Jeanne Pocius Nadeau:  

I want you all to know that my new book, SHAKEN, NOT STIRRED (a survivor's account of the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti) will be out in early October and available through Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble among others. All profits will be going to the building and equiping of new schools in Haiti. Please tell everyone you know about it! (it will make a great Christmas present for everyone you know, too!) Thanks! Jeanne is currently in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where she has been since January 7th, 2010 (5 days before the earthquake). She experienced the 7.1 magnitude earthquake while in the auditorium of the Holy Trinity Music School, and was hit by several large pieces of concrete when the building fell on and around her and her students. All but one of those students survived, and she went back into the ruins 14 times searching for the one lost student (whose body has still not been found yet). She encourages all her friends to please consider making a donation for Haiti to her non-profit charitable corporation: Instrumental Change, Inc, 301 Newbury St, S-142, Danvers, MA 01923. And please pray for all of us here in Haiti! Thanks. Life Jeanne is a busy music educator and freelance performer in the greater Boston, MA, area. She's performed on several CD's, including one she produced with her former partner, John Archer, Music for Christmas Eve, Archer Music. She has her own big band, MOONGLOW, and combo, JUST-in-TIME, as well as a duo with jazz guitarist Hank Wiktorowicz (PWD -Password Jazz Duo)which performs several times a month, and a professional brass quintet "The North Shore Brass". Her trumpet students now span the globe, and range in age from youngsters of 8 to a gentleman of 96 years! She is known internationally as the *Trumpet Chop Doc* and specializes in diagnosing and treating embouchure anomalies. In March, 2007, she released her first published book, "Trumpeting by Nature, An Efficient Guide to Optimal Trumpet Performance" which is 360 pages of trumpet playing savvy. The book is being used by several colleges as a required textbook, and has been well received world-wide among trumpet players, students and teachers. Jeanne has performed in international jazz festivals in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and in the Caribbean. She travels extensively, when not performing locally, or up and down the Eastern Seaboard, and has performed in Venice, Naples, Sorrento, Capri, and Paestum, Italy; Barcelona, Spain; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Iceland; Nova Scotia; in the British West Indies on the island of Anguilla, and in the beautiful nation of Haiti (Ayiti). She has also presented clinics for trumpeters at...Expand for more