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Off-Line support and wonderful grass roots campaign for Our Kickstarter

May 8, 2013 by admin No Comment

Hi All,

We want to share this wonderful grassroots campaign for The Jōst Project (and especially Uncle Tony!)

Marisa Camille Evola, 14, saw on her uncle’s facebook page that he was raising money for his band. So, Marisa or “Risa” as evey one calls her immediately went into action and set up a bake sale for the front on her parents’ pizza shop in Medford, NJ – La Bella Pizza, 199 Crosswords Plaza 1, Medford Lakes, NJ – www.labellapizzamedford.com.

Lorenzo Evola, 4, helps big sister Risa, 14, prepare for bake sale for Uncle Tony’s band

For two Fridays now – and for the next two Fridays (their busiest night) – Risa has been standing outside selling homemade brownies, chocolate chip cookies, cupcakes and Rice Krispie snacks. Her parents and her grandfather, Tony’s dad, promised to match whatever funds she raises. So far, in two weeks, Risa has raised $207. She even made a tee shirt to wear saying The Jōst Project on the front and My Uncle Tony Rocks on the back!

In addition, one of the Friday nights when she didn’t sell out, Risa drove around their neighborhood in a golf cart with posters all over it selling leftovers!

I’ll tell you, We’d have Risa on my team any day!

These next two weeks, Mary Jo (Risa’s mum) hopes to put a jar out asking patrons to give $1 for each pizza sold.

WOW this is great, we love this sort of grass roots campaign. This is the true beauty of crowd funding, the support that we have had from you all is overwhelming The jazz media on both sides of the Atlantic have picked it up, we even hit the radio in Holland (see update #8)

We now have 11 days to go and need to translate all this support into pledges. Keep spreading the word and let’s all make this happen.

Once again thanks to all our 78 wonderful backers. It’s great to have you behind us.

All the best
Paul, Kevin and Uncle Tony
PS, If you are in the Medford (NJ) area and feel like Pizza. Go to:

La Bella Pizza,
199 Crosswords Plaza 1
Medford Lakes, NJ

If not, like their Facebook page and tell them how great they are.
https://www.facebook.com/NJLaBellaPizza

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The Jost Project Kickstarter campaign

April 21, 2013 by admin No Comment

The Jost Project

Campaign

A jazz CD project that hopes to reach a whole generation of rock fans in a way that will introduce them to our music and pull them into our world.

In April 2013 we are launching a Kickstarter campaign. We have created this Kickstarter campaign to ask you to join us and be part of our new CD project “Can’t find my way home”. The CD has been recorded and mixed, but we need your help to bring this CD out and help fund the marketing and promotion so our project can reach the greatest potential audience possible.

ABOUT THE CD

Standards from the Great American Songbook and the mainstream jazz repertoire have long held sway in jazz performances. But the so-called “baby boomers” and subsequent generations came of age with rock and roll, the Beatles, hard rock, and other genres which are rarely played by jazz groups. While the harmonies are not necessarily in line with more recognizable jazz progressions, such music provides a great vehicle for improvisation and hopefully will appeal to a wider audience than the pure jazz fans.

On the CD you will find our take on such classics as “Sunshine Superman” (Donovan); “Walk This Way” (Aerosmith); “Kashmir” (Led Zepellin); “Bridge Over Troubled Waters” (Simon and Garfunkel); “Maybe I’m Amazed” (Paul McCartney); “Can’t Find My Way Home” (Steve Winwood – Blind Faith); “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” (Iron Butterfly) and “We Can Work It Out” (Lennon & McCartney).

Check out some of the tracks here on our site.

OK, THE CD IS RECORDED, What Now?

Well the CD has been recorded and we have the master. What we need now is to get our music out there and make sure we reach the greatest potential audience possible. To do this we need distribution so the CD will be available everywhere and we need a team of professionals that will work with us to promote it in the media. The great news is we now have all this lined up. The only thing missing is the funds to pay for this.

So, thanks for staying with us this far and please take a few minutes to check out the project on Kickstarter and review the rewards we are offering in exchange for your support. Every little bit counts and no amounts will be taken for granted.

If you have any questions, suggestions, ideas or any other feedback please contact us, we would love to hear from you.

Thanks in anticipation for your support.

Paul, Tony and Kevin
PS If you like this project you can help us by telling your friends!

Click Here to visit our Kickstarter Project

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The Jost Project play Chris’ Jazz Café

April 10, 2013 by admin No Comment

Preview Party of The Jōst Project’s Upcoming CD

CAN’T FIND MY WAY HOME

Chris’ Jazz Café … April 16^th – 7 to 10 p.m.

Philadelphia, PA (April 2, 2013) – On Tuesday, April 16 from 7 to 10 p.m., one month before their CD is released internationally, Philadelphia-based The Jōst Project is having a Preview Party concert at Chris’ Jazz Café, 1421 Sansom Street in Philadelphia. Band members are internationally renowned vibraphonist Tony Miceli, vocalist/harmonicist Paul Jost, acoustic bassist Kevin MacConnell with drummer Charlie Patierno. Their new CD “Can’t Find My Way Home” will be released on May 15^th by Dot Time Records, the jazz and world music label based in NY and Europe. For the Preview Party, there is a $10 cover, $5 for students.

This talented group is bringing attention to jazz by reaching into the “baby boomer” and subsequent generations that came of age with rock and roll, the Beatles, hard rock, and other genres which are rarely played by jazz groups. While the harmonies are not necessarily in line with more recognizable jazz progressions, such music is well within the scope of the modal and melody-based jazz of Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue” and other post-bop developments in jazz.

Songs on the CD are: “Walk This Way” (Aerosmith); “Kashmir” (Led Zepellin); “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” (Iron Butterfly), “What a Day For a Day Dream” (John Sebastian; Loving Spoonful); “Sunshine Superman” (Donovan); “Come Together” and “And I Love Her” (The Beatles); “Bridge Over Troubled Waters” (Simon and Garfunkel); “Maybe I’m Amazed” (Paul McCartney); and “Can’t Find My Way Home” (Blind Faith).

The early buzz on the CD is coming from both sides of the Atlantic appreciating the unique combination of their musical sound. Miceli’s vibraphone stirs echoes of the famed Modern Jazz Quartet with Milt Jackson. MacConnell’s lyrical playing is an essential element and Jost invokes blues, mainstream, and scat stylings in his unique introspective way bringing out the emotions contained in the songs.

The Jōst Project was initially formed by Miceli and MacConnell with the purpose of performing rock music of the 60’s and 70’s in a jazz format. The seeds of this idea were planted in Miceli’s 2005 recording “Hippie Jazz”. When Miceli heard Jost, a multi-talented musician as well as vocalist and arranger, he felt such a strong musical connection that he not only invited him into the group, they were named The Jōst Project. It’s immediately evident that these skilled artists each bring their distinctive experience and approach to this blended collective.

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Why we called our new CD “Can’t Find My Way Home

October 27, 2012 by admin No Comment

On a recent trip to Bucharest Romania, I met the amazing photographer Roza Zah. Usually, I hate photos of myself but after a performance at Radio Hall in Bucharest, this guy came up to me and said he took some. I had no interest but said ‘Oh, great, I want to see them’. When he showed them to me, I was totally impressed. For the first time I saw a photo of myself where I didn’t cringe. I asked him to send me the photos. I told him I wanted to send him money and asked for his address. But, he didn’t have one. Roza told me he was homeless. I was stunned and speechless. How could a photographer this good be homeless! I just stood there in shock. Finally I asked if he carried his camera around with him and was it safe. He said he didn’t own a camera. He just borrowed it. I felt the tears well up in my eyes but held them back.

When we were recording Can’t Find My Way Home, we talked about making this song the title of the CD. I found myself thinking of Roza and how appropriate it would be. I’m not sure who came up with the final idea but I knew then that we had to get a photo from Roza for the cover. Kevin and Paul agreed.

When we went through Roza’s photos and found the caterpillar, we had goose bumps. The photo totally fit for the cover. And for the first time, I was involved in a CD with so much meaning. Most of the jazz CD’s I’ve done were simply about playing tunes. This CD was about our lives, about Roza’s life and about a generation of people in search of their way home. This is our music. It’s our songbook and our standards. It’s the music we want to play.

Roza, we dedicate our CD to you.

Tony

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