Women in Jazz South Florida, Inc. Newsletter In This Issue Jazz Women Blues Women Quick Links Newsletter Archive Related Topics More On Us IN PURSUIT OF A MELODY by Joan Cartwright Also, available online Get the whole story of how WOMEN IN JAZZ brought jazz music to the world. Cartwright's book chronicles the lives of several women who were notable singers and instrumentalists in America and around the world. Attend Joan's book signing * * * * * Coming August 26 in Chicago! Email Sasha for information Cynthia Strachan Saunders Performance/Presentation Schedule www.jussent.com Celebrating Women's Month Mother's Day Celebration Sunday, May 13, 2007 The Chef's Table St. Thomas, US Virgin Island Aikeem Harris 340-776-6120       Gloria Lynne and her Quintet with Greg Skaff, John DiMartino, Leon Dorsey, and Vincent Ector Sing Into Spring Festival Wed-Sun Mar 21-25, 2007 Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola 33 West 60th St., Fl. 11 New York, NY 10023   ****** D A V I S A N D D O W www.davisanddow.com watch our new YouTube video! Join our list April/2007  Dear Subscriber, Our fourth issue features jazz singer extraordinaire Sasha Dalton who pays tribute to Dinah Washington with her one-woman show, "Sasha Sings Dinah". Last month, we incorporated our non-profit organization, Women in Jazz South Florida, Inc., to promote women who write and perform music, specifically, jazz and blues. We would like to salute Tanya Simons-Oparah of Broward Libraries, Alicia Antone of the African American Research Library and Cultural Center, and Marion Williams of Broward Schools for engaging WOMEN IN JAZZ in the Pan African Bookfest. I would like to thank, Tanya, personally for appointing me as the FIRST Artist-in-Residence for the bookfest, which is in its fifth year. We hope you will enjoy this edition and we welcome your thoughts, ideas, suggestions and submissions for future issues. CLICK HERE TO READ OUR FIRST NEWSLETTER Visit our sites: myspace.com/womeninjazz myspace.com/jazzgiants WOMEN IN JAZZ SOUTH FLORIDA, INC. JAZZMEN Pan African Bookfest Three Divas Having Fun! www.fyicomminc.com Love and music, Diva JC Publisher JAZZ WOMEN   SASHA DALTONN Sasha Daltonn is an extraordinary singer, composer and playwright. She is one of America's most respected Gospel producers. Sasha  founded the world-renowned CHICAGO GOSPEL FESTIVAL. She co-hosted Chicago's #1 Gospel Radio Show, THE SPIRIT EXPRESS MORNING SHOW, and  hostess and producer of the CHICAGO HOUSE OF BLUES SUNDAY GOSPEL BRUNCH. Sasha's one-woman show pays tribute to Dinah Washington, "Queen of the Blues". The show won rave reviews around the nation! After an 18-month run in Chicago, it went to New York, optioned by Woodie King, Jr., Director of the Henry Street Settlement's New Federal Theater. Sasha has performed as a critically acclaimed vocalist at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra; in Chicago Story (NBC) and Rompin' at the Regal , with co-star with GLADYS KNIGHT (NBC) BLUES WOMEN   Dinah Washington was born Ruth Jones in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on August 29, 1924. Washington moved to Chicago’s South Side when she was three or four. Her mother played piano at St. Luke’s Baptist Church, passing along her keyboard prowess to her young offspring. Washington played piano and directed her church choir growing up in Chicago. For a while she did split her time between clubs and singing and playing piano in Salle Martin 's gospel choir as Ruth Jones. Spirituals comprised much of her initial focus; she hooked up with gospel pioneer Sallie Martin in 1940, hitting the road for a time as her accompanist. Yet secular pursuits had long intrigued her.  Before joining Martin, the young singer had won  first prize at a Regal Theater amateur contest. One of the most versatile and gifted vocalists in American popular music history, Dinah Washington made extraordinary recordings in jazz, blues, R&B and light pop contexts, and could have done the same in gospel had she chosen to record in that mode. But the former Ruth Jones didn't believe in mixing the secular and spiritual, and once she'd entered the non-religious music world professionally, refused to include gospel in her repertoire. Read more. . .   Women in Jazz South Florida, Inc.  is a non-profit organization with the mission of promoting Women in Jazz through contacts, books, articles,  interviews, workshops, lectures, history, recordings, performance and recognition. Sincerely, Joan Cartwright Women in Jazz South Florida, Inc.

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