New York City jazz musicians deserve a retirement like anyone else. Sign our petition to help them earn pension payments from NYC jazz clubs — at no cost to the clubs or musicians.

J4JA Petitioners Now Over 900!

July 20th, 2009

Hey All:

J4JA! Petitioners have now reached over 900 concerned professional musicians and fans from all over! Here are some recent signers:

Dave Liebman
Helen Merrill
Bernice Watkins
Sean Gough
Gail Hightower
Ayodele Maakheru
Bob Blumenthal
Regina Carter
Laurence Donohue-Greene

We are building steam!

Keep up the good work!

Best,

Jimmy Owens
Bob Cranshaw
J4JA!

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4 Responses to “J4JA Petitioners Now Over 900!”

  1. j4ja says:
    July 21, 2009 at 3:24 pm

    Bob Cranshaw, Jimmy Owens, Bernard Purdie, Benny Powell, Carline Ray, Rufus Reid, Wycliffe Gordon, Junior Mance, David Berger, Patience Higgins, Dave Liebman, Maria Schneider, Arturo O’Farrill…do these people sound like “weepers” to you?

    In fact, they are all prominent, hard working jazz musicians who simply want what’s rightfully theirs–and the NY State tax break (that will pay for their pension) was legislation sponsored by the clubs themselves–over three years ago!

    We simply want the clubs to do what they said they would do in 2006.

    Your comment shows a decided lack of sympathy for these musicians, and a certain ignorance of the subject at hand.

    Todd Bryant Weeks

  2. Chris Rich says:
    July 29, 2009 at 5:17 pm

    The Leicht comment is fake and the petition sounds like a great idea.

    God,getting any gin mill to do right will be a handful.

    The actual Bruno did a profile recently and cites Dave Liebman as one of his core teachers.

  3. j4ja says:
    July 29, 2009 at 5:39 pm

    Thanks, Chris! Please spread the word!!

    Todd Bryant Weeks
    J4JA!

  4. Chris Rich says:
    July 29, 2009 at 11:37 pm

    Oh I have. The perp is some nut who calls himself Rab Hines after an obscure character in a Scottish Novel.

    He runs a pirate music site on blogspot and has ‘issues’. He spammed Jazz.com, Riff Tides and Howard’s site but then bothered me..big mistake.

    I did forensic investigations on him, documented the story at my blog and made all the spam victims very happy.

    I’ll link list you and you are welcome to do a piece about yourselves in Brilliant Corners. Bob Blumenthal has known me for decades.