SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

85Editor: Dustan Cwick was our Jazz Camp Scholarship recipient this year.A Jazzy ExperienceThanks to the Modesto Traditional Jazz Society Scholarship,this summer, I experienced a wonderful time at jazz camp. I didmany activities; I expanded my musical knowledge, and workedwith experienced musicians. Overall it was a terrific experiencethat ended with a bang!Wednesday, I got soaked in the first activity, a water balloontoss. The next event went wild after counselors said, "that we couldthrow cheese puffs at people". The group with the most cheesepuffs on the person won. After that we did a corn huskingcompetition, "We had corn coming out of our ears." Towards theend of camp, the staff taught me how to play backgammon. It wasutterly awe-inspiring!In the camp I learned a lot about music, from chord progressionto blue notes. I also got exposed to music techniques whichincluded moods and styles. In addition, I learned how to mastercreating a great solo.In the camp I gleaned four songs but performed the polishedthree. The three were "I've got it bad and that ain't good", "I can'tgive you anything but love, baby", and "Ice Cream". Rusty Stierswas our band instructor.The one person you have to meet is Rusty Stiers. What acharacter! He is a phenomenal trumpet player and a nice individual.He taught me a breathing technique. It allows me to make a moreclear sound in my trumpet.After enjoying my week of activities, songs, and music I wouldrecommend being a part of this adventure. There is music foreveryone, from the novice to the more advanced. This camp is ajazzy opportunity for all ages of players that enjoy music and wantto have fun.Dustan CwickSeptember 1, 2009(Musically speaking Continued from page 3)celebrate them, to survive them. The deepest expressions of our humanitycome through music and the arts. At moments of our greatest triumphs,sorrows, celebrations, and consecrations, it is through music and the other artsthat we express thoughts that words cannot say. Imagine a graduation withabsolutely no music – or a wedding, a presidential inauguration, or a servicecelebrating the life and death of a close friend – imagine these with no musicwhatsoever. Without music the capacity to meaningfully experience theseevents, is as though eating great food without tasting it.A musician is like a paramedic, interested in keeping a person alive, fully alive.A musician is like a cardiologist using different instruments and holdingpeople’s hearts in their hands every day. If there is a future of peace forhumankind, if we are to have an understanding of how invisible things shouldfit together, I expect it will come from the musicians, because that's what wedo.The first thing I hear when I awaken in the morning is music in my head. Itoften takes a few minutes to name the tune, but I can’t think of a better way tostart the day. And, most often my days are filled with music and I retire atnight still playing some melody over and over in my mind. Music means theworld to me. If there is a way you can contribute something to the performingarts and music education, please find it in your hearts to do so.The Modesto Traditional Jazz Society provides opportunities for jazzmusicians to share theirtalents with appreciativelisteners and dancers, andencourages youth to learnand continue the Americanart form. Members andperformers come from allwalks of life and musicalbackgrounds, but all havethe common bond of a lovefor live entertainment. Soput on your dancing shoes,bring a friend or two, andjoin us on Jazz Sunday.We will be listening anddancing to Fog CityStompers. Let’s keep ourmusic alive!— Jan Leer,President, MTJS

76Special thanks to Forrest Jackson for capturing the event.For more photos, go to our online photo gallery atwww.modestojazz.com/clubphotos/

85Editor: Dustan Cwick was our Jazz Camp Scholarship recipient this year.A Jazzy ExperienceThanks to the Modesto Traditional Jazz Society Scholarship,this summer, I experienced a wonderful time at jazz camp. I didmany activities; I expanded my musical knowledge, and workedwith experienced musicians. Overall it was a terrific experiencethat ended with a bang!Wednesday, I got soaked in the first activity, a water balloontoss. The next event went wild after counselors said, "that we couldthrow cheese puffs at people". The group with the most cheesepuffs on the person won. After that we did a corn huskingcompetition, "We had corn coming out of our ears." Towards theend of camp, the staff taught me how to play backgammon. It wasutterly awe-inspiring!In the camp I learned a lot about music, from chord progressionto blue notes. I also got exposed to music techniques whichincluded moods and styles. In addition, I learned how to mastercreating a great solo.In the camp I gleaned four songs but performed the polishedthree. The three were "I've got it bad and that ain't good", "I can'tgive you anything but love, baby", and "Ice Cream". Rusty Stierswas our band instructor.The one person you have to meet is Rusty Stiers. What acharacter! He is a phenomenal trumpet player and a nice individual.He taught me a breathing technique. It allows me to make a moreclear sound in my trumpet.After enjoying my week of activities, songs, and music I wouldrecommend being a part of this adventure. There is music foreveryone, from the novice to the more advanced. This camp is ajazzy opportunity for all ages of players that enjoy music and wantto have fun.Dustan CwickSeptember 1, 2009(Musically speaking Continued from page 3)celebrate them, to survive them. The deepest expressions of our humanitycome through music and the arts. At moments of our greatest triumphs,sorrows, celebrations, and consecrations, it is through music and the other artsthat we express thoughts that words cannot say. Imagine a graduation withabsolutely no music – or a wedding, a presidential inauguration, or a servicecelebrating the life and death of a close friend – imagine these with no musicwhatsoever. Without music the capacity to meaningfully experience theseevents, is as though eating great food without tasting it.A musician is like a paramedic, interested in keeping a person alive, fully alive.A musician is like a cardiologist using different instruments and holdingpeople’s hearts in their hands every day. If there is a future of peace forhumankind, if we are to have an understanding of how invisible things shouldfit together, I expect it will come from the musicians, because that's what wedo.The first thing I hear when I awaken in the morning is music in my head. Itoften takes a few minutes to name the tune, but I can’t think of a better way tostart the day. And, most often my days are filled with music and I retire atnight still playing some melody over and over in my mind. Music means theworld to me. If there is a way you can contribute something to the performingarts and music education, please find it in your hearts to do so.The Modesto Traditional Jazz Society provides opportunities for jazzmusicians to share theirtalents with appreciativelisteners and dancers, andencourages youth to learnand continue the Americanart form. Members andperformers come from allwalks of life and musicalbackgrounds, but all havethe common bond of a lovefor live entertainment. Soput on your dancing shoes,bring a friend or two, andjoin us on Jazz Sunday.We will be listening anddancing to Fog CityStompers. Let’s keep ourmusic alive!— Jan Leer,President, MTJS

49Sue’sJazzy TidbitsThe club board has decided to run the monthly expenses to show the membership how money is spent each month.MODESTO TRADITIONAL JAZZ SOCIETYI know, I know! My first month to write for the Jazzette and I miss the JazzSociety meeting. But I was up in Graeagle enjoying the great outdoors. I hadpeople keeping their eyes and ears open for me and here is some of what I heard.Congratulations to Carol Babb for becoming out newest member. WelcomeCarol!Warren and Audrey Axe were here from Fresno. Warren had surgery a fewweeks earlier so it was great to see him out and dancing with his now blondewife. Doesn't she look terrific?Also visiting from out of town were John and Marge Kerr from Reno, NV. Iusually see and visit with them in Graeagle. Now I know whey they weren'tthere!Another ear told me that Rich and Meg Galen have bought a second house inVista. I hope that we will continue to see their smiling faces at MTJS. We willmiss them when they move south. Vista is where past president, Cheryl Larkinand husband, Dave live.I'm told I missed some great music and a fun afternoon at the Moose. See you allon September 20th and I can't wait to hear the stories all of you will share withme.Profit / ExpenseDate 08/16/09Profit: 845Donations (Club): 52Donations (Youth): 12Raffle Donations (Club): 115Raffle Donations (Youth): 100Membership (New): 20Membership (Renew): 170Jazzette Ads: 20Door: 356Expenses: 979.30Band: 500Jazzette Expenses: 102.30Rent (Two Months): 352Security: 25Net:- 134.30SueEditor’s Note: All articles, columns, photos, etc. need to be submitted nolater than 10 days before the date of the current month’s club meeting.Example: If the meeting day falls on the 16th of the month, all materialsmust be submitted by the 7th of that same month.6-9 pm, Wednesdaysat the Barkin’ Dog Grill940 11th St, Modesto(209) 572-2341Come listen to High-EnergyDixieland MusicYOUR NAME HERE!Help support theMODESTOTRADITIONALJAZZ SOCIETYby placing an advertisement for your businessin the Jazzette.

103MODESTO TRADITIONAL JAZZ SOCIETY CALENDAR September — The Fog City StompersOctober — Ernie Bucio’s Little Big BandNovember — Knight Sounds Big BanDecember — Catsnjammers Jazz BandMonthly Trad Jazz Schedule1st Sunday:2nd Sunday:3rd Sunday:4th Sunday:Stockton Jazz Society — Elk's LodgeSacramento Jazz Society, Dante Club; www.sacjazz.orgFresno Jazz Society — Venues vary; Call (559) 292-3999Modesto Jazz Society, Modesto Moose LodgeSouth Bay Jazz Society, Elk's Lodge, SunnyvaleThanks Helping Keep Jazz AliveMany thanks to all the members who donatedadditional money, either by mail or at the door.ATTENTION FRIENDSIf you know of someone who is ill, celebrated a birthday or coulduse some cheering up, contact Jeannie Wemken at 524-3517.Send news items to theJAZZETTE the last week of themonth to appear in the comingissue.Mail to.MODESTO TRADITIONALJAZZ SOCIETYP.O. Box 4442Modesto, CA 95352-4442Or e-mail tojazzette@modestodixieland.comMusically SpeakingPresident’s Message“Did they cut funding for the arts again?”— Parade Magazine 2/2/1997An Old Story:As a teacher in the arts world, I haveheard this story for the last thirty-fiveyears. It has been a constant crusadeto keep performing arts in our publicschools. Yet, take a show of handsin any large assembly of people andsee just how many were touched by apublic school music program of somekind. The performing arts are anessential element of our education.A theme that came out of a “Did they cut funding for the arts again?”brainstorming session of MusicEducators National Conference (MENC) in 1996 was “Music Is Key.” Theyestablished a list of sub themes to use in their yearly campaign for “Music in OurSchools” month. Music is key to a basic education, to creativity and problemsolving, to teamwork and cooperation, to our cultural heritage and globalunderstanding, to active happy lives, and to lifelong wellness. Music is key becauseit keeps kids motivated in school, especially at-risk kids. Learning is interestingthrough the arts. That’s why arts-centered schools are thriving.The performing arts have repeatedly been credited with higher tests scores and theability to think ad work with others. So, why teach music? Music is a science. Itis exact, specific and demands exact acoustics. Music is mathematics. It isrhythmically based on subdivisions of time into fractions that must be donementally and not on paper. Music is foreign language. Most musical terms are inItalian, German, or French. Notation is a highly developed shorthand usingsymbols that represent ideas. It is a universal language. Music is physicaleducation. It requires coordination of all parts of the body. Think of whatextraordinary control of fingers, hands, lips, arms, facial muscles, diaphragm, back,chest and stomach muscles it take to respond instantly to the sound the ear hearsand the mind interprets. A drummer or an organist must work all four appendagesat once while reading multiple lines is music!Music functions as a container for experience – it augments capacity to graspcomplex things. Without music, the events of our lives slip like water throughcupped hands. Music increases our capacity to hold life experiences, to(Continued on page 5)

2( Fog City Continued from page 1)and that was the birth of the Fog City Stompers. Tom has composed a number of the band's originaltunes.Guido Fazio - ClarinetGuido is a San Francisco native and has played professionally since 1968. He studied music at SanJose State and with prominent teachers locally on tenor sax, woodwinds, and composition. Heteaches privately full time and performs regularly throughout the San Francisco bay area. He hasco-authored a book with the late jazz guitarist, Warren Nunes, on jazz improvisation technique.Jeff Walton - TromboneJeff began playing trombone at 9 years old and now holds music degrees from Cal State Hayward aswell as Indiana University. In addition to playing trombone, he writes horn arrangements for TheKool Katz, a San Jose based Latin funk band. He also plays with the Diablo Valley College NightJazz Band and the Los Medanos College Educator's band. Occasionally Jeff plays in the pit orchestrafor the Diablo Light Opera Company and annually performs with the Peter Mintun Orchestra.Brian Cardello - TubaBrian picked up the trombone in the fifth grade after watching the bands with his dad at Disneyland.In junior high school he learned the baritone because he wanted to know what the three valves did. Inhigh school he played bass trombone, then moved to tuba during his senior year. He played tuba withhis first Dixieland band in high school, Big Ralph's Little Dixies. In college he played with the CalPoly Dixieland Band. They bumped into some real traditional jazz in Pismo Beach at the Basin StreetRegular's Club, got hooked, and formed their own Dixieland band, Sticks, Strings, & Hot Air, wherehe played trombone. They performed on campus, around town, at various jazz clubs, and also playedas a student band at the Sacramento Jazz Festival in 1982 & 1983.Roz Temple - PianoRoz became interested in ragtime when playing with a Renaissance musical group in Europe in thelate '60s. One of its members was a recent member of Max Morath's Original Ragtime Quartet in theUS and introduced her thoroughly to the style. Back in the US, and after a long hiatus of college andfamily raising, she returned to rag-piano in the 90s and found links to Trad. jazz in the BayArea. Since then Roz has performed with many Trad. bands and pick-up groups.Pat Dutrow - Banjo/GuitarPat first learned banjo from his father when he was just 8 years old. Soon after, he took lessons fromthe legendary Charlie Tagawa and went on to play in both Charlie's junior banjo band and thePeninsula Banjo Band in San Jose. At the same time Pat studied classical organ music at aDominican Convent. In high school Pat started his own Dixieland band and also played in manyschool musical productions. After high school Pat joined the Royal Society Jazz Orchestra andworked his way through college by playing summers at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk & MarineWorld. After eight years with the RSJO Pat took a banjo seat with the Professor Plum jazz band untilit folded, and then the Natural Gas Jazz Band. Pat has also been a featured soloist at the Palo AltoBanjo Jubilee and the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee banjo concert.Adam Roderick - Drums/PercussionAdam began his musical experiences at the age of 8, taking trumpet lessons in grade school, and hasremained active in music in one way or another ever since. He has studied piano, guitar, andsaxophone, and dabbles in many different instruments in a variety of musical styles. Adam hasplayed with such artists as Rex Allen and Peter Mintun.11MISSION STATEMENTThe purpose of theMODESTO TRADITIONAL JAZZ SOCIETYTo preserve & promote our unique AmericanNational music treasure for future generations,To give jazz musicians opportunities to sharetheir talent with appreciative audiences,To encourage youth to learn & to continue theoriginal American art form of playing jazz.MEMBERSHIPAPPLICATIONModesto Traditional Jazz SocietyAnnual Membership includes subscription and postageto the monthly newsletter, Jazzette. FAMILY 30 NEW RENEWAL SINGLE 20 CHANGE OF ADDRESSDate:Name:Address:City: State:Zip: Phone:E-Mail: I am enclosing an additional for the MDJS General Fund. I am enclosing an additional for the Youth Band Scholarship Fund. I am interested in volunteering forClub functions.PLEASE MAIL TO:MDJS c/o Rozetta McNulty4330 Highway 108Riverbank, CA 95367Thank you for your help in keeping Traditional Jazz alive!2009Board MembersPresidentJan Leer985-2223Vice-PresidentMary Menz(Ex-Officio)Publicity DirectorJeannie Wemken(Publicity)524-3517Music DirectorMargaret Squires(Music Director)988-2334Membership DirectorRozetta McNulty(Membership)869-2024SecretaryJerry Cox529-3194TreasurerMac McCarterMembers @ LargeErnie Bucio985-5712David Livingston606-2056Forrest JacksonElinor PurdyNext Board MeetingSeptember 29thJan Leer’s house1049 Dakota Ave,Modesto

MODESTO MOOSE LODGE, 821 5TH ST. MODESTO This month’s guest band is JAN LEER President P.O. Box 4442 Modesto, CA 95352-4442 (209) 985-2223 Traditional Jazz at Modesto Moose Lodge 821 5th St. Modesto Vol. 28 No. 6 Next Meeting SEPTEMBER 20, 2009 This month’s guest band is The Fog City Stompers have been playing since 1985.