812 The Vancouver Sun, Tuesday, November 6, 1990

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ENTERTAINMENT

Jazz jets in for innovative Time Flies series of top concerts, workshops

FRISELL

By MARKE ANDREWS
Ground-breaking guitarist Bill Frisell
and pianist Wayne Horvitz headline four
nights of concerts in the third Time Flies
series, which begins Thursday night.
Billed as "a celebration of contemporary jazz and improvised music," Time
Flies brings together local and imported
musicians for a series of workshops and
concerts throughout the Lower Mainland.
Thursday's lineup has Frisell and
Horvitz in a duo setting at the Vancou-

ver East Cultural Centre. Frisell is one plays the Vancouver East Cultural (8 p.m.) And at the Glass Slipper: Tom ver Community College's King Edward
Campus, begin Wednesday with Vancouof those rare musicians who blends his Centre Friday (8 p.m.) She'll be accom- Walsh and N.O.M.A (11 p.m.)
On Sunday, vocalist David Moss and ver saxophonist Coat Cooke, continue
rock and jazz influences to forge a com- panied by former John Coltrane bassist
pletely new sound (he likes to call him- Reggie Workman, and drummer Gerry his four-octave range fronts the vocal Thursday with Reggie Workman, and
self a cross between Jim Hall and Jimi Hemingway. Also on the bill is Toronto quintet Direct Sound at a 5:30 p.m. con- conclude Friday with Marilyn Crispell.
Hendrix). Horvitz, at home on either trombonist Tom Walsh and his octet, cert at the Western Front. The VECC Tickets are $15 for the VECC conpiano or synthesizer, has worked with N.O.M.A.
plays host to The Jade Orchestra, a 19- certs, $5 for the Glass Slipper shows and
Following the Crispell concert, the piece unit led by drummer Claude $8 for Sunday's Western Front event. A
John Zorn. Also on the 8 p.m. bill is the
Vancouver trio Garbo's Hat.
Vancouver-based Paul Blaney Quartet Ranger and bassist Clyde Reed (8 p.m.) $65 pass gets you into all concerts and
plays the Glass Slipper (11 p.m.)
Time Flies concludes with Vancouver's several VECC passes are available': $45
Later Thursday (11 p.m.), the Sirius
Bill
Clark Sextet at the Glass Slipper (11 for four shows; $33 for three; $25 for two.
Saturday's
lineup
sees
European
saxEnsemble, a Vancouver sextet led by
p.m.)
The workshops are free to music stuophonist
Peter
Brotzmann
bring
a
trio
Roger Baird, plays the Glass Slipper.
The 3 p.m. workshops, all at Vancou- dents, $10 to the public.
to the VECC, preceded by the VancouNew York pianist Marilyn Crispell ver quartet The Kane/Taylor Explosion

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