Hi Sydney:

Interesting, my next gig (living now in Westchester, NY) is in Delaware, then one in Cleveland where I have a son and his family and he hooked me up with a jazz club there.

Would love to go to Germany. What do you need for me to be considered? There's a bunch of stuff I've pasted in from my evolving sig line below. Look forward to hearing from.

Elli

PS:

Please let friends know around Delaware, Philly, etc. (or those taking a day trip) about www.unicityfestival.com where my NY quartet plays a 2:45pm set on Sat., 8/2/08 on the High Art Stage, in Middletown, DE (Main St. downtown). Since we don't have a "home-town advantage," we can use your help with getting out the word, and thanks.

This just in: Elli at Macy's Colonie Center's charity event in Albany (http://www.shopatcoloniecenter.com/), on Sat., 9/20 at 1-3pm. As always, I appreciate you letting folks in your orbit know.

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Elli
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Hi Elli,
Thanks for your comment.

I live in Europe but some of my family still live in Cleveland. I visit there once a year for a couple of weeks.

To come to Europe I need musicians since I am a singer.

Sydney

Welcome Sydney,

You will find some exciting talent here and some good prospects for you to bring to Europe. We are so happy to have you with us.

Sydney,

Thanks for the love!! Moving from Cleveland to Europe is a big change. Hope to see you sometime in the future.

Sean

Hi Sean,

I moved to Los Angeles first, stayed there about 6 years. The music scene was very closed, only certain people were hired, so my husband and I decided to move to Europe and try music there. It has paid off very well. We have been here for 14 years and do not plan on moving back to the states.

When you come over let me know.
Sydney

Thanx for the response and the add. My cousin Linda Beuchner is a performer in german- speaking areas, I believe she lives in Dassendorf. Went there in 'Bubbling Brown Sugar in the middle 80s and was married to Klaus , a folk musician. She says Europe is tha bomb! A friend of mine on Pandora radio says the same thing as her brother lives in Switzerland. In 1990 Linda came home and had a broadway -style musical because she wanted to showcase home talent and said the german musicians could not learn 'by ear' . All musicians 'play by ear' and she says iIcould make a living just blowing a horn. Education comes in handy as most I have mentioned are! She had met expatriates like Arnett Cobb a Texas Tenor and never heard of him because she did not know anything about jazz! She learned more in europe and she went there in a show of Duke's music.Jelly's Last Jam was JellyRollMorton or Fats Waller' show, most peoply myage do nnot know whom these greats are!-Kev Hurst

Hey Sydney it was nice you commented so soon! I know Dusseldorf - famous for the hot mustard- But her mother told me years ago Dassendorf! Also I was not putting the german musicians down, it was she whom implied they could not play by ear. She dos not really know a lot about music and she played clarinet in the school band as I did growing up. The thing is people really think reading music is the thing but James Earl Jones and great actors act like they are not reading and that is what music is supposed to be. Thoughts and ideas emanate from the mind and are committed to paper. You learn language by hearing then you go to school to read and write. Nathan Davis says Jazz is misunderstood because there is no real system of writing it out. True blues is jazz and true jazz is blues. That is why Joe Zawinul and other great european musicians came to USA to play with black musicians. In Europe the best jazz musicians played with visiting or expatriate americans- Fly me to Deutscheland!.Dankeshoen?- Herr Kevin Hurst, (Kevin is irish, Hurst is german) LOL

Thanks!- my cousin has been trying to get me over there and i really should visit her and her family. Kevin Hurst