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The Jazz Cruise is the first and only full ship charter dedicated to "straight-ahead" jazz. The Jazz Cruise 2011 sails from Ft. Lauderdale aboard Holland America’s m/s Noordam.
The Jazz Cruise is celebrating its 10th anniversary as a full-ship charter in 2011.
Although TJC '11 is over 80 percent sold at this time, cabins in most categories remain, so book now by calling Jazz Cruises or emailing us.
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TJC ’11
January 30 - February 6, 2011
Ft. Lauderdale
Nassau
San Juan
St. Maarten
Half Moon Cay
Holland America's m/s Noordam
TJC ’12
January 29 - February 5, 2012
Ft. Lauderdale
Aruba
Curacao
Half Moon Cay
Holland America's m/s Westerdam
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The Jazz Cruise 2011 is over 80% sold
As of June 30, more than 80 percent of The Jazz Cruise 2011 is already booked, which is ahead of virtually every sailing of The Jazz Cruise. People are really excited about the 10th anniversary of this full- ship charter tribute to the one-and-only true American music form - straight-ahead jazz. Although the ship is filling up fast, there is still a selection available of almost every cabin category offered.
In order to meet the demand for single cabins, we have opened up the “J” Category for additional cabin sales. For those who have not booked because you have not been able to secure a committed cabin mate, this is your chance. These cabins are large enough that if you do find a roommate, you can share the cabin or upgrade to a veranda cabin, if available. There is a lot of flexibility in this process, and we will do our best to accommodate you.
Also, it is not too late to purchase a cabin through one of our payment plans. With almost seven months prior to sailing, there is ample time to s—t—r—e—t—c—h those payments over time. Just call us at 888-8JAZZ.US (U.S. and Canada) or 800-8JAZZ.USA (international) and ask for the details.
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Anita E. Berry to be recognized by the Los Angeles Jazz Society
Mark your calendars for October 2011. The Los Angeles Jazz Society will be awarding Anita E. Berry its Founder’s Award in recognition of her many years of work devoted to producing The Jazz Cruise. A special pre-awards event is being planned for cruisers who wish to join us in Los Angeles for the celebration. Further information about these events will be published as the dates near.
Berry was part of a travel agent consortium that did a jazz cruise for many years on the SS Norway (NCL). When NCL dropped the program in 2000, she tried to rally the consortium to charter its own ship, but there were no takers. Undeterred, Berry, at age 70, became the first person in the world to charter an entire ship for a jazz cruise. Most of you know the rest of the story, as The Jazz Cruise will celebrate its 10th anniversary sailing January 30-February 6, 2011.
Fellow cruisers, Joe Rothman and John McClure were the winners of the 2009 Founder’s Award and Cathy and Howard Stone were given the 2009 Angel Award, so The Jazz Cruiseis certainly well-represented at the Los Angeles Jazz Society.
Jazz Cruises, LLC invites you to acknowledge Berry by emailing her at anita@jazzcruisesllc.com.
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TJC ’11 programming to include new events, more dancing and an expanded interview concept
This is the 10th anniversary of The Jazz Cruise, the longest running straight-ahead jazz cruise in the world and the first and only full-ship charter for straight-ahead jazz. When you have a program like that, you do not mess around with it too much, but our guests have requested a few things, and we are making sure that we live up to our promise to make the cruise better each and every year.
To that goal we are adding some new events, which include some very special performance pairings and other music offerings that you cannot see or hear anywhere but on the cruise. Dancing, dancing, dancing. Our guests just cannot get enough dancing, so we are going to add dancing to as many of our nightly performances as possible. Finally, learning about the real stars and icons of jazz is a big hit with our guests. So, when you have George Wein, James Moody, Johnny Mandel, Bucky Pizzarelli and Freddy Cole on the same cruise, you need to carve out some time for them to speak and for the guests to listen. History right from the horses’ mouths.
The Jazz Cruise 2011, the 10th anniversary sailing, will also feature a retrospective of the past 10 years, which should be wonderful. A true walk down memory lane.
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New land-based tours and venues for Jazz Cruises, LLC’s programs
Over the years, The Smooth Jazz Cruise has dabbled in promoting concerts, mainly in the St. Louis area, but the programs of Jazz Cruises, LLC have primarily been on the seas. That will change significantly next year. Both The Jazz Cruise and The Smooth Jazz Cruise are branching out and will introduce a variety of exciting land-based programs in 2011.
The Jazz Cruise presents The Vista All-Stars. The Jazz Cruise will sponsor its very own touring group starting in May 2011. Ernie Adams (drums), Shelly Berg (piano), Dee Daniels (vocalist), Wycliffe Gordon (trombone), Tom Kennedy (bass), Ken Peplowski (saxophone) and Houston Person (saxophone) will be traveling the country as The Vista All-Stars. Agent Joel Chriss is in the process of booking the tour itinerary, and as soon as the dates and venues are confirmed, we will let you know where you can catch this fabulous collective. It took each member of the group less than 24 hours after initial contact to say “yes” to the tour invitation. The musicians are excited about the opportunity, and we are thrilled about taking this prestigious band on the road to give people all over the country a sampling of just how amazing the music is on our cruises.
The Smooth Jazz Cruise presents The Seabreeze Jazz Festival. The Smooth Jazz Cruise has become the title sponsor of The Seabreeze Jazz Festival for 2011. This is the first time that The Smooth Jazz Cruise has sponsored a land-based festival, and we are thrilled that our first venture is with such a storied and wonderful event. The 2011 festival will be held at the Pier Park Outdoor Amphitheater in Panama City Beach, Florida, from April 14-17. A lot of the staff of Jazz Cruises, LLC, including both Alonzo Bodden and Dane Butcher, will have roles at the festival. We will keep you apprised of the talent lineup, ticket information and other information as it becomes available. It should be a marvelous time for all. You can learn more about the festival by visiting www.seabreezejazzfestival.com.
The Smooth Jazz Cruise presents its own touring group. Though we are not in a position to discuss the precise terms and conditions now, The Smooth Jazz Cruise is seriously looking into being the sponsor of a at least one, and perhaps two, national touring groups of some of the stars of The Smooth Jazz Cruise, both past, present and future. Some of the combinations being suggested and discussed are just amazing. That is all that we can say, now, but stay tuned for more information at a later date.
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The Jazz Cruise introduces new jazz archivist Todd Barkan
One of the features of The Jazz Cruise is the presentation of first-class jazz videos, which are broadcast in your cabin via television and screened daily in the Queen’s Lounge. The films are presented by an expert who shares their collection and narrates and introduces the films during the daily morning presentations. The Jazz Cruise is honored to introduce Todd Barkan as the jazz archivist for 2011.
For over 40 years, Barkan has distinguished himself as one of the top jazz concert and record producers in the world. From 1972-1983, he gained international recognition as the owner and artistic director of San Francisco’s legendary Keystone Korner, which was the site of countless historic recordings and called the best jazz club in the world by jazz icons such as Dexter Gordon and Stan Getz. Mary Lou Williams referred to Keystone Korner as "The Birdland of the Seventies." After the Keystone era, Barkan programmed jazz festivals, concert series and clubs throughout the U.S., Japan and Europe.
Since 1975, Barkan has produced more than 800 world-class, award-winning recordings for American, Japanese and European record companies. For his role as producer, Barkan has received two dozen GRAMMY® nominations in the U.S. and won several GRAMMY® awards, the last of which was for his work on Bebo de Cuba by Bebo Valdes.
Barkan produced a Chico O'Farrill Latin jazz soundtrack for the 1999 remake of The Thomas Crown Affair starring Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo. He served as president and creative director for 32 Records in 2000 before joining Jazz at Lincoln Center as artistic administrator in January 2001. Barkan was the program director of jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola since the venue opened in October 2004.
In the course of a lifetime dedicated to jazz, Barkan has amassed an amazing collection of rare jazz-related films, documentaries and shows, the very best of which will be shown during The Jazz Cruise 2011, our 10th anniversary sailing. Welcome aboard, Todd!
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Jazz Cruises, LLC announces the debut of “What’s Happening With …”
Getting information about your favorite The Jazz Cruise and The Smooth Jazz Cruise artists and keeping abreast of the latest jazz news is not easy. Although there are a variety of good magazines, periodicals and websites from which to choose, Jazz Cruises, LLC wants to make life easier for you just like we strive to do aboard the ship. Beginning in August 2010, you will be able to click on www.jazzcruisin.com to access interesting articles, features, bios, interviews and an up-to-date compendium of record releases, tour and appearance schedules of our family of artists under the heading “What’s Happening With…” Each month we will contact the artists and musicians to solicit their input with respect to their activities that month so that you can determine where your favorite performer is playing and what new music they are offering. (A separate announcement will be sent when the site is up and running.)
Eric Nemeyer, a true jazz expert and the publisher of Jazz Insider Magazine, will serve as JazzCruisin.com’s editor-in-chief. Along with writings by Nemeyer, there will be contributions from other respected writers in both the straight-ahead and smooth jazz fields, including Jazz Cruises’ publicist Rick Scott. Jazz Cruises, LLC’s cruise director Dane Butcher will conduct on-camera interviews with many of the headliners on the cruises, both past, present and future.
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Jazz Cruises Salutes The Catalina Jazz Festival
There are some real legends and pioneers in the business of jazz festivals and programs. Art Good and JazzTrax is certainly one of the very best. This fall will be the 24th Annual Catalina Jazz Festival and Jazz Cruises wants all of our fans who can make it to attend this amazing event. The setting is idyllic, the music sublime and all of your fellow jazz fans will be in attendance. For more information, check it out at www.jazztrax.com.
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The Smooth Jazz Cruise 2011 is nearly sold out, but with a few cancellations occurring, there is currently some availability for both weeks...not many, but there are cabins!
If you wish to join us for SJC'11, but the current cabin selections do not meet your needs, then put your name on the Wait List. At present, the Wait List is short, and history tells us that at least 100 cabins change hands between now and the time of sailing.
SJC '12 has been on sale for 60 days and is already nearly 50 percent sold!
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SJC ‘11 (Week 1)
January 16 - 23, 2011
SJC ‘11 (Week 2)
January 22 - 29, 2011
Ft. Lauderdale
Nassau
St. Thomas
Tortola
Half Moon Cay
Holland America's m/s Noordam
SJC ‘12 (Week 1)
January 15 - 22, 2012
SJC ‘12 (Week 2)
January 22 - 29, 2012
Ft. Lauderdale
Nassau
St. Thomas
St. Barth's
Half Moon Cay
Holland America's m/s Westerdam
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The Wait List is waiting for your name if you want to sail on The Smooth Jazz Cruise 2011
Thanks to you, both sailings of The Smooth Jazz Cruise 2011 are sold-out. However, there are always cancellations in the months prior to departure, so don’t give up hope of joining us. Place your name on the Wait List now. When the office receives a cancellation, the first thing that we do is to go to the Wait List to find a match for the type of cabin available. People who call the office periodically without placing their name on the Wait List are letting others get ahead of them in the process. As of June 29, about 10 cabins are available for each week of SJC ’11.
There is absolutely no cost or obligation related to the Wait List. If we call you and you decline the available cabin, you will remain on the Wait List for the next available cabin. The timeframe for action is short, because we want to give anyone purchasing a cabin as much time to make their plans as possible.
Between now and our dates of departure, at least 50 cabins will become available; thus, if your heart is set upon sailing with us in January 2011, now is the time to put your name on the Wait List. Contact the office today at 888-8JAZZ.US (U.S. and Canada) or 800-8JAZZ.USA (international).
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July 31 deadline approaching for The Smooth Jazz Cruise 2011 guests to reserve their current cabin for The Smooth Jazz Cruise 2012
As announced on several occasions, The Smooth Jazz Cruise 2011 guests have until July 31, 2010, to rebook their current cabins for The Smooth Jazz Cruise 2012. After that date, the many guests who have not yet been assigned cabins will be given the opportunity to choose among the remaining inventory. Do not risk losing your cabin by not rebooking.
Again, there is no charge for rebooking, and the deposit is not due until January 2011. First-time guests of The Smooth Jazz Cruise have the right to cancel their reservation after the 2011 cruise. We are trying to make this process as fair and as easy as possible for you.
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Attention New York City: Watch Alonzo Bodden tape a television show
SJC cruisers, we’re sure that you are in need of an Alonzo Bodden fix. For those of you who will be in the New York City area on July 10, you’ve got an opportunity to catch the funnyman tape a television show. Bodden will tape a special at The Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts located at 566 La Guardia Place (at Washington Square South). The one-hour show will start at 9:30 p.m. EDT. Tickets cost only $10 and may be purchased online. All guests must be 18 years of age.
No, you will not see DW3 there with Alonzo … The Skirball Center does not have a pool! If you have questions about this event, please contact the Jazz Cruises, LLC offices.
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