Tritone 2009 dates!

Mark your calendars, but please don’t sign up electronically yet. We still need to finalize faculty and update our registration form. Please check back around Thanksgiving to register electronically. Thanks!

Jazz at Naz 2009 (Rochester, NY)–July 26-31

Cool at the Lake (Baileys Harbor, WI)–August 9-14

Sleeping rooms in WI are already sold out, but if you’d like to get on the waiting list, please send Bob an e-mail as soon as possible–bob@tritonejazz.com.

Wow, what a week in Wisconsin!

Bjorklunden grabs you, doesn’t it? The lake, the lodge, the idyllic setting, the food? Add a great faculty and terrific campers and you’ve got an unbeatable combination. Don’t you wish you could live there and do it all year?

That’s the kind of magic the place brews up every year around this time. But of all those ingredients, the most important is you. There’s something special about jazzers, especially happy ones. As you played or practiced under a stand of trees, or just contemplated, it was clear that this experience was transformative, and many of you expressed that transformation in your evaluations. It was our pleasure.

Thanks very much for joining us this year and thanks to so many of you for already signing up for 2009. We enjoyed seeing you and making jazz with you and we wish you the best for a healthy and happy year.

Thanks, Jazz at Nazzers!

Wow, what an experience you created!

And we mean it. Tritone camps are all about what you bring to them, and to Naz this year, you brought a ton–talent, curiosity, humor, modesty, and great good will that filled the place with good feeling and great sounds.

It’s always a joy for us to see old friends return, as so many of you do. And the joy is compounded by introduction to new jazzers, who begin the week as strangers and leave as friends.

You are a terrific bunch of people. And thanks to Gena, who volunteered to compile the e-mail list, you’ll be able to stay in touch all year. That list will be distributed in the next couple days.

Try to keep the magic going at home. With your newfound confidence in your own abilities, seek out others who share your passion for this great music and collaborate. That’s what it’s all about.

Thank you for being so great to work with. You made it a wonderful week for us.

Jim, Bob, and (in absentia), Fred