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Jazz series just the ticket for .
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By MARKE ANDREWS
Long-time Vancouver residents
will tell you November is the cruellest month. Grey days, long nights
and the monsoons.
Thank the stars for Time Flies.
Described by its presenter, the
Coastal Jazz and Blues Society, as "a
celebration of jazz and improvised
music," the annual eight-day concert
series (Nov. 7-14) brings together
local and international names.
Max Roach, one of the most
respected - and certainly one of the
most durable - jazz drummers
brings his quartet to the Vancouver
East Cultural Centre on Tuesday,
Nov. 14. Roach, 64, broke onto the
scene in the iate 1940s as the propulsive force in Charlie Parker's bands.
His list of bandstand comrades reads
like a Who's Who of jazz: Parker,
Clifford Brown, Charles Mingus,
Eric Dolphy, Coleman Hawkins,
Sonny Rollins, Duke Ellington.
For the Vancouver date, Roach
will bring with him his Double Quartet , a jazz quartet {sax, trumpet,
bass, drums) boosted by a four-woman string quartet (two violins,
viola, cello). Roach will play two
shows (7 and 10 p.m.). Tickets are
$20.
Opening concert of the series

OLIVER LAKE
opening concert

VINNY GOLIA
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player Vinny Golia will give two<:ORcerts, Nov. 9 and 10, at the VECt'. dn
Thursday, Golia will pei:'f<>rm,with
the Rob Frayne Quin te t , led i:tV
Toronto saxophonist Frayne: AlS'O
on the bill is the Richard'U'ndePhill/Tom Walsh Duo from
On Friday, Golia will lead an:1apiece orchestra.
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The other VECC concert, Nov lt,
features a trio led by New '_ -o~
pianist Joanne Brackeen. All VECt
shows except Roach begin at 6.p.~,
and tickets are $15.
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The Glass Slipper, at 185 i aitt
11th, will play host to three corieerts:
Vancouver: quartet Unity (Nov:· 10,
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11 p.m.); Chief Feature, ano.thex
Vancouver foursome (Nov. ll,; ll
p.m.) and, from Montreal, the :!{is~
Ellis Freedom Force Trio (Nov~l-2, 9
, p.m.). Tickets for these sliows=a ~
$5.
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· _T here will also be free, after.n90D.
workshops for music studeQJ;§ ~
Vancouver Community Coll(}ge'~
King Edward campus, Nov. ·7~1d:,
with clinics by Golia; Lake, pi.aRisl
Paul Plimley and vocalist Kat~
Hammett-Vaughan.
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Wednesday, Nov. 8, feature · the
Oliver Lake Quartet and Vancouver's Lunar Adventures at the
VECC. Lake, a member of the World
Saxophone Quartet, splits his time
among jazz combos, funk bands and
string ensembles.
Los Ange les composer/reeds

Torooto.

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