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PRESIDENT’S CORNER STEPHEN MATLOCK Always Supporting Jazz The Kansas City Jazz Ambassadors (KCJA) extend a giant thank you to Dr. Doug and Karen Burton for hosting a wonderful evening in early August to benefit the Ambassadors’s Tommy Ruskin Memorial Scholarship Fund. The event added nearly $5000 to benefit students attending jazz studies programs in the Kansas City area. This is what the Jazz Ambassadors do. We work for Kansas City’s jazz community. The Tommy Ruskin fund is named for the beloved KC jazz drummer who mentored and inspired musicians for decades and who backed most jazz artists who passed through town. Through this fund, aspiring musicians are assisted in pursuing an education and a career in Tommy’s name. We were delighted to see Tommy’s wife, Julie Turner, and his son, Brian Ruskin, at the event. The Jazz Ambassadors also maintain The Musicians Assistance Fund, or MAF. This serves as a confidential resource for musicians and others closely tied to Kansas City jazz in times of unique needs. It provides help in meeting medical bills, housing and living expenses, or funerals. We’ll also show up at other events to promote jazz. For instance, we could be found at the Nelson-Atkins Museum Happy Hour the same evening as the Scholarship Fund fundraiser. We assisted KC Jazz ALIVE with the annual Charlie Parker graveside celebration on the August weekend prior to Bird’s 96th birthday. We manned a table just past the entrance of September’s Prairie Village Jazz Festival. And, oh yeah, for over thirty years we’ve published this bi-monthly Kansas City jazz magazine that you’re reading right now. Our mission is simple: KCJA is here to help preserve the rich cultural heritage of jazz in Kansas City and to support and promote the musicians, students, businesses and fans of the Kansas City jazz community. Kansas City Drinking Liberally “Promoting Democracy One Pint at a Time” A lively, welcoming, progressive-minded discussion group meeting regularly in KC since 2005 Get on our mailing list at www.livingliberally.org and find us on meetup.com 2 OCTOBERNOVEMBER•JAZZAMBASSADORMAGAZINE
This is not an exclusive club. We welcome everybody’s participation and help. After all, more members make it possible to plan more events that, in the end, benefit more students and musicians in need. See the membership page at www.kcjazzambassadors.com to join us. We also want to take a moment to remember a pair of friends. Kansas City recently said goodbye to two giants in our local jazz world: the wonderful Dan Doran and one of Kansas City’s truest jazz fans, Dr. Leslie Becker. Both were institutions around Kansas City’s jazz scene. Both will be dearly missed. Jazz at LincoLn center orchestra with wynton MarsaLis BIG BAND HOLIDAYS 7:30 P.M. thursday, December 1 Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland Kansas City, Missouri Select seats at hJseries.orG or call 816-415-5025 JAZZAMBASSADORMAGAZINE•OCTOBERNOVEMBER 3
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