Claudio Roditi Needs Our Help
As many of you in the music community may already know, the great Brazilian trumpet master Claudio Roditi has been fighting the battle of his life. Last year he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and a tumor that was considered too dangerous to remove until it could be shrunk. To make matters worse, the cancer had metastasized into his lung and lymph nodes.
After receiving chemotherapy we were all encouraged when his numbers decreased and the tumor had shrunken some. Unfortunately this long battle started to cause additional problems and this week he was admitted to Memorial Sloan Kettering hospital in New York. His CAT scan detected the cancer growing again and he must now undergo more chemotherapy.
I am reaching out to our loving musical community for donations to help Claudio financially in his hour of need. He has not been able to work much during this terrible ordeal and his funds are nearly depleted.
Any help you can give will be greatly appreciated… and never forgotten.
Please keep Claudio in your prayers.
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After receiving chemotherapy we were all encouraged when his numbers decreased and the tumor had shrunken some. Unfortunately this long battle started to cause additional problems and this week he was admitted to Memorial Sloan Kettering hospital in New York. His CAT scan detected the cancer growing again and he must now undergo more chemotherapy.
I am reaching out to our loving musical community for donations to help Claudio financially in his hour of need. He has not been able to work much during this terrible ordeal and his funds are nearly depleted.
Any help you can give will be greatly appreciated… and never forgotten.
Please keep Claudio in your prayers.
Dear friends around the world,
First of all thank you for your support and love!
I want to give a special thanks to Frank Moten and John Lee for setting up this GoFundMe page and being the great friends they are.
On the first of December John Lee organized a concert called Giants of Jazz (an annual event at Sopac in South Orange). For this year he invited me to be the honoree and I immediately said YES. John invited the whole Dizzy Gillespie All Star Big Band, Paquito D’Rivera, Jon Faddis, Trio da Paz, Maucha Adnet, and a huge number of Jazz stars from our musical family. In all there were more than forty musicians. Friends also flew from Europe to attend the event. Thank you Jacques Muyal, JJ Becciolini, and more. I will be forever thankful to John Lee and the town of South Orange, New Jersey for this honor and opportunity.
In terms of my health, on Monday the 17th of December, I will start radiation therapy and chemo. This new treatment will be one month long, after that we will access the situation. I want to specially thank my wife Kristen for being the Pilar of my life.
My love to all and again, thank you!
Claudio
First of all thank you for your support and love!
I want to give a special thanks to Frank Moten and John Lee for setting up this GoFundMe page and being the great friends they are.
On the first of December John Lee organized a concert called Giants of Jazz (an annual event at Sopac in South Orange). For this year he invited me to be the honoree and I immediately said YES. John invited the whole Dizzy Gillespie All Star Big Band, Paquito D’Rivera, Jon Faddis, Trio da Paz, Maucha Adnet, and a huge number of Jazz stars from our musical family. In all there were more than forty musicians. Friends also flew from Europe to attend the event. Thank you Jacques Muyal, JJ Becciolini, and more. I will be forever thankful to John Lee and the town of South Orange, New Jersey for this honor and opportunity.
In terms of my health, on Monday the 17th of December, I will start radiation therapy and chemo. This new treatment will be one month long, after that we will access the situation. I want to specially thank my wife Kristen for being the Pilar of my life.
My love to all and again, thank you!
Claudio
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