First Monday, April 6, 2009

This is the IWJ First Monday report for April 6at Saint Peter's Church:

13 women and 1 man in attendance. 9 live performances, 3 played recordings, 2 listeners.
Live performances:
1. Mark Capon, guitar: "Wave". Carline Ray on bass
2. Kitiy, vocalist: "At Last"
3. Bertha Hope, piano: "Speak Low"
4. Mercedes Hall, vocal: "God Bless the Child"
5. Asako, vocalist: "What a Wonderful World"
6. Greta Herron, vocalist: "A Sleeping Bee"
7. Carline Ray, vocal:  "Unchained Melody"
8. Rosella Stone, vocal: "Day By Day"
10. Jane Stuart, vocal: "In a Mellowtone"

Recordings Played:
1. Dotti Anita Taylor, flute:  "I Thought About You"
2. Carol Sudhalter, bari sax: "Over the Rainbow"
3. Katie Cosco, piano: "In Your Own Sweet Way"

In attendance:

Taeko Fukao, vocalist
April Silvera, vocalist

Accompanists: Dotti Anita Taylor, Katie Cosco and Bertha Hope, piano;
Mark Capon, guitar; Carline Ray, bass

FIRST MONDAY, MARCH 3, 2008 by Carol Sudhalter

1. Dotti Anita Taylor, pno: original composition, "The Morning After"

2. Fran McIntyre, reading from "Codependent No More"

3. Carol Sudhalter, recording w/vocalist Elena Camerin from Enzo's Jazz Club performance: "Easy to Love"

4. Rana Farhan (voc): CD track, "I Return", from own CD, "Drunk with Love"

5. Corinna Manetto (voc), CD track w/Ellis Larkin (pno), "Lucky Lucy" (orig.music and lyrics by Corinna)

6. Janet Bloom: reading of original poem, with exercise in Idetic Imaging

7. Meg Zboray (voc), "Break Me Down" (original tune)

FIRST MONDAY FEBRUARY 5, 2008 by Carol Sudhalter

Pianist on all live tunes: Katie Cosco

1. Bari Hyman, vocalist - played a cut, "Speak Low", from her CD

2. Libby Richman, alto saxophonist, played "Black Orpheus" 

3. Marlene Sampson, vocalist - "We'll Be Together Again"

4. Mercedes Hall, vocalist, sent her CD, 'Pure Emotion' - we played "You've Changed"

5. Pauline Jean, vocalist - sang "Bye Bye Blackbird"

6. Carol Sudhalter, flute, and Elena Camerin, vocalist visiting from Venice, as an unaccompanied duo, on Cole Porter's "Let's Do It".

7. Elena Camerin, vocalist, - "Chega De Saudade"

8. Janet Bloom, member, showed DVD of her "Lucid Improvisations" method.

Also present: Antoinette Montague, Vocalist.

FIRST MONDAY NOV 5 2007 by Linda Presgrave

-Fran E. McIntyre - Vocalist - sang "In My Soliditude

-Lisi Pakulski - Vocalist - sang a lovely bossa

-Janet Bloom - vocal/imaging

FIRST MONDAY OCTOBER 1 2007

1. Lisi Pakulski sang "Almost Like Being In Love", accompanied by pianist Katie Cosco. 2. Bassist Whitney Moulton announced the recent recording of a CD of her original tunes, soon to be mixed and released.

 3. Dotti Anita Taylor, played "Autumn Leaves" on flute.

4. Janet Bloom led us in an eidetic imaging experience.

5. Carol Sudhalter played (oops, I forget what I played!) on flute. 6. Dancer/singer Yukiko did a beautiful interpretive dance. 7. Mary Alford sang. 8. Marsha Heydt (saxophonist) played track #1 from her new CD. 9. Daniela Schaecter sent a file of her original composition, arranged by her for big band, with she herself on piano: "Incontro". 10. Diane Hoffman sent her CD, and we played an original of hers, "Farewell to Noelle".

FIRST MONDAY AUGUST 2007

We were eleven great men and women: Janet Bloom; vocalists Stephanie Clark, Fran McIntyre, Cheryl Parker, Dee Walker; bassist Whitney Moulton; sax/flute Carol Sudhalter; flutist Chip Shelton; pianists Rom Ferri and Katie Cosco; and pianist/flutist/composer/arranger Dotti Anita Taylor!!

Welcome back, after many years, Cheryl and Dee!!

Performances:

1. Stephanie Clark and Rom Ferri, "I'm Old-Fashioned" (Jerome Kern); 2) Dee Walker (cassette tape), "Words to Music"; 3. Fran McIntyre (CD), "Sunny"; 4. Cheryl Parker (CD), "Then I'll Be Tired of You"; 5. Dotti Anita Taylor (bass flute) and Chip Shelton (Bb Flute), "A Snow Day" (live, original); 6. Katie Cosco and Carol Sudhalter, "Have You Met Miss Jones"; 7. Janet Bloom led us through an idetic imaging experience of an Eagle, which we played a piece about.

Very nice night! See you all Sept. 10 for annual meeting!

FIRST MONDAY APRIL 2007

Present were Sharon Paige, Janet Bloom, Catherine Sikora, Dotti Anita Taylor, Carol Sudhalter. Fran McIntyre stopped in briefly.

We listened to Sharon's rendition of "Give a Little Whistle" from Pinocchio, part of her work-in-progress to record the tunes of lyricist Ned Washington.  Also listened to Josephine Livoti's "Sweet Happy Life".

After that, this really interesting and magical thing happened. With some direction from Janet Bloom, who does some work with specific types of visualization and imaging, we took out our flutes (Dotti and Carol) and soprano saxophone (Catherine) and Sharon added in her voice, and following a verbal description of an image, we all played together a spontaneous reaction to that description, following each other's very visual musical lines into a blend of color and harmony and thought and feeling that has never happened before at a First Monday! It developed in a very natural way, into a complete piece. Then we did another. By that time, it was sad to have to go home!! We all hope to do more of this.

FIRST MONDAY, JUNE 5, 2006

Performance and playlist:

1. Bassist Whitney Moulton, from new demo w/Carol Sudhalter, orig. tune "Greenville Madness"

2. Bassist Sherry Luchette (IWJ member, California), from cd, "My One and Only Love"

3. Vocalist Joan Crowe, CD,  "Caught a Touch of Your Love"

4. Vocalist Diane Hoffman, live, "Thou Swell"

5. Vocalist Carrie Jackson, live, "East of the Sun"

6. Vocalist Merci Monet, new CD, "Old Devil Moon"

7. Vocalist Marlene Sampson, "The Masquerade is Over"

8. Vocalist Jeannie Hudak, guest from Calif., live, "Straighten Up and Fly Right"

9. Flautist Dotti Anita Taylor, "Body and Soul"

10. Vocalist Keisha St. Joan, live, "Don't Blame Me"

11. Alto saxophone, Carol Sudhalter, "I Could Write a Book"

In attendance: Mary Alford, Janine Alondres

THANKS TO ALL!!!