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

 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