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IAJE Michigan State Executive Board Meeting
Detroit International Jazz Festival
Hotel Pontchartrain, Detroit, MI
September 2, 2007 - 1:30 p.m.
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MINUTES
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Members Present: Danny Jordan, Bill Sears, Bob Nixon, Scott Cowan, Brian Coyle, <>Ernie
Rodgers, Denis
Naranjo
Special Guest: Bill McFarlin, IAJE
National Executive Director
(Manhattan, KS)
D. Jordan welcomed all attendees, outlined chapter goals and focus of meeting.
- AGENDA ITEMS -
D. Naranjo welcomed upper-lower Michigan representative B. Sears from Interlochen Arts Academy to the executive board. It is hoped the unit can tap into more educational exposure for schools in the Upper Peninsula.
D. Jordan thanked B. Coyle for all his significant contributions made to IAJE Michigan as past president.
D. Jordan noted the unit staffed six IAJE adjudicators for DIJF 2007 weekend. The new Adjudication Forms (revised by IAJE Michigan) were used for the first time by all DIJF adjudicators.
D. Jordan reported that the IAJE Michigan DIJF Outstanding Soloist Award monies came from the following disbursement:
$1,000 IAJE Michigan
$ 400 MSBOA (Paul Stanifer)
$ 500 SEMJA (Southeast Michigan Jazz Association)
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$1,900 total scholarships awarded
$ 400 MSBOA (Paul Stanifer)
$ 500 SEMJA (Southeast Michigan Jazz Association)
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$1,900 total scholarships awarded
Follow-up discussion and review regarding the scholarship awarding process is slated for the next unit meeting in January 2008.
D. Jordan noted that Kevin Dobreff, unit chapter treasurer, is absent for medical reasons. A current Chapter Treasury Report will be disclosed and sent by e-mail.
D. Naranjo expounded on planned efforts to post instructional content on our site. Feedback and priority input from the exec board was encouraged. A lingering question posed, “what do you want to make available for users?” Dave Nixon, a state band director, runs a site --banddirectors.com-- providing various “How to” pedagogical topics. Potentials exist for having like content on our site through video web casts, PDF files, jazz arranging and other pedagogical topic areas.
S. Cowan queried on how many hits Dave Nixon’s site generates. A follow-up is suggested.
B. McFarlin urged IAJE Michigan to partner with IAJE.org (e.g., through a super link) to tap into their active/archived educational content posted online.
D. Jordan reports we have a new, vital agenda advancing with MSBOA and Paul Stanifer. A future goal could be having an IAJE MI representative as judge at every MSBOA Jazz Festival. Also mentioned was the possibility at the MSBOA Jazz Festivals sight-reading should be eliminated; “hands on” clinic time with adjudicator should be instated. Further idea, to rotate the judges with three listens to bands while another judge gives a hands-on clinic to the band that most recently performed.
B. McFarlin affirmed during weekend conversation with Paul Stanifer that MSBOA is ''extremely proud of their relationship with IAJE Michigan.''
D. Jordan queried, did anyone notice in the Detroit Free Press the publicity for IAJE Michigan and the IAJE Convention in Toronto, Canada? Expect four months turnaround to obtain an international passport if applied for conventionally.
B. McFarlin reported it is possible to obtain a passport in one day for an estimated cost of $300, going through the right source.
B. Nixon stated perhaps we could get the IAJE Reading Band performing and giving clinics at colleges during the academic calendar season.
D. Jordan thanked everyone present. Meeting adjourned at 2:20 p.m.
Scott Cowan
IAJE Michigan Secretary
