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Bridget Cox, Mélange Associates International

Life is a lot like jazz. . . it’s best when you improvise.

About Me

Mélange Associates International has many years of experience in music event production, promotion, and now artist booking and management. Company President, Bridget Cox, has served as Executive Producer of Sunset Jazz on the Island of St. Croix, US Virgin Islands. Sunset Jazz is an ongoing, monthly jazz concert series occurring the third Friday of each month. Now in it's eigth year of production, Sunset Jazz has grown to one of the most popular and highly acclaimed events in the Territory of the US Virgin Islands. Cox also held the position of Executive Producer of the St. Croix Blue Bay Jazz Fest. The Nov. 15th-18th, 2007 Fest featured New Orleans Jazz Greats Donald Harrison, Jr., Christian Scott, Stephanie Jordan & the Jordan Family, Henry Butler, Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews and the New Orleans Trumpet Summit featuring Kermit Ruffins, James "12" Andrews, Marlon Jordan, Christian Scott and Troy Andrews. Now home-based in the heartbeat of music, the beautiful City of New Orleans, Bridget Cox continues to promote and produce small, intimate events, major musical and community events, represent and advocate phenomenal artists, while utilizing and drawing on her years of experience in the industry. The dedication to success and professionalism, additionally enriched by being intertwined with a true passion and spirit for the industry, is evident in the final product.
Good, Better, Best. Never, ever rest Until YOUR Good is Better, and YOUR Better BEST!
To contact us:
Bridget Cox-Dawson, Pres./CEO Mélange Associates International Simply Bridget, LLC 1244 Esplanade Ave. New Orleans, LA 70116 (504) 496-3869 [email protected]

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"Hipness: A Profound Colloquialism Expressed by an Abstract Truth." --Alvin Batiste

I'd like to meet:

Musicians and music and event lovers!

Music:

Jazz, jazz & then, of course, Jazz! Reggae, Calypso, Quelbe, Cariso, Salsa, Zydeco, R&B, Funk, Blues, Classical, Country, Gospel...If it's good---it's GOOD!

Clark Terry does "Mumbles" on LEGENDS OF JAZZ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJuFDvH8wGs



Miles Davis - My Funny Valentine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m1JeNWB27g



Donald Harrison, Jr. featuring Denise Hudson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGGoNbM2ncA



Missing Alvin Batiste 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esNlKmNGorA

http://www.myspace.com/alvinbatiste

Movies:

Irma Thomas: Backwater Blues (ck out the sidemen on this one!)

Television:

New Orleans Social Club:
Fortunate Son

Books:

BIG CHIEF DONALD HARRISON

Heroes:

ALVIN BATISTE!
We are sometimes blessed, beyond all imagination, when our paths are led to intersect with One Phenomenal Spirit that will forever change our lives...our way of thinking...our perspective on all things. For me, that incredible Soul is Alvin Batiste: Legendary Jazz Master, Renaissance Man, TEACHER. One of the most extraordinary humans I've ever known! Having been blessed with the opportunity to Know him, Love him, and call him friend/family has changed Me for all time. My gratitude to him, and his beautiful wife and soulmate, Poet Edith Chatters-Batiste, will remain firmly in place....always. I miss you, Bat!
"Jazz is-- the justification of being the ascension of the soul, the zeal of spirit and the zest of life." --Edith C. Batiste
Dr. John: "Dream Warrior"...He LOVES New Orleans & now He's Mad!
Bringing the Music Back to New Orleans!
Jesse Boyd Trio- "August" from Jesse Boyd on Vimeo . Jesse Boyd Trio
New Orleans
If your American dream is painted on a canvasNeatly folded in the corner of Andy Warhol’s mindNew Orleans is a hurricane beating down your coast
If you close your eyesAnd feel the easy ride Of the St. Charles Street CarWhere a solo tubaBlows the scent of magnoliaDown narrow streetsand everyone plays possum with the heatand no one’s too big or too smallto paint their tongue with a snowball
where former slaves pay homage to the first Americansby masking in suits of rhine stones and bright colored feathers that transform security guards into Indian Chiefsdoing rain dances on Congo Squarewhere the drums drumand the wine drinkand the big chief singsomebody give me a quartercause pretty big chief want some water
if you can envision the souls of yesterdayliving in the musicthat rises from the cracks in the sidewalksNew Orleans is your dreamWith a heart as soft As the spanish mossDripping from centuries old oak trees
She’s a pretty face with dirty feetThe good witch of lake Ponchartrain The spice god of shrimp and crawfishKeeping the spirits fed
Communities of windowless monumentsMasquerading as cemeteries Tower above groundNo earth or worms to cover the fleshNo silver bullets to turn out the spiritsThat still dance with her
Spin your umbrella And wave your bandanna It’s Mardi Gras timeAnd everybody’s happy
Armed with a blue print of civilizationThe new world stormed inWith enough asphalt and cementTo pave a boulevard back to Paris
the spirit of the swamp still hasn’t submittedLeaving mildewed kisses of disapproval On every thing foreign to the wet lands
Catholicism could not turn out the spirit of Marie Laveau The wrecking ball could not turn out the spirit of StoryvilleAnd death could not turn out the spirit of Louis Armstrong When yesterday hangs on to foreverTradition is a temple.--Chuck Perkins
Midnite: St. Croix USVI

My Blog

Positive Affirmations - A Gift For You

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Posted by Bridget Cox, Mélange Associates International on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:10:00 PST