LOOKING AHEAD
Special Events on the Vancouver Music Scene

February/ March 1991

MAHLATHINI
and the
MAHOTELLA QUEENS
COMMODORE
Feb. 5 • 9 pm

$21.50 (GST included)

The Indestructible ·
Beat of Soweto
Returns

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BLUES
SOCIETY

ust when you thou ght it was
safe to get off the dance floor ...
look out! T)ley ' re back!
The joyous and infectious
music of Mahlathini and the
Mahotella Queens returns to
Vancouver. With a full band of
three guitars, bass, drum s, sax and
percussion, the group sings songs
of praise and happiness. Their
melodies and rhythms are so
hypnotic that audiences just can't
stay seated.
First heard by many North
Americans on the 1985 South
African compilation "The
Indestructible Beat of Soweto",
Mahlathini and the Mahotella
Queens create their own blend of
mbaqanga (a South African
cooking term meaning a wellcooked mix of vegetables) music
known as mqashiyo, " the beat will

never die". Inspired by a mixture
of South African urban penny
whistle caleed kwela, AfroAmerican rhythm and blues, street
music and marabi (township jazz),
Mahlathini 's music is a tougher
brand of mhaqanga.
Born in 1937 in a township
outside of Johannesburg, Simon
Nkab inde Mahlathini started his
career singing traditional choral
music in the early l 950's. When
hi s amazing voice began to
emerge at around age 17, his
mother thought her so n was
possessed by demons and took
him to see witch doctors. Once she
discoverd that his voice was
authentically his, he simply got on
with his singing. Today,
Mahalathini ' s deep, goat-like,
roaring voice makes him one of
the most distinctive si ngers in

African music.
Though the Mahotella
Queens are a prominent voca l
group in their own right, their role
in Mahalthini 's troupe is
somewhat different. Apart from
their unique vocal harmonies, they
create a special type of dance for
eac h song, choregraphing the
tunes with dazzling moves.
Together for six years,
Mahlathini and the Mahotella
Queens have made a name for
themselves in the west. With two
records on Virgin's Earthworks
labe l, "The Lion of Soweto" and
"Thokozile", a 1988 release on
Polydor ("Pari s Soweto"), and
having been recently featured on
the Art of Noise's synth-pop
"Belo w the Waste", Mahlathini
and the Mahotella Queens, backed
by the Makgona Tsohle band,
have brought their up-beat dance
music to major audiences.
Get yo ur tickets early 1 Their
last Vancouver appearance was
completely sold out. Happy
dancing!

Coastal Jazz & Blues Society• 435 West Hastings Street• Vancouver, B.C. • V6B IL4 • (604) 682-0706

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KNITTING FACTORY
Goes to the NorthWest
Town Pump
Feb. 24 • 8PM
$19.50 (GST included)
During the 1980s. the
Knitting Factory in New York
City established itself as the place
to hear creative. adve nturous
music. Bill Frisell. John Zorn and
dozens of others have frequently
played there over the years. Much
of the great music heard on any
given night has been documented
and recentl y released in a series
called "Live at the Knitting
Factory, Vol. 1-4" (A&M
Records).
During the last week of
October, 1990, the Coastal Jazz
and Blues Society, with the
financial assistance of External
Affairs in Ottawa, arranged a
series of concerts at the Knitting
Factory featuring leading
Canadian contemporary
musicians. The musicians chosen
were all members of Vancouver's
New Orchestra Workshop Society,
with the addition of Montreal
based bassist Lisle Ellis. The
se ries, featuring Vancouver's
Chi ef Feature, Lunar Adventures,
Paul Plimley/Lisle Ellis and
Graham Ord was very successful
and well received in New York.
Now, the Knitting Factory
hits the road. Three cutting edge
bands that currently play at the
club a lot will be doing a West
Coast tour.

The SONNY
SHARROCK Band
Sonny Sharrock - guitar
Melvin Gibbs - bass
Lance Carter - drums
Abe Speller - drums
Dave Synder - piano
Guitarist Sonny Sharrock
lent his skills to the great
improvisors Miles Davis and
Pharoah Sanders in the late 1960s.
He is acknowledged as one of the
innovators of avant garde guitar,

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and his groups , Last Exit and No
Material (with Ginger Baker),
might be described as "mind
meets metal" - a marriage of
remarkable musical facility with a
go-for-broke attitude. Musician
magazine hailed him as a "genius
whose playing has the beauty,
power and implacable momentum
of a lava flow." Guitar Player
Magazine called him "America's
leading free jazz guitarist".
Regarding his bandmates
Sharrock says "they ' re killers and
I love 'em ... a
rhythm section that
swings and
improvises , brings
excitement and
surprise to the
music. They make
the music as
wonderful as a first
love and as
dev~tating as
death~ The five
piece band includes
superb drummers
Abe Speller and
Lance Carter,
each of the
drummers is a
mu Iti-directional
whirlwind.
Sharrock took his
band as part of the
Knitting Factory
Tour of Europe
and was hailed the
best band on the road. Together
they turn the beat inside out,
making it seem endlessly elastic,
yet never lacking a pulse of
extreme urgency.

CHUNK
Samm Bennett vocals, electronic
percussion
Mark Deffenbaugh guitar , vocals
Oren Freed - drums
Joe Gallant - bass
Samm Bennett's ensemble
CHUNK is a difficult group to
pigeonhole - the usual generic
descriptions or categories just
don ' t apply. The inspirational

sources that are reflected in one
way or another in Bennett's songs
are diverse. One hears echoes of
African drumming, the Blues, the
Beatles, Appalachian Folk music,
and what-have-you. The songs
cover a range of sty Jes and
emotions that don ' t fall into
readily defined modes. A New
York Times reviewer said
"CHUNK sets up intricate offcenter patterns , clanking, jingling,
sputtering, often using electrical
equivalents of non-Western
instruments like log-drums or

Sonny Sharrock: " ... music
as wonderful as a first love
and as devastating as
death."
gongs ... CHUNK's arrangements
show a careful ear for texture - if
one song clatters the next is likely
to wheeze and twang instead."
Bennett's background as a
drummer/percussionist interested
in various traditions of drumming
throughout the world gives
CHUNK its unique rhythmic
impetus. One reviewer in Holland
put it this way, "Bennett works in
the area of pop song form, but his
songs have something all too often
hard to find - a characteristic
rhythmic design."

THIRD PERSON
Tom Cora - cello
· Samm Bennett drums/percussion
Wayne Horvitz keyboards
Tom Cora moved to New
York City in 1979 and
subsequently became an important
player in the downtown new
music scene. Deemed an "unsung
wizard" of the cello by the
Baltimore Press, Cora is a
founding member of Skeleton
Crew with Fred Frith and has
collaborated with Eugene
Chadbourne, John Zorn, Karl
Berger and George Lewis.
Percussionist and composer
Samm Bennett is a regular
contributor to important
collaborative groups and plays
with a variety of people. Bennett
is a co-founder of Bosho, plays
with Odd Job, Semantics with
Elliott Sharp and Ned Rothenberg,
and leads his own group,
CHUNK.
In the more than twenty live
concerts Third Person has played
at the Knitting Factory over the
last two years the third chair has
never been occupied twice by the
same person. For the Vancouver
performance, the Third Person
will be keyboardist/composer
Wayne Horvitz (recently seen in
Vancouver with Bill Frisell). Cora
and Bennett have a way of
improvising together that owes as
much to pop song form as it does
to free improvisation . Sceptics of
'free improvisation' have
characterized its practitioners with
the operative "when in doubt,
trill". Third Person's grooves
leave little room for doubt. This
ever-changing trio keeps itself and
the audience on its toes.

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NEW WINDS
Feb. 13 & 14
Glass Slipper
(185 East 11th at Main)

9pm
$11 (GST included)
"New W inds can improvise
or achieve a chamber-group
precision, working on the fringe
where the textures and twitterings
of classical new music meet the
sultriness of jazz" - New York
Times
The trio ' s premiere
recording, "The Cliff' (Sound
Aspects) , was released in I 989
and garnered rave reviews.
Graham Lock of Wire Magazine
(U .K.) called it a "masterpiece" .
Gene Santoro writing in Down
Beat said " . .. they blew me away
.. . drawing on antecedents from
John Cage to the World
Saxophone Quartet, New Winds
brings a usefully broad set of
perspectives to its diverse

PONCHO
SANCHEZ Latin
Dance Band
Commodore
Mar. 3 • 9pm
$19.50 (GST
Included)

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"This is one hot
salsa album (La Familia,
Concord). Conga player/
bandleader Sanchez'
group is not large, eight
pieces, but it sounds like
a full big band. The
tunes and arrangements
are equally spectacular,
from Thelonious
Monk ' s " Well You
Needn ' t" (re-cast in a
rhumba rhythm)
through Eddie Palmieri
and Johnny Mandel tunes to
several by band members, from
ballads to the most infectious
dance music ... extra fire power
... very exciting ... " - Oakland
Trihun e.
Poncho Sanchez has become
one of the preeminent conga
players and percussionists in the
world. Musician magazine stated

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chamber-jazz
outings ... sonic
concepts that
are provocative
and appealing."
New
Winds is Ned
Rothenberg on
saxophone , bass
clarinet and
flute; Robert
Dick on flute ,
clarinet and
piccolo; and
J.D. Parran on
multi-clarinets, saxophonists and
flutes. They play both composed
and improvised music, exploring
various levels of integration
between each. Their music utilizes
extended instrumental effects such
as multiphonics, altered timbres
and circular breathing, creating
extended transformations of

sound. These musical devices are
used in such a manner that they
are not merely "effects" . but rather
a vocabulary of musical language
with phenomenal possibilities.
Robert Dick is a leading
interpreter and composer of new
music for flute. His activities
include a recent trip to Amsterdam
where he performed on the first

· in California. The last of 1I
children, he grew up listening to
his brothers' and sisters' records;
the music of Mongo Santamaria,
Machito, Eddie Palmieri, Willie
Bobo, Tito Puente, Clare Fischer,
and his idol, Cal
Tjader.
Poncho
taught himself to
play guitar at age
12, and went on to
play the flute,
drums, timbales
and finally , at I 8,
the congas. By the
time he was 17, he
was already
playing with local
bands but had no
idea that, in 1975,
Cal Tjader would
ask him to become
a
member
of
the
Tjader band.
PONCHO SANCHEZ:
During their 7 years together
Fiery Latin Jazz!
Poncho toured extensively with
Great Dance Music.
Tjader and recorded numerous
albums, including the Grammy
Although the modest Sanchez
winning " La Ouda Va Bien" on
would never consider himself their
Concord Picante. Sanchez has
peer, his musical tastes were
performed and recorded with other
definitely influenced by those two
jazz luminaries including Carmen
Latin Jazz legends. Born in 1951
McRae, Clare Fischer and Woody
to Mexican parents , he was raised
Herman.

"he's L.A.'s answer to Mongo
Santamaria; as a bandleader,
Poncho Sanchez's crisp arrangements, Cubop flair and informed
jazz sensibility bear comparison to
Machito's."

open holed bass flute. J.D.
Parran is an alumnus of
Black Arti sts Group in St.
Louis. He al so performs in
both the Marty Erlich/J.D.
Parran Duo and ensembles
led by Jabbo Ware,
Anthony Dav is. Leroy
Jenkins and George Le wis.
Parran was fea tured as an
instrumental soloist in
Anthony Dav is' new opera
entitled Under A Double
Moon. Plus. he is chairman
of the Woodwind and
Brass Department at the Harlem
School of the Arts. Ned
Rothenberg has played with Paul
Dresher, John Zorn , Yuji
Takahashi and Gerry Hemingway.
and has also been active with
Semantics, with Elliott Sharp and
Samm Bennett.
A must-see for fan s of new
music.

In I 982 he recorded hi s fost
album as leader, "Sonande", on
the Concord Picante label. His
second Picante outing, " Bien
Sabroso! ", was nominated for a
Grammy. A record a year
followed ... "El Conguero". " Papa
Gato", " Fuerte' " and " La Familia ..
- all winning rave reviews a:id
firmly establishing the Poncho
Sanchez sound: powerful horns
and fiery percuss ion in a uniqu e
blend of traditional Latin rh ythms
and jazz harmonies. His ! 990
Picante release was th e exciting
"Chile Con Soul " .
Long establi shed as Los
Angeles favourites. the Ponch o
Sanchez band now tra ve ls the
world, from San Franci sco w
New York and all over Europe.
Last summer they were one of the
many musical highlights of the du
Maurier Ltd. International Jazz
Festival Vancouver.
The Poncho Sanchez band
generates a torrent of exciting
Latin jazz. And who better to
carry on the traditions of Mongo.
Machito and Tito Puente than .. El
Conguero", " Papa Gato ..... King
Conga" - Poncho Sanchez.
Be prepared to party !
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DAVE HOLLAND
Quartet
Vancouver East
Cultural Centre
Mar. 11 • 8 pm
$19.50 (GST

cello. After Circle disbanded in
1972, Holland and Altschul
continued working with Braxton
in both his quartet and his
orchestra. Holland 's first

included)
'There are not enough
superlatives in the English
language to talk about Dave
Holland's bass play ing . ..
every note is imbued w ith a
deep ringing poetry." Musician Magazine
In the summer of
1968, at the in vi tation of
Miles Davis, Dave Holland
left England to work with
the great bandleader and his
career as one of the music's
most talented bass ists truly
began to take off. During
his three years w ith Miles,
Holland played on such
groundbreaking recordings
as "Bitches Brew", "Filles
De Kil imanjaro" and "In A
Silent Way" while learning from
Davis lessons in leadership which
later stood him in great stead.
" During the period I played with
him he would create the
environment for the music, then
let the musicians deal with it.
That ' s what I've tried to do."
In 1971 Holland co-founded
Circle w ith Anthony Braxton,
Barry A ltsc hul and Chick Corea. It
was at this time that Dave began
composi ng as we ll as playing the

DAVE HOLLAND:
"Extensions" (ECM)
arguably the most
brilliant of Holland's
most recent output.
recording as a leader, the classic
"Conference of the Birds", was
recorded wi th Sam Rivers,
A ltsch ul and Braxton. It was
acclaimed by Mus ician Magazine
as a "masterwork". In 1975 Jack
DeJohnette, John Abercrombie

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and Dave Holland formed the
cooperative group Gateway which
recorded two albums ("Gateway"
and "Gateway II").
The three years from I 977 to
1980 were spent in the
studio and performing
with Sam Rivers in
settings ranging from
duets to concerts with
Rivers' orchestra. The first
year of Holland's
association with Rivers
also saw the release of
"Emerald Tears", a solo
bass recording; since then
Dave Holland has
recorded a solo cello
album called "Life Cycle"
and given numerous live
solo performances on both
instruments.
Since he formed a
quintet in 1982, the major
thrust of Holland's musical
energies has been towards
recorded and live work as a
leader of the group, but this
has never stopped him
from working with a seemingly
endless list of jazz greats on
various projects. The quintet's
first release, "Jumpin' In",
received rave reviews; the 1985
release of "Seeds of Time" saw
the unstinting praise continue; the
third and final quintet album, "The
Razor ' s Edge" was given the
accolade of being one of the
"outstanding small group
recordings of the year" by The
Times of London. It was followed
by "Triplicate", a trio album with
Steve Coleman and Jack
DeJohnette.
Throughout his career
Ho lland has devoted a great deal
of time to teaching. For nine years
he directed the world renowned
Jazz Workshop program at the
Banff School of Fine Arts, and is
currently working at the New
England Conservatory of Music in
Boston.
The summer of 1990 saw
Dave Holland on a 40-city
international tour with Jack
DeJohnette, Herbie Hancock and

Pat Metheny. The release of Pat
Metheny's "question and answer"
recording (with Holland on bass)
and the tour supporting it has
brought in a series of brilliant
reviews. Other recent work
includes two recordings with
trumpeter Kenny Wheeler ("The
Widow in the Window" and
"Music for Large and Small
Ensembles"). Holland has also
recorded with Hank Jones and
Billy Higgins. This recording,
titled "The Oracle", will be
released in the spring.
And of course Holland's
most recent recording as a leader,
"Extensions" (ECM), with his
current working quartet of Kevin
Eubanks on guitar, alto
saxophonist Steve Coleman, and
drummer Marvin "Smitty"
Smith has drawn great praise
since its release. Wire Magazine in
the U.K. started the review by
saying " Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
When a record is this good, what
else is there to say?" How about
this - if you like the record , you'll
love the concert. Be there!

681-YALE

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THE FRINGE
Feb. 20 & 21 • 9 pm
Glass Slipper
$10 (GST Included)
The Fringe, a high impact

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jazz trio from Boston , plays music
that does not hold back. Together
since 1972, George Garzone
(sax), John Lockwood (bass) and
Bob Gullotti (drums) have
received excellent reviews for all
their recordings . Their most recent
recorded outings, "Hey, Open
Up!" and "The Raging Bulls"
have received the strongest praise
yet, reall y opening the eyes and
ears of critics to the scope and
power of T he Frin ge.
Each of the three mem bers
have received nominations on
their respective instruments, as

well as the group nomination for
top jazz group from the Boston
Music A wards. Their music has
taken them across the USA, and
on highly successful tours to
Italy, Austria, Germany,
Switzerland, England and
Australia, and recently to Portugal
and the Azores. In these isolated
islands off of Portugal's coast,
where the way of life has changed
little for hundreds of years, The
Fringe was billed as American
folk musicians, for lack of a better
way to describe Avant Garde
jazzmen. Thousands of vi ll age rs,
farmers and fishermen flocked to
see the trio, and , even though they

didn ' t understand the music, they
recogni zed that the guys were
playing from their heart s and
re sponded by giving them th e
kind of ovation the musicians
could only fant size about at home.
The gro up 's popular
acce ptance in the Azores and
Portugal has convinced them to
" make thi s happen on an
international basis" says Gullotti .
" You have to spread yo ur mu sic
throughout the wo rld , es pec iall y if
it 's mu sic that's deep and not
commercially acceptable, du e to
the record co mpan ies who wo n' t
go with anything that wo n ' t se ll a
million. A ll they want to know

about is the money , the money, the
money. In other parts of the wo rld
it ' s the art. th e art. the art."
The Fringe return s to
Van co uve r w ith th e ir brand of art
(they played at las t yea r· s du
Maurier Ltd. Internati ona l Jazz
Fes ti va l Vancouver) for two
ni ght s .. The intimat e atm osp here
of the G lass S li ppe r wi ll be a
perfec t place to hear th e ir
kaleidoscope of sou nd s and
textures.
From th e strai ghtahead to th e
st rat osp heri c, T he Frin ge wi ll
surpri se and delight yo u with their
heartfelt. com muni ca ti ve
explorations.

CALLING ALL JAZZ RADIO PERSONALITIES ...
Interested in doing your own jazz or blues radio show? Please contact Jim Mullin at
CJIV 93.9 FM Cable (Simon Fraser Student Radio) at 291-4423.
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CBC Vancouver Orchestra
Sunday, March 3, 1991 8:00 pm..
Orpheum Theatre
Tickets at Ticketmaster
Information: 874-6200
New works from Canada and the USSR by composers
Rudolph Komorous, Brian Cherney and Sophia Gubaidulina
Sophia Gubaidulina ... the meditation of a well-informed and richly
intuitive musical mind.•
New York Times 1987

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Reservations call 689-1184

Contact: The Acoustic Connection Music and Cultural Society
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Dinner 5 pm - 11 pm
Weekend Brunch 10 am - 3 pm.

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Volunteer Report
As we begin another year of
concerts, I would like to take this
opportunity to thank our
wonderful crew of volunteers and
to invite others interested in
volunteering to contact me. The
Coastal Jazz and Blues Society is
a year- round organization which
produces concerts and workshops
at a v.::riety of venues throughout
Vancouver. In order to do thi s, we
need yo u! For our Festiv al and
no n-Festi val concerts, volunteers
are needed for help with postering,
mailings, souvenir sales, box
office , concession and office
ass istance. In return, you receive
free tickets to our shows and the
sublime satisfaction of
contributing to Vancou ver's
vibram and exciting live music
scene.
Of course , our maJor
production is the annual du
Maurier Ltd. International Jazz
Festival, to be held this year from
. June 21 - July 1, 1991. Entering .
our sixth year, the Festival
promises to be bigger and better
than ever. Over 500 musicians
from Europe, Japan, Africa, South
America, Canada and the U.S. will
perform the full spectrum of
traditional and contemporary jazz
at 20 venues throughout the city.
Obviously, a production of this
size requires the assistance of a

large number of volunteers. Help
is needed in both the pre-festival
preparation period (May 1 - June
21) and during the Festival itself
in a wide variety of areas
(including Poster and Program
Distribution , Office Work,
Souvenir Sales, Transportation,
and many more.) Further details
and a volunteer information form
(which you will be asked to
return by April 30) will appear in
the next issue of Looking Ahead.
Until that time, past festival
volunteers who wish to return
this year and anyone who would
like to discuss volunteering with
our organization (either for our
year-round productions or for the
Festival ) are invited to contact
me at 682-0706. As Festival
planning is well underway now
and full production will begin
shortly, we are beginning our
volunteer recruitment drive
today! Our full complement of
Festival volunteers is generally
together by late April. Meetings
for the various crews will be
held in May.
Once again, my thanks are
extended to all past, present and
future volunteers. It is a great
pleasure working with all of you.
Please stay tuned for more
details in our next issue.
Jeffrey Turner
Administrative Assistant

University of North
Texas

One O'Clock Lab
Band
Va ncouver
Community College
Feb. 8 • 8 pm
$6 I $4 (Students)
The Univers ity of North
Texas opened the door for jazz
studies at the college level when it
founded the first such program in
the world in 1947. North Texas'
program has led the way ever
since, earning an international
reputation for the quality of its
faculty and students .
The One O'Clock Lab Band
is the showcase jazz ensemble
around which the program was
built. It features the 20 best jazz
musicians in the school, selected
through auditions each semester.
The One O'Clock has become a
well-travelled ambassador for the
university, with performances in
Mexico, Germany and Switzerland,
Portugal, the Soviet Union and
Europe in 1982, a tour that
included appearances at the Pori ,
Northsea, Montreux and Antibes
jazz festivals. Most recently, the
band toured Australia in 1986.
Many former One O'Clock
members have performed with Don
Ellis, Maynard Ferguson, Freddie
Hubbard, Woody Herman, Thad

Jones, Stan Kenton, Wynton
Marsalis, Pat Metheny, Doc
Severinsen, Toshiko Akiyoshi and
more.
The One O 'Clock Lab Band
will be perfmming February 8th at
the Vancouver Community College
auditorium (King Edward Campus,
1155 East Broadway) with the
VCC Jazz Ensemble. It ' s an 8pm
start. Tickets are $6 adult / $4
student at VCC School of Music.
Phone 875-8220. And if you miss
that concert they'll also be
appearing as part of the Carson
Graham Collegiate Band Fest at
North Vancouver's Centennial
Theatre at 8pm. Tickets are $8 and
$5.

Coastal Jazz and
Blues Society Staff
Executive Director -

Bob Kerr
Artistic Director -

Ken Pickering
Marketing and Promotions
Director -

John Orysik
Administrative Assistant -

Jeffrey Turner
Administrative Secretary -

Kate HammettVaughan

18,RiASS ROOTS
sets the record straight!
A benefit for the recording of the first
album by BRASS ROOTS, the West
Coast's favourite brass band.

GLASS SLIPPER
Sun. • March 31 • 9pm
$6 (advance)
$8 (at the door)
Info: Brad at 874-5299.
Our Congratulations to
J. Gary Lindquist of Vancouver,
the winner of our latest Jazz Friend
Incentive, a $200 gift certificate at
Black Swan Records.
Become a Jazz Friend before June 1,
1991 and you'll be eligible to win a
Mega-Pass to all concerts at the 6th
annual du Maurier Ltd. International
Jazz Festival Vancouver
June 21 - July 1, 1991.
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fraturinggnest pianist Robert Holhston

Tuesday, April 16 ([,, 8pm ,a The Orpheum Theatre
Ticketmaster: 280-3311 ,a Information: 669-SING
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--BABAYAGA
String Quartet
Glass Slipper
(185 East 1 Hh at Main)

Mar. 22 • 9 pm
$7 (GST Included)
"Babayaga offers more than
surprises. The group's on-stage
buoyancy is an enjoyable
departure from the more sombre
attitude taken by traditional
quartets .. . (and) is highly entertaining. Taking a populist
approach to the possibilities of
the string quartet format, the
Babayagas have come up with a
musical blend that satisfies both
serious listeners and those
looking for only a little light

BIG BAD DAD
Glass Slipper
(185 East 11th at Main)

Mar. 23 • 9 pm
$7 (GST Included)
Take one Tron FortWorth,
aka Ron Samworth, Vancouver's
most sonic proponent of the new
guitar. Add visual artist/guitarist
Thomas Anfield and Ron Poutt,
artist, musician, animation voice
expert. Mix well with a rhythm
section of hard core harmoskronk-alodics funk , spice with an
indulgent dash of modem dance
rap and tum the cuisinart to
overload. The result? Big Bad
Dad, a shotgun marriage of audiovisual delight.
Co-leaders FortWorth/
Samworth and Anfield are no
strangers to Vancouver's fans of
creative music and art. Ron

entertainment ... Their sound ... is
their own, and it's innovative and
enjoyable." - Alex Varty, Georgia
Straight
Three years ago, four
classically trained musicians based
in Vancouver discovered a
common interest in moving the
traditional string quartet in a new
direction. An invitation to perform
at an evening of eclectic art, dance
and live music sent them in search
of appropriate music. A modem
string quartet composed by French
pop singer William Sheller called
Babyaga inspired them. Both the
piece and the name seemed right

for the group,
and Babayaga
was born. Their
fresh, energetic
approach to the
string quartet
finds them
playing folk
music, gypsy
dances, jazz
standards and
commissioned
works by local
BABAYAGA: ... a welcome breath of
composers.
enthusiasm and energy.
Babayaga is always a
delight to see and hear, don't miss
this concert.

Sam worth 's contributions
to the music scene are
numerous and include
well-known groups Lunar
Adventures and Creatures
of Habit, as well as the
recently formed Charlie
Parker Memorial and his
Omette Coleman repertory
band . Thomas Anfield's
brutally naive approach to
the guitar is nothing short
of unique . His recent
appearances as leader/
creator/conductor of the
irreverent yet serious Post.
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Cecil Taylor Garage
Music Orchestra came as
no surprise to those who
know his tireless
BIG BAD DAD:
enthusiasm for artistic exploration.
Harmo-skronk-alodics +
No less important to this
sizzling multi-disciplinary recipe
art + funk + rap = A
are the manic vocal explorations
shotgun marriage of audioof
Ron Poutt, whose astonishing
visual delight.

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assembly of vocal personalities
will leave you breathless, plus the
funky gumbo served up by the
rhythm section which includes
drummer Barry Taylor ( Roots
Roundup, John Zorn's Vancouver
performance of Xu Feng.)
This is a band that explores
and exploits the dimensions and
parameters of new improvi sed
music, yet never loses sight of the
body machine 's need to move. Big
Bad Dad allows for the widest
spectrum of soundscapes from
se nsitive tight all-out musicianship
to the full pendulum sw ing of
letting Anfield's guitar run wild. If
this was food , it would be cajun.
so if you want your music hot.
crazed and reminiscent of late
night TV , if you want to dance.
laugh and have hallucinatory
political revelations all at the same
time, then Big Bad Dad is the
cultural parent for you.

The THREE GREENHORNS

Jazz atCa[e

LINTON GARNER Trio plus Guest Vocalists
February
1, 2
Gail Johnston
8, 9
Gail Johnston
15, 16
Thedda Marie
22, 23
Thedda Marie
March
1,2
Kate Hammett-Vaughan
8,9
Kate Hammett-Vaughan
15, 16
Larry Alexanaer
22, 23
Larry Alexander
29, 30
Jennifer Scott

BERGMAN

1030 Denman Street (at Comox) 688-8655
Looking Ahead

Featuring Brazilian and Latin Jazz
Art Exhibits by Local Artists
Brazilian Food • Reasonably Priced
Fully Licensed • Cappuccino Bar
Open Tuesday - Saturday • 6 PM - 1 AM
52 Powell Street, Vancouver B.C. V6A IE7
(at Powell & Carrall in Gastown)
(604) 688-9668 Fax (604) 681-0596

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GLASS SLIPPER Jazz
(185 East 11th at Main)
FEBRUARY
Fri.
1 Clyde Reed Ensemble
featuring Kim Richmond
Sat. 2 Paul Blaney Quintet
Sun. 3 Bill Clark Sextet
Fri.
8 Post-Cecil Taylor
Garage Music Orchestra
Sat. 9 Karen Graves Quartet
Sun. 10 Video Bar-B-Que
Wed . .Ll New Winds
Thu. 14 NewWinds
Fri. 15 Paul Plimley Solo
Sat. 16 Ron Samworth's
Charlie Parker Memorial
Sun. 17 Chief Feature
Wed. 20 The Fringe (from Boston)
Thu. 21 The Fringe (from Boston)
Fri. 22 FortWorth Travelogue
Sat. 23 Jamie Reed/Gregg Simpson
(Poetry and Music)
Sun. 24 Roger Baird & Real Time
Thu. 28 John Gross (sax fr. L.A.)
w/ Clyde Reed Ensemble

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All concerts at 9pm, tix at the door $5.
Underlined concerts are S12ecial
Events with slightly different ticket
12rices.

MARCH
Fri.
1 Kane/Taylor Explosion
Sat. 2 Tony Wilson/David Say Group
Sun. 3 Paul Plimley/Roger Baird
Wed. 6 Joseph Danza/David Tciaw
Thu. 7 Garbo's Hat
Fri.
8 Chief Feature
Sat. 9 Ralph Eppel and Lostinato
Sun. 10 Coat Cooke Banned
Wed. 13 Themba Tana African Heritage
Thu . 14 Bruce Nielsen &
Between the Lines
Fri. 15 Roger Baird & Real Time
Sat. 16 Lunar Adventures
Sun. 17 Miles Black Group
Wed . 20 Joseph Danza/Roger Baird
(Sitar & Tabla)
Thu. 21 Free F'AII
Fri. 22 Baba Yaga String Quartet
Sat. 23 Big Bad Dad
Wed. 27 Boying Geronimo &
Harumba Calzada
Thu. 28 Paul Fisher Quartet
Fri . 29 George Robert/George Ursan
Quartet
Sat. 30 Blaine Dunaway Quartet
Sun. ;u Brass Roots Recording Benefit

Wednesdays (except Feb . 20) are World Music Nights at the Slipper.
Tix are $5, Music begins at 9:30 pm.
Announcing the Monday Night Workshop/Jam Sessions.
Sponsored by New Orchestra Workshop Society.
Different host artists each week. For information please call
Kate 682-0706 Or Roger 929-5053.

JAZZ FORUM, A-TRANE, NEXT DOOR TO THE BLUES,
JAZBLU, THE WILD YEARS ...
The Very Best in Jazz and Blues, Old and New
Listen to Vancouver Co-Operative Radio, CFRO 102.7 FM
jazz at grunt gallery
209 east 6th Avenue
Wednesdays 8-11 pm

All Prices Include GST.
MAHLATHINI AND THE
MAHOTELLA QUEENS
Commodore • Feb. 5 • $21.50
$19.50 Students and Jazz Friends
NEW WINDS
Glass Slipper• Feb. 13, 14 • $11
$8.50 Students and Jazz Friends
THE FRINGE
Glass Slipper• Feb. 20, 21 • $10
$8 Students and Jazz Friends
KNITTING FACTORY TOUR
Town Pump• Feb. 24 • $19.50
$17 .00 Students and Jazz Friends
PONCHO SANCHEZ
Commodore• Mar. 3 • $19.50
$17 .50 Students and Jazz Friends
DAVE HOLLAND QUARTET
VECC • Mar. 11 • $19.50
$17 .50 Students and Jazz Friends
BABA YAGA STRING QUARTET
Glass Slipper • Mar. 22 • $7
$5 Students and Jazz Friends
BIG BAD DAD
Glass Slipper • Mar. 23 • $7
$5 Students and Jazz Friends
Available at all Ticketmaster outlets,
Eaton's and lnfocentres at all major
malls, Black Swan and Highlife
Records and the CJBS office.
Glass Slipper, Jazz Friend and
Student Tickets available only
through Jazz Hotline and at
CJBS office.

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IJAZZ FRIEND .

February
6

• Praxis Quartet with
Alex Varty
13 • Frangois Houle
Group
20 • Roger Baird Group
27 • Bruce Freedman

March
6 • Saul Berson Quartet
13 • Garbo's Hat
20 • Lori Freedman &
Graham Ord
27 • Coat Cooke Banned

To become a Jazz Friend, send your donation by personal cheque or money
order payable to Coastal Jazz and Blues Society, 435 West Hastings Street,
2nd Floor, Vancouver, B.C. V6B 1L4.
Donation Enclosed:
• $50 Contributor (1 Black Swan Entry)
• $100 Sponsor (2 Entries)
• $1000 Lifetime (10 Entries)

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Address
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For supporting the music, Jazz Friends receive a tax rece1 pt, our bi-month! y newsletter
"looking Ahead", special discounts on concert and festival tickets and a chance to win a
Mega-Pass to all 1991 du Maurier Ltd. International Jazz Festival concerts. Draw date:
June l, 1991.

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JAZZ HOTLINE• 682-0706
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