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Kathy Lyon - Local Vocalist www.kathylyonmusic.com Gulf Coast Jazz Society - Panama City, FL www.gulfjazzsociety.com The Guffman Trio - Cynthia Neves, Tom Latenser, Fred Domulot www.myspace.com/theguffmantrio David Anthony Suhor -  Vocals, Keys, more... www.suhor.biz Scott Langholff - Virtual Band, Keyboardist... www.scottlmusic.com   Jazz Festivals Pensacola JazzFest   (OURS!) (April) Held by the Jazz Society of Pensacola during the month of April in Pensacola Florida's historic Seville Square. French Quarter Fest New Orleans (April) - www.fqfi.org/frenchquarterfest Seabreeze Jazz Festival Panama City, FL (April) www.seabreezejazzfestival.com New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival New Orleans, LA (April/May) - www.nojazzfest.com Main Street JazzFest - Murfreesboro, TN (May) - www.mainstreetjazzfest.com W.C. Handy Music Festival - www.wchandymusicfestival.org Held annually in the Shoals area of Florence, Alabama. A weeklong tribute to the "Father of the Blues," W.C. Handy. Sounds of Jazz & Blues - Cape Coral, FL (March) - www.capeconcerts.com North Carolina Jazz Festival - (January) - By the Cape Fear Jazz Society - www.capefearjazz.com/2008_nc_jazz_fest.htm Hearts & Soul of Jazz - Pinehurst, NC, (February) Heart 'n Soul of Jazz is ACMC's glitziest event and is presented at the Carolina Hotel in Pinehurst. www.artscouncil-moore.org/jazz.html Savannah Music Festival - Savannah, GA, (March/April) - www.savannahmusicfestival.org Sweet & Hot Music Festival - Los Angeles (Labor Day Weekend) Each Labor Day weekend at the Los Angeles Marriott, the Sweet & Hot Music Festival takes over 4-days of Swing, Be Bop, Big Bands, Dixieland, and Classic American Jazz Music, often in 8 venues at once. www.sweethot.org Radio Avalon - www.radioavalon.com Radio Avalon, L.L.C. produces several live events including "Brown Bag In Bienville", "Music In The Moonlight", "Big Band Sunday", and the forthcoming "Avalon Music Festival" in Mobile, Alabama. Jazz Info     (history, education, research, etc...) All Music.com - www.allmusic.com Great source for info about recordings and performers of any kind of music, including jazz. JazzStandards.com - www.jazzstandards.com Songs, History, Biographies. Musicians, educators, researchers, and disc jockeys, use this quick reference site for the standards jazz performers play the most! A Passion for Jazz -  www.apassion4jazz.net History, education, glossary, timeline, styles, milestones, etymology, music tips, etc...   Tom Lord's Jazz Discography - "Everything you need to know about virtually any jazz record ever released." The Jazz Discography gives you accurate, detailed information on over 100 years of recorded jazz in all genres. - www.lordisco.com Noal Cohen's Jazz History Site -  www.attictoys.com Contains information on several musicians and topics of special interest including jazz of the 1950s and early 1960s and musicians from Rochester, NY. Detailed discographies created using the Brian database application, a major advance in the field of jazz discography. Sidney Bechet Society - www.sidneybechet.org To promote the music inspired by Sidney Bechet. Lots of recordings at this site! Radio Avalon - www.radioavalon.com Radio Avalon produces several compact discs of local artists that are available at the "Avalon Marketplace" and downloadable podcasts available at "Podcast Projects". Jazz Musicians Joe Occhipinti Big band or small groups Music Director for Jazz Society    850-433-6287 occhipintijoseph@yahoo.com Crystal Joy  Jazz Vocalist crstljoy1@aol.com Scott Langholff Virtual Band Keyboardist - www.scottlmusic.com David Anthony Suhor Vocals, Keys, more...     www.suhor.biz      850-435-9028 The Guffman Trio Cynthia Neves - keyboard, Tom Latenser - bass, Fred Domulot - drums www.myspace.com/theguffmantrio Kathy Lyon Local Vocalist.     www.kathylyonmusic.com Longineu Parsons  &  Ted Shumate: Blues for the 21st Century www.21blues.com RK Music Instruction Professional Music Instruction.    www.rkmusicinstruction.com Mariah Picot Jazz in the Panama City area www.mariahpicot.com Jazz Publications Jazz Times Magazine - www.jazztimes.com Founded in 1970 by Ira Sabin. Includes Extensive News Coverage, Award Winning Jazz Journalism, Hundreds of CD, Book and Video Reviews, World Class Photography and Award-Winning Graphics, Informative Features and Columns, Special Theme Issues, Special Directories, Readers Poll and Critics Picks, Sound$weeps (sweepstakes) The Mississippi Rag - www.mississippirag.com Since 1973, The Mississippi Rag has covered traditional jazz and ragtime like no other publication. For 33 years (November 1973-October 2006), The Rag was a printed tabloid publication, presenting exclusive feature stories by top writers on contemporary and legendary giants of traditional jazz and ragtime, plus stories on less well known but accomplished musicians. JAM - Jazz Ambassador's Magazine (by the Kansas City Jazz Ambassadors) Dedicated to preserving the rich heritage of Kansas City jazz and developing and promoting the current Kansas City jazz scene. www.jazzkc.org The American Rag - America's Largest Traditional Jazz and Ragtime Newspaper Monthly publication serves over sixty pages of commentary, news, articles of interest and reviews as well as the people, places and festivals defining the excitement of today's traditional Jazz and Ragtime scene. - www.americanrag.com JazzWeek JazzWeek is the definitive Jazz and Smooth Jazz national radio airplay chart—a weekly report of the top fifty Jazz and Smooth Jazz recordings played on radio stations across the United States and Canada. - www.jazzweek.com Jazz Radio Radio Avalon - www.radioavalon.com Broadcast over WHIL-91.3 FM in Mobile, AL. Owned by Thomas "Catt" Sirten, program producer and host. Radio Avalon, L.L.C. produces several live events including "Brown Bag In Bienville", "Music In The Moonlight", "Big Band Sunday", and the forthcoming "Avalon Music Festival". Radio Avalon is very active in the local music community, producing several compact discs of local artists that are available at the "Avalon Marketplace" and downloadable podcasts available at "Podcast Projects". 98.3 - Smooth Jazz Sunday (Mobile, Alabama) WDLT 98.3 FM, Mobile, AL, 8am-10am - www.msnusers.com/smoothoperator983 & www.983wdlt.com WUWF 88.1 - (University of West Florida) It is the mission of WUWF Public Media to present, promote, preserve and encourage musical and spoken-word arts through our broadcast, web, and community outreach programs; provide credible, in-depth news and information to the public; serve as a vital community catalyst and a forum for the exchange of ideas; and to secure a sound fiscal basis for the continuation of public radio in Northwest Florida and South Alabama. http://wuwf.org University of North Texas Public Radio 88.1 -  www.kntu.unt.edu A great jazz station which can be heard via internet. Jazz Societies and Clubs Gulf Jazz Society www.gulfjazzsociety.com Central Florida Jazz Society www.centralfloridajazzsociety.com Mobile (Alabama) Jazz Society - Mystic Order of the Jazz Obsessed www.msnusers.com/MOJOMOBILE/_whatsnew.msnw Dixieland Jazz Society (San Diego) - www.dixielandjazzfestival.org Gainesville Friends of Jazz and Blues   (FL) - www.gnvfriendsofjazz.org The Space Coast Jazz Society  (S. Florida) - www.spacecoastjazzsociety.com Pike's Peak Jazz & Swing Society  (Southern Colorado) - www.ppjass.org The Tri-State Jazz Society  (New Jersey) - www.TriStateJazz.com   Miscellaneous Sites Pensacola Wine Festival - www.pensacolawinefestival.com Pensacola Swing - www.pensacolaswing.com Pensacola Junior College - www.pjc.edu

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P.O. Box 18337    Pensacola, FL  32523-8337
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