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Governor Matt Blunt declares April as Jazz Appreciation Month in Missouri. This coincides with National JAM!

National Jazz Appreciation Month!

Please support the many concerts and jazz related events this month.  Thanks to Randy Hamm at Missouri State University for coordinating the proclamation request.

Dear Missouri IAJE Members,

Many of you have probably been following the breaking IAJE news.  If not, please see the link below.  Although this is certainly not good news, we will continue to function as a state unit.  The Missouri unit is in good shape.  We had an excellent MMEA conference again this year, with several outstanding clinics by James Drier, Bob Long, and the ASJ conductor, Michael Philip Mossman.  We have an updated constitution as well as tax exempt status.  We have a great board made up of people who are willing to work hard for jazz education in Missouri.

The board will meet soon to discuss how to proceed.  We will need to have state dues in order to function.  They will be lower than the past IAJE dues, but all the money will go to MAJE (if that is what we decide to call ourselves, which is another item for the board to discuss).  Hopefully lower dues will encourage EVERY jazz music educator in the state to join us.  We can come through this crisis as a stronger state organization, and there is no reason to think that we will not do so.  But we will need the support of our membership. 

Tim AuBuchon

Director of Jazz Studies, Truman State University

aubuchon@truman.edu

660-785-4412

IAJE Declares Bankruptcy

   Spring 2007 News