Feelin' Good by Joan Cartwright and Jazz Hotline

Joan Cartwright is an explosive jazz and blues singer, composer and lecturer. She's performed in the U.S. for 25 years and in Europe since 1990. She toured 8 European countries, Africa and Mexico. Joan sings her own songs and those of Ellington, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Cole Porter, Gershwin, Jobim and the standard composers. She is an extraordinary performer who can enchant any audience anywhere! She is the recipient of a SEAS Grant for her presentation of WOMEN IN JAZZ at schools in Broward County, Florida. Her research paper, The Sign of The Blues, was published in the 1993 IAJE Research Papers Journal. She offers lectures around the country on:

Women in Jazz

Jazzmen

The Sign of The Blues

Jazz: The Unmasked Rhetoric

The Cultural Politics of Commercial Jazz

The Business of Music: So, You Want To Be A Singer?

Her interviews for Entertainment News & Views, include Dr. Billy Taylor, Wynton Marsalis, Bobby McFerrin, Lonnie Liston Smith and Sun Ra. She interviewed Quincy Jones and Abby Lincoln for her Master's thesis, The Cultural Politics of Commercial Jazz.

Joan's original music is published by Fuzz Goodbuddy Publications (BMI). Visit www.fyicomminc.com/records.htm

Joan produced the First Annual Gaiafest, "A celebration of Mother Earth with Women in Jazz", in March 1998, featuring legendary vocalists Dakota Staton and Ruth "Silky" Waters, and the Gaia All-Stars with Kim Clark (b), Bertha Hope (p), Bernice Brooks (d) and Pamela Williams (sax). In September 1998 and 1999, it was produced in the Bronx, New York. Gaiafest also will be held in New York, in 2000.

Ultimately, Gaiafest will travel around the world. Visit http://www.fyicomminc.com/gaia.htm

Joan is the owner of MOTHERLAND BRIDGE GALLERY for private collectors, only, in Atlanta, GA. Visit www.motherlandbridgegallery.com/mb/welcome.htm for updates.

Her newest project involves partnering with her daughter, Mimi Johnson of THE CAUSTIC DAMES to bring the world JAZZ MEETS HIP HOP. Visit http://www.causticdames.com/estrogen323.htm

You can purchase ESTROGEN 323 at www.cdbaby.com/cd/causticdames3

You can purchase Joan's second CD, IN PURSUIT OF A MELODY at www.cdbaby.com/cd/jcartwright2

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