Message from Jazz Wines - Sep 15, 2007

Happinstance, Improvisation and Creativity

Expanded Audience

This month we are welcoming more than a million Americans. We will be saying hello to destination seekers from zagat.com, jazz listeners and talents involved in WBGO.org, the readers of major jazz magazines and the talented membership of the International Association for Jazz Education.

We continue to invite in winemakers and winery owners to enhance the information we have about them in our 3500+ member winemaker database

I would like to welcome all and thank you for taking a moment to check us out..

It is an exiting time for us now and with a view to the future.

Added Features

We are just launching the jazzwines.com Experience section as well as the jazz and wine Memorable Moment features. Both are linked to member profiles so jazzwines.com can connect people with their stories and experiences.

Experiences speaks to growing creative talents in both Jazz and Wine. Memorable Moments highight the results of that as seen through our Jazz Reviews and Wine Tasting sections.

Both feature ways for members to talk about their inspirations, creative process and their appreciation of talents, performances and products.

It’s with these individual insights that we hope to enhance your experience, making it interactive and stepping beyond lifestyle or celebrity style media.

Jazz Wines is making it easy to connect with creative people by offering a customized and free jazzwines.com Browsers’ Bar .

The Bar will provide a quick and convenient link not only to our site but the ongoing world of wine and jazz.

Cultural Leaders

Just as we started to talk about creativity, inspiration, improvisation, the world around us seemed to explode with stories of people talking about and doing the same thing.

Should we ask to interview Richard Florida? He is the author who wrote The Rise of the Creative Class in 2003, building on Paul Ray’s demographic studies a few years earlier with The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World.

Back in New York City, one of Florida’s graduate students, Elizabeth Currid, opened an exhibit based on her thesis: The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art, and Music Drive New York City. It’s about the city as a place where happinstance is prevalent and face-to-face meetings occur more easily than in other places.

According to Currid, a lot of business grows from a little bit of creativity, meetings and improvisation. To me, that sounds like jazz. I love it.

Talents with Insight

We continue to meet and be inspired by amazing artists.

Jeff Antoniuk, a Canadian jazz musician living in Washington, teaching in Baltimore and traveling to the Big Apple to perform, has offered up his interesting view on the language of jazz. Also check out our Event Calendar for his upcoming show.

At home, the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), has just wrapped up.

Musician and renowned producer , Daniel Lanois, premiered his film Here is What Is about his own creative experience and how it’s who is in the room that matters.

Our writer Andrea and I went down to the festival and saw the movie. It was even more inspiring and relevant than I had hoped. I am writing a review, but if you get a chance I really recommend seeing it yourself.

At exactly the same time, the Guelph Jazz Festival opened. Also known for innovation, the organizers have created a Jazz Colloquium to launch a multi-year, multi-million dollar research project involving the University of Guelph.

Musicians are being paid to jam as a way to explore improvisation on an international scale. I can’t wait to see what they find!

Let us know if you have ideas or suggestions about our coming explorations.

Please consider our three easy ways to connect, join MyJazzwines.com and share your experiences and memorable moments.

From all of us here, welcome!