BY: IAN RITCHIE / ELIZABETH PETTIT Seeing Cousin Alice perform is like being in the film Casa Blanca and being transported into a more entertaining era. Looking back, you remember her shows in the sepia tones creating an atmosphere of a sensual nightclub wherever she performs. A pioneer of the ukulele, in her case, a…
Governor Doug Ducey Meets With Sonora Governor Claudia Pavlovich Governor Doug Ducey met with the governor of Sonora, Claudia Pavlovich, to discuss their visions and goals for building a thriving international partnership. Also present at the meeting were the executive leadership of International Jazz Day Foundation and key members of Governor Pavlovich’s team. The governor…
Congratulation Senior Carlos! International Jazz Day Foundation is honored to announce it’s newly appointed Executive Director of its Alamos/Hermosillo Sonora Mexico Division. Senior Carlos Palomares will spearhead the foundation’s 2017 production of the UNSECO 6th Annual International Jazz Day AZ Festival (1st in Alamos/ Hermosillo) efforts in this important part of Mexico. Work has already…
Doc’s concept of dual music learning— “learning to improvise” and “learning by ear” —” is recognized as an essential approach to develop musicianship” said Doc Jones . According to the US national music standards, these two principles of music learning are listed as the third and sixth standards respectively. However, they still have not been…
Rocky Point people – Armando Noriega Local Jazz great Armando ‘Kennedy’ Noriega performs new works at the 2015 International Cervantino Festival in Puerto Penasco. This month we saw a return of the International Cervantino Festival to Rocky Point. This was the only event in Northern Mexico that was a an extension of the Cervantino Festival,…
ESTUDIANTINAS of ALAMOS The Estudiantinas are a benchmark of the January music festival called FAOT (Festival de Alfonso Ortiz Tirado). FAOT is put on by the Sonoran Cultural Institute. Year after year it celebrates Dr. Alfonso Ortiz Tirado, in this southern city of the state of Sonora. With 23 years of experience and fifteen…
International Jazz Day AZ Foundation Jazz & Arts Education Summit In Alamos To Be Held In March, (TBA), 2017 By Doc Jones Published: Oct 7th 2016 Press Release The first IJDF Jazz & Urban Arts Education Summit in Alamos, in Sonora, Mexico, will convene during a weekend in March, 2017. Jazz and art educators in Sonora…
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