Panama * Spain * New York
30 Yrs. Experience
* Private Classes and Workshops
* Designed for Professional Musicians, Advance Students and Beginners
* Improvisation, Sound Work, All Levels of Music Theory, and Orchestration
* Experimenting With Afro-Caribbean Rhythms and Free Music Art Forms
www.myspace.com/jorgesylvestermusic

Born in Colon, Panama attended the Panama Conservatory of Music and the University of Panama. He received a Bachelor of Science in Music from the State University of New York College at New Paltz in 1981.
A unique innovator in the idiom of creative music, Sylvester’s sound is reminiscent of another time in jazz history when artists like Dolphy and Ornette were exploding on the scene and experimenting with concepts that would ultimately revolutionize music at large. A throwback to the future, Mr. Sylvester has been on the cutting edge of that scene since 1980 when he first came to New York City.
His blend of African-Caribbean Rhythms with new music is what gives Sylvester his distinguished voice. An impressive composer and arranger, his music moves, entices and stirs the imagination, as visual as it is physical, his ability to transform colors into sounds and sounds into textures place him in the company of the great expressionist painters.

DISCOGRAPHY:
New Double CD just released on Sylvester’s label Lizoka Music : Following The Line/ Live in New York City is the documentation of his 1999 quartet featuring Monte Croft on vibraphone, Jeff Carney on bass, Terreon Gully on drums, and a special appearance by pianist James Hurt on the Bud Powell composition Willow Grove.
2008 release Waldron Madhi Ricks with trumpeter, composer Waldron Ricks, Danny Grissett, Jaleel Shaw, Nashiet Waits and Vicente Archer, featuring Jorge’s Quintet version of his composition “Playground.”
Co-leader of the quartet Asymmetry with pianist, Lucian Ban, Sylvester recorded a cd for Jazzaway records which was released in December, 2005 entitled Playground – which is also the name of the title track a composition written by Sylvester.
In The Ear of the Beholder, 2001 (Billboard’s Spotlight, Feb. 2001) Jazz Magnet Records, features: Donald Nicks on electric bass and Bobby Sanabria on drums and is Sylvester’s second release as a leader since the critically acclaimed MusiCollage (Postcards, 1996, re-released on Arkadia Records featured Claudio Roditi – trumpet, Marvin Sewell – guitar, Monte Croft – vibraphone – Gene Jackson – drums, Santi Debriano – acoustic bass and Bobby Sanabria – percussion. It received a **** rating from Downbeat Magazine and won a Billboard Critics’ Choice award).

Jorge Sylvester’s distinctive alto saxophone sound is imbued with the volatility of Caribbean basin’s complex mosaic, transformed and focused by the probing musical linguistics pioneered by the great saxophonists of modern jazz. Jorge’s composer’s imagination is the matchless structural coherence of his improvisational work.
Violinist, Composer Ramsey Ameen
12/2005 Tribes Magazine

The 1010 Project provides income generating grants to indigenous development partners in Kenya and raises awareness in the United States on behalf of the global poor.

Through our partner organizations, we are actively supporting:

• 4,000 young students with a meal and an education
• 1,400 orphaned children with a loving and caring home environment
• 102 young girls at risk because of their involvement in the commercial sex trade are given a chance to earn income in a dignified and healthy way
• 500 small businesses with critical financial services so that they can continue and expand their life’s work
• 425 individuals living with HIV/AIDS by providing home based care and assistance along with vocational training

We’re launching a fundraising campaign!

Invest $10 per month and make a declaration that you have joined the story to break the cycle of poverty.

What exactly can $10 per month do for our friends and partners in Kenya?
$10 provides three hens and a half sack of fresh maize corn for a member of LOMORO
$10 will buy one carton of 100 tree seedlings for the orphanage at Siritanyi
$10 purchases 10 kilograms of cooking oil for 10 members of Tumaini Pamoja

The Money Cafe by Ernie Zelinski is a business directory of 101 money and business websites. It also gives you free financial advice on many aspects of earning a living including putting money in its proper perspective. Includes webpages with these topics: How to save money,  How to get out of debt, How to become financially independent, How to make money,  How to become a millionaire, How to stick to a budget, How to retire early, and How to How to invest money.

Some of the Money Topics on The Money Café

• How to Instantly Become a Millionaire
• What’s Truly Free in Life
• How to Make Money While You Sleep
• 33 Elements of Happiness That Money Can’t Buy
• Why Most “Cool People” Are Broke!

CodeChef, India’s first, ongoing, multi-platform coding competition. The site is aimed at helping students and professionals sharpen their technical skills by participating in monthly competitions, working on practice problems, and discussing specific ways to improve their software development skills. 

Winners of competitions will receive prizes, recognition from the technical community, and invitations to compete in the CodeChef Cup, a twice yearly, in-person event.  We accept solutions in over 35 programming languages (like Haskell, Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl, C, C++, C#, Java, Pascal… ), providing a chance to experiment with new languages.  Our goal is to make CodeChef a community-driven, fun way for students and professionals to improve their programming skills.

Our first contest launches on March 1^st, prizes will an include an Asus Eee PC, a Nokia 5800 touch phone and an iPod Touch.  Register today to compete.

Codechef thus will allow the participant/user  to:

• Compete against their peers
• Get ranked and gain recognition in the developer community
• Hang out with other programmers and coders, and gain valuable knowledge as well as answers to questions
• Improve programming skills in a fun way
• Win cool prizes every month

Codechef is an initiative of Directi.

Podcasts for Wrestling Radio

I don’t want to be anyone who says I have the “answers” to all the questions in wrestling, but if you have an opinion you’d like answered somewhat “in depth”, send me an email, and then, as many times as I can do it, I will do a podcast answering your question, (with due credit given of course).

Time tracking for Gnome Linux

A nifty time tracking applet for GNOME desktop

Project Hamster is time tracking for masses. It helps you to keep track on how much time you have spent during the day on activities you have set up.

STUDENTS LAUNCH PROJECT TO MAKE HOMES SAFER

Students have formed a voluntary group to help make houses safer around their campus.

De Montfort University students have been fitting door chains, locks and other security measures to 50 houses in the West End of Leicester, where many undergraduates live in shared homes.

Living Off Campus is a website that wants to make it easier to find places to live in college towns.  The guys who built the site say they spent a full month in Columbia, MO looking for a proper place to live.  There just were not good resources for their specific market.  Major corporate apartment websites are geared towards big cities and corporately owned complexes.  In Columbia, MO a large number of the properties are privately owned or managed by smaller companies.

The site currently accepts free registrations by property owners, and is geared towards listing privately owned properties, but they say they will take any properties.

Their goal is to get the project started in a single market where they can focus their efforts, and then expand as property owners start to list in other cities. They are just waiting for someone to start listing properties so they know where to start advertising and talking to other property owners.

Eventually they would like to expand the site’s functionality to include way to help people get more information between the potential leasers and the property owners so that both parties can come to a showing with as much information as possible.

If you are a property owner, or know one who wants a place to list their property for free, go to Living Off Campus and sign up today.