January 4th, 2008 by markrapp
Friday, January 25, 12:30a
Blue Note: Groove Series
Fresh from a headlining performance alongside Branford Marsalis (Southern Exposure Greenville), the Mark Rapp Group is excited to perform for you at the Blue Note. Voted one of the "Top 25 Emerging Jazz Trumpeters" by DownBeat Magazine, the famed Blue Note (NY) presents a showcase performance of music from Rapp’s debut recording effort. Soon-to-be-released, this most anticipated debut is Produced by Grammy winner Jason Olaine, engineered by Robert "LB" Dorsey (the Roots, Beyonce) and mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound. Join us for one amazing performance at the Blue Note!
More info: http://www.bluenote.net/newyork/schedule/moreinfo.cgi?id=5493
Buy Tkts: https://www.peltrix.com/bluenote/purchase.cgi?id=5493
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October 15th, 2007 by markrapp
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=15531
Mark Rapp will play a very special performance for Playboy Playmate Natalia Sokolova on October 15th. The exclusive birthday party will play host to top playmates, models including Julia Hendersen (Sport Illustrated), Jessica Gomes (Victoria Secret) and actors from the Sopranos, Entourage among others.
Sokolova discovered Rapp through her event planning company Exquisite Planning, LLC. After hearing his music, Sokolova contacted and requested Rapp to play for her at her private birthday celebration.
Rapp recently recorded his debut effort under the supportive eye of Grammy Award winning producer Jason Olaine and hip-hop engineer “LB” Dorsey who works with the Roots and Beyonce. Yet to be released, Rapp invites you to stay informed, enjoy free downloads and keep in touch through his web site, markrapp.com. You can also catch the Mark Rapp Group performing regularly in and around New York City.
Sokolova founded Exquisite Planning, LLC because of her desire to give back. Organizing fundraisers, fashionable corporate events and upscale parties, Sokolova continues to donate her time and energy to charities and to help those less fortunate than she.
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May 17th, 2006 by markrapp
"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction." -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of." -Blaise Pascal
This last quote I have found of much interest to me. And being quite the romantic, I relish in its optimism. Sometimes, the heart speaks louder and more convincingly than anything (or anyone) and sometimes, when you abide and explore your heart’s desire, you find what your mind has been wanting all along anyway. Life is as equally mystical as it is logical, as daring as it is practical. To enjoy the best of both worlds is where I dare to live.
I recently stepped out on a limb not because I found it pragmatic by any means, but because it was a risk my heart said was worth taking. My heart said it is worth the gamble - should u win, you hit the Jack Pot; should you loose, you know where not to play and there’s another risk around the corner for you to chance.
I firmly believe in the ability of "having it all." I’ve experienced it firsthand. Furthermore, we are only limited by our beliefs. Take a look at anything you’ve done in life - before you accomplished any goal, at some point (even for a wee second), you said "yes". Then, you did whatever it took to make it happen. I have decided to have it all and to live in abundance and I will share, explore, dream, live, travel, play, make a family, laugh, cry, party, and so much more with my someone special. "Love… looking together in the same direction."
"Cheers!" to daring to have it all!
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May 12th, 2006 by markrapp
My own experience has taught me this: if you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won or lasting happiness achieved.
Maurice Chevalier (1888-1972)
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
The fountain of contentment must spring up in the mind. He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief which he purposes to remove.
Samuel Johnson (1709-84)
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November 1st, 2005 by markrapp
Life is so very precious.
I invite you take a moment right now and experience your chest rising and falling.
Whatever it is you are doing right now, live it and feel it and be it as your best right now.
FEEL your life. LOVE it. HOLD it for just a moment.
My friend John died yesterday.
He was killed in a car accident.
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Whatever or whoever you want, need, desire… GO FOR IT 110%.
Stretch. Live. Live, Live, Live!
With Love,
Rapp
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