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Jim
Crozier's Occasional Newsletter

April 2009

Upcoming shows:

The
next big Jim Crozier Band
show will take place at the American
Legion Hall,
Lake Ella, on Friday, June 26.
I will be back with lots of my friends and at least a couple new
songs. This show will feature; Alvin
James and the
Pretty Big Band
with help from the Jones Brothers, the
Summit Ladies Choir, and
the Bone Dry Band.
More about this later!

I
will be playing with Tallahassee Swing
at the annual Tallahassee Museum Jazz &
Blues Festival
at 4pm, Saturday, April 4;
and for the Knott House Street Dance
at 7pm, Saturday, April 25.

For
any of you folks who might be attending the annual Silver
Stars Banquet
at the University Center
on April 30,
I will be joining Steve Sternberg
and the band for that gala affair.

I
will be making it out to Doc Russell's
Wednesday Nite Open Mic at the Warehouse
at least a couple more times in the next few weeks. That is a very
well run event and it has been good for me to rough it on the stage
alone, and good to hear what all of the younger folks have been up to
– there's some good stuff out there.

AND:

Every Tuesday - Be sure to check
out Tallahassee Swing every chance you get. The band plays at
the American Legion Hall (Lake Ella Drive, Tallahassee) every
Tuesday evening from 7:30 to 10 (and has been for coming up on 20
years now). I will be playing bass with them on March 31, April 14
and 28.

Recent Events:

On March 6, I joined Florida Banjo star
Mary Z Cox and hubby Bob as they hosted the Cracker
Coffee House event at the Stephen Foster Memorial State Park
at White Springs. We played to a packed house for people from
all over the country. Ken and
Virginia Miller and Ron Patrick also came over from
Tallahassee to join the show.

After
years of saying “I am going to get to some of the concerts of the
Biennial Festival of New Music
at FSU College of Music”, I finally did during the last weekend of
January. I attended three of the concerts including one by “eighth
blackbird”,
an established ensemble specializing in the performance of new music
– http://www.eighthblackbird.com/.
I also attended an electro-acoustic concert where a single
instrument interacts with electronic music which featured some fine
performances. The final concert I attended featured the FSU
Wind Orchestra,
the University Symphony Orchestra,
and the University Chamber Choir.
Of all of it, I probably most liked the work of current FSU doctoral
student, Neil Anderson-Himmelspach.
Nearly thirty composers from around the world participated in the
festival.

On February 12, I made it down to
Sopchoppy to the Frog and Hummingbird Company and
Butterfield's Roadhouse for one of the special blues jam
sessions that Salli and Gabriel have been hosting. I totally enjoyed
the scene – the audience was to die for! Thanks guys, I will be
sure to make it down again.

Media Help

If any of you use any of the Internet
Radio Services, particularly http://www.last.fm,
it would really help if you would type in “Jim Crozier” from time
to time. I have stuff there, and on http://ilike.com/,
too.

And of course I am frequently adding
and changing music and other stuff at:

http://myspace.com/thejimcrozierband
- there are a couple Tallahassee Swing Videos there, as well.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jim-Crozier/30430640034
- if you are on Facebook, drop by and “Become a Fan”!

And on my own music page at:
http://jimcrozier.com/music.html

I used a new online
service called tunecore.com to release Talkin'
To the People as a single – so you may
buy it now at iTunes, Amie Street, Rhapsody, and other popular
digital music distribution points! - even got some money from that
already, yea (not much, but it's a start). 

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Jim
Crozier
http://jimcrozier.com
http://myspace.com/thejimcrozierband
http://cdbaby.com/cd/jimcrozier
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