Spring 2023
Gathering great musicmen together!
Issue #4
Horns & Singers
spring 2023 Painting courtesy of artist Neal Hamilton
Jazz Legend Wayne Shorter (August 25, 1933 – March 2, 2023)
Dr. Joan Cartwright, Executive Director Women in Jazz South Florida, Inc. 954-740-3398 Men supporting women musicians!
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ERIC ANTOINE GILES by Dr. Joan Cartwright
stage name, SalvationSax, comes from. He studied music theory with Dr. Nathan Street at Western Guilford High School and fell in love with it. “Music reminded me of math, another subject I love. So, everything made sense quickly,” Eric recounted. A self-driven student, Eric practiced on his own the techniques he learned from great teachers like Dr. Nathan Street, and Dr. John Henry Jr. and Dr. Daniel Rice at North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University (NCA&T). Also, Eric was mentored by tremendous Video games drew Eric Giles to players and educators Dr. Mondre music as a child was. He wore Moffett at NCA&T; Dr. Ira Wiggins, headphones connected to the TV Mr. Robert Trowers, Mr. Edmund and that took him to a different Paolantonio, and the late Dr. Brian place. After a while, he turned the Horton. “I was blessed to have a few games on, not to play them, but lessons with the great Branford to listen to the music. “Once my Marsalis at NCCU. Currently, I am parents began to separate, music studying with Chad Lefkowitzwas the sanctuary where life still Brown, Andrew Gould, and Ryan made sense. I dove into teaching Devlin,” Eric said. myself piano. Then, I dedicated myself to the saxophone once Before the pandemic, Eric I heard Charlie Parker in High composed a few originals. In School. I knew that there was 2020, during the pandemic, Eric a truth that Parker had tapped began the Simply Saxin’ Series in into. I wanted to learn how to Seoul, South Korea. He created express myself that sincerely and Hip-hop beats from samples of expressively,” Eric insisted. jazz music. Initially, he planned to release a song, every week for a year. But, after 26 weeks, he was performing more. So, he put the project on ice. “I have about 30 songs I’ve created but I haven’t published any, yet” Eric told us. To date, he does not have a music publishing company nor is he affiliated with a royalty collection service.
Eric is convinced that God used music to give him purpose when he Eric said he has “many women most needed it. That is where his friends in music, so I have a good
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idea of the struggles women face in the music industry but, I’m always open to learning more and understanding better.” His advice to a young person entering the world of literature or music performance is just to “Start and start now! Don’t wait until you’ve arrived at a certain point where you feel that you are good enough. Begin creating right away. Work on your craft, each day, and let the process be the reward. You’ve got to enjoy the hard work it takes to become great, so, focus on learning to love the part you’re going to spend the most time doing!” www.salvationsax.com
Sax & Artistic Director, Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz & Performing Arts
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Lovett Hines
by Joan Cartwright
“The first time I heard music was at my home with my parents in North Philadelphia, blocks from the famed Golden Strip on Columbia Avenue. I was influenced by the United House of Prayer for All People shout band and the R& B shows at the Uptown Theatre,” said Lovett Hines. “I am not a composer, but I receive royalties from recordings I performed on, since the 1960s.”
Hines is aware of the challenges women face in Jazz. “My responsibility to emerging female artists is to equip them with the tools to find their creative voices in the male-dominated music industry. At PCC, we presented Connie Han and Helen Sung as part of PNC Arts Alive, Jazz Cultural Voices concert season 2022-2023,” Hines reported.
“The path to success in jazz as an artist is based on practice, practice, practice. Listen to all types of music from various eras, styles and cultures. Integrate patience, consistency, and imagination into your development process,” Hines advised.
at Settlement Music School. He mentored high-profile jazz artists, who emerged in Philadelphia, including the notable bassist Christian McBride, organist Joey DeFrancesco, saxophonist Jaleel Shaw, and drummer Justin Faulkner.
A musician, founder, leader, and music teacher for youth, Lovett Hines is the Artistic Director and founder of the Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz & Performing Arts Music Education Program. Since 1985, students in the program participated in a broad range of activities, including private instruction, master classes, Hines was the program director at ensembles, summer jazz camp, the Trane Stop Resource Institute and live performances in the U.S. and the Change of the Century Hines holds a Bachelor of Fine Orchestra that performed at the Arts in Illustration from the Berlin Jazz Festival. Also, he was University of the Arts. He studied the music director for the Jerry music at Combs College of Music, McCleary Revue at Club Harlem Grambling State University, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. A and the University of Maryland. highlight of his music career was a Throughout his career, he commission to direct the Heavenly launched the careers of many Horns, who performed with young, accomplished musicians the Grammy-Nominated Dixie and artists. Hummingbirds at the Music in the Air 70th Anniversary Celebration Lovett has managed the that included Stevie Wonder, Paul Philadelphia Clef Club for two Simon, and Isaac Hayes. decades. Prior to that, he worked
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Atlanta Music Project by Dr. Joan Cartwright Dantes Y. Rameau holds a degree in Bassoon Performance from Yale University. He played with several orchestras, but his destiny was to found the Atlanta Music Project, where he teaches bassoon to underserved children. When Dantes taught in the New Haven public school system, he realized that students had no connection to Yale. Dantes said, “I had many opportunities in Canada that these children did not have. That spearheaded my decision to do community outreach.” From 2005 to 2007, he was the only black student at the Yale Music Conservatory. This was during the rise of The Obamas and others, who said, “If you make it, you have to reach back and help others.” In Hartford, Connecticut, Dantes recalled a student who went to an interview and was accepted. She was so shaken that she broke down in tears. But Dantes said, “I laughed my way through school because I was born seven miles north of Ottawa, Canada, and I had many opportunities for success.” In 2005, Dantes was one of 10 fellows in a one-year Nonprofit Management Program in Boston. He spent three months in Venezuela with conductor and violinist, Gustavo Adolfo Dudamel Ramírez, founder of El Sistema USA, a nationwide movement of programs to effect social change through music for children. Ramírez directs the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Paris Opera.
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Atlanta Music Project by Dr. Joan Cartwright (con’t)
Each fellow went on to run orchestras or other organizations. Dantes’ roommate was a trumpet player from Atlanta and introduced him to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Another contact, Al Myers called the fellowship office for a fellow to come to Atlanta. Myra did not provide financial support, but he connected Dantes with people who helped him incorporate the nonprofit, build a board, and get a cubicle with a computer at the symphony’s offices. Dantes met Camille Love at the City of Atlanta, who identified three recreation centers for his music program. Together, they raised $30,000 from Coca Cola as seed money to hire music teachers. At the Gilbert House, five days a week from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., students learned music theory, instruments, and choir. At a community meeting, Dantes met Durand Bailey, who applied for and was hired as the Operations Manager. The Chief Program Director Aisha Moody is from Savannah, Georgia. Her field is Music Education, and she plays piano and clarinet. Aisha taught music at elementary schools and directed the choir, which she has done since she was 13. Unlike Dantes, she worked in Washington, D.C., where there were many resources for students from Ivy League schools. In Georgia, Aisha taught middle school in Cobb County. Aisha heard about Dantes’ music project and from his blog, she learned that he was a fellow in El Sistema, a program she went through, also, in Venezuela, too. She envisioned an after-school program. She said learned how to organize a music program because “in the El Sistema Program, they put music first, so students emerged at a high level.” When she got to Venezuela, she was surprised at how young choir members started. “They are far more serious. They told me that I had new levels to reach,” Aisha admitted. When she returned to the States, she was highly qualified to lead the choir at the Gilbert House. “I contacted Dantes in 2010, and we connected. So, I taught students at his program at the Gilbert House. He had the same goals as I had, and we worked well together. I was a volunteer in the first year, then, moved into the position as Program Director. AMP has a Holiday concert cycle, a Diaspora Festival in February, and a Spring concert series in April. Since 2013, they have offered private lessons and those students perform three times a year in a public recital. There are 35 faculty members with multiple positions. Atlanta Music Project community center partners are South Bend Center for Arts & Culture, Perkerson Recreation Center, Utopian Academy for the Arts, Atlanta Youth Academy
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