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By RENEE DORUYTER
Music Critic
In the middle of all the music
and dance and theatre presented in conjunction with
Expo, you'd think there would
be room for a little jazz.
There is, in fact, but only a
little.
Jazz at the Plaza presents 10
Thursday evenings beginning
May 8 and featuring, in order:
VEJI, Skywalk, Fred Stride and
the Westcoast Jazz Orchestra,
Paul Hom, Phil Dwyer Quintet
and Paul Plimley Octet, Dave
Quarin and Gettin' · Off Easy,
Fraser MacPherson Quartet,
PJ. Perry, Lloyd Arntzen Classic Jazz Band and Hasselbach,
and Badazjazz.
Most of the rest of what
· there is is crammed into a mad
wee k of music, June 23.:29,
scattered through 20 locations

on and off the Expo site.
"This is a festival the like of
which no one has ever seen
before," says Ken Pickering of
the Coastal Jazz and Blues
Association a nd one o f the
will be in concert at the New
producers of the festival. lmpeYork Theatre June 27).
rial Tobacco s po nsors hip
Opening for Davis is Willem
makes it the du Maurier InterBreuker's Kollektief from Holnational Jazz Festival.
land and there are still tickets
Main venues for the festival
are the Expo Theatre and the . available for this one.
June 26 and 29 haven't been
Amphitheatre and Inner Stage
confirmed yet, but plans are for
at the Canada Pavilion on site,
a blues bill on one and Latin
and the New York Theatre on
jazz for the other.
Commercial Drive, the Robson
Other performers Pickering
Square Cinema and the Westem Front off site.
· says to look for include Karen
Young and Michel Donato, a
The heavy hitters confirmed
are Miles Davis (June 27) and . voice and bass duo from Montreal ; Wondeur Brass, a
Wynton Marsalis (June 28).
women's jazz-rock experimen- ·
Marsalis is scheduled to
tal band also from Montreal;
appear with Dollar Brand and
Salome Bey; Kenny Wheeler
Ekaya (this concert is already
with Hugh Fraser; and from
sold out but Brand and Ekaya

Toronto, -the Bill Smith Ensemble, the Pat LaBarbara Quartet
and the Peter Leitch Quartet.
Skywalk and UZEB both play
at 86th Street, the largest of the
three on~site clubs; Waves will
also feature jazz during festival
week.
The on-site entertainment is
free with your entry onto the
grounds, with the exception of
the four concerts scheduled for
the Expo Theatre (tickets are
$15 from VTC/CBO). Off-site
events will probably have a $10
to $15 ticket price, says Picker- ·
ing, but series packages will be .
available probably in mid-May.