[Trombone-l] BigPhatJam Competition

[Bill Dinwiddie]

Nick Drozdoff is is a good friend and a really fine trumpet player who lives 
in Chicago.
He sent me this e-mail recently and he has only has until May 15th.
The winner will be decided on that day. I think he played a great solo and I 
voted for him.
If you decide to participate, you can decide who you think played the best.
This contest is sponsored by Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, which,
I think, is one of the best jazz ensembles playing today, so by voting you
are also helping out the cause of big band jazz music.

Here's a note from Nick. Granted he is "tooting his own horn" in this 
message but what the heck:

> Hello, folks.
>
> I can use your vote for my solo on the BigPhatJam competition. Just go to
> this page and scroll down the Trumpet/Trombone list. Find my name, listen
> to the 90 second track and then vote by hitting the thumbs up. I'm going
> to need over 2000 votes by week's end if  I'm to make the finals!
>
> http://www.bigphatjam.com
> Scroll through the column titled trumpet/trombone and find Nick Drozdoff
> and, if you think I deserve it, click the thumbs up after you listen.
>
> Please vote and then please tell EVERYONE you know to do the same. I have
> no street team or bunch of friends helping me. I'm a school teacher/jazz
> trumpeter doing 120 gigs/year, with a family, who tutors at night, doing
> all of this competition totally alone in his spare time. Your help would
> be greatly appreciated.
>
> I did this on a dare from my 16.5 year old son. In addition to being a
> music performance competition (something which I find a bit troubling) it
> is also, in part, a popularity contest (something that REALLY bugs me).
> Nevertheless, I'm doing this for a bit of fun and trying to score some
> brownie points with my teenage son and his buddies. Most them don't take
> me seriously as a musician (those who have never heard me play, mind you;
> those who have are totally cool, but I try to keep my pro music life only
> tangentially involved with my job as a school teacher).
>
> I harbor NO illusions of actually winning. I would just love to make the
> finals. That would go over pretty big in the "making the old man look a
> little cooler" department!
> Thanks in advance for your kind support.
>
> Peace.
>
> Nick Drozdoff


Forwarded by Bill Dinwiddie
billdin at comcast.net