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universal literacy for haiti
universal literacy for haiti
Helping Young People Create New Worlds
and Partners' Power of Good
Feeding Education.
2025 and DPRAM
2025 is so far very kind to Don Paul and Rivers Answer Moons (DPRAM). Our 2-CD Album LOUISIANA STORIES came out in January. It's since spent 21 straight Weeks in Charts across North America. This past Week, ending June 28, it was again #2 among all Jazz Albums in Roots Music Reports' Chart from Plays over 225 Radio-Stations. It also repeated as #1 among Crossover Jazz Albums. It was #8 among all Albums in Louisiana after reaching #6 the prior Week.
We're VERY GRATEFUL to listeners, programmers. show-hosts. and all who support us through Radio!
All About Jazz chose our Track from LOUISIANA STORIES, 'The DREAMERS and BELIEVERS, concerning teams of handicapped athletes playing softball in New Orleans' Riverside Park, as a Song-of-the-Day in March. It's since had over 2900 Listens.
Several of our Tracks have gone out to more than 2100 respondents through the PlayMPE Platform and Service.
"Louisiana Days, Louisiana Nights" and "The Bands Are Bringing Everyone Home" reached the Top 10 worldwide for two Weeks of February.
"Something You Got" in its Vocal and Instrumental remasterings were #1 and #3 this past June 19.
Please listen! We love to share our work!
2024 for DPRAM
2024 was a very good year for Rivers Answer Moons. Since the Week ending Saturday, April 6, 2024, the band has placed four Tracks among the Top-20
Jazz releases across North America and Europe, according to Charts by the PlayMPE platform and service, based on responses from more than 3100 Radio-Stations and other Media.
We're grateful! We're delighted that strangers like what we do! The Track
"Get Your JAM On!" with guest singer ERICA FALLS was #5 and #7 in Streams for those first two PlayMPE Weeks of April, while our tribute to the great musician and eternal improviser and educator KIDD JORDAN registered #15 and then #12 in worldwide Streams. Click on the Front-Covers below to listen.
HERLIN RILEY is our drummer on these Tracks.
This month the two Tracks on I/R Records second Digital-45 were #4 and #2 in Streams for the PlayMPE Week ending June 8. 'Marsha's' rose to #3 the next Day among PlayMPE Jazz releases. We're very grateful, again!
DON PAUL
'LIKE SHAKESPEARE, JACK KEROUAC, LANGSTON HUGHES, VIRGINIA WOOLF, AND CARSON MCCULLERS, DON PAUL USES WORDS LIKE MUSIC'---
DAVID AMRAM
ROGER LEWIS
'THERE'S NO DENYING THE ARTISTRY OF WHAT LEWIS IS DOING'=---
DODIE LOUIS GOULD ON ROGER LEWIS' ALBUM ALRIGHT!
KIRK JOSEPH
'SIR KIRK IS SUCH AN OBVIOUS STAR [...] A ONE-IN-A-MILLION PLAYER'--
ELVIS COSTELLO
HERMAN LEBEAUX
DRUMMER FOR ALLEN TOUSSANT OVER 20 YEARS, HERMAN
LEBEAUX IS AMONG NEW ORLEANS' MOST ADMIRED MUSICIANS AND TEACHERS
DON VAPPIE
'MR. VAPPIE IS A BORN STORYTELLER--AN URBAN GRIOT'--
RAUL DE GAMA ON DON VAPPIES' ALBUM THE BLUE BOOK OF STORYVILLE
ALEXEY MARTI
BANDLEADER, COMPOSER, PERCUSSIONIST AND PIANIST, ALEXEY MARTI LEARNED FROM AND THEN PARTNERED WITH OSCAR VALDES OF IRAKERE AND DIAKARA IN CUBA. HE'S RELEASED TWO ALBUMS AS LEADER, TRAVESIA AND MUNDO.
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