Carlos Jimenez- Jazz Flutist: News

http://www.mvmatters.com/mount-vernon-matters-journal/2008/7/17/revisit-carlos-jimenez-releases-third-cd-thoughts.html

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June 25, 2008...1:03 pm
HW Pick: Jazz “Thoughts”
We recieved an e-mail from Carlos Jimenez about his new contemporary jazz & Latin Jazz CD, “Thoughts” (Pensamientos). The release features; Carlos Jimenez, flute, composer, & producer, Vince Cherico, drums, Ruben Rodriguez, bass and Fidel Cuellar, piano.We were introduced to Mr. Jimenez last week when we posted an article regarding the annual citywide Make Music New York Festival and Real Men Health Initiative on June 21st, in Harlem on 145th Street and Amsterdam Avenue’s new Heritage Hieghts Village.




http://harlemworldblog.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/hw-pick-jazz-thoughts/

Dancing in the Streets/
Bailando en las calles
Performers include: Carlos Jimenez Tropical Latin Jazz Sextet (Latin Jazz/ Mambo Jam); Kabbala (local group with a unique style and rhythmic mixes for all). The event is in conjunction with Make Music NY, a local version of the international celebration of the summer solstice. Presented by the Washington Heights and Inwood Development Corporation in cooperation with Time Out NY Magazine and the Washington Heights Street Vendors Association.
Artistas incluyen: Carlos Jimenez Tropical Latin Jazz Sextet (Latin Jazz/Mambo Jam), Kabbala (grupo local con un estilo únicoy mezclas de ritmos para todos). Este evento se hace conjuntamente con Make Music NY, la version local de una celebración internacional de solsticio de verano. Presentado por Washington Heights and Inwood Development Corporation in cooperation with Time Out NY Magazine and the Washington Heights Street Vendors Association.

La Plaza De Las Americas Vendors Market, W. 175th St. (between Broadway and Wadsworth Ave.) Info: John Bozek, 212-795-1600 JBozekWHIDC@aol.com

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On Saturday, June 21, 2008, the sound of New York City will be amplified throughout the five boroughs as New Yorkers usher in summer with a highlighted sound track courtesy of the annual Make Music New York festival.


During this one day mega event public space becomes vibrant musical stages featuring live performances from every musical genre imaginable.



In honor of this festive occasion Heritage Heights Village, the bustling commercial strip along the Amsterdam Avenue corridor, will unveil its artistic roots. The recently re-developed area, which features a variety of upgraded streetscape courtesy of New York Main Street, will host its Real Men Health Initiative. This outdoor health fair takes place in the open plaza area at Amsterdam Avenue and 145th street.



In addition to free health screenings and a wealth of nutritional and health information, the event will include live performances by Carlos Jimenez and his Tropical Latin Jazz Sextet; Artie Simmons and the Jazz Samaritans; Neo Soul recording artist, Fudakochi; and Latin/World, Pop artist, Roland Ruby Orchestra. .



The Real Men Health Initiative and Make Music New York free concert events take place from 10:00 am until 7:00 pm, on the plaza at Amsterdam Avenue and 145th Street, a main gateway of the Amsterdam Avenue corridor. The citywide Make Music New York (MMNY) event was introduced to Heritage by NYC Department of Small Business Services to promote its New York Main Street commercial district.



Heritage is a private, non-profit service and development agency helping individuals with special needs, particularly those with mental illnesses, take control of their lives and become self-sufficient, functioning and contributing members of the community. Heritage was incorporated in 1969, and has been providing residential rehabilitation services in West Harlem, Upper Manhattan and the South Bronx since 1980. Heritage has an annual budget of over $17 million and a staff of over 200 dedicated individuals.






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Spanish Biz Must Adopt Tough Piracy Tactics, Says Kennedy
June 20, 2008 - Global

By Howell Llewellyn, Madrid

Two leading lights in the European fight against digital piracy and illegal P2P file-sharing have thrown their support behind a new Spanish music and movie business campaign to end Spain's black image as the worst piracy offender among the top 10-ranked global markets.

Speaking at a Madrid seminar Thursday, IFPI chairman John Kennedy and French government adviser on digital piracy Dennis Olivennes both said they were confident that Internet service providers (ISPs) and telecom companies would eventually agree to a "legal model", and that the Madrid government will establish a legislative framework to impose an effective ban on digital piracy.

"I cannot believe the French government cares more about French music and creativity than the Spanish government does about Spanish music and creativity," said Kennedy, referring to the plan by president Nicolas Sarkozy to introduce a "three strikes" legislation that would disconnect individual infringers' ISP accounts for habitual piracy.

"Sarkozy said the Internet must not be a high-tech Wild West, but he said it for the French music and film industries, not for John Kennedy and the IFPI", Kennedy said.

"It is the home-grown emerging content industry that needs protection, not Hollywood. I call on Spain not to let India and China wake up to this fact while Spain takes no action", he added.

Kennedy recalled that 95% of tracks downloaded are illegal, and 80% of these illegal tracks are delivered via P2P file-sharing. "Research shows file-sharing damages sales - nobody pretends otherwise," he said, adding that the value of the global music industry had fallen from €25 billion ($38.8 billion) in 1999, to €18 billion ($27.9 billion) in 2007.

Kennedy said he was more optimistic now that ISPs were beginning to come round to the music industry's point of view on illegal file-sharing. "ISP cooperation is now an increasingly accepted concept - three years ago they would have thrown the idea out of the window. Necessity is the mother of invention."

He said ISPs are the "gatekeepers of the Internet", and added, "this is not about policing Internet, but about ISPs being responsible gatekeepers."

Kennedy said they were many solutions. "There is not one-to-fit-all," he said, noting that the "three strikes and out message gets through to the kids". He said "a graduated response is better than instant action. Disconnection is more effective than imposing fines".

Olivennes, who is the editor of Le Nouvel Observateur, was commissioned last year by Sarkozy to help devise a solution for online piracy. The French government has given its approval to the controversial legislation, and observers say it could be effective from early 2009. "We were extremely lucky with major ISPs and telecom operators [in France] - they were quite open to our suggestions," he said.

When summing up at the conference, Antonio Guisasola, president of Spanish IFPI affiliate Promusicae, said: "Are we going to leave France alone in this war, or join them? Now is the time to get down to work."

Referring to the recently-formed Coalition of Creators and Content Industries in Spain, which includes Promusicae and the event's organizer, authors' and publishers' collecting society SGAE, Guisasola said: "We are going to take this message to the government. And we'll tell the ISPs that they have much to gain by adopting a legal model."


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Musica
Uptown Arts Stroll:

Dancing in the Streets
Enjoy a cool night dancing with Carlos Jimenez Tropical Latin Jazz Sextet (Latin Jazz/Mambo Jam) and Kabbala.



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Carlos Jimenez new composition titled Bluedo has been selected to the playlist program at www.smoothjazz.com to listen to it you can request the song by going to their website above..

Zen and the Art of Trombone and Violin Playing
Lewis Kahn
A conversation with John Child

Gifted trombonist and violinist Lewis Kahn has a dream CV, which includes membership in Orchestra Harlow, the Fania All Stars and the Tito Puente orchestra. During the last five decades he has clocked-up a prodigious quantity of recording sessions and live performances, including dates with Eddie Palmieri, Pupi Legarreta, Willie Colón, Mon Rivera, Dizzy Gillespie, Machito, Rubén Blades, Celia Cruz, Santiago Ceron, Charanga America, Héctor Lavoe, Charlie Palmieri, David Byrne, Marc Anthony, Pucho & his Latin Soul Brothers, Kirsty MacColl and many others. Association with stellar names often creates sizeable egos and a habit of name-dropping, but not in Lewis's case. He is reticent by nature, so it took some perseverance on John Child's part to jog his memory and encourage Lewis to speak about his career. However, the effort paid off and the resulting interview reveals a fascinating and deeply spiritual individual. The piece is followed by a selected discography of the albums on which Lewis has performed.


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Yonkers Mayor To Sign 2009 City And School Budgets
Posted by Westchester.com
Thursday, 12 June 2008
Yonkers, NY - Nearly eight weeks after receiving the Fiscal Year 2009 Executive Budget, the Yonkers City Council adopted Mayor Phil Amicone's annual spending plan largely in tact at a special meeting on Tuesday evening, preserving all municipal and school district services at current levels and providing record local education funding to the Yonkers Public Schools while holding the total spending increase to the rate of inflation.


Several minor adjustments were hammered out over two weeks of intense negotiations resulting in an $892.8 million final adopted budget that will include a property tax increase of 7.5% ($498 average annual increase per homeowner), 1% or $2.65 million less than the Executive Budget originally proposed.
The 2009 Adopted Budget was approved by a bipartisan 6-1 supermajority, with freshman Councilmember Joan Gronowski (D -- 3rd District) the sole dissenter.

Amicone indicated that he would sign the council's adopted budget within the coming week.

"I want to applaud the city councilmembers who approved this budget for their hard work, willingness to compromise and, above all, their concern to do the best thing for the residents, students and taxpayers of Yonkers," Mayor Phil Amicone said, praising the near unanimous vote. "Considering the nationwide economic downturn and the worsening shortfall in state education funding for our schools, the people of Yonkers can be confident that they now have a balanced budget that avoids the kind of cuts in education and other services that would have decimated this city."

"We closed the budget deficit without layoffs or massive tax increases, but we did so with a series of temporary, stop-gap measures that place even greater emphasis next year on finally solving the chronic problem that has incessantly inhibited our city's quest for financial independence for years: a grossly underfunded school system by New York State," Amicone concluded.

Operating Budget Highlights

-$892.8 million total budget (3.9% increase over FY 2008)
-$411.1 million municipal budget (1.9% increase over FY 2008)
-$484.6 million public school budget (5.7% increase over FY 2008)
-Total spending increase held to rate of inflation
·$85 million projected budget gap closed
-No layoffs and no municipal service or education program cuts
-7.5% property tax increase (average increase of $498 per homeowner)
-No sales, income or mortgage tax increases
-Discretionary spending remains flat

http://www.westchester.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9896&Itemid=333

Thank You

DEAR GOD:


I want to thank You for what you have already done. I am not going to wait until I see results or receive rewards; I am thanking you right now. I am not going to wait until I feel better or things look better; I am thanking you right now. I am not going to wait until people say they are sorry or until they stop talking about me; I am thanking you right now.. I am not going to wait until the pain in my body disappears ; I am thanking you right now. I am not going to wait until my financial situation improves; I am going to thank you right now. I am not going to wait until the children are asleep and the house is quiet; I am going to thank you right now. I am not going to wait until I get promoted at work or until I get the job; I am going to thank you right now. I am not going to wait until I understand every experience in my life that has caused me pain or grief; I am thanking you right now. I am not going to wait until the journey gets easier or the challenges are removed;

I am thanking you right now. I am thanking you because I am alive. I am thanking you because I made it through the day's difficulties. I am thanking you because I have walked around the obstacles.


I am thanking you because I have the ability and the opportunity to do moreand do better.

I' m thanking you because FATHER,YOU haven't given up on me.

God is just so good, and he's good all the time. Send this message to 8 friends, not to the friend who sent it to you and continue to THANK HIM.


Have a blessed day.
''A true friend is someone who reaches out for your hand and touches your Heart.'

The arrangement have been slightly changed
The funeral will now be held on Friday, May 30 as follows:
Harold O. Davis Memorial Baptist Church
4500 North 10th Avenue at Roosevelt Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19140
Phone: 215-329-8859
Viewing 9 am to 11 am
Funeral service at 11 am
Burial after service
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Musicians Heats up White Plains with Salsa
Posted by Editor
Friday, 23 May 2008
White Plains, NY - Internationally renowned jazz flautist Carlos Jimenez will heat up White Plains with the sounds of Latin America for a Hot Night of Salsa on Saturday, May 24th beginning at 7:00 pm, at the Arts Exchange, 31 Mamaroneck Avenue, in White Plains.

Joined by bassist Gregg August and celebrated pianist Gilberto “Pulpo” Colón Jr., Jimenez will perform Latin dance standards from such greats as Tito Puento and Cachao as well as his own original compositions.

Called a “stellar” and “compelling” musician and marked as a “prominent figure” in the world of Latin music, Jimenez has received international praise for his artistry since his debut Latin Jazz album, Arriving, in 2005. Jimenez, a Yonkers, New York native, began his musical education in Puerto Rico, learning the rhythms and soul of the Latin sound from the source itself. As a performer and composer with a diverse musical background and deep passion for Latin music, Jimenez brings a distinctive style to the Latin standards of the late 60’s & 70’s and to his own unique compositions.

The dance floor at the Arts Exchange will be primed for a Hot Night of Salsa when Jimenez will perform the salsa, mambo, and cha cha for Latin dance enthusiasts. Instructors will be on hand to help amateurs learn the steps while those who have already mastered the mambo can dance the night away. Bassist Gregg August and pianist Gilberto “Pulpo” Colón Jr., will join Jimenez for the evening. Pulpo has achieved legendary status as a Latin pianist, a master who captures the “very essence” of the Latin sound. Considered “one of the most exciting and innovative musicians on the scene today,” August is a jazz celebrity in his own right and was featured on Jimenez’s 2006 album El Flautista.

Feeling a little hot and bothered? Get the edge off with some sultry Latin music by Yonkers native and accomplished jazz flutist Carlos Jimenez, who will perform along with his orchestra at the Westchester Arts Council. Bring your heels and twirly dresses—the evening will be made complete by live salsa and mambo dance instruction. (Details) http://www.westchestermagazine.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=4DDB3409FDA642DB98EE67A6478F2756&type=gen&mod=Core+Pages&gid=BA00F208798D4810956B9D669D64416D

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Carlos Jimenez, a Yonkers native, Latin Jazz flutist, composer, arranger, and producer is playing at The Pizza Place (at the Yonkers Waterfront) at 7 tonight. He will be joined by his Latin jazz trio partners Dean Vazquez on the congas and Fidel Cuellar on piano. 92 Main St., 914-709-1050. You can also catch Carlos with his jazz quartet tomorrow night at the Hudson House, 34 Main St. in Nyack at 10 p.m. ($5 cover). 845-353-1355.