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| Written by KXO News Team | |
| Tuesday, 26 May 2009 | |
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Despite the loss of Jimmy Cannon , founder of Valley Jazz , the local Jazz ensemble will perform as scheduled Sunday afternoon.
Valley Jazz and the Imperial Valley Music Educators Association will be presenting the 15th Annual Afternoon of Jazz 4 p.m. Sunday (May 31) in the Southwest Center for the Performing Arts in El Centro to honor the late Jimmie Cannon as well as award the 17th Annual Danny Valladolid Memorial Scholarships. Valley Jazz will be directed by Jimmie's son, Derek Cannon, an accomplished Jazz musician and professor of music at Grossmont College.The event takes on even more significance this year due to the sudden death of Cannon, the former director of the Central Union High School Band who founded Valley Jazz 20 years ago. The concert will take place just hours after the community bids a final farewell to Cannon during services at the theater at 11 a.m. A viewing will take place at 10 a.m., just prior to the service.Cannon had been coordinating the concert and scholarship presentation along with Renee Baker, a member of Valley Jazz and current director of the Central Union High School Spartan Band. "This year's concert will be a tribute not only to a great musician and teacher and will also recognize some very deserving young people who will be awarded the Valladolid scholarships. With all of the talent that will be present, we also may have an impromptu jam session at the conclusion of the concert in Jimmie's honor," said Clark Baker, a member of Valley Jazz and close friend of Cannon's. In addition to Valley Jazz, performing groups will include Pacific Fire from Imperial Valley College, the Central Union High School Stage Band, CUHS Jazz Ensemble Southwest High School Jazz Ensemble and the Imperial Jazz Ensemble. A highlight of the concert will be awarding of $200 music scholarships to a student from each city in the Valley. Valley Jazz is a nonprofit organization that seeks to provide educational and performing opportunities for young musicians. The scholarships in alternate years are awarded either to junior high school musicians or high school musicians. This year they will go to high school students.One other very special presentation will honor Cannon. In November 2008 his studio was burglarized and one of the items stolen was a prized flugelhorn that was presented to him by his students upon his retirement from Central in 1996. An impromptu community fundraising drive began immediately after the burglary and resulted in sufficient funds for purchase of a new flugelhorn, this one from the community at large. While Cannon was able to use the new horn in performances several weeks before his death, the presentation had been planned at the concert as a formal recognition. It will go forward and the horn, with special engraving as the "Jimmie Cannon Community Flugelhorn" will be presented to his family. |
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