Jump Rhythm Jazz Project
Saturday, October 2, 2010
7:00 p.m. at the Strom Auditorium, Camden Hills Regional High School
Most tickets $25! Prime $45. $8 for youth ages 18 and under.

Emmy award-winning Jump Rhythm Jazz Project celebrates the timeless core of jazz performance – dancing and singing in high-energy bursts of rhythm to the beat-driven sounds of swinging jazz, blues-and-funk-based rock, and world music.  Artistic director, Billy Siegenfeld’s ground-breaking approach to body alignment called “standing down straight” has been credited by Dancer magazine as “the first genuine jazz technique in forty years.”  JRJP’s innovative system of vocal-rhythmic dance transforms the moving body, accompanied by scat-singing, into a rhythm-accurate, emotion-charged percussion instrument. 

The Samoset Resort is offering a very special Bay Chamber patron rate! Guests can call 1-800-341-1650 and ask for the rate code MUSIC to receive the discount. Rates are based upon availability. 

Jump Rhythm Jazz Project dedicates this evening's performance to Bennett Scheuer, and to all of Bennett's family and friends.

 
Bennett was an artist of life. Through his own special mix of ease, self-mockery,
down-to-earthness, real human warmth, and a seemingly always available, always
giving way with people, he took the raw materials of life and turned them into gold.
Not the gold of treasuries, but the precious thing that's in the middle of all
decent living, all real goodness.

The combination of his utter lack of pretense or self-advertisement, beautifully
compassionate heart, and wry sense of fun made those of us who spent even a minute with him unknowing students of how to live life better. He reminded us by example, not by preaching (something he didn't do), that life, despite its gruesomely consistent manner of injecting pain, was, as Robert Frost said, "the right place for love." Bennett loved here, loved now. What an amazing human being -- really, an exemplary one -- Bennett was and will especially remain for those of us who are going to miss him terribly.

If even a few moments of this evening's show bring pleasure to you, perhaps we can agree they serve as symbols -- insufficient ones, to be sure -- of what Bennett's indispensable life means: at the very least a guide, a guide about how to live life a little bit more lovingly, in that feet-on-the-ground, heart-open, laughing sense of loving that is identifiably pure Bennett.

Billy Siegenfeld