{"id":288,"date":"2005-12-21T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-21T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=288"},"modified":"2005-12-21T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-21T09:05:00","slug":"comment_the_red_cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2005\/12\/comment_the_red_cross\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment: The Red Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Rifftides<\/em> reader Russ Layne writes from Chester, New York.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wow, Just read the piece on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/archives\/2005\/12\/take_five_with_1.html\"target=\"_blank\">Paul Desmond and the Red Cross<\/a>.  The first live jazz group I ever saw, a bar mitzvah present from my mother at age 13, was The Dave Brubeck Quintet at Fordham University (splitting the bill with Jackie Mason).  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Anyway, as founder and executive director of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sugarloafmusic.org\/\"target=\n_blank\">Sugarloaf Music Series, Inc<\/a>. in &#8216;downstate&#8217; New York, my wife and I have developed a growing affinity to most Louisiana music, including Cajun. So&#8230;when we had the opportunity to help a group of Cajun artists in much need from New Orleans, The Bruce Daigrepont Cajun Band, and booked them into seven schools and venues with ALL proceeds going to the band, I reached out to the Red Cross, requesting that they help underwrite air fare for the band to Newark.  After several connections with the NYC and local Goshen, NY offices, I was informed that they had no mechanism to facilitate our request.  And now I&#8217;m learning that one of my original jazz idols, Paul Desmond and his estate has left nearly $5 million to the Red Cross. That I couldn&#8217;t get a penny to help some victims get work makes it even MORE of a<br \/>\np&#8212;-r!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>I was finally able to get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tipsevents.com\/foundation\/default.asp\"target=\"_blank\">Tipitina&#8217;s Foundation<\/a> to handle that expense. I encourage all to funnel their contributions to that organization. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rifftides reader Russ Layne writes from Chester, New York. Wow, Just read the piece on Paul Desmond and the Red Cross. The first live jazz group I ever saw, a bar mitzvah present from my mother at age 13, was The Dave Brubeck Quintet at Fordham University (splitting the bill with Jackie Mason). Anyway, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}