WELCOME Message From Our Sponsor On behalf of du Maurier Ltd., it is my pleasure to be welcoming you to the sixth annual du Maurier Ltd. International Jazz Festival. We at du Maurier Ltd. are proud to be associated with the Coastal Jazz and Blues Society which produces a Festival of such high calibre and quality, bringing interesting and innovative jazz to Vancouver audiences. Seeking New Musical Information This year is a special one for us at du Maurier Ltd. as it marks our 20th year of funding the arts across Canada, and I am pleased that the jazz scene has been and will continue to be an important part of that support. We feel it is particularly important at this time in our history to celebrate the talent in our midst, and hope you all enjoy the best ever du Maurier Ltd. International Jazz Festival Vancouver. Ed Maling B.C. REGIONAL DIRECTOR WORD sOf/10 RT H PUBLISHING #301 • 911 HOMER STREET VANCOUVER, 8.C ., V68 2W6 TEL.684-4447 • FAX: 688-8378 ADVERTISING DIRECTOR MICHAEL HAYES NATIONAL ACCOUNTS BRAD PURSS PRINTED IN (ANADA BY RONALDS PRINTING This Jazz Festival goes beyond the realm of mass commercial entertainment and a preoccupation with bottom line concerns. Our Festival aims to provide food for thought; pose more questions than answers and speak to aesthetic ideals in a passionate and accessible format. This is a Festival that does not rely on the obvious - in fact we thrive on taking calculated risks. In the words of legendary record producer, Orrin Keepnews, "making a living and keeping your integrity ... balancing the act." - is the challenge to be faced, addressing the issues of cultural survival in an often difficult world, in fresh, invigorating and creative ways. As the world contracts and access to information expands, it is our responsibility to accurately reflect important musical developments in the global village. During our visit to Kiev in September of 1990 , Ukrainian musician, Oleksandr Nesterov, emphatically described his difficulties in accessing timely 'new inf0_rmation'. Ironically, there is a wealth of information available to people in the West who choose to seek it out. Our job is to speed up .that process. The Festival will reflect an international dimension, with artists representing over a dozen countries throughout North and South America, Africa, Asia and Australia. Our opening night celebration is the perfect·showcase for an emerging global conciousness. We are extremely proud to present Dizzy Gillespie and the United Nation Orchestra. With a special focus on Asian jazz developments, we'll present two ensembles from Japan; Yas Kaz and the Umezu/Toyozumi/ Satoh Trio. From San Francisco, the wonderful Jon Jang and the Pan Asian Arkestra will collaborate with the World Kulintang Ensemble (a traditional Filipino percussion ensemble). Of course, we would be remiss if we didn't point out our extremely strong Canadian program. We think it's the most representative program of Canadian jazz ever presented in this country. Don't miss the great sounds of world class Canadian artists, Jane Bunnett, Claude Ranger, Don Thompson, UZEB, Rob Frayne, Paul Plimley, Lisle Ellis, the Hard Rubber Orchestra and so many others. Welcome to the 6th Annual du Maurier Ltd. International Jazz Festival Vancouver! ~~~ Ken Pickering ARTISTIC DIRECTOR 0 I MESSAGES Welcome to the sixth annual du Maurier Ltd. International Jazz Festival Vancouver. Since its inception in 1986 the du Maurier Ltd . International Jazz Festival Vancouver has been renowned for offering mighty fine music in some of the most wonderful settings in our City. In Gastown, on Granville Street, in the informal atmosphere of the Cultch or the more intimate settings of some of Vancouver's great jazz bars, Vancouverites have tremendous opportunity in the next few weeks to enjoy more than 200 performances by musicians from all corners of the world. Events like the du Maurier Ltd . International Jazz Festival Vancouver can only help to enhance Vancouver's reputation as a City that has all the best to offer our citizens and our visitors . I hope that the sun shines brightly on the 1991 du Maurier Ltd. International Jazz Festival Vancouver. !# Gordon Campbell MAYOR Warm greetings to everyone participating in the sixth annual du Maurier Ltd. International Jazz Festival Vancouver. This festival in one of the most important of its kind; no other event on the west coast of North America presents such extensive, in-depth and diverse programming. With over 500 artists from across the country and around the world slated to perform, Vancouver is su re to be alive with the energy of great jazz music. I am pleased that the Department of Communications has been able to support this event through a contribution from its Cultural Initiatives Program. Have a marvellous festival! ~~ Marcel Masse FEDERAL MINISTER OF COMMUNICATIONS On behalf of the Province of British Columbia, it gives me pleasure to welcome you to the 1991 du Maurier Ltd. International Jazz Festival Vancouver and to offer best wishes to everyone participating in the Festival. Over the last six years, the Festiva l has developed into a major international program of music from the traditions of jazz, blues and improvisation . Through the skill and dedication of the Festival's artists and organizers, audiences will enjoy a wide va riety of entertaining concerts by international, national and regional musicians. As the Minister responsible for culture in British Columbia, I am particularly pleased that my Ministry is again sponsori ng the Festiva l. Please accept my good wishes for an exciting and enjoyable event. J..~~ Lyall Hanson PROVINCIAL MINISTER OF MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS, RECREATION AND CULTURE I A hard act to follow. So whether you're buying or selling Some real estate agents are known your house, get the top producers at to give a more moving performance than others. Those agents can be found , RE/MAX working for you. Fact is, we sell more real estate than at RE/MAX. Our professionals have /I!!!!" made us Canada's leading real estate organization. '{s/M""~ any other real estate organization. Why not call us first. Each office is independently owned & operated. C-t• INSIDE • WELCOME MESSAGES 0 • METAMORPHOSIS The future of jazz in Canada. TICKETS How, where & when to buy them. THE PLAYERS A multi-national musical calvalcade. Over 500 artists from 14 countries! G GASTOWN JAZZ Party! Water Street! 2 Stages. International artists. FREE! DAY-BY-DAY SCHEDULE The musicians. Where to ·find them and when. e JAZZ AT THE PLAZA 3 days! 3 stages! International artists' FREE! Duke Ellington Orchestra directed by Mercer Ellington June30 Jazz Port Townsend July26-28 Lighthouse All Stars, Larry Coryell, the Hal Galper Trio, the Clayton/ Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, Jay Clayton, Bud Shank, Bobby Shew, George Cables, the Rob McConnell Big Band and many other jazz greats. Call (206)385-3102 G LATE ADDITIONS Too good to miss. THANKS @ The Coastal jazz and Blues Society is a. non-profit society dedicated to the development of jazz, blues, and improvised music. In addition to the du Maurier Ltd. International jazz Festival Vancouver, CJBS produces Time Flies: A Celebration of Contemporary jazz and Improvised Music, and year round concert presentations. Board of Directors Deborah Roitberg President, Nou Dadoun Vice-President, Kim Roberts Treasurer, Karl Stahl Secretary Staff Robert Kerr Executive Director, Ken Pickering Artistic Director, john Orysik Marketing and Publicity Director, Jeff Turner Office Manager, Kate Hammett­ Vaughan Administrative Secretary, Barbara Fus Production Coordinator, Michael Brooks Transportation Coordinator, Bruce Stevenson Site Coordinator and Merchandising, Carl Chinn Equipment Coordinator, Karen Shea Box Office Coordinator, Suzanne Jones Assistant Volunteer Coordinator, Drina Sohn Resource Coordinator Festival Program Book ·'Kris Klaasen and Dugg Simpson Design, Dave Lester, jean Smith, Bob Ludlow, Joni Miller· Production Assistance, Marian Gilmour Editor, Kate Hammett­ Vaughan, Fiona Harrison Keyboards, Michael Hayes, Wordsworth Advertising "". J D C I ( T r CJBS Offices: 435 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6B 1 L4, Telephone (604) 682-0706 Fax (604) 682-0104 THE BLOCK FEATURING CANADIAN DESIGNERS CLOTHING AND CAPPUCCINO 350 West Cordova Street 685-8885 CLOTHING 3566 West Fourth Avenue 736-6177 I • lS A few words on the current state of jazz in Canada? The question that comes to mind im­ mediately is, of course: "which state?" Just as this country is an almost random jumble of territories separated by factors of lan­ guage, geography, and economics, so too is jazz in Canada a loose confederation of unaligned sects and sub-sets. The bebop­ pers, still running scales through rhythm changes; the new traditionalists, silk suits shining under the spotlights; the post­ modernists, somehow managing to keep their ironic distance while romping merrily through the whole hundred-year history of the music; the exponents of musique actuelle, pushing the boundaries ever more open; the fusioneers, honing their chops for who knows what cutting contests; the dixielanders, anything but dry under their straw boaters; the new infusion of dis- II gruntled classicists, attempting to undam a new and more vital third stream; and the multi-media medley makers, splicing jazz into film, dance, theatre, poetry, painting, video: all have their voices raised in the cacophonous parliament of Canadian jazz. But at least we now hear their voices. Not so long ago, those voices were kept low, crying feebly from the bottom of a deep, dark hole. The public profile of jazz in this country has grown immeasurably since the days when it might have been graphed in terms of one Torontonian goatee breathing into a flute and ten Montreal fingers poised over a piano key­ board. Organizations like the Coastal Jazz and Blues Society, the New Orchestra Workshop, Ambiances Magnetiques, Justin Time records, and festivals from St. John's, Newfoundland to Victoria, British Colum­ bia have spent uncounted hours of organ­ izational time (and an inversely tiny amount of money) in getting audiences out to hear live jazz and into record shops to bring some back for the home front. The musi­ cians have responded to their encourage­ ment by woodshedding longer, perform­ ing more often, and especially by ditching their self-defeating fears that jazz can't be by alex varty done here. Clearly it can be done. And just as clearly jazz in Canada - so much less threatened by its own anarchic sprawl than is the country itself- has a future that Andrew Cyrille, Jon Ballantyne with Joe is looking up, and looking out. Henderson, Rene Lussier with Fred Frith ... Looking up? Yes, for all of the reasons Canadian musicians are out there, and not sketched in above and more: in Vancou­ just to learn. For the first time in our ver, at least, it is not at all uncom, musical history- only a few small mon for jazz concerts, even jazz exceptions: Oscar Peterson, of the concerts by local performers, to course, Sonny Greenwich, Ed Bick­ play to full houses. That many of future ert- Canadians are working with the people packing those houses their international peers, on more of jazz are anything but grizzled veter­ than just a casual basis. ans of the scene is even more en­ in canada This is all very good. But what couraging. Jazz has regained comes next? some of its former cachet as a young Well, perhaps a time of looking in. person's music - an honour it lost in the The country is in turmoil. Does our '50s - and with that in mind can its music- as even Confucius hints it must­ survival be anything but assured? change? And looking out? Again, yes: the stig­ Immigrants are reshaping our cities, mata of elitism can no longer brand our the same cities that give jazz refuge. What jazz musicians' palms. Players - and fans, can we learn from looking through Chi­ too - are coming to the realization that a nese eyes, considering Latin music's his­ closeted culture cannot breathe, that a tory of social consciousness, feeling -the music must get full sun for it to flower. Add pulse of the Caribbean, thrilling to the to this a growing reappraisal of jazz as range of East Indian melody, contemplat­ music with dance potential. (For which, ing the ineffable variations of Southeast perversely, we have to thank the electroni­ Asian phraseology, or even musing on cally-regurgitated samples and rhythms of how art helped overthrow Eastern Euro­ the rappers, who are not so philosophically pean tyranny? removed from jazz as they once seemed to Canada, as an experiment in cultural di­ be.) versity, may soon have to change shape in On the most obvious, if only occasion­ order to survive. Whether the country can ally commercially motivated level, we can handle the transformation is in doubt. ,. see another example of Canadian jazz's Canadian jazz must need also finish its own new extroversion in the number of interna­ transfiguration, but this country's music­ tional collaborations currently being pur­ so hard to pin down to any one central sued. Jane Bunnett with Don Pullen, Tom abstraction - has youth and flexibility on Walsh and NOMA with ex-Ornette guitar­ its side. The years to come will be interest­ ist Bern.Nix, Paul Plimley and Lisle Ellis with ing. II ABOVE GROUND TICKETS ORPHEUM THEATRE Smithe at Seymour Dizzy Gillespie United Nation Orchestra Presented by Music '91 FRI. JUNE 21 • 8 PM TICKETS: $31, $28, $25.75 Includes CST and all service charges/ Available through Ticketmaster only. VANCOUVER EAST CULTURAL CENTRE 1895 Venables (at Victoria) John Korsrud's Hard Rubber Orchestra FRI. JUNE 21 • 8 PM• $12 Susannah Mccorkle SAT. JUNE 22 • 8 PM• $20 Frank Morgan and George Cables SUN. JUNE 23 • 8 PM• $20 Jon Jang and the Pan Asian Arkestra plus the Kulintang Arts Ensemble MON. JUNE 24 • 8 PM• $16 Clarence Fountain and The Five Blind Boys of Alabama TUES. JUNE. 25 • 8 PM• $20 Courtney Pine Quartet WED. JUNE 26 • 8 PM• $20 Don Cherry and MultiKulti THUR. JUNE 27 • 8 PM• $22 World Saxophone Quartet FRI. JUNE 28 • 8 PM• $22 Bobby Previte and Empty Suits plus Slavoe Tango Ensemble SAT. JUNE 29 • 8 PM• $16 Horace Tapscott Trio plus Urs Blochlinger Trio SUN. JUNE 30 • 8 PM• $16 Ellis Marsalis MON. JULY 1 • 8 PM• $20 THE COMMODORE 870 Granville Street Doors 1 hour before show. Manteca VANCOUVER PLAYHOUSE Hamilton at Dunsmuir Strunz and Farah plus Kathy KiddAfro Latin Jazz Septet SAT. JUNE 29 • 8 PM• $23.50 Maceo Parker and Roots Revisited 303 East 8th Avenue SAT. JUNE 22 • 10 PM• $21.50 Vas-Kaz FRI. JUNE 21 • 5:30 PM• $10 FRI. JUNE 21 • 10 PM• $21.50 plus Jazzmanian Devils UZEB plus Justine· SUN. JUNE 23 • 9 PM• $19.50 Ottmar Liebert and Luna Negra plus Flamenco Heresy TUES. JUNE 25 • 9 PM• $21.50 John McLaughlin Trio plus Don Thompson Quartet WED. JUNE 26 • 9 PM• $23.50 Eddie Palmieri & His Afro Cuban Jazz THUR. JUNE 27 • 9 PM • $21.50 Aster Aweke plus Mahmoud Ahmed FRI. JUNE 28 • 10 PM• $21.50 Otis Clay and The Chicago Fire plus Amanda Hughes SAT. JUNE 29 • 10 PM• $16. plus Celso Machado WESTERN FRONT Grawe/Reijseger/ Hemingway SAT. JUNE 22 • 5:30 PM• $10 Oleksandr Nesterov and Petro Tovstukha SUN. JUNE 23 • 5:30 PM• $10 Christian Muthspiel and Roland Dahinden MON. JUNE 24 • 5:30 PM• $10 Don Ritter and Amy Denio TUES. JUNE 25 • 5:30 PM• $10 Urs Leimgruber Trio WED. JUNE 26 • 5:30 PM• $10 Shelley Hirsch and David Weinstein THUR. JUNE 27 • 5:30 PM• $10 Plimley/Ellis/Bendian FRI. JUNE 28 • 5:30 PM• $10 Salif Keita SUN. JUNE 30 • 9 PM-• $23.50 CONCERT PASSES FOR A SONG! Choose a combination of shows at discounts of 20-50%. Any 4 Commodore shows • $65 Any 4 Vancouver East Cultural Centre Shows • $60 Any 2 Commodore and 2 VECC shows • $65 Any 3 Western Front shows • $20 MEGA-PASS 28 Commodore, VECC & Front Shows • $250 Pass Orders through Jazz Hotline Only (Visa/Mastercard) TICKET OUTLETS CJBS Bo·x Office 682-0706. All Ticketmaster locations including Lower Mainland Eaton's, major mall lnfocentres, Charge by Phone: 280-4444 Ticketmaster Northwest - Washington. Black Swan Records 2936 West 4th Ave.; Highlife Records 1317 Commercial Drive, All prices include CST. Service charges may apply. Info & Tix • JAZZ HOTLINE • 682-0706 Co-led by alto saxophonist Saul Berson and pianist Miles Black, this is one of Canada's finest post-bop/mainstream groups.. Performing original composi­ tions, Above Ground features strong solo and ensemble work with a hard-swinging rhythm section. Vincent Mai trumpet and flugelhorn, Stan Taylor drums, and Brent Gubbels bass. JULY 1 Plaza PLAYERS "Any person in today's music scene knows that rock, classical, folk and jazz are all yesterday's titles. I feel that the music world is getting closer to being a singular expression, one with endless musical stories . . " ORNETTE COLEMAN MAHMOUD AHMED Ethiopia's Mahmoud Ahmed has been a major star for more than 20 years. He has released more than 50 recordings in the past two decades.Ere Mela Mela(sub­ titled Modern Music of Ethiopia) was released in 1986 on a Brit­ ish label (Crammed Discs) and quickly became a hard-to-find world music classic. Now Han­ nibal records has put it out on CD. The distinctive centre of this recording is the virtuoso singing of Mahmoud Ahmed. Sweet, warm, and with coarse texture, his voice can be spell­ binding. The melodies may sound unusual, but Ahmed's passionate delivery and subtle manipulation of colour, time, and pitch need no translation. Ahmed is an incredible per­ former, a master of unleashing Eskeusta, that ecstatic shivering of the shoulders that can take hold of all Ethiopians on the dance floor. JUNE 28 Commodore GERARDO ALCALA "Sensational! One of the best flamenco guitarists anywhere!" - Seattle Times. American-born flamenco guitarist Gerardo Al­ cala is one of the very few for­ eigners to be respected as a full fledged flamenco artist by the gypsy flamencos of Andalucia, among whom he has lived the authentic flamenco lifestyle for many years. A technical master, Alcala plays with total precision, passion and commitment. JUNE 22 Oakridge JUNE 27 Pacific Centre JUNE 28 COMMODORE "This woman is dynamite ...a special magic." - Echoes (Eng­ land). "Aster's voice remains in a world of its own; whether she's smooching a sassy scat, warbling in a high Indonesian style, or pouring forth smooth honey soul, sounding quite unlike any other singer I've heard." -20/20. Despite being dubbed the "Aretha Franklin of Ethiopia ", Aweke is in a cate­ gory by herself, injecting her songs with universal" warmth and passion, while hitting notes, tunes and trills that few western singers would even aim at. Born in Godar, Aweke was raised in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital city. As she was growing up, the traditional music of East Africa was starting to mix with the American soul and R&B that blasted from the radio. Her debut album shows her fusing various forms into something that's as startling as it is satisfy­ ing.Aster came to America ten years ago eventually settling in Washington D.C.Today, Aweke plays to sold-out houses in Eu­ rope and her recent appear­ ance on David Sanborn's TV show, Night Music has stirred North American audiences. ASTER (CBS), the album that serves as an introduction to western audiences, makes one thing abundantly clear about Aster Aweke - that she is not simply a great African vocalist, but she is a great vocalist who just happens to be African. As­ ter works with a traditional harpist, piano, horns, bass and drum line-up, who back herwith a mix of blues, jazz and funk. I_ BABAYAGA STRING QUARTET Following the lead of groups such as the Kronos Quartet and The Turtle Island String Quartet, Babayaga has slipped the confines of the traditional string quartet. Their fresh energetic approach finds them performing folk music, gypsy dances, jazz standards, and commissioned works by local composers. Marie Claude Brunet viola, Paula Wise violin, Claude Giguere violin, and Harold Birston cello. Their concert on June 25 will feature special guests. Bill Runge saxophones, and Chris Nelson bass in a program of original compositions and Runge's tribute to the music of John Coltrane. JUNE 22 Cafe Django JUNE 25 Cafe Django with Bill Runge and Chris Nelson ROGER BAIRD Take life acup at atime. Listen to Festival Jazz reports on KPLU 88.5 FM or Rogers Cable at 93.5. Presented by Starbucks Coffee Co. AND REAL TIME Percussionist Baird's unique musical approach has been fostered by a long apprenticeship in the New York creative black music scene of the 1970s as well as by studies in Asia. Paul Blaney bass, Paul Plimley piano, and Daniel Kane saxophones are three of the most talented improvisers in Canada. JUNE 23, 26 Glass Slipper STEFAN BAUER AND TRUE STORIES Original compositions that stake out a meeting place for Eastern rhythms and Western technology with jazz as the spiritual connection. Stefan Bauer, who recently arrived in Canada from Germany, leads the group on vibraphone and synthesizer. With Larry Roy guitar, Gilles Fournier bass, and Tho~as Al kier drums. JUNE 22 Gastown JUNE 24 Glass Slipper Bos BELL West Vancouver: Caulfeild Village, 5371 Headland Drive. North Vancouver: Lonsdale, 131 W. Esplanade, 333 Brooksbank Ave. Kerrisdale: 2174 W. 41st Avenue. Downtown: 1116 Denman• 1100 Robson• 1099 Robson,• 2690 Granville• Seabus, 601 W. Cordova. • 81'1 Homby • 700 W. Pender • Royal Centre, 1055 W. Georgia. Richmond: 811 Ackroyd Rd. AND NECROPOLIS Blazing hot electric guitar. Vancouver's Bob Bell combines Miles Davis' post-bop/urban funk with the screaming psychedelia of Jimi Hendrix. Necropolis did some serious house rocking at the Commodore last year opening for Johnny Winter. With Mitch Lazer drums and David Guindon bass. JUNE 30 Plaza GREGG BENDIAN Drummer/percussionist Gregg Bendian works on many levels. He embraces music as an abstract medium, claiming that its meaning is its architecture. His music integrates notated and · composed elements with free improvisation, juxtaposing weights and textures of sound to develop form. Bendian is a regular member of the Cecil Taylor group and also performs in duo with violinist Malcolm Goldstein. His solo concerts are extraordinary performance events. JUNE 28 Western Front trio SEAMUS BLAKE QUARTET Young Vancouver tenor saxophonist Seamus Blake has been out of town recently, testing the waters of the "big time". A student at Boston's Berklee College of Music, Blake has played jazz gigs there and in New York. A member of the award-winning quintet Fifth Avenue, he displays a maturity and understanding of the music far beyond his years. With Ken Lister bass, Ross Taggart piano and tenor saxophone, and John Nolan drums. JUNE 27 Pacific Centre URS BLOCHLINGER TRIO Reknowned Swiss saxophonist Blochlinger leads his group through superb arrangements of improvisatory yet wel I-crafted music. His works are startlingly original and sometimes reminiscent of the exploratativework with Plimley/Ellis . of Charles· Mingus, Gil Evans or JUNE 29 Plaza solo Anthony Braxton . The music is a JUNE 29 Plaza quintet search between freedom ·and form. Recordings on Hat Art and Plainisphare. This w ill be BETWEEN THE LINES Blochlinger's second visit to our This hot new jazz quartet on the festival. Appearing with Peter Vancouver scene explores the Landis saxophone, and Jan realm of mainstream jazz with a Schlegel electric bass. contemporary edge. The four JUNE 29 Plaza members, drummer/composer JUNE 30 VECC Bruce Nielsen, Miles Black piJULY 1 Plaza ano, Rick Kilburn bass, and Bill Runge saxophone, playwith hard BRASS RooTS edged intensity and a full palBrass Roots, formed in 1987 by ·ette of colours. Vancouver bass trombonist/souJUNE 24 Pacific Centre saphonist Brad Muirhead, is an exciting nine-piece modern jazz JoE BJORNSON SEXTET collective built on the tradition This year Vancouver trombonof New Orleans carnival bands. ist/co mposer/arra nger Joe The Dirty Dozen Brass Band and Bjornson, fascinated for some Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy time with Latin and Salsa music, have provided inspiration. Their has arranged Miles Davis, Linrepertoire spans the entire jazz ton Garner, Elton John, and tradition. A great visual presenSteely Dan pieces with Latin tation and a highly infectious rhythms, as well as original musical program make this band material for • his sextet. With a must-see! Graham Ord, DaRodrigo Guerra Mella drums/ niel Kane, Bill Runge saxophones, timbales, Hugh Sealey percusBill Clark, John Korsrud trumsion, Peter MacDonald guitar, pets, Dennis Esson trombone, Brent Gubbels bass, Graham and Dennis Burke, Don Powrie Ord saxophones. drums. JUNE 24 Granville.Island JUNE 21 Pacific Centre II_ -~- - - - - ----------------------------- -~ CHIEF FEATURE A passionate and intense blend of traditional and contemporary elements. Tenor saxophonist Bruce Freedman, leader of this Vancouver-based group, plays burning Coltrane-inspired improvisations. Drummer Claude Ranger is a jau legend, driving the music with a fire that few possess. Bill Clark trumpet, and Clyde Reed bass are two of ·vancouver's foremost improvisers. JUNE 29 Plaza SATURNO THE SUPPER CLUB NAT ADDERLEY QUINTET JUNE 21 & 22 HARPER BROTHERS JUNE 26 & 27 NIELS I.AN DOKY WITH JOHN ABERCROMBIE JUNE 28 & 29 TICKETS & RESERVATIONS 682-1320 1320 RICHARDS (NEAR DRAKE) DISTRIBUTION FUSION III SALUTES 1HE 1991 VANCOUVER JAZZ FESTIVAL Dizzy Gillespie/U.N. Orchestra Live at the Royal Festival Hall Simply one of the most outstanding musicians to emerge from this country in many years. Jane Bunnett has gained an international reputation for her work on soprano saxophone and flute, and has established her. self as an accomplished arranger and composer. A recent gig in her home city of Toronto found her playing with contemporary jazz greats pianist Don Pullen, bassist Charlie Haden and saxophonist Dewey Redman . With her latest album, Live at Sweet Basil's (Denon), Bunnett's career is soaring. With Los Angeles-based multi reeds player Vinny Golia, Vancouver's Clyde Reed bass, and Claude Ranger drums. JUNE 21 Granville Island trio JUNE 22 Gastown with Jade Orchestra and trio JUNE 23 Le Festival FrancoFun trio JUNE 23 Glass Slipper quartet with Golia Creatures of Habit · Live in Montreal GRAM AV I S I O N ~JUSTIN - ~ TIME RECORDS NOW AVAILABLE AT ALL FINE RECORD STORES or contact DIS TR I BUT ION FUS ION II I 5455, rue Pare, suite 101, Montreal (Que.) H4P 1P7 Tel.: (514) 738-4600 Fax: (514) 737-9780 Ill )IM BYRNES BAND For over ten years, blues singer/ guitarist Jim Byrnes has been a fixture on the Vancouver sce ne and is also well known as an actor. His searing, authentic renditions of the blues are entirely convincing, surely something to do with his St. Louis roots. Hi s crack band includes drummer Jerry Adolphe, Mike Kalanj Hammond organ, Bill Runge saxophones and bass, Derry Byrne trumpet, and Ian Putz saxophones. JUNE 23 Gastown JULY 1 Cafe Django duo with Mike Kalanj DON CHERRY & MuLTIKULTl JUNE 29 COMMODORE "Mr. Clay can tear into a song with all the power and finesse of Wilson Pickett and Otis Redding; he can even scream like James Brown . .. from start to fin ish the singing was magnificent ... his style sounds absolutely classic." - N. Y. Times. When it comes to deeply emotional gospel-drenched Chicago soul at its finest, Otis Clay is "The Man". Possessing a voice sweet-as-honey one instant, rough-as-sandpaper the next, Clay always gives his all to the audience. He leads his crack seven-piece Chicago Fire Band through their choreographed paces like a musical drill sergeant. As the enthusiastic re- JUNE 27 VECC As a trumpeter, Cherry has lent his unique sound and lyricism to ground breaking work by Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler, Gato Barbieri and Lou Reed . As a teacher, his students have , ranged from Dartmouth College upperclassmen, to Middle Eastern goatherders, to teenagers at a Swedish summer music camp. As a conceptual artist, he has championed such ideas as multi-media group improvising, what he calls "organic music-- music as a natural part of your day", (as opposed to music restricted to prescheduled concert settings). Above all this, however, stands Don Cherry the geo-musical explorer, whose "acoustic expeditions" throughout the Third World are the stuff of legend. He has studied in Morocco and India, Eastern Europe and Bali, learning to play a bewildering assortment offlutes and percussion instruments, and he has used it all to enhance his own, often uncategorizable musical fusion. The fact that he has been doing all this since the early 1970s means that Cherry is also a pioneer of the cultural crossbreeding now known as "world music". Multikulti's music reflects Don Cherry's ethno-musical explorations and features Peter Apfelbaum keyboards, Bo Freeman bass and Hamid Drake drums. sponse on his Rooster Blues album, Soul Man - Live in Japan, readily attests, Otis is something of a national hero in Japan. And he's a proven hitmaker at home as well. Born in Waxhaw, Mississippi, Otis sang with several gospel groups, in Mississippi and Chicago, before switching to the secular field. Today, he maintains a dual career, head_ing gospel shows in between his travels on the soul/blues club and festival circuits. If you dig James Brown, Solomon Burke, Sam & Dave etc. this concert is for you. A rare appearance by a soul Superstar that'll make this Saturday nite dance party a most memorable one. BILL CLARK SEXTET Featuring some of Vancouver's finest soloists in the classic postbop jazz tradition. They represented the West Coast at the 1988 CBC/Alcan National Jazz Competition in Montreal. Bill Clark trumpet, Dennis Esson trombone, Stan Taylor drums, Ken Lister bass, Patric Cai rd saxophones, Ross Taggart piano. JULYl Plaza JoN CLEARY British-born guitarist/pianist/vocalist Jon Cleary moved to Louisiana at 1 7 and set about establishing himself as an essential member of the New Orleans musical community. He has toured with American rhythm and blues legend Dr. John and has played extensively in the southern states, earning himself a reputation as a versatile II and strong · performer. Now based in New York City, Cleary carries the message of New Orleans' soul, R&B and funk to a wide audience. JUNE 28 Cafe Django lven If Your Best friend Breaks Them, Will Repair Or Replace Them. COAT COOKE AND THE EVOLUTION Composer/saxophonist Coat Cooke leads this new ensemble. An electric band for your mind and body that expands late 20th Century concepts of electroacoustic music. If you dig James Brown, the Decoding Society, and Ornette Coleman - The Evolution will shake you up and make you get down. Brent Gubbels boss, Daniel Kane saxophones, Bill Clark trumpet, and Tony Wilson guitar. JULY 1 Glass Slipper CREATURES OF HABIT Winners of the 1990 CBC/Alcan national jazz competition in Montreal, Vancouver's Creatures of Habit play "post-fusion" jazz, firmly rooted in tradition but incorporating more modern concepts as well. The Creatures have just released their first CD, Live in Montreal (Justin Time). Bill Runge saxophones, Ron Samworth guitar, Ross Taggart tenor sax and piano, Don Powrie drums, and Rene Worst boss. JUNE 23 Gastown Koss Stereophones have become world-renowned for two things: outstanding sound and extraordinary durability. But nobody's perfect. That's why Koss is pleased to present something literally unheard ofin the audio business. Introducing the industry's first lifetime warranty. From now on, ifany pair ofKoss Stereophones should ever fail for any reason, we'll repair or replace them. No questions asked. From the smallest portable model right up through Koss' infrared Kordless™ systems. And that's something to think about the next time you're in the market for a pair of phones. After all, it'd be a shame fora broken pairofstereophones to break up a good friendship. For more information and the name of your nearest dealer, call toll free: 7-800-263-960Z Or write: Koss Limited, I220 Corporate Drive ~...-,□ SS" Burlington, Ontario stereophoneS UL 5R6 Canada. HosrNo-Questions-Asked limited lifetime Worronty. DEE DANIELS Now residing in Vancouver, soulful vocalist Dee Daniels has captivated audiences across North America and Europe. Gospel, blues and jazz are her metier, and few do it better. With two albums as a leader to her credit, Dee's brand new recording, Let's Talk Business (Capri) may finally be her much deserved stepping stone to the big time. With Larry Fuller piano, Russ Botten boss, and Craig Scott drums. JUNE 22 Gastown THE DEMONS The Demons play a distinctive brand of red-hot dance mu- sic. As the house band at The Yale, Vancouver's home of the blues, for the last seven years, The Demons have played with many blues and R&B legends. Their appearances at The Yale will find them hosting jam sessions, opening for blues great John Hammond and backing up the legendary Lowell Fulson. With Jack Lavin boss/vocals, Tim Hearsey guitar, Dave Vidal organ/guitar, and Jerry Adolphe drums. JUNE 22-JULY 1 The Yale ART ELLEFSON AND MODUS "One of Canada's more original tenormen." - Mark Miller, Globe and Moil. Canadian tenor saxophonist Art Ellefson spent 25 years in England honing his distinctive, warm, swinging sound. His distinguished career has included performances with Woody Herman, Maynard Ferguson, Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae and Ella Fitzgerald. With Russ Botten boss, Lee Ellefson guitar, and Buff Allen drums. JUNE 28 Isadora's ETHNO ELECTRICO A unique musical experience. Grahm Ord on saxophones, and Ray Piper on acoustic guitar fuse elements of Brazilian, Indonesian gamelan and jazz musics. Their acoustic instruments trigger electronic devices, creating haunting and unusual sounds and textures. JUNE 22 Pacific Centre .FANTAZEA A unique Vancouver ensemble that plays authentic Brazilian music and Latin jazz. The rich harmonies and haunting melodies of this beautiful music are cushioned on a fascinating rhythmic background of both traditional and contemporary percussion instruments. Ray Piper guitar, Denise Goulet voice, Graham Ord saxophone/flute, Brent Gubbels boss, Robyn Reid percussion, and Phil Belanger drums/percussion. JUNE 29 Isadora's r------------------, l 2 FOR l ADMISSION TO THELoOKOUT FOR JAZZ LOVERS DON' T Miss THE BEST VIEW IN VANCOUVEll THE LOOKOUT! 555 W. HASTINGS 689-0421 'fot Valid with any other Offer. Expires July 1,1991 BoB FENTON/ BILL GROVE Saxophonist Grove and pianist Fenton have been working together since 1989. They represent a unique pairing in today's jazz scene, a meeting of a traditionalist steeped in all jazz piano styles and one ofT oronto's most fervent "new jazzers." Fenton's 45 year career has seen him play with many jazz greats, while Grove has worked and recorded exclusively with his own electric avant garde bands, Whitenoise and Not King Fudge. JUNE 29 Plaza FIFTH AVENUE Winners of the 1989 CBC/Alcan National Jazz Competition, Vancouver's own Fifth Avenue is one of the best mainstream/ post-bop units in the country. A quintet of exciting young players, .their original compositions display a high regard for tradition with an ear for contemporary trends. With Paul Townsend drums,-Alan Matheson piano and trumpet, Brad Turner piano and trumpet, Brian Kennedy bass, and Seamus Blake tenor saxo- phone. GRAND JAZZ + GRAND MARNIER = GRAND EVENING JUNE 26 Glass Slipper FLAMENCO HERESY A seductive blend of flamenco, Brazilian and jazz musics. This Vancouver ensemble is guaranteed to get you on the dance floor. Cha-cha, merengue, salsa, and mambo, plus congas, bone gos, and more! Add the distinctive vocals of flamenco dancer Oscar Nieto, and you've got a dish that really cooks! With Phil Belanger and Jack Duncan percussion, Louis Mastroianni keyboards, Brent Gubbels bass, Graham Ord saxophone and flute, and Joe Bjornson trombone. JUNE 25 Commodore THE FLYING BuLGAR · KLEZMER BAND Klezmer, the joyful jumping Jewish roots music, has been called Jewish Jazz for its driving rhythm, free feeling, beautiful melodies, and improvisations. A hit across Eastern Canada and in their home town of Toronto, the Flying Bulgars have been known to start dance riots with their exuberant performances. David Buchbinder trumpet, Barry Livingston keyboards, Martin Van De Ven clarinets, Laura Caesar bass, Allan Merovitz vocals and percussion, and john Lennard drums. JUNE 30 Plaza JUNE 30, JULY 1 Isadora's liiffii;Jfaht>MM ~ JUNE 25 VECC "Call it catharsis, call it testifying ... but by whatever name you wish to call it .. [It's] one big barn-burning; roof-raising, heaven-rocking, jubilation-generati ng show." - Chicago Tribune. The Five Blind Boys formed in the early '40s at Alabama's Talladega lnstitutefor MARTIN FRANKLIN TRIO the Deaf and Blind. By 1949 Vibraphonist Martin Franklin was they had scored their first hit active on the British jazz scene, record / Can See Everybody's working with musicians like Mother But Mine and in 1953 Ronnie Scott and Tubby Hayes. the group was signed by SpeInfluenced by Milt Jackson, he cialty Records. The LA-based plays in the '50s tradition. With John Nolan drums, and Peter · recording studio urged leader Clarence Fountain to switch over Trill bass. to rock 'n' roll but, staying true JUNE 25 Pacific Centre to his gospel roots, he adamantly JUNE 26 Isadora's refused. And now 40 years later RoB FRAYNE/ CHRIS . the group consistently draws large audiences to · theatres, McCANN QUARTET churches, festivals and night "This is music to live with ... it clubs around North America. In makes me - want to play." 1987 Fountain enjoyed success Don Cherry. One of Canada's as a star in the Obie award most original sounding saxowinning musical Gospel at phonists and a prolific comCo/onus, an adaptation of the poser, Rob Frayne plays a host Greek tragedy Oedipus at of other reeds plus piano. Chris Co/onus. After touring with the McCann's drumming has been play for over a year, Clarence a well-kept secret until recently. Fountain and the Five Blind Boys Also featuring Jim Vivian bass are ready to do their own thing and Jeff Johnston piano. Duo again. AMEN!! Come and hear release Calypsony (Unity). Gospel Music like you've never JUNE 29 Plaza ·heard before. JULY 1 Glass Slipper BRUCE FREED MAN Its Mother Was a Piano ... Its Father Was ·a Computer YAMAHA disklav1e·r·· The Piano For Everyone In Your Family I. Vertical or Grand - The rich full sound of Yamaha's highest quality piano. 2. Player Piano - Insert a floppy disc from a library of great artists and the Disklavier reproduces their exact performance. 3. Teacher - Learn how to play with the DISC ORCHESTRA COLLECTION - record your performance and the piano will play it back. · 4. Orchestra - Through the magic of MIDI your Disklavier piano can produce pipe organ, strings, flute,. and a myriad of other sounds. Come in and see.the Disklavier and discover what a good marriage can produce. Tom Lee Music Downtown Richmond Surrey Coquitlam QUARTET Bruce Freedman, well known to Vancouver audiences as a tenor player with his group Chief Feature, plays alto saxophone in this swingy, original "inside/outside" quartet featuring trumpeter Rob Blakeslee from Portland, Clyde Reed bass, and Buff Allen drums. JUNE 27 Glass Slipper LORI FREEDMAN/ GRAHAM ORD Exploring the edges and meeting points of composition and improvisation, acclaimed bass clarinetist Lori Freedman and saxophonist/percussionist Graham Ord have found a place where new music and jazz coincide. Original compositions, sparse frameworks for improvi_sation, and open form musical conversations are all a part of their unique repertoire and sound. JUNE 30 Plaza FREE F'ALL A fresh, provocative Vancouver quartet. Their group sensibility allows them to work as one, even as they probe the demanding frontiers of free improvisation. Playing original compositions and wholly improvised pieces, part of Free F'All's appeal is their spontaneous attitude to the music. Graham Ord saxophones, Daniel Lapp trumpet and violin, Paul Blaney bass, and Buff Allen drums. JUNE 30 Plaza PAOLO FRESU QUINTET One of Italy's top jazz musicians, 28 year-old trumpeter Paolo Fresu still lives in a small village on his native isle of Sardinia. His playing echoes the lineage of his instrument, Miles Davis, Chet Baker, Kenny Wheeler, Don Cherry. These diverse influences have been absorbed into Paolo's very personal musical style. The album Fresu recorded with his idol Dave Liebman, Inner Voices (Splasc(h) Records), was, Fresu says, his greatest experience. He has recorded four other albums with his own Italian quintet. His latest release Qvarto (Sp lasc(h) Records) takes the listener down roads of seduction, delicateness and sensibility. With Tino Tracanna saxophones, Roberto Cipelli piano, Ettore Fioravanti drums, and Attilio Zanchi bass. HOT READS JUNE 30 Glass Slipper JUNE 30, JULY 1 Plaza LOWELL FULSON Born of African and American Indian heritage, guitarist/vocalist Lowell Fulson is the most important blues artist to have emerged from the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a veteran whose major hits in the '40s and '50s included Everyday I Have The Blues, Three O'Clock Blues, Lonesome Christmas and Tramp, all of them now standards. Still performing at the peak of his powers, Fulson's dynamic presence is a testament to the power of the blues. JUNE 27, 28 Yale OLIVER GANNON QUARTET Recognized as one of Canada's finest players in the classic jazz tradition, guitarist Gannon has toured the USSR with saxophonist Fraser MacPherson.Featuring pianist Ron Johnston, bassist Torben Oxbol and John Nolan on drums. JUNE 26 Alma St. Cafe GARBO'S HAT With their recent independent cassette release, Hats Alive!, and a just completed tour of Canada, Garbo's Hat is on a roll. This unique Vancouver trio finds a challenge in their unusual instrumentation, and performs both original music and jazz standards. Featuring vocalist Kate Hammett-Vaughan, Paul Blaney bass, and Graham Ord saxophones and percussion, a Garbo's Hat performance is as fresh and spontaneous as the music they play. JULY 1 Plaza Iii GEORG LINTON GARNER TRIO Pianist Linton Garner has enjoyed a long, successful and varied career, stretching from his early days with Fletcher Henderson's jazz band through a major stint with the great Billy Eckstine and working as an accompanist for R&B greats Smokey Robinson, Della Reese and Ruth Brown. With Stuart Loseby tenor saxophone, and Don Fraser drums. JULY 1 Plaza ~bridges • Upstairs Seafood Bar • Dockside Dining • Pub • Bistro GRANVILLE ISLAND CAFE DJANGO PHONE 687-4400 The Most Colourful Beats Under The Sun Hanison ( of tGeFestiua Arts ON ENGLISH BAY Jazz Festival Lineup ~ JULY6-14 HARRISON HOT SPRINGS, B.C. VINNY GOLIA Internationally noted multi-instrumentalist, composer and bandleader fuses the rich heritage of jazz, contemporary classical and world music into his own unique compositions. He's presented his music to concert audiences in Europe, Canada, Japan and the U.S. in ensembles varying dramatically in size and instrumentation. A prolific improviser - he plays 15 different woodwinds - "All with the nimbleness of an Olympic decathalon entrant" (Down Beat). In 1977 Vinny formed his own recording company (Nine Winds) and has released numerous albums. Golia will be collaborating with other artists in a variety of musical settings. JUNE 22 Gastown with Jade JUNE 23 Glass Slipper with Jane Bunnett Trio JUNE 27 Glass Slipper with Bill Smith JUNE 30 Glass Slipper with Pacific Art Quartet JULY 1 Plaza with Pacific Art All Shows 9:00P.M. June 21 John Gross/John Stowell/Chris Nelson June 22 Babayaga String Quartet June 23 Bob Murphy/Patric Coird Celebrate the traditional and contemporary cultures of Africa & the Caribbean Quartet June 24 loose Gypsies June 25 Babayaga with Bill Runge/Chris Nelson June 26 John Nugent Trio June 27 George Robert and Friends June 28 Jon Cleary June 29 Jean Vanasse/Pierre St. Jak June 30 Celsa and Carlinhos Machado July 1 Jim Byrnes/Michael Kalanj Where Live Jazz is Part of a Great Meal 1184 Denman St. (at Davie) Dinner Reservations 689-1184 II Concerts, Theatre, Woricshops, Art txhibit C hildren's Day, Art Market and much more! FOR TICKETS CONTACT: HARRISON FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS (604) 796-3664 Box 399, Harrison Hot Springs, B.C. VOM !KO Super, Natural Southwestern B.C. KAREN GRAVES QUINTET Their repertoire is eclectic, ranging from the smooth standards of Sarah Vaughan through the jazz explorations of Roland Kirk and Ornette Coleman. Saxophonist and vocalist Karen Graves and guitarist Tony Wilson also pen originals for the quintet. The group appears regularly at Vancouver's neighbourhood jazz rooms. With Bill Clark trumpet, Joe Williamson bass, and Stan Taylor drums. JUNE 23 Pacific Centre GRAWE/ ERNST REIJSEGER/ GERRY HEMINGWAY A powerful international collaboration. German pianist Grawe combines the power and speed of Cecil Taylor with agility and compositional precision. Virtuoso Dutch cellist Reijseger is in constant demand in Europe and has played with Steve Lacy, Evan Parker, Anthony Braxton, Derek Bailey. Percussionist Hemingway swings even when playing completely free and has an extraordinary range of articulation. A new CD, Sonic Fiction is on Hat Art. JUNE 21 Glass Slipper JUNE 21 VCC (Workshop) JUNE 22 Western Front D1zzv GILLESPIE UNITED NATION ORCHESTRA JUNE 21 ORPHEUM "There are concerts and then there are epics. Dizzy's United Nation bash has the true epic feel throughout, with great music, a packed house, lights, cameras and plenty of action." -Jazz Express. Trumpeter, Dizzy Gillespie is a legend. As a virtuoso musician, pioneer and innovator, composer, arranger, band leader, raconteur, consummate entertainer and cultural ambassador extraordinaire, Gillespie has distinguished himself as one of the truly immortal figures in the history of jazz. More than 40 years ago, Gillespie began to explore the varied music of countries and cultures throughout the world, and is universally credited as the catalyst and most 'prominent artist who incorporated AfroCuban, Brazilian and Caribbean music and rhythm5 into the jazz idiom. He steadfastly believes that jazz "celebrates the internationality of music - our common bond:" To this day Dizzy is acclaimed, not only as the founder, with the late Charlie Parker, of bebop, but also as the visionary risk-taker whose dar- ing integration of ethnic influ- ences added a vibrant and in- JOHN GROSS/ delible dimension to jazz, and to music in all its popular forms. His spectacular all-star United Nation Orchestra, which exemplifies the essence of Gillespie's musical philosophy, has performed to international acclaim in 14 countries on three continents since its inception in 1988. A new recording available on Enja. An auspicious opening for this year's festival! The All-Star Orchestra features Dizzy Gillespie, Jon Faddis and Claudio Roditi on trumpets, Paquito D'Rivera saxophone, clarinet, James Moody saxophone, flute, Ignacio Berroa drums, Danilo Perez piano,. keyboards, Ed Ch_erry guitar, John Lee bass, Slide Hampton and Douglas Purviance trombone, Giovanni Hidalgo congas, percussion, and Mario Rivera saxophone, flute, percussion. Expect a uniquely exciting evening. Presented by Music '91. JOHN STOWELL/ CHRIS NELSON Los Angeles tenor saxophonist ;john Gross has played with jazz drummer Shelley Manne. Port. land-based guitarist John Stow1ell is known for his recordings ,with the remarkable bassist Dave Friesen. Bassist Chris Nelson is familiar to Vancouver audiences as the musical director of Cafe Django and as a member of the , Hugh Fraser Quintet.· ,JUNE 21 Cafe Django :JUNE 22 Isadora's JUNE 23 Pacific Centre MICHAEL GUILD Guitarist Guild has been a mainstay on the Vancouver scene for some years. He plays jazz guitar in the tradition of Herb Ellis and Wes Montgomery with a beautiful sound and swinging feel. JUNE 22 Pacific Centre JUNE 27 Oakridge Stowell solo 'JUNE 24 Alma St. Cafe JOHN HAMMOND Recognized as the most outstanding solo blues artist on the scene today, guitarist/vocalist john Hammond has been on the road for over 25 years. Many of his early performances were in England, where he appeared with emerging British blues artists John Mayall and Graham Bond. Back in America, he formed his own group and also recorded an album with Levon and the Hawks, later known as The Band. Hammond has recorded over 20 albums and regularly tours the world, JUNE 24, 25, 26 Yale . "Stfu~. . ahP.~Y~lth th~;wiliiiess ;f ~ /It [ I A ,,,.. a desert wind ana the burni"V passion of a gY.Psy 1omplire...their le1hm<0I mastery of tlie instrument tests th& houndries of human 1opahitity." -Jim Ferguson Guitar Player " 'Primal Magil' ... song-for-song acolledion of pure heoufy, passion and mystery." - John Payne LA. Weekly S T R, U N~Z & .,_,.. F A R A H ~~~ ~ © 1991 Mesa/ Blue Moon Recordings, Lid. Distributed in the USA by Rhino Records, Inc. Distributed in Conodo ht BMG Music Conodo, Inc. (Mesa 79023) FI~ 522--8222 WATERFRONT RESTAURANT Dine & Dance Every Friday & Saturday Night May 3 & 4 - The Al Wold Quartet May 10 & 11 - Fraser McPherson Trio May 17 & 18 - Ron Johnston Quartet May 24 & 25 - The Miles Black Quartet June 21 & 22 - Miles Black Trio June 28 & 29 - Oliver Gannon Trio/ Jamie Ann Mauro Vocals Ja zz Brunch - 11 - 2:30 June 23 & 30 - O liver Gannon & Fraser McPherson UPSTA IRS AT THE WESTMINSTER Q UAY PUBLIC MARKET OVERLOOKING TH E SCENIC FRASER RIVER ) UST STEPS FROM SKYTRAIN r--------------------- -- ----------------------------- -------------------------, FISH DINNER FOR TWO $29.95 Wnh This Ad Choice of creamy clam chowder or baked french onion soup ** * Red Snapper topped with shrimp served with vegetables & rice * * * Special Coffee topped with whipped cream and chocolate. L-------------------------------------------------------------- Exr. J ULY 13/91 __ , THE HAPPY END Living musical proof that politicsand long faces don't have to go hand-in-hand . Dismantling the barriers between art, folk, and dance musics, a performance by Britain's Happy End can be by turns funny, reverential, angry, celebratory, spontaneously anarchic, or intensely theatrical. An R&B version of an old Burl Ives children's song cuts to the harrowing musical setting of a Bertolt Brecht poem about Nazi persecution; French can-cans rub shoulders with Cuban rhythms and South African township jive. The Happy End will surprise and delight. JUNE 29, JULY 1 Plaza HARPER BROTHERS A sextet of young fire-breathers co-led by drummer Winard Harper and trumpeter Philip Harper. Winard's tasteful precision drumming reflects his Ma x Roach influence and Philip has taken a few stylistic cues from the late Lee Morgan. The saxophones / trumpet front line . brings to mind the classic bebop combos while the tightness of the ensemble and the rhythm section are reminiscent of the Blue Note recordings of the ' 60s. The spirit of the music never strays too far from that of a party and it swings like hell. Even at its most sensitive, a sense of playfulness and joy permeates. Latest recording is called Artistry (Verve). Justin Robinson sax; Javon Jackson sax, Harry Ande~on bas~ and Danny Harper piano. JUNE 26, 27 Saturno PAM HENRY At home in the recording studio or on the stage, versatile vocalist Pam Henry has garnered critical acclaim across Canada and Europe. An experienced songwriter, Pam's first single, Someone Like You, was a hit on the German, Italian and Austrian charts. With Sid Perez guitar, Barry Erfle drums, and Brent Gubbels bass. JUNE 27 Pacific Centre THE CRYSTALWORKS GALLERY Gifts of enduring beauty and originality. Fine Crystals, Minerals & Stones/or home and office. Gem carvings, jewellery & sculpture by noted Vancouver artists & goldsmiths. 1800 W. 5th Avenue (at Burrard) Vancouver, B.C. V6J 1P3 (604) 732-3870 Fax 737-1936 SHELLEY HIRSCH =--~~s' (\)\'\\),,, ,, \ ~l-l\- ..,:.J the \~------ . home of WORLD 1-t>~ LLt: FAMOUS CUSTOM DRUMS A\.~o--- (604) 689-2978 DRUMS ONLY! INC. 1272 Granville Street, Vancouver, B.C. V6Z 1M4 AND DAVID WEINSTEIN Working from the premise that truth is stranger than fiction, vocalist Hirsch and keyboardist Weinstein create music/theatre pieces that evoke an assemblage of characters, aural landscape and a cinematic imagery at once surreal and tangibly human . Based in New York City, Hirsch and Weinstein have collaborated with John Zorn, David Moss and most of the major players in the downtown scene: Their latest recording is Haiku Lingo. JUNE 27 Western Fron! F RAN~0IS HOULE ET CETERA . Virtuoso clarinetist and composer Fran~ois Houle has become an essential member of this city's creative music scene. His multitextured jazz/new music compositions for his sextet are inspired by the music of Steve Lacy and Lacy's two saxophone front-line. His work encompasses a wide range of musical possibilities, from dixieland to contemporary music currents. Jason Liebert trombone, Ian MacIntosh. tuba and digeridu, Joe Williamson bass, Roy Styffe saxophone, Bruce Nielsen drums. JUNE 28 Glass Slipper JUNE 29 Plaza AMANDA HUGHES Voca/ist/dancer/s ongwriter/performerextraordinaire-Amanda Hughes· takes your soul and cradles it in silk velvet. A charismatic entertainer, she incorporates her years of theatrical and musical experience in a unique fashion, effortlessly blending gospel, R&B, jazz and reggae. With Tony Ferraro drums, Mark Rogers bass, Paul Armitage keyboards, James Hill saxophone, and Ron Lewis percussion. JUNE 29 Commodore 1300 GRANVILLE & DRAKE 6 8 I - VALE INSIDE OUTSIDE This fine Vancouver trio features Skywalk . members Rene Worst bass and Harris Van Berkel guitar as well as drummer Dennis Burke of Brass Roots. The group's name says it all, their repertoire covers Pat Metheny, Egberto Gismonti, jazz standards and contemporary originals. JUNE 21 Isadora's INYO FACE Tenor saxophonist J.P. Fisher leads this trio playing be-bop and jazz standards. Swinging jazz that takes no prisoners. With Mike Damgaard drums, and John Forrest bass. JUNE 23 Pacific Centre JACK'S HEADLIGHTS Seattle bassist Michael Bisio has performed with Wayne Horvitz, Jack Walrath, and Andrew Cyrille, and has recorded two albums. Rob Blakeslee, trumpeter and composer, is Director of Jazz Ensembles at Oregon State University and is active on the Portland scene in the Northwest Creative Music Orchestra. Portland saxophonist/composer Rich Halley has three critically acclaimed albums and tours regularly with his band The Lizard Brothers. Drummer Aaron Alexander and Hans Teuber, saxophone, are two of the busiest players in Seattle. JUNE 21 Glass Slipper JUNE 22 Gastown )ADE ORCHESTRA For the last year this large ensemble has been the passion of the great Canadian drummer Claude Ranger. His 19-piece Jade Orchestra is made up of Vancouver's best, an eclectic hand-picked mixture of seasoned improvisors and hot young players. The orchestra showcases Ranger's talents as a composer and arranger. His music-inspired and influenced by Ellington, Debussy, and Stravinsky - can be terrifyingly powerful or sublimely delicate, "inside" or "outside". This special performance will feature four guest artists: Jane Bunnett (Toronto), Vinny Golia, and John Gross (Los Angeles) saxophones, and Rob Blakeslee (Portland) trumpet. The Jade Orchestra is Clyde Reed bass, Ron Samworth SEAFOOD AT ITS BEST1 CAN BE FOUND AT ·A+E £10f~ )~ Reservauons Appreo e 00 Howe St 682-5600 Appearing June 24, 27 & 28 The Marty Franklin Trio Valet Parking JAZZ : l ~ 2936 West 4th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V6K 1R2 (604) 734-2828 Retail I Mail Order/ Special Orders II guitar, Coat Cooke, Bruce Freedman and Dave Say tenor sax, Saul Berson, Graham Ord alto sax, Fran~ois Houle soprano sax and clarinet, Daniel Kane Free Student Workshops baritone sax, Suzanne Marie Duplessis flute, John Korsrud, Aron Doyle, Derry Byrne, Robin Shier trumpets, Brad Muirhead, Dennis Esson, Jason Liebert trombones, and Ian MacIntosh tuba. JUNE 22 Gastown DARYL JAHNKE Vancouver guitarist Daryl Jahnke has just returned from a year in Tokyo. While in Japan, he appeared with jazz trumpeter Terumasa Hino's group on national television. Jahnke's fluid guitar style isreminiscent of jazz great Pat Metheny. With Rick Kilburn bass, Patric Caird saxophones, and Stan Taylor drums. Jahnke will also play a duo concert with bassist Namateet. JUNE 23 DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL JUNE 24 VECC "This San Francisco-based pianist, com poser and arranger is among the most exciting young musicians in the field we call 'jazz' and his band includes JUNE 22 · Pacific Centre many of the Bay Area's best quartet younger players." - San FranJUNE 28 Pacific Centre duo cisco Weekly. His latest recording on Asian lmprov Records, JAZZMANIAN DEVILS Never Give Up, features the debut · One of Vancouver's hottest of his big band, the Pan-Asian properties, the Gangsters of Arkestra. Jang has worked with Swing are back! The music of . percussionist/composer Max Louis Jordan and the sounds of Roach and poet Sonia Sanchez. the classic big bands are given a . From his .first moments on the healthy dose of the Goodman Bay Area music scene, Jang has brothers' insouciant humour shown remarkable talents, as and enthusiastic energy. Les well as a freshness and vision Goodman vocals and alto sax, that made him unique. His ef·Herschel Goodman ·trombone, forts to blend modern and avant Manny Goodman tenor sax, garde jazz, ·classical music and Chilli Will Goodman keyboards, black church spirituals with the Moishe Goodman guitar, Hoagy ancient tradition of Asian music Goodman bass, with vocals by might make him a pioneer of Vanessa Richards and Madeleine "Pacific -Rim acoustic fusion". Morris. According to Larry Kelp of the JUNE 22 Commodore Oakland Tribune, "The music JUNE 29 Plaza runs the gamut of emotions. Although it draws in ·scales and · JOHNSTON/STAFFORD sounds from various Asian counQUARTET tries as well as Japanese Taiko, its real antecedent is the small An outstanding aggregation of orchestra music of the late Vancouver's best mainstream Charles Mingus, rain-bow hued, players. Co-led by pianist Ron powerful arrangements · that Johnston and saxophonist Jack allow plenty of room for soloStafford, the quartet plays ists( ' Appearing-with Kulintang swinging jazz standards and Arts, America's ·leading Filipino originals. With Torben . Oxbol arts/percussion ensemble at the bass, and John Nolan drums. JUNE 28 Alma St. Cafe VECC. The du Maurier Ltd. International Jazz Festival Vancouver presents its annual series of performance workshops, open to · all music students, beginners to advanced. These participatory workshops ·(bring your instrument!) will cover techniques to improve performance and increase individual creativity. Elements of jazz history, theory, and · general musical concepts will also be discussed. The workshops are free to students enrolled in college, university, and high school music programs and to private students of accredited music teachers. Admission for non-students is $10. Festival workshops in the past have covered everything from spontaneous · composition to -arranging, extended vocal improvisation to rhythm studies. We want to open up your ears and change the way you hear the music, so our workshop line-up this year is no less eclectic. Please see our program for more information on players. FRI. JUNE 21 . Georg Grawe piano Ernst Reijseger cello Gerry Hemingway drums MON. JUNE 24 Mike Nock piano TUES. JUNE 2S Paul Plimley piano WED. JUNE 26 Celso Machado guitar/percussion All workshops 2-4 PM in the auditorium, Vancouver Community College King Edward Campus · 1155 East Broadway Pre-register by calling: VCC Music Department 875-8220 or Coastal Jazz .and Blues Society (Karen Shea) 682-0706 Catch the party spirit of New Orleans on Water Street! GASTOWN JAZZ SATURDAY • JUNE 22 STEAM CLOCK STAGE 1PM FREE CONCERTS· • 2PM Featuring artists from around the world. . 3PM • Bring your friends and family and enjoy the music, street entertainers, food and refreshments. MAPLE TREE SQUARE Sponsored by the · STEAM CLOCK STAGE MAPLE TREE SQUARE 1:00 - 2:00 1:00 - 2:15 Mike Nock Quartet Dee Daniels 2:15 - 3:00 2:30 - 3:15 Video Bar-B-Que Big Band Stefan-Bauer & True.Stories 5PM Creatures of Habit Jane Bunnett Trio 4PM 4:30 - 5:15 4:30 - 5:15 Jack's Headlights Jim Byrnes Big Band 5:30-6:15 5:30 - 6:30 Jade Orchestra 6PM 6:30 - 8:00 Jade Orchestra 7PM 6:30 - 8:00 June 23, 1991 Free concerts featuring world-class artists in a street festival celebrating French culture. Plus ... arts and crafts, food, street entertainment, and more! JUSTINE 3:30 pm CELSO & CARLINHOS MACHADO 5 pm 3:15 - 4:15 3:30 - 4:15 . • GASTOWN BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY 1suNDAV. JUNE 23 Loose Gypsies Salsa Ferreras • Water Street will be closed to traffic ; LE FESTIVAL FRANCO-FUN JANE BUNNETT TRIO • 6:30 pm It's all happening at the Maison de la Francophonie. 1551 West 7th Avenue (at Granville). Skywalk Don't miss this exciting event! Lots of fun for all ages. 6:45 - 8:00 • Skywalk And later ... at the Commodore an incredible double bill! ' JUSTINE & UZEB in concert at 9 pm. 6:45 · 8:00 Sony Music Canada ·1nc. WELCOMES JOHN MCLAUGLIN ELLIS MARSALIS· JON FADDIS FINE JAZZ . . .. AVAILABLE AT ~r/.e71PAr/Ah, VODKA OF FINLAND CANADA'S LARGEST AND BEST KNOWN RECORD STORES' Ii II ORPHEUM THEATRE Smithe at Seymour 8PM JUNE JUNE JUNE JUNE JUNE JULY 26 27 28 29 30 1 JOHN McLAUGHLIN TRIO EDDIE PALMI ERI & HI S AFRO CUBAN JAZZ ASTER AWEKE OTIS CLAY &THE CHICAGO FIRE Mahmoud Ahmed Amanda Hughes DIZZY GILLESPIE UNITED NATION ORCHESTRA Presented by Music '91 ... ~ " COMMODORE BALLROOM 870 Granville Street 9 PM ( Fri. &: Sat. 10 PM) ~ .- MANTECA UZEB Kathy Kidd Afro Lati n Jazz Jazzmanian Justine Septet ■ VANCOUVER EAST CULTURAL CENTRE 1895 V enables 8 PM JO HN KORSRUD'S HARD RUBBER ORCHESTRA OTT! AR LIEE RT & LUNA ,JEGRA Flam Devils SUSANNAH McCORKLE - - -· 1' MACEO PARKER & ROOTS REVISITED /CO He, y JON JANG & FRANK THE PAN ASIAN MORGAN ARKESTRA & GEORGE CABLES Kulintang Arts En semble Don Thompson Quartet - -I CLARENCE FOU NTAIN &THE S BLIND BGY S OF ALABAMA SALIF KEITA COURTNEY PINE QUARTET DON CHERRY & MULTIKULTI WORLD SAXOPHONE QUART~T BOBBY PREVITE & EMPTY SUITS Slavoe Tango Ensemble - VANCOUVER PLAYHOUSE STRUNZ & FARAH Hamilton at Georgia 8 PM Celso 6t Carlinhos HORACE TAPSCOTT TRIO Urs Blochlinger Trio -- - Machado - - -· - - ·W ESTERN FRONT 30 3 East 8th Avenue 5:30 PM YAS -KAZ G. GRAWE/ E. REIJSEGER/ G. HEMINGWAY Saturno Supper Club Nat Add erley Quintet Nat Adderley Quintet 2505 Alma Street • 8 PM George Robert Quartet George Robert Quartet Isadora's Inside Outside 1320 Richards Street • 9 PM ELLIS MARSALIS OLEKSANDR NESTEROV & PETRO TOVSTUKHA CHRISTIAN MUTHSPIEL & ROLAND DAHINDEN DON ITTEil & AMY OENIO URS LEI MG RU BER TRIO SHELLE Y HIRSCH & DAVI D W EINSTE IN Harper Brothers Harper Brot her s PAUL PLIMLEY / LISLE ELLIS/ GREGG BENDIAN Niels Lan Doky Niels Lan Doky with with John Abercrombie John Abercrombie -- Alma Street Cafe ~ ;- 1540 Old Bridge • 9 PM (Granville Island) 1184 Denman Street • 9 PM John Gross / John Stowell / Chris Nelson The Yale Ellen Mc llwa ine Cafe Django 1300 Granville Street • 9 PM John Gross/ John Stowell/ Chris Nelson Mike Nock Quartet John Gross/ John Stowell/ Chris Ne lson BJbayag. Babayaga String Quartet Murphy/Caird Quartet The Demons JamSession 3 pm The Demons Jam Session 3 pm - Midnight Ellen Mcllwaine Johnston/ Stafford Quartet Don Lanphere Quartet Glenna Powrie Trio Roy Reynolds Quartet Martin Franklin Trio Celso & Carl inh os Machado Art Ellefson and Modus Fantazea Flying Bulgar Kle zmer Band Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band Jean Vanasse/ Pierre St. Jak Celso & Carlinhos Machado Jim Byrnes with Mike Kalanj Roy Rogers Quartet •vit h Bit ' Runl)et Chri~ ~~l>Qfl John Nugent Trio George Robert & Friends Jon Cleary John Hammond Johri Hamrro nd John Hammond Lowe ll Fulso n Lowell Fulson The Demons Jam Session 3 pm - Midnight The Demons Jam Session 3 pm - Midnight Stefan Bauer &: True Stories Urs leimgrube r Trio & Bill Smith -Lu nar - Fifth Avenue Qua rtet Steve Lacy Sextet Steve lacy Sextet Pacific Art Quartet & The Evolution Roger Baird Arlventures &: Real Time Bruce Freedman Quartet Francois Houle Et Cetera Steve Potts Quartet Paolo Fresu Quintet Rob Frayne/ Chris Mccann Quartet Don Thompson Quartet Vi deo Bar-B-Que Roy Styffe Quartet Themba Tana Vektor Celso & Carlinhos Machado John Nugent Trio Sea mu s Blake Quartet Robin Shier Quintet - 1 AM (After Hours) Jack's Headlig hts Kane/ Taylor Explosion & Real Time Mike Nock Quartet Granville Island Jane Bunnett Tri o Budge Schachte Quintet Jennifer Scott Quintet Joe Bjornson Sextet West Georgia and Granville Plaza 12-2 PM Brass Roots Daryf Jahnke Quartet Karen Graves Quintet Between The Lines Atr ium 12-2 PM Samworth / To ulson Ethno Electrico Inyo Face Rotunda 3-5 PM And re Thiba ul t Michael Guild John Stowell Market Stage • 12-2 PM June Kat z Quartet Loose Gypsies Oleksandr Nesterov &: Petro Tovstukha 185 East 11th Avenue 10 PM Oliver Gannon Loose Gypsies Geo rg Grawe / Ern st Re ijsege r/ Gerry Hemin gway Glass Slipper Ro!>~ Taggart Trio Vinny Golia &: Jane Bunnell Quartet Roger Baird Vi nny Golia - Lapp/ Halls Duo ;i: Marti•1 Frank'in Trio Machado Brothers Pam He nry Daryl Jahnke Duo Budge Schachte Peter MacDo nald Ian Mcconkey Gera rdo Alcci lcl Ray Piper Pacific Centre - --- - Oakridge Centre Gerardo Alccilil Ray Piper Ian Mcconkey Michael Guil d Cambie and 4 1st Ave. 1:30 - 3:30 1:30 • 3:30 6:30 · 8:30 6:30 · 8 :30 Coat Cooke .,,.,,... _, . For ticket information, see page 10. For further intf>f'Wion, or to order tickets, call the Jazz Hotline • 682-0706. PLAZA OF NATIONS YUK-YUK'S COMEDY CLUB DISCOVERY THEATRE Chief Feature Vanasse/St. Ja k 1PM Jazzmanian Devils 8.C. 8.C. Quebec 1:00 - 1:45 1:00 - 1:45 Urs Blochlinger Trio 1:00 - 3:00 Switzerland 2:00 - 3:00 3PM frayne/McCann Quartet Slavoe Tango Ensemble Ontario/Newfoundland U.S. 3:30 - 4:15 3:15 - 4:00 3:30 - 4:15 Steve Potts Quartet Fronce 4:45 -5:45 The Happy End Britain Quartet U.S. 1:00- 1:45 1:00 - 1:45 2:1 5 - 3:15 Grove B.C/Ont./Que./U.S. Don Lanphere· 8.C. Ontario Bendian/Ellis/ Plimley/Golia/ Alberta Bob Bell · &: Necropolis B. C. / U.S. flying Bu lgar Klezm er Band 2:15 - 2:45 " 4:15-5:15 Trio Michel Ratte Quebec Graham Ord & Lori Freedman 8.C. 2:00 - 2:45 p,o .E.T. Quartet Steve Potts Quartet . Belgium/ Alberta Fronce 3:30 - 4:15 3:15 - 4:1S PLAZA OF NATIONS The Happy End Britain 1:00 - 2:30 Trio B.C. 2:15 - 3:15 Paolo Fr:esu Quintet Jean Vanasse/ Pierre St. Jak 3:00 - 4:00 Italy 1:00 - 2:00 U. S. free f' All 8.C. 4:30 - 5:30 4:45 - 6:00 Electric World Dr. Umezu/ Michihiro Satoh/ Belgium/Alberta· 1:00- 1:45 Garbo's Hat Fraser MacPherson Quartet B.C. 2:00 - 2:45 Linton Garner Trio Above Ground B.C. 3:00 - 4:00 8.C. 3:30-4:15 Quebec Vektor U.S. Ontario 4:30 - 5:30 4:45 - 5:45 Dr. Umezu/ Michihiro Satoh/ Sabu Toyozumi Japan 4:30- 5:30 Sabu Toyozumi Japan 5:00 - 6:30 Machado Brothers Brazil 5:45 - 6:15 7:00 - 8:00 P.O.E.T. Quartet 8.C./U.5. John King's John King's Electric World 5:30 - 6:15 B.C. Pacific Art Quartet 2:15 - 3:00 Quebec Urs Blochlinger Vektor Trio Ontario Switzerland Bill Clark Sextet B.C. 6:00 - 6:45 6:00 - 7:00 6:15 - 7:00 Michael Van Eyes Band DISCOVERY THEATRE 8.0 Michel Ratte 5:15 - 7:00 Fran~ois Houle Et Cetera YUK-YUK'S COMEDY CLUB 3:30 - 4:30 Bill Grove/ Bob Fenton Ontario DISCOVERY THEATRE Glen n a Powrie Quartet 1:00 · 1:45 Gregg Bendian YUK-YUK'S COMEDY CLUB Paolo Fresu Quintet Roy Rogers U. 5. Italy 7:30 - 9:00 7:00 - 8:30 Hermeto Pascoal Post-Cecil Taylor Brazil Garage Music Orchestra 7:00 - 9:00 ~ flNfll"JAll llN~f l!J! - B L U E NOTE., THE FINEST IN JAZZ IS ON BLUENOTE SEE THEM LIVE AT THE FESTIVAL B.C. 7:15 - 8:15 7:45 - 9:00 liiE GREAT NATURAL BEERS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA WELCOME YOU TO THE duMAURIER LTD. INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL At Okanagan Spring Brewery malted grains, hops, yeast, and the pure sparkling waters of the Okanagan are blended with old-world brewing skills into natural unpasteurized beers of memorable taste and distinction: Premium Lager. Dry, clear, clean and golden refreshment. Extra Special Pale Ale. Crisp, coppery, a nectar among beers. Old Munich Wheat. A delicious blend of wheat and barley. Dark champagne. St. Patrick-Stout. Deep brown, dry and meaningful. AVAILABLE AT ~~7J.BJI,/~ Old English Porter · At 8.5%, a banquet in a bottle . . Enjoy your choice on tap or by the bottle at many ofBC's best licenced establishments. CANADA'S LARGEST AND BEST KNOWN RECORD STORES Ii II ($(1()01t(f~ ~ 0·0 P It.. L ~ T l"l U ll.., cl N T JUSTINE This Quebecoise ensemble is internationally recognized for their mutant amalgam of contemporary pop and improvisation. Formerly called Wondeur Brass and Les Paules, the name change signifies a new direction in an .already complex music, reflecting their musical past while stepping firmly into the future. From honeyed trills to shrieks, caressing whispers to guttural grumblings. Justine's music is continually fresh. Recordings available on the Ambience Magnetiques label. Diane Labrosse keyboards, Joane Hetu saxophones, Marie Trudeau bass, and Danielle Roger drums. JUNE 23 Le Festival Franco-Fun JUNE 23 Commodore wildly entertaining."- Paul Wells, Montreal Gazette. John King, composer/guitarist/violinist, has presented his unique style of funk-noise-jazz-bluesinfected music at many major festivals and performances: Music Today '90 (Tokyo), New Music America (LA and Miami) and so on . He has also performedwith other groups: David Moss' Dense Band; Guy Klucevsek's Polka from the Fringe Band; John Zorn's Cobra; as well as with Anthony Coleman, Tom Zora and Tim Berne. His latest release, Electric World (Ear-Rational), has received rave reviews. With Jean Chaine bass, and the amazing, must be seen to be believed, David Moss drums and vocals. JUNE 30 Plaza JULY 1 Plaza KATHY KIDD AFRO LATIN JAZZ SEPTET For the past 12 years, pianist/ composer/bandleaderKidd's love of Salsa and African rhythms has led her to work with Vancouver's finest Latin and African drummers. Some of Kathy's influences include Manu Dibango, Eddie Palmieri, Bill Evans and McCoy Tyner. The musical result is a seamless integration of these various influences - an infectious music that's irresistible. Her latest release is called Serious Fun. With Buff Allen drums, Paul Barron trumpet, Jack Duncan percussion, Sal Ferreras congas and percussion, Tom Keenlyside sax and flute, and Rene Worst bass. JUNE 21 Commodore IMWl:¼$J:illh1¥M ~ Emm!IIIII JUNE 21 VECC "A freewheeling approach to the possibilities of his large band's line-up" - The Georgia Straight. An all-star aggregation of Vancouver's most exciting and eclectic improvising soloists. Led by trumpeter/ composer John Korsrud, the Hard Rubber KANE/TAYLOR AT THE ENTRA N CE OF GRANVILLE WEST -COAST ISLAND, JUST PA ST THE KIDS ONLY MARKET, TURN RIGHT FRESHNESS NATURALLY 681- -8816 · EXPLOSION The name says ital I. Hard-blowing free-bop, original compositions, -and tunes by Dewey • Redman, Blood Ulmer, and Thelonious Monk. Saxophonist Daniel Kane on tenor and baritone blows like George Adams, Hamiet Bluiett and Albert Ayler rolled into one. His ferocious energy is matched by the steam. rolling Stan Taylor on drums, guitarist Tony Wilson and bassist ·Brent Gubbels round out the sound of this explosive band. JUNE 22 Glass Slipper JUNE KATZ QUARTET Jazz hostess/vocalist at the Alma St. Cafe, June Katz brings a touch of urbane sophistication to the Vancouverscene. Her renditions of standards are in the classic tradition of Billie Holiday. June has released two albums of jazz · standards, Shiny Stockings and Lulu's Back In Town. With Chris Sigerson piano, Ken Lister bass, and John Nolan drums. JUNE 27 Alma St. Cafe JOHN KING, s . UPTOWN - OAKRIDGE DOWNTOWN - 1080 ROBSON UNDERGROUND - PACIFIC CENTRE Our-O'T0WN - VICTORIA . ELECTRIC WORLD " ... A New York trio whose show mixed funk and punk-rock with little dollops of free improvisation. · The band was SALIF KEITA JUNE 30 COMMODORE " Riding above the music is Keita's high charismatic voice ... imagine a cross between a seraph and Smokey Robinson ... " Stereo Review. Keita has been called "the golden Voice of Africa" and "one of the world's greatest soul singers". Given that he comes from an area of Africa w here voices are treasured as instruments for carrying the history of the people, that makes Salif's status exceptional. By any standards Salif's voice is outstanding; its high wailing tone and long mournful notes immediately identify him with the Islamic traditions of his home cou ntry Mali, in West Africa. Salif's life story, too, is an exceptio nal triumph over seemingly rig id factors; being born albino and belonging to a noble family w hose predetermined lifeplan did not include singing. In Mali a si ngers' career is usually determined by one's birth into a family of griots. Salif's rise to international stardom would have been inconceivable at his birth, in the Village of Djoliba, 45 dusty kilometers from the Malian capital, Bamako. Salif's respected family traces its line- age to Soundjata Keita, the warrior king who founded the Malian empire in 1240. As a child, Salif would listen as griots visited the family, to sing their praises and tell of local news. That triggered something in him. He told the British magazine Folk Roots, that bad eyesight blocked him from teacher-training and suggested to him a career as a singer. In order to fulfill that ambition, Salif had to leave his family and settle in Bamako. In the capital he struggled to survive as a singer and musician until, in 1970, he joined the governmentsponsored Rail band which played in the bar of Bamako Station. Today, Salif Keita, along with Youssou N'Dour is established as one of Africa's leading international artists. His most recent releases on Island Records, Soro and Ko-yan are musically awe-inspiring and confirm Keita as an artist of world stature. Music that is powerful and seamless delivered by a voice that is breathtakingly beautiful. What are you waiting for? Orchestra's music draws freely on the influences of 20th Century music, from McCoy Tyner to modernists Ligeti and Berio, to Jimi Hendrix. Korsrud has moved towards multi-media collaborations, the most recent being Tamahnous Theatre's production of Confessions. The Hard Rubber Orchestra expands the standard aural concert experience with musical theatre that is both vibrant and erectric. Roy Styffe, Patric Caird, Ross Taggart and Daniel Kane saxophones, Ron Samworth guitar, Stan Taylor drums, Paul Blaney bass, Dennis Esson, Rob McKenzie and Jason Liebert trombones, Brad Muirhead trombone and sousaphone, Bill Clark, Jim Ross and Aron Doyle trumpets. K uuNTANG ARTs E NSEMBLE Over the last five years, this San Francisco-based troupe has become recognized as the leading Filipino-Amedcan performance ensemble. This g roup presents a colorful and exhilarating program of traditional and contemporary works rooted in the ancient percussion ensemble of bronze gongs and drums. The VECC performance will feature a collaboration with pianist/composer Jon Jang and his jazz based Pan Asian Arkestra. A great chance to see ·the Kulintang idiom translated to Western instruments and musical vocabulary. JUNE 23 Dragon Boat Festival JUNE 24 VECC STEVE LACY SEXTET " ... one of the most extraordinary bands in existence ... " - New York Post. Steve Lacy is widely regarded as the foremost soprano saxophonist in jazz today. He's been playing music on the "cutting edge" in the company of some of the most illustrious names in jazz for nearly three decades, names that include Cecil Taylor, Gil Evans and Thelonious Monk. Since moving to Paris in 1970, Lacy has played a major role in thefound 0 ing of an authentic European improvised music which draws extensively on the American tradition. He describes his mo. sic as" ... a unique combination of words and music, a mixture of European and American, black and white, male and female, classical and modern ... it has to be experienced." With lreneAebi voice and violin, Steve Potts alto sax, Bobby Few piano, Jean-Jacques Avenel bass, and John Betsch drums. JUNE 28, 29 Glass Slipper N1ELs LAN DoKY WITH JOHN ABERCROMBIE At age 26, Danish pianist Niels Lan Doky is a major jazz star in his home country, has appeared on a dozen albums and received numerous awards and commissions. Doky'sfirstbig break came in 1979 in Copenhagen when he was asked to join a quintet led by the great trumpeter Thad Jones. Young Niels was only 15 years old! Having lived in the U.S. for most of the 1980s, he has assembled a formidable jazz resume. Jazz guitarist John Abercrombie possesses a unique voice, combining evolving technologies with the tradition of his instrument. With Christian . Lan Doky bass and Adam Nussbaum (Michael Brecker Band) drums. JUNE 28, 29 Saturno Group Parties 20-200 Live Entertainment Sat Karaoke Bar Mon BROTHERS RESTAURANT #1 Water Street, Gastown ph 683-9124 The Barclay Hotel offers you your perfect get-away in the middle of town. A lovingly restored heritage hotel with its own first class dining room and lounge, with live entertainment, you,11 feel right at home ..Walk everywhere from here - to the the a Ire, Stanley Park or along upbeat Robson Street with its designer boutiques, quaint shops and small cafes. THE BARCLAY HOTEL 1348 ROBSON Sr: VANCOUVER, B .C. V6E 1C5 (604) 688-8850 DoN LANPHERE QUARTET Seattle-based saxophonist Lanphere . learned to play by following Charlie Parker around in the' 40s with a tape recorder. He has played with Woody Herman and has an upcoming release recorded live at Seattle's Jazz Alley with vocalist Jay Clayton. His current CD is Don Lanphere/Larry Coryell (Hep). Pianist Mark Seales is an associate professor at the University of Washington. With Chuck Deardorf bass, and Dean Hodges drums. JUNE 29 Alma St. Cafe JUNE 30 Plaza DANIEL LAPP/ SUMMER IS WAITING .IN.THE WINGS Summer on Granville Island is always a celebration of the arts! Here are some highlights of events waiting in the wings. Emily Carr Graduation show, May 11-June 2; du Maurier International Jazz Festival, June 21 - July 1; Canada Day, July 1; Summer Craft Fair, July 5 - 7; VSO Under the Crane, July 21. For a complete list of events, please call the Granville Island Info Centre at 666-5784. Granville Island VANcauve~ c«AM9£R ~tc fBnvttL presents The jazz quartet that swings with distinction People Magazine MONDAY, JULY 22, 8PM ST. GEORGE'S SCHOOL CAMPUS 4175 WEST 29THAVE. TICKETMASTER OUTLETS 280-3311 I INFORMATION 736-6034 GLEN HALLS Duo Fusing elements of world folk music and jazz with 20th Century compositional techniques, Victoria-based trumpeter/fiddler/ vocalist Lapp (Loose Gypsies, Free F'AII, ex-Spirit of the West) and pianist Halls play loosely structured improvisations that are thoughtful and interactive. Halls' colourful piano technique blends with Lapp's earthy, soulful, lyrical approach to create a unique musical experience. JUNE 24 Pacific Centre URS LEIMGRUBER TRIO Paris-based Swiss saxophonist Leimgruber blends modern jazz influences (Coltrane, Ayler and Shepp) with western classical forms. His original concept and mastery of both the soprano and tenor saxophones give his music a unique artistic eloquence. Over the years Leimgruber has toured and recorded with the European group Reflexionen, Carla Bley, Charlie Mariano, Barry Altshul and others. He has recorded for ECM, Timeless, and Hat Art records. Appearing with Adelhard Roidinger bass, and the innovative Swiss percussionist, Fritz Hauser. JUNE 25 Glass Slipper JUNE 26 Western Front LOOSE GYPSIES This energetic quartet from Victoria plays acoustic music from the 1920s to now. From the music of Django Reinhardt and StephaneGrappelli through traditional fiddle music, Western Swing, and Appalachian folk tunes to contemporary originals and jazz improvisations, the Gypsies play toe-tapping, goodtime music with a difference. Check them out Daniel Lapp trumpet and violin, Mark Atkinson guitar, Scott White bass, and James McRae drums. JUNE 23 Gastown JUNE 23 Isadora's JUNE 24 Cafe Django JUNE 25 Granville Island Jllllllll l.1111111'11:mi l; IJIIll.lllili iellllli ! JUNE 25 COMMODORE "(His) acoustic guitar includes traces of Django Reinhardt, a touch or two of Paco De Lucia and a healthy seasoning of Hungarian gypsy music. Toss in a foundation of passionate flamenco rhythms, and the result is a music that moves the body while it touches the soul." Los Angeles Times. Born in Cologne, Germany, to ·a ChineseGerman father and Hungarian mother, Liebert has been playing guitar since he was 11 years old. Over the years, Ottmar absorbed many cultural influences and blended them into his own distinctive style. He calls his music "nouveau flamenco" but its really a potpourri of influences spanning Spain to Germany to China. Since the release last year of his debut recording, Nouveau Flamenco (Higher Octave), distributors have reported difficulty in keeping the CD in stores.It's been at the top of the record charts for months. "I've always loved the rhythmic aspects of flamenco," says Liebert, "and I wanted to see how it would work with a kind of passionate, haunting eastern European type of melody, instead of something light and Spanish. But I had no idea it would work as well as it does." If you think the Gypsy Kings are hot, you're in for a surprise! LUNAR ADVENTURES Electro-acoustic tribal sounds in the tradition of the 21st Century. Lunar Adventures is a Vancouver quartet that draws its music. from influences as diverse as the harmolodic explorations of Ornette Coleman, ancient Mayan folk music, traditional Scottish reels, and urban funk. A unique Canadian ensemble, Lunar recently played New York City's Knitting Factory. CD Alive in Seattle available on Nine Winds. Coat Cooke saxophones, Ron Sam worth guita·r, Clyde Reed bass, and Gregg Simpson drums. JUNE 25 Glass Slipper PETER MACDONALD Playing jazz standards in the tradition of jazz guitar greats Wes Montgomery and Herb Ellis, guitarist Peter MacDonald is a busy player on the Vancouver scene, both as a soloist and an ensemble player. JUNE 25 Pacific Centre . CELSO AND CARLINHOS MACHADO Virtuoso Brazilian guitarist/ singer/percussionist Celso Machado made his first visit to Vancouver for the 1986 Jazz Festival in the company of his brother, guitarist Carlinhos Machado. Their music was a huge success, and Celso has become a perennial favourite, returning to the Festival every year. His effervescent person- I I II ality and infectious love of performing always capture the hearts of his audiences. Influenced in part by the style of Wes Montgomery, Carlinhos Machado has taken the jazz road, playing a hollow-body electric guitar. The fusion of the brothers' two distinct styles is musical magic. JUNE 23 Le Festival FrancoFun JUNE 26 VCC (Workshop) JUNE 27 Isadora's JUNE 29 Playhouse JUNE 30 Cafe Django JULY 1 Plaza, Granville Isl. FRASER MACPHERSON QUARTET Canada's jazz ambassador, saxophonist Fraser MacPherson has toured the Soviet Union and was recently awarded - the Order of Canada. His warm tenor sound and swinging feel have won him critical acclaim for many years, and he has numerous records on the Concord and Justin Time labels. With Oliver Gannon guitar, Torben Oxbol bass, and Norm Jeffries drums. JULY 1 Plaza ~ JUNE 21 COMMODORE Hey, it's an opening night party with Canada's hottest musical funsters. These guys work hard at having a good time. Searching for the appropriate description, the media both at home and abroad has called them, "Toronto's Musical Internationalists", "Soca-lypso Popsters", "A jazz/funk/salsa Orchestra", and simply "a new definition of power". Their music encompasses many diverse influences -the circular rhythms of a Samba street dance, set against a brassy backdrop of funk melody; or the bounce of African High Life paired with the harmonic warmth of Soca-lypso changes. It's this jazz meets funk power that has given the band a reputation as one of the most original and energetic instrumental groups anywhere. With more ~ ~ ELLIS MARSALIS JULY 1 VECC At 53, the New Orleans jazz pianist who fathered Wynton, Branford and Delfeayo is stepping into the limelight. He has just signed a multi-record contract with Columbia Records. Marsalis began playing piano as a teenager, apprenticing with anyone in New Orleans who would have him. He served in the Marine Corps in the late '50s, performing weekly on a television program called Dress Blues and hosting a radio show at the base in Santa Ana, California. When he returned to New Orleans, he worked in · settings ranging from solo piano to piano-with-orchestra and repertory theater. When things were slow, he taught at the Center for Cultural Arts and held workshops. He recorded with Cannonball and Nat Adderley, Dixieland musician Al Hirt, and on his own. His most recent recording is called Piano In E: Solo Piano (Rounder). Oscar Peterson was his principal influence, but because Marsalis was frequently jamming with quartets and quintets, and not the trios Peterson favoured, he began to develop a more bandoriented style. Recently, Marsalis has lent his considerable talents to recordings by son Wynton (Standard Time Volume 3: The Resolution of Romance) and British saxophonist Courtney Pine (The Vision's Tale). And the musical renaissance he currently enjoys is justly deserved. Pianist, educator and patriarch - come and hear an evening of solo piano by a great musician. than 170 albums to their collective credit, Manteca is comprised of players very much in demand, both on stage and in the studio. This powerful nine-piece unit is led by percussionist Matt Zimbel and was a huge hit at the 1989 festival. Their eminently danceable Afro-Latin rhythm, infectious energy, and visual presentation shouldn't -be missed. Featuring Aaron Davis on keyboards. Latest recording is called Extra, Extra (Duke Street Records) JUNE 22 VECC " ... a first-rate voice ... lets her gorgeous, sultry singing transport the listener to places that elude non-musical description." - New York Times. Americanborn Mccorkle began singing professionally as a student in Europe, where she discovered vintage American musicals and _ . jazz. Her nine albums include How Do You Keep the Music Playing (PAUSA) which won a Stereo Review Record of the Year Award and made the top ten lists of both U.P.I. and Newhouse national wire services. Earlier albums of songs of Johnny Mercer, Harry Warren, E.Y. Harburg and Leo Robin earned raves from the New York Times, People, Billboard and The New Yorker. Susannah is known for her gimmick-free style, warmth, humour, and ability to conve_y_ a wide range of emotions. Stereo Review critic Chris Albertson, cItIng her versatility, choice of material, and artistic growth, concludes: "She is up there with Sarah Vaughan". Leonard Feather says In the L.A. Times: "the best of the entire crop of singers to come to promInen~e in the 1980s." She is also an accomplished writer whose work has appeared in the O. Henry Book of Prize Short Stories, New York Magazine, Newsday and Cosmopolitan. She is currently at work on a novel. Her latest release is Sa~ia (Concord). Appanng with Cliff Corman piano, Dick Sarpola bass, and Peter Grant drums. ecco LEATHER on Granville Island I AN McCoNKEY M cConkey, a Vancouver guit arist and vocalist, is well known to those who frequent t his city's small club circuit. He excels at Latin and Brazilian music, and is a versatile and experienced entertainer. Check him out. JUNE 26 Pacific Centre JUNE 26 Oakridge ELLEN MclLWAINE Slide guitarist and vocalist Ellen Mcilwaine has walked boldly where other women have feared to tread, straight into the hallowed halls of Guitar Heroes. She has a unique acoustic and electric guitar style, playing bass lines' against driving rhythms, incorporating fuzz tone and wah-wah pedals and unusual tunings, using slide on every tune. Her powerful voice, which she uses as another guitar as well as an acrobatic scatting instrument, is a part of her trademark sound. An innovative and electrifying performer! JUNE 21, 22 Yale OHN McLAUGHLIN TRIO JUNE 26 COMMODORE One of the most versatile and influential guitarists of our time. McLaughlin is known as an extraordinary solo artist, as the leader of both the ground-breaking Mahavishnu Orchestra and the revolutionary Inda-Jazz Group Shakti, and as the composer of some of the most stunning classical-jazz fusion pieces 1 81 2 Boatlift Lane Vancouver, B.C. 688-3802 ever written. Essentially selftaught, McLaughlin's earliest influence outside blues was flamenco music at 14; laterDjango Reinhardt, Tai Farlow, Jim Hall, Barney Kessel, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Bartok and Debussy were all to · make a lasting impression. In the '60s, McLaughlin contributed to the British blues revival with Alexis Korner, Georgie Fame, Graham Bond and Brian Auger. He. then entered a period of jazz exploration in the company of John Surman and Dave Holland. His 1969 release Extrapolation is considered a masterpiece. Also in '69 , McLaughlin crossed the Atlantic and joined Miles Davis' drummer Tony Williams in his new Lifetime Unit. Through Williams, he was included on Miles Davis' influential album, (In a Silent Way), and the association continued with McLaughlin growing in confidence and a new economy (Bitches Brew). By the '70s, McLaughlin began a series of solo musical exploits that established his international reputation and influence. John's passion these days is his remarkable trio featuring Dominique Di Piaua on bass ·and master percussionist Trilok Gurtu. This band is a study in group dynamics but it's still McLaughlin's guitar mastery that takes your breath away. Not to be missed. CHRISTIAN MuTHSPIEL/ ROLAND DAHINDEN This contemporary trombone duo from Switzerland/Austria extrapolates the work of J.J. Johnson, Winding, Vinko Globokar and Albert Mangelsdorff into a present-day context representing the young European post-free jau avant garde. These two technically gifted, versatile, imaginative and funny musicians have created a peculiar acoustic microcosmos. Definitely a musical treat which · brings unexpected sound constellations to life. A recent recording is available on Amadeo/ Polygram. JUNE 24 Western Front JUNE 23 VECC Critics say Frank Morgan may be the greatest jazz saxophonist alive. Now 57, he was Charlie Parker's heir apparent, but due to substance abuse problems his potentially great career didn't materialize. Since 1985, he's made a, · remarkable comeback releasing over half a dozen albums, each one showing his growth as an artist. Wynton Marsalis is featured on Mood Indigo (Antilles) and says of Morgan: "There is no one around who is better on the alto saxophone. What comes out of his horn is soulful, full of fire and timeless." Backing up Marsalis, The Boston Globe says: Bos MuRPHY/ "Morgan has a pure, elegant PATRIC CAIRD sound, remarkable control, and QUARTET dauling facility." Pianist George Playing a repertoire of original material and selected stanCables has been a significant figure on the jazz scene for over dards in the contemporary 20 years. Collaborations and remainstream tradition, four of cordings with tenor saxophonVancouver's best. Pianist Bob ist Joe Henderson and· Sonny Murphy and saxophonist Patric Rollins, trumpeters Freddie Caird co-lead this exciting Hubbard and Woody Shaw and group. With Graham Boyle vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson .drums, and Chris Nelson bass. made Cable's wide-ranging keyJUNE 23 Cafe Django board skills amply evident. By the end of the '70s Cables was 0LEKSANDR NESTEROV/ garnering a reputation as PETRO TovsTUKHA everyone's favourite sideman. Stints with Dexter Gordon '77From Kiev, Ukraine, multi-instru'79 and later with Art Pepper menta lists Nesterov and solidified George's standing as Tovstukha are two of the most a -remarkable pianist. His longprominent members of the standing relationship with PepUkrainian contemporary music per resulted in a extraordinary scene. The duo's musical output incorporates elements of · duet album, Goin' Home, that would be Pepper's final recordimprovised jazz and avant garde ing session. Shortly after electronic music. Theirs is a Pepper's death, Cables worked continuous search.for new creawith Frank Morgan as a duo tive images and new approaches during a summer concert series to improvisation. Some comin Santa Monica. Their 1987 positions are inspired by works duet recording, Double Image of contemporary visual art and (Contemporary), was hailed by film. Others are the reflection of critics as "a stunning docuthe turbulent political atmosment". Leonard Feather of the phere in the USSR, for example, L.A. Times referred . to the tunes a stunning cycle of works deas "nonpareil performances". voted to the Chernobyl nuclear The duo's latest recording, A disaster. This marks the first Lovesome Thing, is a tour de force. Canadian tour for a Ukrainian Don't miss this special evening jazz/new music group. of exquisite jazz with two JUNE 22 Glass Slipper legends of the music. JUNE 23 Western Front - - - - - - - -- - - - -- - - - - -- -- - - - -- - - - - - - -- - - - I "Vancouver's favourite downtown pub LfollY t'axpayer Pu,, The for lunch and dinner." 10 am - midnight 828 W. Hastings St. - 681-3574 TMf ftlt\ft STRUT Cftff BEST WESTCOAST JAZZ WITH JUNE KATZ & GUESTS 2505 ALMA ST. AT WEST BROADWAY RESERVATIONS (ALL 222-2244 l3 foilZ,l~JIW ■ JUNE 27 COMMODORE 1 Eddie Palmieri has had many names: "The King of Latin Music", "The Sun of Latin Music", "Salsa's Space Man", "The wild high-octane salsa monster", and "The Latin Monk" (after Thelonious). For many years this true maestro has been salsa's most innovative and influential artist, _ taking the music to unprecedented heights of virtuosity and experimentation. Salsa is a form · of Latin dancemusic developed within the community of Puerto Ricans and Cubans who immigrated to New York in the 1950s. The sophisticated Cuban dance orchestras mixed the rumba, the bolero, the tango, the mambo and the cha-cha, with the ancient rhythms imported from Africa -and preserved in the villages. This music was played on the congas, bongos and the sacred bata and incorporated the call-and-response song-style of the-old chants. After the U.S. broke with Cuba, salsa started to dejlelop-independently. A Palmieri piece is similar to an orchestral suite-often beginning with a classic tango, suddenly switching into a wildly explosive melange · of sound, stabbing horn riffs and always the pulsating rhythm holding it together-. It's his knowledge of and faithfulness to the salsa forms that makes it possible for Palmieri to explore such a variety of new musical elements. The classic in.strumentation (trumpets, trombone, cimbales, congas, bongos, bata, bass and piano) . remains . A brilliant renegade, Palmieri has introduced jazz phrasing, electric violin and guitar, Bach fugue approaches, and other progressive elements into his music. His latest release Suefio on Capitol/ Intuition is the continuing fulfillment of Eddie's cross-over approach and features David Sanborn and Mike Stern. Eddie Palmieri is the most important creative force active in Latin music today . A concert you ' ll be talking about for years. MIKE NocK QUARTET With a formidable reputation as a pianist and composer, Mike Nock has recorded 19 albums, co-founded the legendary band The Fourth Way, worked extensively with Yusef Lateef, and has been heard worldwide through his many tours, radio and TV broadcasts. After spending 25 years in the U.S., New Zealandborn pianist Mike Nock (last heard in Vancouver in 1989 accompanying jazz vocalist Helen Merrill) returned to Australia in 1986 and formed this quartet. His sidemen, all under 23 years of age, are among the most gifted on the Australian contemporary jazz scene. With Tim Hopkins · tenor saxophone, Cameron Undy bass, and Andrew Dickeson drums. JUNE 23 Gastown JUNE 23 Alma St. Cafe JUNE 24 VCC (Workshop) JUNE 24 Glass Slipper ---------, JOHN NUGENT TRIO This tenor saxophonist is one of Canada's finest mainstream musicians. Originally from Newfoundland, John is presently based in Montreal. Nugent ; spent two years on the road with Woody Herman's band, and has studied with Dave Liebman. His current release Did f Tell You ... (Unity Records) showcases his talent as a composer. With Alec Walkington bass and David Laing drums. JUNE 26 Pacific Centre JUNE 26 Cafe Django THE P.0.E.T. QUARTET This dynamic group of young Belgian and Canadian players takes its name from their initials. Pierre Vaiana, saxophonist, who has performed in festivals and clubs across Europe, now leads his own quartet in New York. Owen Howard, an outstanding young Canadian drummer, has played with Tom Harrell and Sheila Jordan. Eric Legnini is a dazzling young Belgian pianist influenced by Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett. BassistT orben Westergaard has recorded his first album as leader featuring John Abercrombie and Adam Nussbaum. JUNE 30, JULY 1 Plaza I I I I I I I I I A VANCOUVER TRADITION Murchie's has been importing and blending teas since 1894. Now discover our exciting new cappuccino and pastry bar. Taste the difference experience makes. A TRADITION OF EXCELLENCE ~ 970 Robson (Between Burrard & Hornby) I L---------------------------------------- a PACIFIC ART QUARTET A hit at Seattle's 1990 Bumbershoot and Earshot festivals, this Los Angles/Portland/ Vancouver collective combines the talents of four highly interactive improvising musicians. A master of a multitude of reed instruments, composer/saxophonist/flutist Vinny Golia is a fiercely impassioned player. Composer/trumpeter Rob Blakeslee possesses a warm and beautiful sound comparable to the great Kenny Wheeler. Drummer John Nolan's sensitive communication is combined with a fundamental, earthy swing feel that augments the fearless explorations of bassist Clyde Reed. JUNE 30 Glass Slipper JULY 1 Plaza Burgers 8 Varieties" . 1 West Cordova St. ph. 685-H22 f "' i special mention as a Canadian player to watch out for in the Down Beat magazine review of the 1990 festival. His group plays original music inspired by Ornette Coleman's classic quartet. With Dave Say tenor saxophone, Joe Williamson bass, and Dylan Van Der Schyff bow, mbira, dried gourd shakers 1 4 t t) ' . . Alto saxophonist Styffe received 1 I PART. djimbe. JUNE 29 Granville Island ANDRE THIBAULT From Montreal, guitarist Thibault has been playing for 25 years. He started out in R&B bands but soon turned to classical and flamenco studies. Playing in Vancouver since 1977, he has concentrated on what he calls "an ethnic approach", mixing Flamenco with African, Brazilian and jazz musics. JUNE 21 Pacific Centre EXCLUSIVE DENIM/LEATHER DESIGNER WEAR "One of the most vital grassroots forces in American Music ... His style is both challenging and satisfying; easily one of the most fluent voices in post-bop piano" - Coda Magazine. Composer/pianist Tapscott has foregone the traditional success formula of endless touring and recording. Preferring to concentrate his considerable musical and organizational talents on local community projects like his 17-piece Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, he has worked to help up-and-coming musicians perfect their musical knowledge and skills. His organizing enthusiasm has earned him recogni- · tion from city, county, and state officials and has made him a respected member of the Los Angles creative music scene. Tapscott soaked up the music iji1luiirlliisll■i and magic of the burgeoning "Central Avenue" scene during the '50s. He fulfilled a boyhood dream when he joined Lionel Hampton's big band in 1959. After two years, Tapscott returned to L.A. where he organized the Arkestra which still performs regularly at community and city-wide events. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Tapscott composed for Sonny Criss, commercial and public TV specials, and taught Black Music & History at Riverside's University of California. His latest release is called The Dark Tree (Hat Art). Tapscott appears with Roberto Miranda bass, and Fritz Wise DoN THOMPSON SABU TovozuM1/ MICHIHIRO SATOH/ bass. GRAPHIC DESIGN SERIGRAPHICS by ,sc/11' v,-,/11'ot«- -7;r/;114 ,-,R7'/cR✓ ,. drums. QUARTET B.C born, Don Thompson is one of Canada's great gifts to the world of jazz. As a pianist/ b·assist/ vibist, Thompson has played and recorded with john Handy, Paul Desmond, Jim Hall, George Shearing, Dave Liebman, James Moody, Sonny Greenwich and more. He has recorded 11 albums as a leader. Don's current quartet features a stellar Canadian rhythm section with Barry Elmes drums, Reg Schwager guitar, and Pat Collins JUNE 26 Granville Island JUNE 26 Commodore by LAV AN A JUNE 30 VECC DR. UMEZU Japanese drummerToyozumi has appeared at festivals across Europe, Africa, South America and India. One of Japan's foremost contemporary musicians, he has played with John Zorn, Derek Bailey, and Leo Smith . Alto saxophonist Dr. Umezu is the Japanese Albert Ayler, an explosive improvisor. Shamisen player Michihiro Satoh has recorded with John Zorn and other stars of the downtown New York scene. The trio has a recent CD available on Hat Art. JUNE 30, JULY 1 Plaza U.S./U.K. Imports Large Selection of fflVfi·IW·ml•~m.-mmt 12" · LP's - CD's Cassettes 537 West Pender Vancouver (604) 682-8144 TRADES WELCOME!! I Vitous. Pianist Pierre St. Jak has been a mainstay on the Quebecois avant garde scene for the last decade. Influenced by the vibraphone/piano .duo of Gary Burton and Chick Corea, Vanasse and St. Jak take a more adventurous road. Harmonically dense with a high regard for melodic contours. - JUNE 29, 30 Plaza JUNE 29 Cafe Django ~ "Impressive mastery of tone, spectacular presence. Binary JUNE 23 COMMODORE rhythms and meaningful messages delivered with a profound grasp of each instrument." - Jazz Hot (Paris). Today, when one speaks of jazz/fusion, one cannot neglect the important contribution of UZEB. With ten releases to date selling over 250,000 copies worldwide and performances from Montreal to Vancouver, New York to Paris London to Berlin UZEB has proven over the last decade that Ca~ada can produc~ jazz/fusion of international calibre. Since UZEB began in Quebec in 1976 their compositions have been praised for their originality by both critics and fans. The technical prowess of instrumentalists Alain Caron bass, Michel Cusson guitar, and Paul Brochu drums has also been widely acclaimed. ' 1990 saw UZEB embark on their M1cHAEL VAN Ens biggest tour ever. Between BAND March and July '90 they played Known to Vancouver audiences over 90 concerts throughout through his long associations Europe and ventured as far as with Herald Nix and the Singapore, Djakarta, Kuala Yodells, the music of pianist Lumpur, Tel Aviv and Jerusaand vocalist Van Eyes is firmly lem. While other jazz/fusion rooted in the swing of Count gr~ups have come and gone, Basie's band and the R&B UZEB remains. The group constylings of Otis Redding, Jackie . tinues to adhere to its original Wilson, and Louis Jordan. i philosophy: the creation and Catch Michael's outrageous I continual transformation of a ten-piece big band (lots o·, jau/fusion dialogue-one where horns!) as they rock the Plaza. the technical skills of the musiJUNE 29 Plaza cians are equal to their creative vision. Make no mistake, UZEB JEAN VANASSE/ smokes and will impress any PIERRE ST. )AK listener looking for an intelliVibraphonist Jean Vanasse has gent high energy musical experecorded and performed with rience. Latest recording is World famed jazz bassist Miroslav Tour '90 (Disques Avant-Garde). VEKTOR An ex-Vancouverite, bassist/ composer Victor Bateman is an essential member of the Toronto Queen Street music scene. His quintet, Vektor, plays an extensive and diverse repertoire of original material, a hard-hitting blend of concrete abstraction, visceral whimsy, skilful musicianship, and imaginative writing. Vektor's most recent release is an independent cassette titled Mostofl 990. Previously released material is available on a compilation tape called Into the Vortex with Vektor. Barry Romberg drums, Stephen Donald trombone, Mark McCarron guitar, and Perry White saxophones. JUNE 30 Granville Island JUNE 30 Plaza JULY 1 Plaza V1DE0 BAR-B-QuE/ VBBQ BIG BAND Serious music and serious fun are the watchwords for this eclectic Vancouver ensemble. Video BarcB-Que's repertoire of originals and covers ranges from film noir-inspired slink to Mingus-style grooves to free jazz free-for-alls. The unjaded exuberance of these young players _ is absolutely infectious. With Scott Harker keyboards, Brian Harding trombone, Aron Doyle trumpet, Dave MacDougall drums; Rob Armis saxophone, Tony Wilson guitar, and Greg Boothroyd bass. And catch the Bar-B-Que Big Band, an expanded version, on opening weekend. The fun gets bigger! JUNE 23 Gastown Big Band JUNE 27 Granville Island "Switching from blues to balWORLD lads to bop, the quartet brought the crowd ... to its feet several SAXOPHONE times, clapping, yelling, stompQUARTET ing and practically dancing in the aisles." - Los Angeles Reader. JUNE 28 VECC "The WSQ ... swing ferociously as a unit ... it breathes life into the entire jazz saxophone tradition." - New York Times. The WSQ is an internationally recognized ensemble that seems to defy categorization. Deeply rooted in black music (from gospel to bebop to mainstream) and trained in European classical traditions, saxophonists Oliver Lake, Arthur Blythe, Hamiet Bl_uiett and David Murray produce music that is an exciting blend of Iau, R&B and "new music". "I think they have a great mutual intuitiveness", says critic Leonard Feather. "They are original, adventurous and unpredictable." David Murray says the music is 60 percent improvised and 40 percent written and that all the members contribute compositions. The group has no rhythm section and plays in a variety of settings, from solos to duets, trios and full ensemble. Often three members will set up a rhythmic pattern while the fourth will play solo. As individual soloists, each WSQ member is amazing, one topping the other in technique and creativity. Murray will daule with his command of the tenor. But then Lake will be just as spectacular on alto, and Bluiett will reach impossibly high notes on his big VAS-KAZ baritone. But the WSQ is most Japanese percussionist Vas-Kaz exciting and astonishing in its (Yasukazu S_ato) is probably best beautifully executed ensemble known as a musician for famous passages and in its collective Buto artists (especially Sankaimprovisations. Describing the ijuku and Tatsumi Hijikata). His group as "the most protean and wide circle of collaborators inelude: Wayne Shorter, Min 'exciting new jazz band of the '80s", the New York Times has Tanaka, Toshinori Kondo : He's called the WSQ " ... the most also a solo performer whose music is inspired by different original and important group to emerge since Miles Davis, cultures, especially South East Ornette Coleman, and John ColAsia, China and Africa. His music trane redefined group improvipercolates with rhythms, tunes sation in the late' 50s."With over and tonalities from these varihalf a dozen critically acclaimed ous cultures. The Tokyo Journal recordings and rave reviews for calls it "sometimes whimsical, their live performances around often physical, usually intriguthe world, this concert proming." Appearing with Yasuisa ises to be as musically exciting Shirao soprano sax, and Yoshinobu Honma electric guitar/guiand satisfying as anything you'll hear all year. Latest recording tar synthesizer. Metamorphosis (Electra). JUNE 21 Western Front By day or night... in the beautiful Rotunda at Pacific Centre, ... very near you! I Breakfast Lunch Dinner Present Program at Sierra Grill for 10% Discount Breakfast or Dinner only not valid with other promotions Reservations Recommended 701 Georgia Street (Georgia and Howe St) 683-4140 Music FoR THE 21ST CENTURY Diploma/University/ Professional courses in Classical, Jazz, Rock, Commercial and World music for tomorrow's musicians at Vancouver Community College. Traditional training combined with current technology taught by up-to-date artist faculty from Vancouver's vibrant musical community. For program and scholarship information contact: Department of Music Vancouver Community College King Edward Campus 1155 East Broadway Vancouver, B.C. V5T 4N3 Phone: 875-8220 I LATE ADDITIONS We are pleased to include the following artists in the Festival. Watch the newspapers or call the Jazz Hotline for further possible updates. NAT ADDERLEY QUINTET Composer/cornetist Nat Adderley has been associated with many of the most illustrious names in jazz, including Joe Henderson, Cedar Walton, Woody Shaw,.and Kenny Drew. He is probably most familiar to audiences through his long association with his brother, alto saxophonist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley. In the earlyl 950s, Nat was playing in the Army Band, spending every spare minute sitting in with jazz groups who were laying down the be-bop sounds that were changing the world of jazz. Following his stint with the Army, Nat worked with Lion.el Hampton's band, and then formed a quintet with his brother. Their group, The Cannonball Adderley Quintet featuring Nat Adderley, was one of the most popular bands in jazz history. They recorded many jazz classics composed by Nat, among them Work Song, Hummin ', Sermonette, and Jive Samba. He still writes and performs regularly, painting musical pictures of the people and places in his life. The great Nat Adderley will be appearing with his all-star quintet featuring Walter Booker bass, Vincent Herring a/to sax, Rob Bargad piano, and Jimmy Cobb drums. JUNE 21, 22 Saturno LOOKING AHEAD Coastal Jazz & Blues Society's bi-monthly newsletter keeps you upsto-date on Vancouver's jazz happenings throughout the year. To get on our free mailing list call 6820706, or drop us a line with your name and address at 435 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, B.C., V6B 1 L4. FESTIVAL SOUVEN IRS T-shirts, tote bags and more on sale before the Festival at Eaton's stores, and during the Festival at most venues. II ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We gratefully acknowledge the following outstanding organizations who have provided financial or other resources in support of the Festival: MAJOR SPONSOR du Maurier Ltd. 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