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A casual enquiry on the Trumpet Players 'International Network (TPIN) about the Mike Vax track Vax Attacks led your News Editor to have a look at Vax's site, BigBandJazz.net. The site, Friends of Big Band Jazz, tells us it's "A Non-Profit Organization Dedicated to the Preservation and Promotion of the American Art Form Big Band Jazz". When the reader comes to the "CD Shop" page, you 'll find that "Proceeds from these CDs benefit the Al "Jazzbeaux" Collins Memorial Scholarship Fund, supporting young jazz musicians." Readers will not be surprised to hear that the CD Shop on jazz virtuoso Vax's site is somewhat trumpet-heavy. Vax, Stamm, Childers, Bergeron, and many more - it's all there. A browse now might just blow away some those post-Christmas blues! In the TPIN conversation, Vax commented: "One of the great things about this website, is that $5 from every CD sale goes into our scholarship fund. We have already given out over $12,000 to high school music programs and to young people to go to summer jazz camps."
And the answer to the question? Vax Attacks is on the CD "Bigbandjazz.net" (pictured), track 11.
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