Jordan E. Spivack: News Updates

I've just added a brand new FREE Download: "Loose", from my "Symmetry" CD. Just click on the Listen to My Music bar on your left. If you've never heard this track before, I think you're gonna like it!

I have some sad news to report: last Monday, February 22nd, my partner Joseph's Dad, Joseph, Sr. passed away at the age of 87. He had not been in good health, but his sudden death was still quite a shock. We spent the past week with his family in Perry, NY. The funeral was Friday, and we returned home exhausted this past Sunday night. The weather was horrible, which just added to the overall feeling of sadness and loss. We'll miss him dearly. We were so blessed to have spent this last Christmas with him and Carol, who were married for 61 years (see pics in Photo Gallery).

The good news: D.A.M. Magazine has just published a new interview with me in their Issue #13. It is interesting and informative, and I'm sure you'll enjoy it. Go to http://www.dammagazine.com/dammagazine/DAM_Issue_13.pdf to read the entire interview.

I just received word that my instrumental piano track "Commercial Street" has been added to the playlist of online radio station Neon Productions/Live365 Radio! The tune will debut on Saturday, February 20, between 6 PM and 11 PM eastern time. Here's the link, if you want to be a part of the listening audience: http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/mini.cgi?station_name=musictogousa&site=pro&tm=5779

This marks the 10th online radio station currently playing my music - I'm excited!

Wow, another 6 inches of snow yesterday, on top of the 12+ we got last week! Here are 5 beautiful pics (see Photo Gallery) capturing the captivating blanket, as snow coated the landscape in Nanuet. Enjoy!

I'm wishing everyone a very Happy Valentine's Day and a very Happy Chinese New Year! The year of the tiger intersects with the day of hearts: it's a terrific combination!

The online website and radio station KANAL JAZZ has just put their SPOTLIGHT on JORDAN E. SPIVACK - go to http://kanal-jazz.blogspot.com/2010/02/spotlight-on-jordan-espivack.html to see the results! This is my 2nd online interview in 2 months - quite an honor.

I just got a new profile page at NOISY PLANET - this is part of my award for winning Best International Instrumental Song in the 2009 Toronto Exclusive Magazine Awards! There you can download my 3 winning songs from the last 3 years of competition - "Shimmer", "Commercial Street" and "Groove 2 U". Just click on this widget: 

So go check it out!

I just added 30 new pics to the Photo Gallery - the first 4 were taken last Saturday night (1-16) at the Adam Millman "Believe" fund-raising party for The Dysautonomia Foundation (so far Adam has already raised and unbelievable $12,000, in just two weeks!). The other pictures were taken at Christmas-time during our annual visit to Rochester, to spend quality time with Joe's family - as you can see, we had a lovely time!

CD Baby has announced that starting on Monday, January 25th and continuing for two weeks, they will donate $1 of their cut from every CD sale through their website, and $1 from every download sale over $8.99 on the site, to the American Red Cross and to Mercy Corps, a Portland-based relief organization with a large presence in Haiti. With your help, they hope to raise tens of thousands of dollars. So, if you haven't already bought or downloaded a copy of my CDs "Think Lovely Thoughts" and "My Provincetown", please consider doing that now - they make great Valentine's Day gifts! Go to: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/jordanespivack  or  http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/jordanespivack2

My song "Lucky Day" is in the running for the monthly prizes and the judging for the 2009 National Musicoz Awards, Australia's biggest music prize and recognition program. Just click on the widget below to vote for me in the Musicoz National People's Choice Award. 

Also, I will be featured in a revealing interview in an upcoming Issue of D.A.M. Magazine (Dynamically Active Movements), an online Arts publication out of New York City. I'll let you know more soon. If you'd like to explore the site in the meantime, go to: http://www.dammagazine.com/

There's more great news coming up in the next few months, so make sure you visit my site regularly at http://jordanesp.com/

Thanks for making last month the most successful ever on this website!

Jordan's arrangement of Adam Millman's original composition "Snow Day" appears on Adam's new CD "Believe", now available at http://www.familialdysautonomia.org/believe/
All proceeds are for the benefit of the Dysautonomia Foundation (F.D.). Please buy a copy of the CD, and donate to this important cause!

Just in: my "Shimmer" has won Best International Instrumental Song in the 2009 TORONTO AWARDS! This is the 3rd year in a row I have won an award in this competition (2008 Best International Instrumental Song for "Commercial Street", and 2007 Top 5 nominee Best International Jazz Song for "Groove 2 U"). It is a great honor, and I am very pleased and thankful!

 

My instrumental composition "Toccata", Silver winner in the 25th Annual Mid-Atlantic Song Contest, is included in the just-released "It's All About The Song" MASC compilation CD. The track is #7 on Disc 2, and features me performing the solo piano composition live. Another feather in my cap!

HAPPY, HEALTHY, PROSPEROUS,

AND PEACEFUL 2010!

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

LOVE,

JORDAN

I am very proud to announce that my piano composition "The Poet" has won Finalist in the Instrumental category of the 2009 (26th Annual) Mid-Atlantic Song Contest! This is the 2nd year in-a-row that MASC has honored me: last year my "Toccata" won Silver (2nd Prize) in the Instrumental category.  

Jango Radio has just begun playing my tracks "Commercial Street" and "Jordan ESP" this week (and soon "Groove 2 U"). Jango is a service where listeners create their own radio stations according to their own tastes, and listeners can become my fans. The service has requested that I promote myself to my friends: "By promoting yourself/your band, you can end up in general rotation.
All it takes is that 50 people tell us they like your music.
The easiest way to promote your music is to send this link to your friends."

http://www.jango.com/music/Jordan+E+Spivack

So, at their suggestion, I am giving this link to YOU in the hopes that you will go to Jango.com now and tell them that you like my music. Then my music will go into general rotation, which is the very best thing that could happen for me at Jango.

When you click on the link, you'll be taken to a page that says: "You just created a radio station! It will play Jordan E. Spivack and similar artists." Then click I'm a Fan! It's that simple, and will only take you a few seconds.

What you do after that is your decision. You ARE NOT required to become a member of Jango or partake of its services (although it is a pretty cool thing to create your own personal radio station). 

As always, I greatly appreciate all the help and support you give me. I'll let you know how it all turns out soon.

Thanks again!

Best wishes for a healthy and happy 2010 !

Jordan

I have recently returned home from a 4-day trip to Milwaukee (12-10 to 12-13-09) to visit with my sister and brother-in-law Linda and Poul, and to see my Mom at her residence in The Jewish Home. It was a lovely time: as usual, my hosts were generous and welcoming, my Mom was in reasonably good health, my flights were good, and the weather was not too severe (well, the first day was 9 degrees).

Among the highlights of the visit were a dinner with my niece Kim and nephew Kurt and their kids, going to the movies to see "Fantastic Mr. Fox" (fantastic animation), and a trip to the Milwaukee Public Museum with Poul's son Dane and his kids. Plus I got to spend Chanukah with my Mom, and to play the piano (on a very nice grand piano in The Helen Bader Center) for her - I performed "The Poet", the piece I composed in honor of my Dad's life, and Aram Khachaturian's exciting "Toccata", always one of her favorites. Mom was very happy, and I was very happy to be with her again.

I have posted 90 new pics of my trip. Go to the Photo Gallery, where you can see a slide show of the pics, 25-at-a-time. This is a new feature of my website, and it's very cool!

Great news: my instrumental composition "Shimmer" has been named a Nominee for the prestigious 2009 TORONTO EXCLUSIVE AWARDS! The winners will be announced in late December. In 2007 I was one of the 5 Finalists for Best International Jazz Song with "Groove 2 U", and in 2008 "Commercial Street" was named Best International Instrumental Song. So I have a good feeling about the 2009 awards.

If you want to see the list of Nominees on their website, go to: http://www.torontoexclusive.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=203&Itemid=96

Here in Nanuet, NY we had our first snowfall of the season yesterday. See the new pics in the photo gallery!

So "July To September" won First Prize #1 in the Jazz category for November on OurStage! All Music Channel Winners from the November competition receive a $100 online gift card. Plus my success in the Jazz Channel reaped these stats for the month:

#10 Top Track. #18 Fan Favorite, #11 Most Played (and over 5,000 plays during the Finals!), #3 Top Fan Club, Favorited 11 times (an OurStage member added the song to their personal member page), and #1 Top New Artist To Watch. and for the first time ever, I was highlighted in the OurStage monthly e-mail, which is sent to all members.

Overall, a great success for my music!

If you'd like to join OurStage, go to: http://www.ourstage.com/

If you'd like to visit my OurStage page, and listen to my music, go to: http://www.ourstage.com/profile/jordanespivack

And any votes you can give me are greatly appreciated - thanks for all your support!

I am happy to announce that "July To September" from my "Symmetry" CD has won the Jazz category, achieving #1 at the end of the voting "battles"! Now the track goes head-to-head with the winners of the other 34 categories for one day (November 30th) - at midnight tonight we'll know the results of the Finals. If you'd like to be part of the voting process, go to http://www.ourstage.com/judge?channel=38-music-finals and vote for me - thanks!

I'm wishing everyone a very safe and Happy Thanksgiving! Have a wonderful day with family and friends, and enjoy all the great food - just remember, everything in moderation, and be thankful for all the good in your life! I know I have so much to be thankful for.

I have just added a few new family pics to the Photo Gallery. These were taken August 16th, 2009, at dinner the same day as the unveiling of my father's gravestone. Although that was a somber occasion, the stone looked beautiful, and the ceremony gave a sense of closure to the long and sad period of grieving following my Dad's passing in February 2008 . Later in the day, Joe and I got a chance to have a relaxing dinner with my sister Karen and her husband, my brother-in-law Walter, and also my cousin Barbara. We had a great meal at Biagio's Italian Restaurant in Paramus, NJ. As you can see from the pictures, everyone had a good time, and we were all happy to see each other againl

Also, there are 4 new lovely late-Fall pics taken at the Dellwood Golf Course in New City, NY - enjoy!

My music is off to a great start in November!

At Indie104 Radio L.A. my tracks "Groove 2 U" and "Commercial Street" are receiving airplay several times a day, and both tracks have appeared in the Top 10 most-requested tracks every day for the past 2 weeks. The station estimates the number of listeners at anywhere from 15,000 to 30,000 people at any time of the day. Today, for instance, over 27,000 people were listening when "Groove 2 U" was played at 12:45 PM (EST)! Please go to this link right now to request my songs: http://www.1.fm/Station/indie/SongDB.aspx?search=Jordan E. Spivack - the more requests, the more often my tracks get played! And to listen to the station go to: http://www.1.fm/station/indie/History.aspx - click above the song titles for your choice of listening options. Thanks for all your help!

Also, the Kanal Jazz Stream online radio station (out of France) is playing my "Shimmer" and "Groove 2 U" a few times per day as well. To listen to this station use this link: http://kanal-jazz.blogspot.com/ - click on "Tune in here".

In addition, over at the OurStage site, "West Virginia Two-Step (longer version)" is currently ranked #9 in the All Instrumental category and #2 Hot New Track for 11-15-09, "July To September" is #18 in the Jazz category, and "Eternally (dedicated to my Grandma Tillie)" was recently #18 in the World category. These rankings can fluctuate by the hour, but "West Virginia Two Step" has maintained a ranking of #11, 10 or 9 for the entire month of November so far.

If you would like to hear (or download) any of these OurStage songs, or any of the over 30 other of my tracks on that site, click on this link: http://www.ourstage.com/profile/jordanespivack - enjoy!

I am happy to announce that this website enjoyed a particularly successful October! For those of you who understand the lingo, for the month: over 4,000 visits, 32,820 hits, and 1,317,058 KBytes (yes, that's well over One Million for the third month-in-a-row!), from over 60 different countries worldwide, with especially high numbers of visitors from Australia and the United Kingdom. (Now, if I could only convince all those people to buy my music.)

I am very thankful for all your support, and hope to continue to bring you more original music, more interesting photos, and more good news in the coming months!

I'm wishing everybody a very safe and Happy Hallowe'en - Trick or Treat! (Hopefully Treat!) Have fun!