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Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. (Proverbs 3:5 KJV)

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BLUTET DATES 2013

Greetings,

I just wanted to send seasons greetings to you and yours. The BLUTET will be performing in and around Central Florida in the coming months. We look forward to your support and patronage at one of the below listed dates. The debut BLUTET album, which is currently being recorded at John Blanche Recording Studios, should be released sometime in April 2013. Stay tuned for more information about our band, original music, and where you can find us performing. Check us out on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. God bless

BLUTET Dates 2013
Upcoming Dates

"Bohemia After Dark"
Jazz Tastings
January 2, 2013
Wednesday
7-11pm

"Sunshine Jazz Festival"
Ocoee High School
February 2, 2013
Saturday
5-9pm

"Harlem Renaissance Tribute Concert"
@ The Abbey
February 10, 2013
5pm-830pm

"Bohemia After Dark"
Jazz Tastings
February 13, 2013
Wednesday
7-11pm

"Young Gunnz Jazz Showcase"
Back Booth
Thursday
February 21, 2013
8pm-11pm

"Bohemia After Dark"
Jazz Tastings
February 28, 2013
Thursday
7-11pm

"Bohemia After Dark"
Jazz Tastings
March 13, 2013
Wednesday
7-11pm

"Bohemia After Dark"
Jazz Tastings
April 10, 2013
Wednesday
7-11pm


Jarritt Sheel
B.S. Music '05
M.M. Jazz Studies '08
815-793-6179
#BLUTET

Mental Health Care vs. Gun Control....

RIP Dave Brubeck

BLUTET Album ...on the horizon.

I just wanted to take a moment and let everyone know that the BLUTET, my group is finishing up their debut album. I'm working on the album and art work NOW, soo....be on the look out. We will probably release the album digitally first and then a physical copy for touring. We are really excited and hope that you enjoy our work.

POLITICAL HUMOR... LOL

Be Encouraged

ARTIST, never let your message/story be limited or tainted the wants of your audience. Your job is to share your views and story, and to make it relatable to the audience. Dig deep, and think hard about the message in your heart. Remember that you can be serious, comedic, angry, hateful, lustful, loving, fearful, loathing, humble, compassionate, thoughtful, contemplative, etc. The full range of emotions, a variety of story lines, etc. Never ever feel limited or that you have to bow down to a certain group or idea. The only one you owe something too...is God, for sharing the spark of creativity, and the message of #LOVE, that regardless of your view on it, everyone needs or wants. Be encouraged, and never settle!

BLUTET record this week...

Today's BLUTET rehearsal w/ John Toney, Derrick Harvin, Bryan Mays, Derrick Harris, Gabe Carson, Abel Avalos & Derek Engstrom was #AWESOME

You're Not Crazy, You're Creative

You're not crazy, you're just creative...I wished more people knew that. Channeling this force, God given, can be challenging at times. If we only knew that the thing was that bothering us most...was the indescribable thing that made us perfectly unique. #CREATIVITY

DPAC : Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts

2012 HIP HOP WORKSHOP @ UCF - Morgridge International Reading Center (MIRC)

Jarritt Sheel... The Artist

The BLUTET

The BLUTET, please support local artist, because they support us through their art.

The BLUTET

"Bohemia After Dark" feat BLUTET

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Come check us out in "Bohemia After Dark" at Jazz Tastings September 21 & 22, 2012 @ 8pm #BLUTET #JAZZTASTINGS

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"BOHEMIA AFTER DARK" feat BLUTET

Come check us out in "Bohemia After Dark" at Jazz Tastings September 21 & 22, 2012 @ 8pm #BLUTET #JAZZTASTINGS

I AM A MAN...

"In The Spirit of the Music"

"In The Spirit of the Music"  

by 

Sheel/Delisfort

I believe that today's music is and has become highly over academic, through the process of systematically making music education something that can be quantified(Business) even though it is a qualitative process. Music education is a beautiful thing, and I'm glad to be part of the process of educating musicians and the massive amounts of listeners alike, BUT... as an artist I've noticed an interesting yet disturbing trend in music lately. This trend I speak of, is focusing more attention on the business part of the art form and less on the actual aesthetic of it. Music is an art in which the musician is sharing a story, a narrative with the listener. I've spoken with at least 30 different musicians that have all agreed that there is a "spirit" to the music that has to be dealt with in a sensitive manner in order to truly convey that message/narrative. Many of you might laugh, or be totally confused by that topic of "spirit" when speaking about music. This spirit I speak of is not a specter or a spook, a ghost nor a whiff of spectral gas flowing down the hall way. What we speak of is the intent of the music, and that there is an unquestionable connection between the intent, the message, the spirit, and the over all organic nature of the music. This applies to any and every genre of music as well as the quality, good and bad, of the art form, music.

After a recent phone conversation, with my great friend Willerm Delisfort(NYC -Pianist), about a related topic, we decided to work together to iron out the specifics about this interesting topic and convey them to you the reader with more specificity in this article. I really believe that the main impetus for writing this article was to communicate to all the musicians out there, that music is more than promotion, composing, arranging, producing, booking, ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, B.S., M.M., & DMA music degrees. Music has been around since the beginning of humanity, and definitively... the beginning of society. It has been the poly rhythmic talking drums of the African continent, the solemn organ like dirge of the funeral in Europe, the singing strings of the Asiatic ballad, the fanfare, booming bass drum as well as the crashing cymbals of the Janissary/war bands. These are just a few of the messages conveyed by music of the millienia. However, there is a message... deep yet simple

THE SPIRIT

THE INTENT

INTERPRETING

YOUR VOICE

THE CONNECTION TO THE LISTENER

THE CONNECTION TO THE GREAT

#THINK

Improvisation is the art of the moment, and God is the God of right now...dazzling similarities. Both require stark honesty, the need to bare your soul, and TRUST that defies conventional thinking and wisdom. The payoffs for those things are better than you can ever expect. Thank you God.

Reggae for Ovarian Cancer Awareness

Support Live Music, come out to The Social, this Friday September 7, 2012 at 9pm. The event features, Chet Samuel and friends.

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Von Freeman... You will be missed

"Red Rocks, You Rocked!"

Saxophonist Von Freeman, A Chicagoan From Beginning To End August 13, 2012 Twitter (20) Facebook (159) E-mail by PATRICK JARENWATTANANON

Von Freeman, a tenor saxophonist who was iconic within Chicago's music scene and to jazz conoisseurs worldwide, died Saturday at the Kindred Chicago Lakeshore care center. He was 88 and had been in declining health for more than a year.

Freeman became a godfather of Chicago's jazz community not only through his distinctive style, which refracted the core language of bebop through its antecedents and outgrowths, but through his active leadership. For decades, "Vonski" hosted a weekly gig and jam session at the New Apartment Lounge on Chicago's South Side, attracting musicians and tourists alike. Unlike many contemporaries of similar talent, he never moved away from the town where he was born.

In 2004, he described his "Chicago sound" on the saxophone to NPR's Tony Cox. "Well, it's tough and it's windy, it's broad," Freeman said. "It means getting down to business, so to me it's just a composite of Chicago, all four sides. Of course, we have a lakefront, don't we?"


Earle Lavon Freeman Sr. was born in 1923 and grew up in a musical home. Major figures like Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller visited his house and Freeman's brothers George (guitar) and Bruz (drums) also become musicians. Freeman attended DuSable High School, where Captain Walter Dyett's music program was regularly producing future stars like Nat "King" Cole, Dinah Washington and Eddie Harris. He worked in just about every conceivable situation, from a Navy band to strip clubs to blues groups to the nascent AACM to jamming with stars passing through town. He did it all in the Chicagoland area, even refusing opportunities to join bands led by Miles Davis and Billy Eckstine.

Despite his talent, wide recognition, even within the jazz community, came late in life. Freeman was already 49 when he recorded his first album as a bandleader, 1972's Doin' It Right Now. It took him a few more decades and albums to develop a national profile. In January 2012, he was honored with the NEA's Jazz Masters award in a New York ceremony he was unable to attend. His sons Chico Freeman, a well-known saxophonist himself, and Mark Freeman accepted on his behalf.

Far from being bitter, Freeman said his relative obscurity allowed him to develop a unique artistic profile. In a 2004 All Things Considered story, he told Tony Sarabia of Chicago's WBEZ that his only regret was that his mother, who lived to be 101, never saw him receive fame.

"That makes me almost want to cry 'cause she was — she never really wanted us [her sons] to play music, but after we behaved ourselves to a certain extent, she was proud of us," Freeman said. "And she stuck it out with us, and she never saw any of us really make it, you know. And now I'm — I don't think I've made it, but, I mean, at least I'm being sought after for this 15 minutes."

Here are more NPR Music features on Von Freeman:

Performance: New Year's Eve concert, 2010-2011, for the annual Toast of the Nation broadcast
Feature Story: "Von Freeman And The Case For Jazz's Hometown Heroes" by Geoffrey Himes for A Blog Supreme, 2011
Feature Story: "Chicago Sax Man Von Freeman Keeps Playing" by Tony Sarabia of WBEZ for All Things Considered, 2004
Interview: With Tony Cox for The Tavis Smiley Show, 2004
Review: Vonski Speaks (2010), reviewed by Peter Margasak for All Things Considered
Review: The Great Divide (2004), reviewed by Fresh Air critic Kevin Whitehead