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The Newsletter of the Central Texas Jazz Society Summer 2012 Volume 5 Number 2

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TJO Heads for EuropeBand Voyage

Temple Jazz Orchestra is on the road again next month, as Central Texas's premiere jazz ensemble plays its way through France, Switzerland, Ger-many and Austria.

TJO leaves on Monday July 2 for a two-week tour. The first performance will be at the famous Jazz a Vienne festival in Vienne France, on July 4. TJO's afternoon concert begins a day of jazz that will end with a concert by the Pat Metheny Unity Quartet.

Next TJO plays Geneva, with a performance at the UN General Assembly hall. The band boards the bus for a quick trip back down the road to Montreux,

Switzerland, for an performance at the Montreux Jazz Festi-val on the outdoor Parc Vernex stage.

TJO turns tourist af-ter Montreux, winding its way north through the Alps (Grindel-wald), into Germany (Lindau, Schwangau) and Austria (Salz-burg). The tour ends in Vienna, where TJO

plays in conjunction with the Vienna Jazz Festival at the Reigen Jazz Club. The band returns to Texas on July 16.

Central Texas jazz fans can get a chance to preview

TJO plays at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2009

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Carpenter Helps CTJS Build FutureThe E. Rhodes and Leona

B. Carpenter Foundation has awarded a $10,000 grant to CTJS for the business year 2012-13, CTJS Presi-dent Larry Simonette an-nounced earlier

this week."This is the fourth grant that

CTJS has received from Carpenter since CTJS was formed in the fall of 2007, " said Simonette. "The funds from this grant will be used for the preservation and promotion of our country’s rich jazz heritage and, more specifically, for our planned activities. Those include educational programs, jazz perfor-

mances and community partner-ships, with particular emphasis on ensuring access to cultural edu-cational opportunities for young people from all walks of life. We are delighted to share this great news with our members."

The Carpenter Foundation grant, along with the profits from May's jazz parties with Lynn Seaton Larry Simonette

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Meet the Board…Larry Simonette

Dr. Benjamin IromJim Burns

Bill BerningThomas FairlieBrent ColwellGreg Bashara

David WildJohn R. Francis

PresidentVice PresidentSecretaryTreasurerArtistic DirectorBoard of DirectorsBoard of DirectorsBoard of DirectorsLegal Advisor(Attorney at Law)

Neal JakubowskyDr. Colin Mason

Evan KlarasGary Smith

Johnny Walker Tim Cates

Alex ParkerRob Page

Karen Gonzales

Board of DirectorsBoard of DirectorsBoard of DirectorsBoard of DirectorsBoard of DirectorsBoard of DirectorsBoard of DirectorsBoard of DirectorsBoard of Directors

CenTex Jazz News is published bimonthly by the Central Texas Jazz Society,

PO Box 643, Temple TX 76503-0643. President: Larry Simonette

Editor: David Wild

For more information:www.centraltexasjazz.org www.wildmusic-jazz.com

www.baylor.edu/baylorjazz/ www.templejc.edu/dept/Music/Jazz/jazz2012.htm

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First Bassman: Seaton Swings Waco, Temple...This year's CTJS Jazz Parties were propelled by mas-ter bassist Lynn Seaton. Seaton played Friday, May 4, at Waco's Barron’s on 5th, and Saturday, May 5, at Temple's In The Mood Ballroom. Seaton, a member of the jazz faculty at the University of North Texas who has anchored such groups as the Woody Herman Orchestra, the Count Basie Orchestra, and the trio of pianist Monty Alexander, was joined by members of the Temple Jazz Orchestra. The CTJS-sponsored event provided funds for CTJS jazz scholarship pro-grams in Temple and Waco respectively. CTJS's versa-tile secretary/historian, Jim Burns, captured the event with his camera....

Above: Josh Spurling, Ben Irom and Lynn Seaton. Left: Greg Bashara, Jon Fox, Gary Smith, Tim Cates, Lynn Seaton and Dave Wild.

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The Face of the Bass...Left: discussing the set list. Right: Colin Mason and Gary Smith.

Above: Greg Bashara solos (dig Greg's vintage mike). Left: flying fin-gers. Right: Lynn bows. Below: Tim Cates solos.

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Temple Jazz Orchestra Invades Europe

Carpenter Grant(continued from Page 1)

n July 13, 'The Horton Duo,’ ‘Legacy Cafe’ 725 Austin Avenue, Waco TX, 752-5200, 7:00 p.m. .n July 14, ‘Lorna Wilhelm and a Handful of Blues’

‘Legacy Cafe’ 725 Austin Avenue, Waco TX, 752-5200, 8:00 p.m. n July 20, ‘Jon Fox’, ‘Legacy Cafe’, 725 Austin

Avenue, Waco TX, 752-5200, 7:00 p.m. n July 27, ‘Dave Wild’, ‘Legacy Cafe’, 725 Austin

Avenue, Waco TX, 752-5200, 7:00 p.m. 

TJO's European concerts on June 30, at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Mary Alice Marshall Per-forming Arts Center located on the Temple College main campus, as TJO director Tom Fairlie leads the ensemble through a Bon Voyage concert.

Music performed during the concert will feature a variety of big band styles and includes several

pieces from the band’s collection of CDs and notable Latin jazz compositions by last March's jazz festival artist, Ed Calle.

Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for students, and are available for advance purchase at the Temple College Division of Fine Arts of-fice and Von Music in Temple.

This is TJO's second tour of Europe; the band toured Europe in 2009, playing Jazz a Vienne,

Montreux and the North Sea Jazz Festival.

TJO Director Tom Fairlie

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(see article and Jazzshots photostory starting on Page 2), and other events such as CTJS's annual Gala, en-ables CTJS to continue its support of jazz events like the Seaton concerts and the Temple College Jazz Fes-tival. Carpenter Foundation grant funds also provide crucial support for scholarships for aspiring middle and high school jazz students in the upcoming year.

The CTJS Board of Directors will hold its annual retreat in mid-September, and President Simonette indicates that planning for the allocation of these funds will be one of the major tasks of the meeting.

The E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation was established in 1975 by Rhodes Carpenter, a Rich-mond, VA., businessman who founded the Carpenter Company to manufacture and distribute polyurethane products such as mattresses and pillows. The firm operates a large plant in Temple. Carpenter and later his wife, Leona, donated the majority of their estates to the foundation, which has, among its goals, pledged to support public charities in communities where Carpen-ter Co. has had longtime manufacturing facilities.

The CTJS is honored to again receive this major grant from the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation.