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Mimi Johnson and Joan Cartwright, Editors

For 34 years, I worked with male musicians. I joined International Women in Jazz (IWJ) in New York but the distance to Florida (1,300 miles) is too great to address the status of women in music in Florida. So, in 2007, Women in Jazz South Florida, Inc. was incorporated as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that promotes women musicians, globally. To date, we have 225 members with 108 musicians and 117 supporters, including 47 men. As the sole staff member, I meet with board members (5) to determine how we can move the organization forward. My duties include maintaining the website www.wijsf.org, writing grants for concerts of original music by our musical members, hosting a weekly, online radio show at www.blogtalkradio.com/musicwoman, and publishing our online, monthly newsletter, featuring news, CD releases and performance schedules of members. In 2010, 2011, and 2012, we released compilation CDs of 10 fabulous female composers. The music of 27 women are available at www.wijsf.com/compcds.htm. The music is eclectic, that is, not all jazz. The only requirement is that is it original. Members of IWJ referred me to Fondazione Adkins-Chiti: Donne in Musica, resulting in Sarah Ernst Edwards’ interview with me, published in the book Donne in Jazz; our organization is an International Honour Committee Member; and my attendance at the 2013 WIMUST Conference, sponsored by 85+ donors at www.gofundme.com/jc-wimust that raised $5,000 in cash and inkind services for my travel expenses!

In my third year of Doctoral studies in Business/Marketing at Northcentral University online, my dissertation is The

Music Service Provider, Business Responsibilities, and the Inequity of Income Earned by Women Musicians. Research shows that 1.

Music is a $27 Billion industry with $12.5 Billion in the USA

Although women pay 53% of the taxes on Earth, only 1% of public funding in Europe applies to women’s music. Men head 89% of cultural organizations and the 11% headed by women do not support women musicians and composers. In the USA, organizations like Florida State Cultural Division, Broward County Cultural Division, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), ASCAP, BMI, and the Musician’s Union have few statistics about the number of women musicians.

Jazz Musicians are 85% male, according to Joan Jeffri’s report to the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA).

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Attendees at the 3rd WIMUST Conference in Fiuggi, Italy While WIJSF’s association with Donne in Musica remains the most important international affiliation for our organization, we are members of Women in Music in Serbia, at the invitation of Vojna Nesic! These associations increase our visibility and strengthen our potential to increase the profile of our members. We MUST continue this important work to make those who pay taxes, control budgets for cultural programming, and general audiences aware of the inequity of income earned by women musicians and composers. The Business of Music among women must be discussed and improved. As I journeyed on to the Umbria Jazz Festival, in Perugia, and Montreux Jazz Festival and Montreux Meets Brienz, in Switzerland, I noted that 1.

At Umbria Jazz, few female instrumentalists headlined – Diana Krall and Sarah McKenzie (piano/voice), Hiromi (piano), and vocalists Simona Molinari, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Gal Costa, and Cecile McLorin Salvant. Noted guitarist/songwriter Pino Daniele had three females in his band – Elisabetta Serio Bis (Rome) on keyboards, Lakecia Benjamin (USA) on sax, and vocalist Awa (Paris). I asked Elisabetta if she gave Daniele her music.

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MEDIA EVENTS

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RADIO GUESTS IN AUGUST

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8-1-13 Gail Marten 8-8-13 Colleen Chanel 8-15-13 Rondi Charleston 8-22-13 Gail Jhonson 8-29-13 HRS Princess

UPCOMING EVENTS Friday, August 16 @ 8-12 pm Debbie Pierce Trio featuring Giuseppe Pucci (d) Tavolino Della Nonna 10181 W Sample Road Coral Springs 33065 Every Tuesday night @ 7-10:30 pm Debbie Pierce performs with Kickback Blue Martini Boca Town Center 6000 Glades Road Boca Raton, FL 33431

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NICK MATHIS September Performers

Sunday, August 11, 2013 @ 12:00 noon – 7:00 pm Free Admission

Nicki Mathis joins The Swans The POWER for Peace Family Fest Inspired by Sandy Hook families and their loved ones to join together in peace and represent all forms of charity and compassion. https://www.facebook.com/events/442580972500708/ WHERE: Bushnell Park, Hartford CT Dotti Anita Taylor

IF YOU BELIEVE IN PEACE . . . THIS is the day for YOU!!! ALL WELCOME! FREE concert with Emcee: KRISTEN CUSATO and Special Guest: Speaker Mike Hall. Call for Info: 203.574-3322 _____________________________________________________

Saturday, September 7, 2013 @ 8:00 pm

The MANY COLORS of a W*O*M*A*N XXXIII FREE JAZZ FESTIVAL Denise Best

The Artists Collective, 1200 Albany Av/Jackie McLean Way Hartford, CT 06112, 860.527.3205 Wheelchair Accessible The longest running jazz festival celebrating jazzwomen & their music features:NICKi MATHIS’ Afrikan Amerikan Jazz New Millennium All Stars Ricky Alfonso, Billy Arnold, Denise Best, James Daggs, Melanie Dyer, Jessica Freeman,Tulina Varela, Renee Jackson, Joey, Bill Lowe, Maxine Carol Martin, Antoinette Montague, Linda Presgrave, Dotti Anita Taylor, Deborah Weisz,

James Daggs

Michelle McFarland, Latoya Williams; Invited: Dayna Snell, Rev. Mia Douglas, Mark Whitecage and more!

This year’s festival is dedicated to the memory of Carline Ray, Rozanne Levine, Ana Grace Márquez-Greene, Zakiah Barksdale, Paulette. SPONSORS: MCW, Inc., in collaboration with the Artists Collective. FREE Admission funded in part from the Evelyn Preston Memorial Fund, Bank of Melanie Dyer

America Trustee; MCW, Inc. Also, supported by Smith Whiley & Co., Carla & Byron Dean, Antoinette Montague; Cull Books; Media Sponsor: Inquiring News; Access TV.org; MCW banner Courtesy Jim Fentress. Interested sponsors call 860.231.0663; 860.665.7399 themanycolorsofawomanincorporated.webs.com MCW, Inc. is a 501 (c) (3) Non-Profit Organization

Jessica Freeman

Maxine Carol Martin Joey

Linda Presgrave

Deborah Weisz

Antoinette Montague Latoya Williams

AUGUST 24, 2013 – LENORE RAPHAEL PERFORMS AT JOY OF JAZZ FESTIVAL IN JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

Internationally recognized jazz pianist and Steinway artist Lenore Raphael will perform at the Standard Bank Joy of Jazz Festival at the Market Theatre in Newtown, Johannesburg, South Africa on Saturday, August 24, 2013, joined by bassist Jimmy Mgwandi and drummer Walter Kotu. Raphael’s hard-swinging mainstream style is compared to Oscar Peterson, Bud Powell, and Bill Evans. Lenore has appeared at major jazz clubs and festivals like Dizzy’s Club CocaCola, Birdland, and The Blue Note in New York City; Ronnie Scott’s in London; The S.S. Oosterdam Jazz Cruise; the Ottawa Jazz Festival and the International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE) Convention in Toronto. Raphael has seven critically acclaimed recordings on the Swingin’ Fox label, including Loverly with guitarist Howard Alden. Listen to Lenore’s recording of Emily on the Joy of Jazz website: www.joyofjazz.co.za. Visit Lenore’s website: www.lenoreraphael.com. For booking: lenmarpromo@att.net

FAREWELL TO AN AMAZING MUSICWOMAN On July 18, 2013, Carline Ray, Jazz Pioneer and Catherine Russell’s Mother, passed away at 88. We truly appreciate the outpouring of condolences and expressions of love, admiration, and support. In addition to the many personal cards, emails, and messages, Obituaries and Tributes have appeared on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross, CNN, JazzTimes, NY Amsterdam News, Boston Globe, and the NY Times. Carline’s legacy lives on~!!! [New York Times obituary] July 27, 2013 Carline Ray, an Enduring Pioneer Woman of Jazz, Dies at 88 By WILLIAM YARDLEY Carline Ray, a pioneering jazz instrumentalist and vocalist who joined the all-female International Sweethearts of Rhythm in the 1940s, later performed with Erskine Hawkins and Mary Lou Williams and this year released her first recording as a lead vocalist, died on July 18 in Manhattan. She was 88.The cause was complications of a stroke, said her daughter, the jazz singer Catherine Russell.In an era when female jazz musicians were rare, Ms. Ray was often the only woman in the band in a career that spanned seven decades and multiple instruments and genres, from calypso to choral works. “She always made a point of saying she wasn’t a female musician,” Ms. Russell recalled. “She was a musician who happened to be female.” Catherine’s mother was proud but also felt a constant need to prove herself in a world dominated by men. “She would never let anybody help her with her amplifier or her bass,” Ms. Russell said. Ms. Ray started her career surrounded by female musicians, though, as a member of a later incarnation of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, an integrated, all-female group that first formed in the 1930s at a Mississippi school for poor black children. Ms. Ray had just graduated from Juilliard, in 1946, when she joined the Sweethearts, playing rhythm guitar and singing. A few years later she joined the band led by Mr. Hawkins, singing but also playing rhythm guitar. Later, when she married the bandleader Luis Russell, who had helped organize a group led by Louis Armstrong, she insisted that she continue performing, and she did.Mr. Russell died, in 1963, when Catherine was 7. Ms. Ray kept playing, taking her daughter to recording sessions and performances. She spent decades as a session musician, playing an electric Fender bass at studios in midtown. She sang classical choral works, including performances of Christmas music conducted by Leonard Bernstein. She sang backup on recordings for Patti Page, Bobby Darrin and other performers. Ms. Ray often sang and played bass with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, including in its 1971 production of “Mary Lou’s Mass,” by