The Greater Women s Business Council Announces New Board Chair and 2021 Board Members
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ATLANTA, Feb. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Greater Women s Business Council (GWBC) announced the appointment of Lissa Miller, SVP, Chief Supplier Diversity Officer at Truist Financial Corporation, as new board chair, as well as a new slate of board officers for 2021.
Miller has been a GWBC board member since 2018, most recently serving as 1st Vice Chair, Mentor/Protégé Committee Chair and Task Force Lead. She s been recognized for advancing diverse businesses by Atlanta Magazine, the Georgia Mentor Protégé Connection, National Black and Latino Council, Greater Women s Business Council and the Georgia Minority Supplier Development Council.
ABC Radio National s The Music Show clocks up 30 years on air
By presenter Andrew Ford
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Andrew Ford interviewing a trumpeter on the streets of New Orleans in 2000.
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You ll have to imagine the anticipation.
It s a Saturday morning in May 2008, and as usual The Music Show is live in the studio.
I m quite used to speaking to famous musicians, but this morning it s one of the great jazz musicians of all time.
Sonny Rollins has played with Bud Powell and Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and Max Roach.
His tunes some of them now standards include Oleo and The Bridge, the latter named after New York s Williamsburg Bridge on which Rollins used to practice so as not to disturb his neighbours.
Celebrate Valentine’s weekend properly, and join Nocturne for an ultimate date night featuring a delicious three course menu and a special show featuring the Tom and Louisa Amend Quartet as they honor this romantic holiday with time honored jazz classics.
Reserved table seating for this special night includes a 75 minute set of live music as well as a decadent three course dinner. The culinary team will offer a number of options to choose from on each course and as always Nocturne is happy to accommodate most dietary restrictions.
Tom Amend is an organist, pianist, composer, and arranger from Denver, Colorado. Performing and recording often throughout the Rocky Mountain Region in various settings as both a leader and a sideman he can be heard with with Colorado based Soul/Blues artists: The Burroughs and the Taylor Scott Band. Tom was selected as a semifinalist for the American Jazz Pianist Competition in 2014 and 2015, and was a finalist in concert in 2017. He also received thir
Women in Technology (WIT) Announces first Virtual Career Fair and Title Sponsor
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ATLANTA, Feb. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Women in Technology (WIT) announced the launch of their Virtual Career Fair with Title Sponsor, Honeywell, on Saturday, February 6th. Empowering girls and women to enter STEM careers is near and dear to me. This is an era of technology and the gender disparity is alarming. I am excited for the WIT Virtual Career Fair. Events like this open the aperture for girls to explore various avenues that can expand their awareness of all the opportunities that exist within the vast areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
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Alan Pasqua, the go-to keyboard wiz for jazz and rock legends, on Bob Dylan, Carlos Santana and Peter Erskine [The San Diego Union-Tribune :: BC-MUS-PASQUA:SD]
When Bob Dylan needed a genre-leaping keyboard great to provide supple instrumental accompaniment for his belated 2016 Nobel Prize acceptance speech-cum-lecture, the best person was close at hand.
Alan Pasqua, who in 2009 was named the Chair of the Jazz Studies Department at USC’s Thornton School of Music, had toured and recorded with Dylan in the late 1970s. The two live about 20 miles from each other in Los Angeles.
“I did not know the text for Bob’s speech, but I knew what it was for and was asked to record about 30 minutes of music, piano musings, nothing too specific. Luckily, I was free that day!” Pasqua recalled. More recently, he performed on “Murder Most Foul,” the nearly 17-minute epic from “Rough and Rowdy Ways,” Dylan’s masterful 2020 album.