Time Flies
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that a glowing array of international talent will be here
through the week: Olive,r
Lake, a member of the World
Saxophone Quartet and one
of the funkiest members of
the jazz avant-garde; Vinny
Golia, the Los Angeles-based
multi-instrume ntalist and
composer ; Jazz pianist
Joanne Brackeen, a wonderful musician and one of the
many women that the society has helg_ed sponsor; and
the Max Roach Double Quartet, an innovative pairing of
the legendary bebop drummer's Jazz group with the
adventurous women of the
Uptown String Quartet.
But the real news Is that
Vancouver musicians will
play an important part in the
Time Flies festivities. Lunar
Adventures will open the
Oliver Lake Quartet's Vancouver East Cultural Centre
concert. Unity, Chief Feature , and the Lisle Ellis Free-

dom Force Trio (a Vancouver/Montreal collaboration)
will get their own shows at
the Glass Slipper. Local
players will join Vinny Golia
and Toronto saxophonist
Rob Frayne In a quintet performance. And one of the
festival's highlights will
surely be the 18-piece Vinny
Golia Orchestra's concert,
which will find a wild collection of the best musicians in
the country sweating over
the leader's demandingly
raucous charts.
Coat Cooke , the Vancouver
saxophonist/composer who
had his big-band charts performed during last year's
Time Flies series, and who
will be part of the Golia orchestra's horn section this
year, says that he finds the
Time Flies concept an exciting one. "It's very good for
us to make those contacts,"
he notes. " It validates our
status in the International
community, and gives us the
impetus to take our music
out of our own town. " ■