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ERIC CLAPTON AND JOHN MAYER AUTOGRAPHED MARTIN GUITAR, GIBSON GUITAR, PEARL DRUMS, WYNTON MARSALIS AUTOGRAPHED BOOKS, WATER COLOR PAINTINGS BY LEROY NEIMAN AND MANY MORE ITEMS AUCTIONED AT EBAY
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ERIC CLAPTON AND JOHN MAYER AUTOGRAPHED MARTIN GUITAR, GIBSON GUITAR, PEARL DRUMS, WYNTON MARSALIS AUTOGRAPHED BOOKS, WATER COLOR PAINTINGS BY LEROY NEIMAN AND MANY MORE ITEMS AUCTIONED AT WWW.EBAY.COM/HIGHERGROUND
Auction To Raise Funds For the Higher Ground Relief Fund
Some Bidding Closes As Early as Afternoon of September 27
New York, NY (September 23, 2005) After last weekend's stellar Higher Ground Hurricane Relief Benefit Concert, Jazz at Lincoln Center continues efforts to raise funds for the Higher Ground Relief Fund. The Higher Ground Relief Fund was established by Jazz at Lincoln Center and is administered through the Baton Rouge Area Foundation to benefit the musicians, music industry related enterprises and other individuals and entities from the areas in Greater New Orleans who were impacted by Hurricane Katrina and to provide other general hurricane relief.
Profits from the Higher Ground Hurricane Relief Benefit Auction, found on www.ebay.com/higherground, will also benefit the Higher Ground Relief Fund. Bidding for some items will close as early as September 27. Many one-of-a kind donations include these top items:
• a 000-28 Martin Eric Clapton model guitar, autographed by Eric Clapton and John Mayer
• a Gibson guitar
• Pearl drums
• Water color artwork by LeRoy Neiman
• artwork by Peter Max
• items from Miramax Films
• Paul Rogers and Candlewick Press are
pleased to donate ten pre-publication, first edition copies of Jazz ABZ: An A To Z Collection of Jazz Portraits by Wynton Marsalis that will be signed by the author and the illustrator. Each book will be accompanied by a special edition print (15" x 15" framed) that features one of the following ten artists portrayed in the book: Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Art Blakey, Jelly Roll Morton, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins, Fats Waller, Dizzy Gillespie.
To date, the autographed Martin guitar is up to 58 bids and is expected to rise throughout the weekend.
"The focus of the Fund will be to help those individuals and families evacuated from the greater New Orleans area as they address immediate concerns related to housing, food, education, health care and basic survival necessities. The Fund will also provide resources to assist individuals over time to rebuild their homes and livelihoods," said Derek E. Gordon, President and CEO of Jazz at Lincoln Center.
The Baton Rouge Area Foundation, a non-profit community foundation, is working with organizations in the Greater New Orleans region to assure that services and resources directly reach those most affected.
Jazz at Lincoln Center is a not-for-profit arts organization dedicated to jazz. With the world-renowned Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra and a comprehensive array of guest artists, Jazz at Lincoln Center advances a unique vision for the continued development of the art of jazz by producing a year-round schedule of performance, education, and broadcast events for audiences of all ages. These productions include concerts, national and international tours, residencies, weekly national radio and television programs, recordings, publications, an annual high school jazz band competition and festival, a band director academy, a jazz appreciation curriculum for children, advanced training through the Juilliard Institute for Jazz Studies, music publishing, children's concerts, lectures, adult education courses and student and educator workshops. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis, Chairman of the Board Lisa Schiff, President & CEO Derek E. Gordon, Executive Director Katherine E. Brown and Jazz at Lincoln Center board and staff, Jazz at Lincoln Center will produce hundreds of events during its 2005-06 season. In October 2004, Jazz at Lincoln Center opened Frederick P. Rose Hall - the first-ever performance, education, and broadcast facility devoted to jazz. For more information, visit www.jalc.org.
About the Baton Rouge Area Foundation
The Fund will be administered and distributed through The Baton Rouge Area Foundation, a non-profit organization that forms partnerships with philanthropists, nonprofit organizations and other community leaders to ensure that its community can exceed any challenge, and that its residents have every opportunity to succeed. It helps Fund Donors create a lasting legacy and fulfill their philanthropic goals.
The Baton Rouge Area Foundation helps nonprofit organizations succeed with their plans to implement programs that will have positive, lasting impacts in our community. It recognizes opportunities for improvement in the area, raise awareness, and promote long-term solutions.
Steady leadership and a flexible strategic plan have helped the Baton Rouge Area Foundation implement and sustain the visions of passionate philanthropists for more than 40 years. For more information about the foundation and its relief funds, go to www.braf.org.
A copy of The Baton Rouge Area Foundation's latest annual report can be obtained from the organization or from the Office of the Attorney General by writing the Charities Bureau, 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271.
A copy of Jazz at Lincoln Center's latest Form 990 can be obtained from the organization or from the Office of the Attorney General by writing the Charities Bureau, 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271.
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*Wynton Marsalis, Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center makes a statement about the devastation in his hometown of New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina:
New Orleans is the most unique of American cities because it is the only city in the world that created its own full culture - architecture, music and festive ceremonies. It's of singular importance to the United States of America because it was the original melting pot with a mixture of Spanish, French, British, West African and American people living in the same city. The collision of these cultures created jazz and jazz is important because it's the only art form that objectifies the fundamental principals of American democracy. That's why it swept the country and the world representing the best of the United States.
New Orleanians are blues people. We are resilient, so we are sure that our city will come back. This tragedy, however, provides an opportunity for the American people to demonstrate to ourselves and to the world that we are one nation determined to overcome our legacies of injustices based on race and class. At this time all New Orleanians need the nation to unite in a deafening crescendo of affirmation to silence that desperate cry that is this disaster.
We need people with their prayers, their pocketbooks, and above all their sense of purpose to show the world just who the modern American is and then we'll put our city back together in even greater fashion. This is gut check time for all of us as Americans.
In a country with the most incredible resources in the world we need the ingenuity of our best engineers to put the cultural heart of our nation back together. To put it together with 2005 technical expertise and with 2005 social consciousness, which means without accommodating the ignorance of racism and the deplorable conditions of poverty, and lack of education that have been allowed to fester in many great American cities since slavery.
We're only as civilized as our level of hospitality. Let's demonstrate to the world that what actually makes America the most powerful nation on earth is not guns, pornography and material wealth but transcendent and abiding soul, something perhaps we have lost a grip on, and this catastrophe gives us a great opportunity to handle up on.
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