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Bill, I really wish that Detroit had radio like you host. Your programming reminds me of the programming I heard in the late 80's that truly changed who I was. It was the right sound for the right time. I fear too many people today won't get that life changing experience because NPR is a news network. Thank goodness for WEMU but I sadly can't it in. Keep doing what you are doing. I am sure you are truly changing the way people hear music. Yours is a noble job. Rodney Reeves _______________________________________________ Detroit Jazzstage brings great jazz to podcast listeners around the world. Visit their website at jazzstageproductions.com for more information. Join the mail list and keep up to date on shows, and events! Your crew @ Detroit Jazzstage http://www.jazzstageproductions.com/

7 zip is great. It is all you really need for many kinds of compression. Thank goodness for open source! _______________________________________________ Detroit Jazzstage brings great jazz to podcast listeners around the world. Visit their website at jazzstageproductions.com for more information. Join the mail list and keep up to date on shows, and events! Your crew @ Detroit Jazzstage http://www.jazzstageproductions.com/

Jim, If I can get down there myself I want to introduce myself. I will wear a carnation on my lapel! Rodney _______________________________________________ Detroit Jazzstage brings great jazz to podcast listeners around the world. Visit their website at jazzstageproductions.com for more information. Join the mail list and keep up to date on shows, and events! Your crew @ Detroit Jazzstage http://www.jazzstageproductions.com/

Joe, I thought I pretty much covered that here. I didn't see an about me section or I would have done that. Plus, we are not being paid to promote those gigs and we don't have any monetary interest in them. We are doing it for the love of this music. We do have an Organissimo "gig" in mind. Besides sharing our support of your group with Mike Ricci of All About Jazz, we have been talking to Jim about getting you in the studio to do a show. _______________________________________________ Detroit Jazzstage brings great jazz to podcast listeners around the world. Visit their website at jazzstageproductions.com for more information. Join the mail list and keep up to date on shows, and events! Your crew @ Detroit Jazzstage http://www.jazzstageproductions.com/

Spencer is an internationally acclaimed musician and he needs your help filling the room at Bakers. Barefield has performed internationally with his own groups and with Oliver Lake, Roscoe Mitchell, David Murray and many others. His legendary series at the Detroit Institute of Arts has just been released on CD. From Mrs. Barefield Bakers is considering canceling our weekly Wednesday gig if things don't pick up. A show of support would be greatly appreciated!! Dec. 12 may be our last...please join us & invite your friends. No cover, tasty food, lighted secure parking and great music. Spencer Barefield & Friends with Don Mayberry (bass) and Djallo Djakate(drums) Every Wednesday, 8 pm Baker's Keyboard Lounge Livernois at 8 Mile, Detroit 20510 Livernois Avenue Detroit, Michigan 48221 Phone: 313-345-6300 Great jazz and soul food. Special guests each week. http://www.myspace.com/aspencerbarefield http://www.spencerbarefield.com http://www.bakerskeyboardlounge.com UPCOMING EVENTS early 2008 Creative Music at the DIA (1979-1992) First set of CDs from 1980-81: Leroy Jenkins and New Chamber Jazz Quintet (Spencer Barefield, guitars, Anthony Holland and Faruq Z. Bey, saxophones, Jaribu Shahid, bass and Tani Tabbal, drums) Douglas Ewart-Spencer Barefield-Tani Tabbal Trio Barefield Holland Tabbal Trio Check spencerbarefield.com for more info and availability of CDs _________________________________________________ Detroit Jazzstage brings great jazz to podcast listeners around the world. Visit their website at jazzstageproductions.com for more information. Join our mail list and keep up to date on shows, and events! Your crew @ Detroit Jazzstage http://www.jazzstageproductions.com/

Written by JazzStage Productions Sunday, 09 December 2007 Detroit’s Palmer Woods Concerts In Homes Series Palmer Woods, known as a treasure of residential architecture and exquisite design in Detroit, will present a six-concert series of jazz, classical and world music in five magnificent Palmer Woods homes and the Detroit Golf Club. The first concert featuring jazz vocalist Shahida Nurullah and Friends, will be held on Saturday, December 22 at 8pm. Each month, from December through May, internationally-recognized, legendary, Detroit-based musicians will perform to help preserve, protect and improve the Palmer Woods neighborhood and support the arts in Detroit. Tickets are $25 per concert or $100 for the series of five home concerts, and $55 for the Dinner Dance Concert at the Detroit Golf Club (tickets for the supervised party for children at the Detroit Golf Club are $15). Tickets will be available for purchase online at palmerwoods.org or by calling 313-920-4864. Addresses of the Palmer Woods homes will be mailed with tickets. Concerts goers will be treated to some of Detroit’s finest musicians in the splendor of five Palmer Woods homes and the Detroit Golf Club. We expect these intimate living room settings to be filled with Metro Detroiters who support the arts, and love the unique architecture, design and home decor found in Palmer Woods. Here is the line-up: • Saturday, Dec. 22, 8pm: A holiday jazz concert featuring the Shahida Nurullah Trio with festive sounds and food in a Palmer Woods home decorated for the season. Shahida sings the blues, as well as jazz, samba, bossa nova, show tunes, and more. She has wowed audiences from her native Detroit to New York to Paris to Amsterdam and beyond. For more information and to hear some music: http://www.shahidanurullah.com • Saturday, Jan. 26, 8pm: New Orleans Jazz legend saxophonist Charlie Gabriel and his Quartet will celebrate Mardi Gras in Detroit, with jambalaya, beads and great music music in a gorgeous Palmer Woods home. The Quartet features Taslimah Bey, ragtime pianist, and the music of Jelly Roll Morton and New Orleans. Gabriel has performed and recorded internationally, including early stints with Lionel Hampton and Aretha Franklin. He is member of the famous Gabriel family of musicians from New Orleans. • Saturday, Feb. 23, 8pm: Peter Psarianos & Odyssey will take you on a journey to Asia Minor Greece, with oud, lauoto, violin, vocals and percussion. Exotic foods to accompany the magic in a Palmer Woods home. Psarianos has performed on the Silk Road Chicago at the Art Institute series, at the Detroit Institute of Arts, and elsewhere. • Saturday, March 15, 8pm: New York violinist Jannina Barefield, who grew up in Palmer Woods, returns to Detroit for an intimate classical concert with pianist Michelle Cooker in a celebration of spring in a Palmer Woods home. Barefield has soloed with the Detroit Symphony and performed at Carnegie Hall with Stella Trio and the Sphinx Chamber Orchestra. Pianist Michelle Cooker will complete the duo and elegant food will top it off! For more information and to hear some music: http://www.myspace.com/stellatrio Jannina will be returning to Detroit in January as a semi-finalist in the Sphinx Competition. • Saturday, April 26, 6pm: Straight Ahead Trio, three of Detroit’s Grammy Nominated Jazz Divas (bassist Marion Hayden, pianist Eileen Orr and Gayelynn McKinney on drums), will jazz it up at the Palmer Woods Dinner Dance at the Detroit Golf Club. We have added a special party for children in an adjoining room to encourage family attendance. For more information and to hear some music: http://www.myspace.com/straightaheaddetroit • Saturday, May 24, 8pm: Jazz and classical with a virtuoso duo—A. Spencer Barefield & Donald Mayberry will play hynotic sounds from Monk to Debussy on guitar and bass in a Palmer Woods home. Mayberry has performed with everyone from David Bowie to Lena Horne and the Detroit Symphony. Barefield has also performed internationally with his own groups and with Oliver Lake, Roscoe Mitchell, David Murray and many others. His legendary series at the Detroit Institute of Arts has just been released on CD. For more information and to hear some music: <a href="http://www.myspace.com/aspencerbarefield" target="_blank">http://www.myspace.com/aspencerbarefield </a>and http://www.spencerbarefield.com Historically one of the premier communities in Detroit, Palmer Woods is an enclave that nurtures families and friendships, values diversity, and protects the beauty of its homes, woods and natural habitat. The Palmer Woods Association (PWA) works diligently in our neighborhood to meet the challenges facing us as an urban community. PWA presents this series of concerts, Music in Homes, to strengthen our neighborhood and Detroit’s image, showcase Palmer Woods as a wonderful place to live and visit, and enrich the quality of life and cultural environment in our city. We hope you will join us! Palmer Woods Concerts in Homes is presented in cooperation with Creative Arts Collective, a nonprofit 501©(3) organization, and with the support of Be Well Medical Center in Berkley (www.doctorbewell.com), B&D Garden Design in Detroit (bdgardendesign.com), Grosse Pointe Collection in Grosse Pointe Woods and Goodwill Printing (goodwillprinting.com) in Ferndale. _______________________________________________ Detroit Jazzstage brings great jazz to podcast listeners around the world. Visit their website at jazzstageproductions.com for more information. Join our mail list and keep up to date on shows, and events! Your crew @ Detroit Jazzstage http://www.jazzstageproductions.com/

Hey all, In case you haven't listened in to Detroit JazzStage check it out. Here is info from our last show. Hello Detroit JazzStage Listeners, Your friends at JazzStage Productions have two shows waiting for you. Detroit Jazzstage brings you poet/musician M. L. Liebler and jazz guitarist Ron English and a Jazz Spotlite featuring the legendary pianist, educator, and author, Hal Galper. Detroit Jazzstage: M.L. Liebler fronts the group, M. L. Liebler & The Magic Poetry Band. By day, he is a Wayne State University professor (and St. Clair Shores, Michigan's first Poet Laureate). Over the last twenty plus years, M.L. has combined his insightful, urban poetry with the funky tones of modern jazz, resulting in a perfect elision of sound and vision. Ron has enjoyed a long and varied music career, with roots wide and deep in blues, Broadway, bebop, avant-garde, funk, Motown, and gospel. M.L. and Ron English share their views of how poetry and jazz are intertwined, plus discuss their 2007 CD Kurl Of The Butterfly's Tongue. Their Detroit experience is peppered with some of the people and places they have encountered through the years such as the Detroit Artists Workshop, the Detroit Contemporary 5, Cobb's Corner, Jack Kerouac's first wife Edie Parker and many more. Ron also discusses his latest CD by his group Psalm 150 Ensemble. His CD, titled Devotions, features a stellar Detroit lineup. The Psalm 150 Ensemble perform Ron's arrangements of negro spirituals and traditional sacred music. Jazzspotlite: We are thrilled to present to you an original composition and commentary from Hal Galper. With over 82 recordings to his credit, 20 as a leader in his own right, pianist, composer, publisher, educator, author and touring artist, Hal Galper is best known for his work with Chet Baker, Cannonball Adderley, John Scofield and the Phil Woods Quintet. His recordings as a leader with Mike and Randy Brecker are considered among the best. Listen in as Hal talks about the development of his recently conceived "rubato concept of playing" technique followed by the composition “Waiting For Chet” We are two years old this month! DJS would like to thank you for supporting us since our November 2005 show. That program featured Trumpeter Mark Byerly and selections from his powerful post bop quintet Bop Culture. Click on the link for a trip in the way back machine. You will no doubt hear the many changes. We can't thank you enough for your listenership, kind words, emails and support. Some of the achievements we have brought you include: * The addition of our sound engineer and producer Mark Byerly of Longview Sound Studio in Rochester Hills Michigan. * The addition of veteran jazz broadcaster and jazz historian, Jim Gallert. * Live recordings from the Firefly Club and the Max M. Fisher Music Center. * Unreleased and rare music from many of our past guests. * Underwriter of the 2006 and 2007 Detroit International Jazz Festival * We brought Randy Napoleon, Faruq Z. Bey, and The Magic Poetry Band to Cliff Bell's. Also, through our association with WRCJ 90.9 FM, we brought Bop Culture to Arturo's Jazz Theatre and Restaurant as part of a WRCJ's 2007 Detroit International Jazz Festival kickoff party hosted by Tony Mowod. * Associations with All About Jazz. To date, we have created or updated profiles for 64 local and international artists. Let us know if you see our advertisement on their page. * Two new podcasts have been added. o Detroit JazzStage Jazz Spotlite Channel - a weekly short featuring great music from local, national, and international jazz musicians. o Detroit JazzStage - Jazz Extras - Some of the guests include Mose Allison, Bennie Maupin, Will Lee, Kirk Lightsey, Bennie Maupin, Barry Harris, Charles Mcpherson, Louis Hayes, Kurt Elling, Bill Charlap, Regina Carter, Sachal Vasandani and many more. * Our Myspace site has now surpassed 15,000 friends of Detroit Jazz. * Our redesigned website, JazzStage Productions, is the place to catch up on jazz events in and around the Motor City. Catch up on all the latest news, CD, club and band reviews. It is also where you can hear free music from Detroit's finest musicians. Musicians and club owners are invited to post their gigs and recording announcements in the forum. Other News * You may have noticed past emails promoting events through All About Jazz. JazzStage Productions has been actively creating/updating musician profiles. Mike Ricci has done a marvelous job with the site. We strongly encourage musicians and enthusiasts alike to become an AAJ Member today! * We encourage you to share your love of Detroit musicians by forwarding this to your friends. One last note As many of you are already aware, Bassist Hubie Crawford passed away suddenly on October 31, 2007. A musical tribute has been planned for Sunday, December 2, 2007 at Bert's Warehouse Theater. Details can be found here. Your Hosts, Jim Gallert and Rodney Reeves _______________________________________________ Detroit Jazzstage brings great jazz to podcast listeners around the world. Visit their website at jazzstageproductions.com for more information. Join our mail list and keep up to date on shows, and events! Your crew @ Detroit Jazzstage http://www.jazzstageproductions.com/