The following is an Indiegogo campaign that has been drafted, but not yet launched. Images and the promo video have not been copied over.
Sounds and Colors Radio
Sounds and Colors Radio, a platform for you to listen, watch, enjoy, learn and experience the dynamics of America's beautiful art form of Jazz. With a pledge to Sounds and Colors Radio, I wish to bestow upon you the gift of hearing creative jazz music fueled by the passion in which the musicians have intended and to program an experience in sound rather than a series of popular songs. A presentation of the right balance of intrigue and nostalgia!
If you are a lover of Jazz music, you know that everyone you speak with seems to have their own definition of the music. Jazz is ALIVE, well and growing into the most beautiful fragrant flowers you ever want to hear. As a human being, you have the right be presented with the best in quality sound and music programming in a format that has possibilities not ceilings, vision not stagnation, freedom not obligations, respect not assumptions, truth not gimmick; unabashedly bold in revealing past, present and future of and ever changing landscape of music!
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Sounds and Colors Radio will be a 24-hour internet radio station with more than just great jazz music. We plan on having intuitively programmed shows, live shows, spontaneous interviews with all of the artists that are creating this great sound, broadcasting live from remote locations and more! We wish to become your all access pass to places like backstage at your favorite jazz clubs, live concerts, live in-studio sessions to broadcasting shows from the living rooms and on the road with your favorite artists.
Not only do we plan on streaming audio but, video will also be a major component to Sounds and Colors in association with a brand new television music series called "The Jazz Creative". Visualize watching live streaming concerts and interviews from remote personal locations behind the scenes all to bring you the not only the best in jazz music but, the best in jazz media!
MUSICIANS WHO SUPPORT SOUNDS AND COLORS
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WHO IS LeRoy Downs?
LeRoy Downs ,"The Jazzcat", is a Los Angeles jazz radio broadcaster, writer, interviewer, television and jazz festival host/producer deeply entrenched in presenting quality jazz music. Driven by intrigue, desire and passion, the goal is to present to the world a plethora of sonic beauty carefully crafted and programmed with love, honesty and a search for truth in sound! LeRoy has broadcasted in Los Angeles on stations such as 89.9 FM KCRW.com, 90.7 FM KPFK.com and KJazz 88.1 FM.
Other stations include KXLU 88.9 FM in Los Angeles , 1410 AM KRML and 94.7 FM in the Carmel and Monterey Peninsula. Download "The Jazzcat App" for free http://my.yapp.us/YSYQ79
LeRoy has been the Master of Ceremonies of the Monterey Jazz Festival for the past 15 years as well as venues including The Playboy Jazz Cruise, The Jazz Cruise, KPFK’s Hero Awards Tribute to Billy Higgins, the Angel City Jazz Festival, The KJazz Summer Benefit Concert at Disney Hall, The California Jazz Foundations Benefit Concerts, Jazz Through the Generations at the Terranea Resort, The Hollywood Bowl, Central Ave Jazz Festival, The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz West Coast competitions and more.
He has been curator for Jazz for the Holidays series with Arts Brooksfield and currently Jazz Curator of the Steven James Buchanan Jazz Collection at the Mayme Clayton Jazz Library and Museum.
He has produced a made-for-television pilot “Hangin’ with the Jazzcats” and a brand new Jazz Television series launching in multiple cities this September 2015 called, "Live From the Blue Whale" now known as "The Jazz Creative" ! He is owner and journalist for the website TheJazzcat.net.
HOW YOUR MONEY CAN HELP
Your pledge would help cover these expenses:
- Monthly fee for server and broadcast bandwidth
- ASCAP and BMI License agreements
- Entertainment Attorney
- Sounds and Colors Trademark
- Contracts with venues, musicians and labels for live Remote broadcasts
- Software purchase and licenses
- Equipment – remote Soundboard, video cameras, microphones, etc.
- Engineers for live remote broadcast production of audio and video
- Cameramen
- Publicist
- Publicity Materials – Posters, fliers, postcards, Live Broadcasting Banners
- Sales / Marketing Campaign
- New Sounds and Colors Website
- Mobile Applications
- Artwork
- Online Advertising
- Outside Jazz Media – Purchased broadcasts and collaborations with other jazz outlets etc.
WHY DONATE?
There are so many reasons why you should donate, subscribe and continue to support Sounds and Colors Radio. The first of which is that this is all in effort to provide you with quality media; jazz music programming, insightful interviews, art and video content. In every aspect of our lives, we only have access to what the Powers deem necessary for us to see, hear and listen. Artists produce music because they are called to it by a divine order.
They take aspects from their lives and the influences from the human condition to produce their art as representations of ideas that stem from organic sources. Sounds and Colors is a platform for artists' music to thrive, for them to tell their stories and share their music, experiences and insight with you! I believe in truth and integrity of sound so with Sounds and Colors, you will hear a blend of 20th century concepts matched with the pristine compositions of a jazz legacy that paved its way! This will be a station motivated by great music, knowledge, growth and love, a complete musical experience! Ultimately, at the end of the day, this is a gift of music designed specifically for you!
Sounds and Colors wishes to take you there, where the music is! Listen to interviews straight from the source, broadcasting from live performances, backstage, in the studio, art galleries, from the living rooms of your favorite up and coming artists to quality jazz programming that rises above the mainstream.
Using the latest technology, with the wonders of the internet, we strive to bring you new ideas, new concepts, new sounds and colors simply for your knowledge and entertainment. We aspire to saturate you soul in real music from today and back in the day!
We will do this by letting the music dictate sound and emotion, not by having consultants decide which track is best for business purposes. The music will be programmed as an organic experience in sound. Artists are producing new quality music everyday and you deserve to experience that along with the classic artists that you know.
We would like to succeed through, quality, integrity, honesty, truth, spirit and passion being the elements that will drive our success!
CAN WE EXCEED OUR GOAL?
Yes indeed! Exceeding our goal will only allow for our starting block to be bigger, better and stronger. It will also allow more opportunities to bring you music from more exciting locations. With the power of wireless transmission, we can literally be anywhere in the world and use this technology as creatively as possible to bring you the best in jazz music media!
How Indie Gogo Works
Indiegogo is an innovative new online platform to help fund creative projects. It is a funding method by which people can express their dreams and concepts to the public and have their friends, followers, family, fan base or anyone in the world help contribute to the project. Thus reaching goals and getting the funds needed to make the dreams become reality. We’ll keep in touch with you to give you progress updates, put content up on the stream and send you your gifts for helping to let the music be heard!
HOW TO PLEDGE?
Just click the “Contribute Now” button on the right-hand side of the project. You will be asked to select your pledge amount and select a reward. From there, you will be taken through the contribution process and your pledge will be recorded.
CAN I DONATE FROM OUTSIDE OF THE UNITEDSTATES?
Yes. You can donate from any country in the world! If you have any problems just contact us.
WANT TO HELP IN OTHER WAYS TOO?
Yes you can! This is imperative and you can help tremendously by sharing and liking the video, posting the information on your social network sites, sending emails to your friends, family and anyone else who believes in creativity, music, art, ingenuity, integrity and a dedication to quality music and media! This is extremly helpful to get the word out to more people and to share the music with everyone. Also, it is very important to leave a comment, let you voice be heard and speak on why you support Sounds and Colors radio. Your voice is the MOST important because the people you know and the ones that know you trust your word. The world will appreciate your comments as a guide and factor to rely on when pledging their support to Sounds and Colors Radio. It is my responsibility to back that up with premium jazz programming and I can GURANTEE that!!!!!
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Email, phone calls to anyone who may have means to support a project that will immediately start giving back once it is funded. Again, your word is the most important. Write about it, speak about it, be about it and help me reach out to those I know and don’t know so this music can be shared by all! Print out a flyer and post it or perhaps your company will match funds? If you have any great ideas on how we can get the word out, let’s do it together!