $2 off admission next weekend gun - knife show at the KCI Expo Center yellow stickers seem to be found everywhere stuck on those Kansas City daily newspapers and those gun and knife show commercials seem to be found everywhere on that inner city ghetto television encouraging a city already experiencing urban blight such as never seen before, maybe, to buy even more guns to kill oneself and others off in a crime industry that breeds more crime. And for what reason does that gun show listings website have the images of flags all over it? Is it a patriotic thing to kill people off or something. And what's a patriot anyway, father of our country? And who's country? And for what reason does the word patriot have the word riot in it. As I have heard it said that the image of the American flag propagates violence. And guns are the worst invention ever. And what would happen if there were no crime tomorrow, would a lot of people be out of a job? As it seems to be an industry that feeds upon itself. The film noir, marketing and advertising of guns and gun violence in all forms of media advertising that breeds gun violence which breeds crime, which breeds news stories about crime which breeds more marketing for crime and images of violence etc. And for what reason do crime dramas and images of gun violence make up about what seems like ninety nine percent of programming on American television. Does not advertising and programming influence and program society. If only guns could be banished from every human being on planet earth. And what would happen if all of those criminal, civil, supreme, federal, local and other kinds of court houses here on planet earth for this industry of crime would close tomorrow? Would even more people be out of a job? And is war a money racket. And who can stop the war. No one is free when others are oppressed. And I am one blogger. Is another world possible. And what, if anything does this have to do with a No Police State?

Film Noir

Now that's interesting. There is an article on the cover of this weeks Village Voice with an image of a gun titled "The Year In Bloody Good Film: Violence Is Golden". The Village Voice and the LA Weekly did a year in film critics' poll, and something like the top 10 notable films were all violent or something. What does that say about these days and times when the top ten films in a critics poll are all violent. And somewhere in that article they actually mentioned the phrase "Film Noir". And I wasn't exactly sure what the word film noir even meant until I Wikipediaed it up. And that Internet bible dictionary Wikipedia described the phrase "film noir" as a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize moral ambiguity and sexual motivation. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as stretching from the early 1940s to the late 1950s and emerged in the United States during the Depression. The term film noir is French for "black film". Well, I am not exactly sure what this all means, but I guess the term means to glorify and romanticize violence. And I do find it amazing that any publication with advertising would even mention that phrase in an article these days, that film noir glorifies violence, being that guns and the images of guns are advertised everywhere in film, television, newspapers, telescreens, music lyrics, video games, cartoons, posters, commercials, sides of buses, insides of buses, the floors and walls of every single form of transportation possible, light poles, bus stops, sidewalks, doorsteps, walls, floors, ceilings, t-shirts, clothing, the air and anywhere else on planet earth that looks marketable. It is bombarding the advertising of guns to look cool these days. For what reason could not actors and models or any other person hold an object other than a gun or a weapon to look cool. Could not everyone start posing with flowers, or sticks and stones or something to look cool in these media advertisements these days. And what about public broadcasting non commercial sponsored media. Is public, listener sponsored media an alternative to corporate sponsored media and violent content. And what is corporate sponsored media. And what about technology and violence. Are they related. And what is technology and its advancement. And then there is that fourth amendment of the the right to bear arms constitution, the right to take another life for a piece of property, a shelter over ones head that should be free, a basic necessity of life of mankind, material goods. And the whole world is paying as someone loses their life to gun violence every day as the story is told today and the headlines will read tomorrow, yesterday and thereafter with no end in sight. If only a constitution could be written to abolish guns and the images of guns from everywhere and everyone on the face of planet earth. And in any given publication of most newspapers, half of the film advertisements have images of guns in them. In any given news cast, half of the news program, programming is of crime and violence. On any given prime time television schedule, half of the television programs are of crime, violence and guns. And again, I could copy my blog posts over and over in my appeal to end gun violence. To banish guns and the images of guns from every single place and human being on the face of planet earth. Guns are the worst invention of an industry ever. It is bombarding, the advertising of people holding guns to look cool, and pointing guns at you, the viewer, as you look at the poster or printed advertising. Does not advertising and programing influence and program society and people? Does not glorifying violence influence the world. And what are those TiVo things. Do they help one to filter out offensive programming in the media. It is that vicious cycle that feeds on itself again, advertising feeds marketing, which feeds crime, which feeds the news which feeds more crime which feeds more violence which feeds more advertising which feeds more news cycle. And it is interesting to read what the origin of film noir means, that this whole film noir thing started during the depression, right along with the Satan, Santa Claus marketing of the Christmas holiday shop, buy, spend more money, go into more debt, over consumerism season. Does this glorifying of violence as if it is romantic, reflect the moral decline of the world, the collapse of society? Are wars debasing the value of human life. Is there hope for the world. Will this beast, whatever or whoever this beast this may be ever release its grip on mankind. It seems as if the Emperor is wearing no clothes in the world these days, whatever the moral of that story may mean. What was life like before the invention of guns? I am only one blogger, one voice. No one is free while others are oppressed. Is another world possible? Peace on earth and goodwill to all mankind. And what does this have to do with a No Police State?  
 

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

The Headlines Yet Again

And even though on this day finds itself as Occupy Wall Street Day 180, and Occupy Wall Street and those global revolutions of a movement Occupy Together are still moving fast, I still turn on the computer to find headlines that read 1 dead, 3 wounded in gunfire near Texas courthouse, and such and such shoots such and such at such and such a place for such and such a reason, every reason except the topic of gun control..., on a daily basis with seemingly no end in sight to where one becomes numb in that I find myself posting this following blog post that was posted on this blog some time a while ago. And even though the names and places may change, the story still remains the same.

The Headlines Again And Again

And there it is in the headlines in the news again today. The AM New York says it was the fourth shooting at a U.S. school in a week. Another person has lost their life to the latest rampage of the day. It is in the news on a daily basis so much that I am just going to repost a blog entry I posted just a few days ago:
There is was in the headlines again yesterday. A rampage occured in a different state of America everyday this past week and another person has lost their life to gun violence with no end in sight. And it seems as if I could almost devote this blog to reposting and repeating this blog entry over and over on a daily basis with no end in sight. The following is a blog entry that was posted a few das ago:
There it is in the news again today. Again, I could cut and paste my blog entries over and over in my appeal to banish guns from every human being on the face of planet earth and to end the use of the images of guns in all forms of advertising, marketing, film and television as I have written in blog posts of the past. Does not advertising influence society. Guns are the worst invention of an industry ever. The am New York had an interesting statistic in an article titled "Guns and people"; there are nine guns for every ten people in the United States, a scary statistic. And there is another interesting article in their paper titled "Mayors band together to combat gun violence", some sort of acknowledgement that there is a problem. And The Villager has interesting statistics in an article titled ""Lower East Siders blast back against gun violence", New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, told a forum that 30,000 people a year are killed in gun violence nationally. And yet another person has lost their life to gun violence, and everyday someone loses their lives to acts of gun violence for whatever reason and no reason at all except for the fact that guns have been invented. It is a story that has been told in yesterdays headlines and will be told in tomorrows headlines with no end in sight. It is an industry that feeds on itself, advertisement and sensational nationalism breeds crime which breeds news, which breeds crime, which breeds more advertisement which breeds more crime. Will the cycle of the beast that has it's grip on humanity ever end. Should not guns be abolished from humanity as a whole, from everyone on the face of planet earth. And then there is that constitutional 4th amendment, the right to bear arms that should be abolished or rewritten to abolish guns and replace them with sticks and stones or something. The idea that property, material goods are worth more than life. It seems as if it is that story "The Emperor Wears No Clothes" and the whole world is paying with the loss of human life which seems to be a disposal commodity in the war industry of people against humanity. Are the slaughters of wars debasing the value of human life? Will the beast, who or whatever it is, ever release it's grip on mankind? Are the standards of social behavior declining? Is there a worldwide moral breakdown? Is society collapsing? Where is the world headed, is there hope? And one could turn the page of the newspaper and forget about these stories and daily atrocities of the world, yet they still exist. And I watched that film Bowling For Columbine by Michael Moore the other day. It is an amazing docuentary to me never seen before in the history of time. And the on the back cover jacket for this film it says: "Acclaimmed filmaker Michael Moore (Roger & Me) takes aim at America's love affair with guns and violence in this Oscar winning film that "demands attention" (People)! Mixing riveting footage, hilarious animation and candid interviews with everyone from the NRA's Charlton Heston to shock rocker Marilyn Manson, Bowling for Columbine is a "brilliant" (The Hollywood Reporter) tour de force of filmaking." I am one voice, one blogger. If only it were possible to go back in time before guns existed. Is another world possible. Peace on earth and goodwill to all mankind. And what does this have to do with a No Police State?
And this latest massacre of the day story, as well as another loss of life story of the day earlier this week are also a psychiatric state. So much that I just find myself reposting the same blog entry I posted just a few weeks ago it seems: And what doe these stories have to do with a No Police State?

And my friend gave me a flyer as we were discussing the latest atrocity of the day in relation to gun violence. It is a flyer she received back in April at Union Square Park of New York City. And it is a flyer about gun violence and psychiatry. The Pharmaceutical industry is bigger than the war industry. Psychiatry Kills. Abolished forced psychiatric treatment. And what's that "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" film by Ken Kesey all about anyway. That's a whole another blog posting. For all things human rights and psych cia trickery and alternatives to the mental death system, Mind Freedom is a great website to visit. I am one voice, one blogger. Is another world possible. Peace on earth and goodwill to all mankind. And what does this have to do with a No Police State?
And the flyer went on to read:

What caused the tragedy in "this state"?

It was reported in the Times and the Post Wednesday:

The killer had been taking anti-depressants.

All too often in the present age, we hear the tragic news of a senseless massacre somewhere in the country. Experience has shown, that the killer has almost always, if not absolutely always, been someone who had been prescribed anti-depressants.

The killers with names were kids who had been prescribed the anti-depressant ritalin.
The man who shot someone at this place had been prescribed an anti-depressant whose classic symptom is extreme rage directed at one specific person. The killers in the recent massacres in three different states, also one in another state, had been taking various prescription anti depressants.

Pharmaceutical drugs are prescribed, not as a last resort but as a first thought, not hesitantly but hastily and with excess. They are not properly used, but abused, with no thought of the side effects of taking chemicals which nature did not produce and evolution did not plan for us to be subjected to, like bug spray or insecticide. And this is not a small and isolated phenomenon, but rather a deliberate and systematic poisoning of the bodies and minds of the American people, on an epidemic scale.

The concentration of power, Mr. Moneybags, the State, which controls the American military-industrial complex and the pharmaceutical chemical companies that are an integral part of that system, the State, which, as Eisenhower warned, would one day gain undue influence and endanger our Liberties, has an interest in promoting this epidemic scourge of prescription drug use. Hundreds of billions of dollars a year, are made by the corporations that sell these drugs. It is big business. In addition, the State which experience has shown, for thousands of years all over the globe, tends to want to empower itself and dis-empower the People, gets exactly that benefit from this epidemic of drug use. Power and authority, competency and incompetency breeds corruption. It dis-empowers individuals by making them unhealthy. And it dis-empowers the community and the nation, by making people distrustful of each other; by making people think that their neighbor is a crazy person who they must be protected from; by persuading the People to accept, even to demand, increased police power of the State to protect them. Under such conditions even the will to independence vanishes.

The innovations of scientists and engineers are stolen and subverted by the concentrations of power; a virtue has become a vice, and chemical technology, which can and of right ought to be a liberating force in society, becomes enslaving.

Doctors are encouraged, by the drug industry, to prescribe artificial drugs to their patients. It is a regular practice, for the drug companies to pay a doctor a fee every time that doctor prescribes one of their drugs. It is no secret. In this way, the basic essential character of the American medical profession becomes one of conflict of interest.

The companies that make these drugs exert a great deal of pressure upon the mass media. There are huge advertising contracts, and there is an overlap of ownership between the drug companies and the media companies. The fact that a mass murderer was taking prescription drugs, is one of those things that will show up once in the newspapers, but is immediately and finally buried, and mum becomes the word.

There have been a thousand analyses of the killer in papers, of his history, his personality, his psychological problems; there have been a thousand demands for increased police powers; there have been a thousand calls for the outlawing of guns, and a general de-clawing of the People. But has anyone asked, how is it that society produces so many sick people?

Prescription anti-depressants are known to be a common cause of suicide; they are known to be a constant presence in senseless massacres. Surely the number of individual murders caused by these drugs must be many times greater than the number of massacres. And if there are so many suicides and murders, how many people taking pharmaceuticals must be gravely suffering, but have not quite yet arrived at the point of suicide or murder?

This epidemic of drug use, this deliberate poisoning of the bodies and minds of the American people, this deliberate, and thus far largely successful, did-empowerment of the American people, must stop. It is our purpose to reveal this truth to the American people, so that we may once again live in a sane and healthy society and the tragic deaths of so many good people in this State shall not have been in vain.

and also

Arizona

Arizona, gun violence and crime finds itself in the news on this day. And what would happen if there were no crime today, yesterday or tomorrow, would a lot of people be out of a job? The fact that another person has lost their life to gun violence, yesterday, today and tomorrow with no end in sight, for no reason at all except for the fact that guns have been invented. And though the names may change, the death industry game seems to remain the same. As it seems to be an industry that feeds upon itself. The film noir, marketing and advertising of guns and gun violence in all forms of media advertising that breeds gun violence which breeds crime, which breeds news stories about crime which breeds more marketing for crime and images of violence etc. And for what reason do crime dramas and images of gun violence make up about what seems like ninety nine percent of programming on American television. Does not advertising and programming influence and program society. Guns are the worst invention ever. If only guns could be banished from every human being on planet earth. And what would happen if all of those criminal, civil, supreme, federal, local and other kinds of court houses here on planet earth for this industry of crime would close tomorrow? Would even more people be out of a job? And is war a money racket. And who can stop the war. No one is free when others are oppressed. And I am one blogger. And of a seemingly bazillion news articles that always seem to focus on the personality of the person who has a gun instead of gun control, below in one article from the New York Times on this day that addresses the problem of gun control and gun violence instead of someones personality who has that gun that I thought to repost. No one is free when others are oppressed. Is another world possible. And what, if anything does this have to do with a No Police State?

Styling

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A Winter Jazzfest Globalfest 2013 Time

And so it must be that time of year again, after that Mayan calendar end of the world date and right before that globalFEST 10 festival and in between all other kinds of headline news of the day, that I find myself opening up a copy of this months New Years edition of The New York City Jazz Record to see this really big ad on page 23 for this years Winter Jazzfest that reads something like from their website as follows:

The 2013 NYC WINTER JAZZFEST
Friday, January 11th & Saturday, January 12th
Arts Presenters Showcases (APAP)

Winterjazzfest.com
#WJF2013


Tentative Lineup (subject to change)...

AFRO HARPING' A Tribute to Dorothy Ashby f. Brandee Younger
AfroHORN: The 3rd Incarnation
Alexis Cuadrado Group 'A Lorca Soundscape'
Amir Elsafar Quintet
Ari Hoenig Group
Bobby Previte Bari Trio
Brian Carpenter's Ghost Train Orchestra
Bryan & The Aardvarks
Bugge 'n Friends w/ Erik Truffaz, Bugge Wesseltoft, Ilhan Ersahin, Joaquin 'Joe' Claussell
Catherine Russell
Celebrate The Great Women of Blues & Jazz w/ Toshi Reagon, Allison Miller + Friends
Charnett Moffett, Marc Cary, Will Calhoun
CHURCH f. Mark de Clive-Lowe
Claudia Acuña
Colin Stetson
Corey King and TAFFY
Dan Tepfer & Lee Konitz
Debo Band
Dezron Douglas' Jazz Workshop
DJ Raydar Ellis
DJ Rich Medina
Don Byron Quartet
Donny McCaslin
Eric Revis, Kris Davis, Andrew Cyrille
Erik Deutsch
Ernest Dawkins Afro-Straight
Evolutionary Minded! - 'The music of Gil-Scott Heron Re-visioned w/ Kentyah, M1 (Dead Prez), Brian Jackson and The New Midnight Band'
Felix Pastorius
Frank Lacy '10 32k'
George Burton Group
Gregory Porter
Hazmat Modine
Herbert Holler (Freedom Party DJ)
Ibrahim Maalouf
Jacob Garchik The Heavens
Jaimeo Brown’s Transcendence
James Carter Organ Trio
Jason Lindner Breeding Ground
Jason Stein Quartet
JC Hopkins
John Raymond Project
Julian Lage, Nels Cline
Kneebody
Krystle Warren and the Faculty
Leo Genovese Trio
Marcus Strickland Twi-Life
Maria Neckam
Mario Pavone with Tyshawn Sorey and Dave Ballou
Merger w/ Andrew D’Angelo, Kirk Knuffke, Ben Street, Nasheet Waits
Michael Attias Spun Tree
Michael Formanek's Cheating Heart
Monty Alexander "Harlem - Kingston Express"
Music of Ryuichi Sakamoto by PACJE
Nasheet Waits EQUALITY w/ Vijay Iyer, Mark Helias, Logan Richardson
Omer Avital & His Band of The East
Oran Etkin
Otis Brown III
Pedrito Martinez
Rafiq Bhatia
Red Baraat
Revive Big Band led by Igmar Thomas
Rez Abbasi Trio
Roy Nathanson Sotto Voce
Rudresh Mahanthappa's Gamak
Seabrook Power Plant
Somi
Sunny Kim's Painter's Eye
The Big Picture feat. David Krakauer (A Sneak Preview)
The Cookers
The Fringe
Tigran
Tony Malaby Tuba Trio
Vinnie Sperazza 40Twenty
Yosvany Terry
+more to be announced soon...


BOOM Collective and Search and Restore are pleased to announce the lineup for 2013 NYC WINTER JAZZFEST.  The festival is to be held on January 11th & 12th, 2013 in New York City.  On both nights the festival will take over six venues in the Village, Le Poisson Rouge, Sullivan Hall, Zinc Bar, Bitter End, SubCulture and Bowery Electric.  This marks the ninth year of the annual NYC WINTER JAZZFEST, and the continued mission to showcase top quality jazz to industry professionals, avid jazz fans, and new audiences.

The 2013 NYC WINTER JAZZFEST will feature over 70 different jazz groups during the Arts Presenters (APAP) conference.  Similar to past years the festival will provide an opportunity for artists to showcase in front of presenters, promoters, talent buyers, educators, musicians and avid fans. Over 5000 arts professionals will be in New York City for the annual Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP) conference from January 10-14.  As there will be hundreds of showcases scheduled throughout the weekend around the city both at the Hilton Hotel and in alternative venues, Winter Jazzfest offers APAP conference attendees, and the general public, the opportunity to experience the best of today's new live jazz and experimental music in club venue settings.  Once famed as the focal point of New York City's rich jazz and live music scene, Bleecker Street and the Village provide for an ideal festival experience groups performing all night at six of the neighborhood's esteemed venues within close proximity of each other.  On this night the 2013 NYC WINTER JAZZFEST will continue to redeem the rich jazz heritage of the Village and again will bring jazz fans back to Bleecker Street.  The 2013 NYC WINTER JAZZFEST includes over 70 of today’s most interesting jazz groups from New York, Brooklyn, and beyond.

Currently new jazz groups are underrepresented, yet they are culturally essential to the continued development and future of jazz and the cultivation of new audiences for jazz.  Jazz artists need support and exposure to the significant institutional booking forum that the Arts Presenters conference represents.  Winter Jazzfest is pleased to offer a forum for presenters and music enthusiasts to experience and support the future of jazz.

The 2013 NYC WINTER JAZZFEST features curatorial input from Meghan Stabile of Revive Music Group and Adam Schatz of Search & Restore.  In line with the mission of Winter Jazzfest, Stabile and Schatz continue to invigorate NYC's jazz scenes in their own ways by promoting and supporting young and deserving new jazz artists while bringing increasingly growing audiences to the music.

Search & Restore provides a point of discovery for the new jazz & improvised music community atwww.searchandrestore.com.  Founded in late 2007 by Adam Schatz, S+R has since grown into a 501©3 non-profit organization, committed to bringing the artists and audiences of new jazz and improvised music together in new ways, while never forgetting it’s DIY roots.

Revive Music Group is a musician advocacy firm and boutique creative music agency that offers pioneering live music productions and online exposure for musicians. Revive represents musicians through artist development and global awareness, while educating and exposing younger audiences to jazz in nontraditional ways.  Visit the online hub dedicated to musicians at http://revivalist.okayplayer.com

The 2013 NYC WINTER JAZZFEST welcomes all Arts Presenter conference badge-holders to RSVP and reserve a single discounted Full-Festival Pass to the 2013 NYC WINTER JAZZFEST by emailing rsvp@winterjazzfest.com, RSVP required.  Only 2013 APAP Conference attendees are able to RSVP.

And these 2013 NYC Winter Jazzfest and globalFEST Rocks. Have a great jazz festival day and more.

A Free Sample

And if it's free then it's for me, maybe. And even if it's at a discount then it's for me, maybe. And so this post happens to be about freebies 2013, www.freecatcher.com and perfume samples. And just typing the words free samples, online freebies, and free trial offers has me wanting to visit that All Free Samples website to sign up for some of those free samples and complimentary products such as perfume, cologne, food, movies, music, entertainment, cell phones, books, cars and a whole lot of other products that one can think of. You can also read their Free Sample Newsletter to hear about their free samples and find All Free Samples on Facebook, Twitter and Google+ as well. And you can get those free product samples by mail. And what better way to find those deals and online freebies than on the internet. As now with the invention of online just about everything under the sun, finding those freebies can be just a website visit away.

A New Year

And as I look up and around on this day it finds itself as another year that has rolled around again according to that Gregorian calendar on the wall. It is a new year of 2013 from 2012 that seemingly Mayan calendar end of the world year. And we're still here. And it is also another one of those end of the year review retrospective of a year years again. A year of births, deaths, marriages, traveling, celebrations, happiness and sorrows or what not. And time is passing by again. And it is also a Twilight Zone 24 hour marathon cancel all appointments on this New Years Day again. And so I find myself posting this quote that I came across throughout my travels in internetland on this day.

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. Edith Lovejoy Pierce