JVOICE (Jazz Vocalists Offering Instructional Curriculum for Education)

Happy New Year! and thanks for keeping the community communicating. Good job. May we have more to come in 2010. Lots of love... and let me know when you are going to be in LA - I heard that you were coming here soon.

Happy Healthy New Year RV

xoxo
Kath

Check Discussions area - You are added - no problem.

Lauren - Hi there..I'm delighted that Viv invited you. Check out the Discussions area, that's where I've posted many of our conversations. Ask questions to the group or mention your workshops and new books or programs. I'm a fan of yours. Ro

And yes , I've ALSO asked Barbra to join this page , Roseanna ...
Goodluck with it ...it's a great place for (jazz)singers ALL OVER THE WORLD that you've created !

Viv, you are a lovely and vital part of the vocal jazz World community! We are a community that's growing and hopefully a center for discussing new concepts, workshops, the best programs and a connection if one of us needs information in a particular country..Viva Unity...Welcome Viv...Ro

Merci beaucoup & bonne luck luck à tous ...this = FRANGLAIS !!!

Raffaele - We usually Do Not Advertise our gigs or personal Myspace pages on this Site. Please post about your workshops, your concept and your teaching. Your experimental singing is very interesting and we have many open minded teachers and performers and instrumentalists in this group. This is about vocal jazz education...Welcome - Roseanna

Dear Rosanna, thank you very much for your appreciation. I'm honoured. I will keep you posted about my workshops and research. Greetings from Sicily Xoxoxx

Raffaele -
OvertoneSinging, MusicTherapy, EarlyMusic - Was listening to your opening track on Myspace and I Love it..my daughter is a film maker and she ran downstairs when she heard your overtone series...beautiful. I hope to hear one of your workshops or concerts...Happy New Year...Roseanna

Gina - I have a great contact in West Palm. a very good bassist and Jazz Society Connection, she knows everyone and she's a mensch - Susan Merritt (Jamspb@aol.com), tell her I sent you..Ro

Will do. What a great start, thanks!

Ms. McNulty - Thank you for your contribution! Happy 2010 . I hope to see you soon..xxx love Ro

You are so very very welcome Ms. Vitro... happy happy New year to YOU and wishing you a BRILLIANT 2010

Between Sarah and Ella...both apples; both oranges.

Still the Divine One who captured me when I was about 20 and never let me go!

what I would give to have been at those parties when Jonathan and Darlene were born.

I love Jonathan and Darlene... another really funny spoof is Hans Groiner. Go check him out if you haven't everyone. He does the best Monk!

Darlene Edwards!! Wow I have that also!!
Too funny

OMG! I've known the stories but never actually heard Foster Jenkins' recording. I couldn't imagine it would be this bad. If I didn't know her background and resources, I would think it was a spoof ala Darlene Edwards!

Janet - Thanx! R

Thanks for posting this. I had missed it. Bobby sure is a rare phenom.

One of the most important lessons I have learned over the years is to give up trying to second guess my audience, reviewers, even friends' opinions of my music. Instead I try very hard to live up to my own standards of what I think is beautiful. I know what I love in music and if I work toward that goal with integrity and authenticity, the ... See Moreopinions of others have far less impact. There is no accounting for taste. There will always be those who are critical of what we do. If we are very clear about what our own strengths and weaknesses are, then we can humbly accept that which is true and graciously blow off that which isn't. Sometimes people just don't get where you're coming from because they are listening with expectations instead of hearing what is actually there. Again, the question is: are you doing this because you love doing it, or are you doing it because you want to be loved? If you have worked at your music with genuine love for the art and the gift you have been given, no one can take that away from you. Remember, sometimes reviewers are practicing the "art" of reviewing and are so caught up in the ego of their own writing they fail to maintain the very integrity that is required to produce anything truly artistic.

To deal with the stress of it, you must avoid going over it in your mind...because each time you recall the review, you injure yourself emotionally all over again. The cumulative load of such stress is physically and psychically damaging.
A technique my clients find successful in similar situations is to monitor your thoughts---and when you catch ... See Moreyourself thinking about that review, STOP the thought, and replace it with any thought that makes you feel good. (Have something ready to use at those times.) In this way you actually interrupt the chemical pattern of the thought-stress in your brain, and "re-wire" it for a more neutral feeling.
Try it. It really does work. :-)

Jumping in with some new challenges for 2010...involving a marvelous composer and pianist, using visual, and free form, and vocal electronics.... Stretch...Stretch...Stretch!

Getting the new CD launched, website up, putting together a choir, finding some solo gigs, finding some any other kind of gigs, writing more music, getting out and hearing more music, teaching more students, and singing, singing, singing. Oh yeah, and gaining 30 more pounds.