Wednesday, March 11, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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JAZZ: Sisters man
plans concert series
in coming months
Sisters
salutes...
Continued from page 3
Dan Fouts of Sisters has
been named among those
who will be inducted into
the Pac-12 Hall of Honor
in Las Vegas. They will be
honored March 13 before
the semifinals of the Pac-
12 Tournament at T-Mobile
Arena in Vegas.
Fouts is a former NFL
MVP and six-time Pro
Bowler and currently
works as a CBS color com-
mentator for NFL games.
He led the NFL in pass-
ing yards each year from
1979 through 1982 and
was inducted into the Pro
Football Hall of Fame in
1993. He threw for nearly
5,000 yards in 1980 and
1981, leading the league.
He has served the Sisters
community for many years,
particularly in raising funds
for the Sisters Schools
Foundation.
had to take a back seat to
building a career in education
and raising a family, it never
left him. From Nevada City,
where he was a radio volun-
teer and jazz DJ; to Ashland,
Oregon, where he built
Varsity Theater <Backstage,=
a cabaret; to Eugene, where
he taught English at Lane
Community College and cre-
ated and operated The Jazz
Station, a nonprofit, live jazz
venue, Sposato has been a
tireless apostle of the music
he loves.
Now, he9s brought that
passion to Sisters.
<The jam is kind of a foot
in the door, because I9m an
educator at heart,= he said.
Tyler Cranor has built
a strong band program in
Sisters schools, and some
15-20 of those young musi-
cians are turning out for
jam night. Sposato brings in
accomplished local jazz musi-
cians to play and work with
the young players.
<A big part of it is mixing
these kids with real jazz musi-
cians, with adults,= he said.
He described the February
jam:
<What a night of music!
This month we were joined by
two guest artists: jazz drum-
mer Dave Wentworth and jazz
PHOTO PROVIDED
Young Sisters musicians are growing in jazz in a monthly jam session at The Belfry.
pianist Ryan Camastral. Both
were incredibly generous to
our young players and really
wowed the audience when
they stepped in to support
the music. Both were shining
examples of where a life in
jazz can take you.=
The next jam is set for
March 17 at 7 p.m. and will
feature drummer Justin
Veloso and pianist Andy
Arma. Veloso was once a stu-
dent in Sisters, and went on
to study in New York. He is
highly regarded as a creative
jazz drummer.
Sposato has his eye on a
young drummer who may
well follow in Veloso9s foot-
steps. The jazz promoter
admitted to being a little
taken aback at the idea of a
fourth-grade drummer tak-
ing the stage 4 but Frankie
Deggendorfer soon proved
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himself to be the real deal.
<Frankie blew us away
on the skins 4 never mind
that he9s still in elementary
school,= Sposato noted. <A
mind-boggling prodigy. He9ll
be an old pro by seventh
grade.=
Sposato says that what
makes a great jazz musician is
one with a high level of innate
talent, who works at it 4 and
above all listens. The heart
of jazz lies in improvisation,
which places a premium on
really listening to what other
players are doing and having
the chops to create within that
framework.
The depth, sophistication
and perennial freshness of the
music is a constant reward for
Sposato, one that he is deter-
mined to share with a Sisters
audience.
<I want to hear jazz,= he
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said. <so usually that means I
do it. I produce shows that I
want to hear. I have irons in
the fire to do a series 4 a jazz
series in Sisters.=
Sposato will provide more
information on that series as it
comes closer to fruition. And
he will continue to expose
young artists to what a life
in jazz can be 4 a life-long
passion that starts right 9round
midnight.