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"The gift of music is to bring people together, to create not only a shared identity, but to embrace a shared humanity. To truly know ourselves is to realize how we are connected to each other.
Many people this evening have described the beauty, the Creole and spice, the gumbo that is New Orleans; the African roots, blues, gospel and many other musical traditions that have come together to create that uniquely American art form: Jazz.
And the meaning of jazz, is Life. Whether we receive it as a blend of many notes reflecting diverse traditions, or as John Coltrane might have it: as one note, played in endless variations.
Let us commit ourselves to the service of life
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Harry Belafonte
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Advisors to the Executive Director
Alexios,Tom: Director of Educational Music Outreach Programs, Duke Ellington Legacy.org
Berger, David: Educator, Musician
Buzzetta, John: Finance, Board of Directors GreatAmericanSongbook.org
Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County
Crane, Roger: Researcher, Writer
Davis, Randall: Publicist
Elling, Kurt: Singer, Educator
Goldwater, Alan: Technology Consultant, Sound Engineer
Hentoff, Nat: Writer, Historian
Hinden, Sanford: E.D. Dix Hills Center for the Performing Arts at Five Towns College, Consultant Board of Directors
Hurst, Wendy: Grant Liaison
Jacobs, Phoebe: Vice President Louis Armstrong Foundation
Jackson, Tim: G.M. Monterey Jazz Festival, E.D. Kuumbwa Jazz Center
Julian, Al: Promotion, E.D. Woody Herman Society
Koenig, Ken: Documentary Filmmaker
Marsalis, Wynton: Musician, Artistic Director Jazz At Lincoln Center
Poston, Ken: E.D. Los.Angeles. Jazz Institute
Schwartz, Jonathan: Syndicated Broadcaster, Advocate Great American Songbook
Segal-Garcia, Kathy: Singer, Educator
Taylor, Dr. Billy: Jazz Pianist, Educator
Thompson, Ingrid: Grant Advisor, Educator
Ward, Marlaina: Finance, Board of Directors GreatAmericanSongbook.org
Welch, Laurie (Lael): Research Consultant, Writer
Wilson, Jeremy: Founder JazzStandards.com
Wong, Herb: Historian, Writer, Educator
Wozniak, Dennis: Graphic Artist, Website Advisor
Zimmerman, James: Senior Public Program Producer, Dept.of Public Programming
Smithsonian Museum of American History
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