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Welcome to the 31st Annual TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival TD Bank Group is pleased to bring you the 2016 TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival, a world-class event celebrating talented and culturally diverse artists from Canada and around the world. In Vancouver, we share a love of music – it is a passion that brings us together and enriches our lives. Music is one of many ways that TD connects with customers and communities across the country. And what better way to come together than to celebrate music at more than nine major music festivals from Victoria to Halifax. Thousands of fans across Vancouver – including me – look forward to this event every year. I’m excited to take in the music by local and international talent and enjoy the great celebration this festival has to o er! This incredible event wouldn’t be possible without the amazing people involved. Thank you to the hundreds of organizers, volunteers, talented musicians and, of course, the thousands of fans who make the 2016 TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival a hit every year. We are thrilled you’ve all come together in our spectacular backyard for the love of music.
Mauro Manzi Senior Vice President TD Canada Trust, Paci c Region
A MESSAGE FROM THE MINISTER OF CANADIAN HERITAGE
Welcome to the 31st TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival! Thanks to an extensive lineup that brings together concerts, workshops and training, this musical gathering has succeeded in making its mark on the arts and culture scene in Western Canada. The Festival, which attracts an audience hundreds of thousands strong, makes an outstanding contribution to the economic and cultural vitality of this region of the country. This is why the Government of Canada is proud to support its presentation. As Minister of Canadian Heritage, I salute the Coastal Jazz and Blues Society, as well as all the music lovers and the many volunteers who helped bring the 2016 TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival to life. Enjoy the shows!
Mélanie Joly MINISTER OF CANADIAN HERITAGE
4 TD VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2016 A MESSAGE FROM THE PREMIER As Premier of the Province of British Columbia, I am pleased to welcome everyone to the 2016 TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival. For the past 31 years, Metro Vancouver has been fortunate to host this internationally acclaimed event. With over 300 concerts spread across 35 venues, this is a wonderful opportunity to enjoy amazing performances set against the breathtaking beauty of Vancouver. Coupled with educational programs, workshops and free performances, I’m sure that this event will inspire people of all ages. I know that it takes a tremendous amount of planning and organization to bring together a festival of this magnitude, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Coastal Jazz and Blues Society, TD Canada Trust and over 600 volunteers who have dedicated their e orts to ensure that this event is a success. Enjoy the shows everyone!
Sincerely,
Christy Clark PREMIER
A MESSAGE FROM THE MINISTER OF COMMUNITY, SPORT AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
On behalf of Premier Christy Clark and the Government of British Columbia, I would like to welcome everyone to the 31st annual TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival. Jazz is well loved around the world. The TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival not only provides exceptional musical experiences for more than half a million attendees, but also generates $35 million in economy activity in the area. Arts and culture are at the heart of the creative economy, one of the most rapidly growing sectors in the world. As B.C.’s largest arts and cultural event, Vancouver’s world-class jazz festival enhances our province’s prosperity and global pro le as a great place to live, work and play. Thank you to everyone behind this year’s festival: the organizers, volunteers, venues, musicians and fans. I wish you great success.
Sincerely,
Peter Fassbender MINISTER OF COMMUNITY, SPORT AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
TD VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2016 5 A MESSAGE FROM THE MAYOR
On behalf of my colleagues on City Council, I want to extend my warmest greetings to everyone attending the Coastal Jazz & Blues Society’s 31st TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival. The TD Vancouver Jazz Festival began in 1986 as a non-pro t community-based arts organization and has blossomed into one of British Columbia’s largest arts and cultural events and one of the leading music festivals in the world. The Festival showcases a wonderful mix of every possible musical expression along with our city’s great indoor and outdoor venues to produce 10 days of incredible entertainment. I want to thank the Society for its long standing commitment to music education and providing our communities with the gift of music. I encourage everyone to take in at least one of the over 300 concerts that will be held during the festival. Thank you to all of the musicians, sponsors, organizers and volunteers for once again bringing this great event to Vancouver!
Your truly,
Gregor Robertson MAYOR
A MESSAGE FROM THE BC ARTS COUNCIL
For more than three decades, this renowned festival celebrating jazz, blues and improvised music has showcased remarkable talent from British Columbia, Canada and around the globe. As the province’s largest annual arts and cultural event, the TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival is both a delight to attend and a signi cant contributor to our creative economy. Over its 10-day run this year, 1,800 musicians will be featured at more than 300 concerts, generating not only business and tourism throughout the region but immense enjoyment for an estimated 560,000 attendees. With funding made possible by the Province of British Columbia, the BC Arts Council is pleased to be a long-time supporter of the TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival. Congratulations to the musicians, the Coastal Jazz and Blues Society and its many dedicated volunteers. Thank you for creating this cultural highlight for British Columbia each summer.
Merla Beckerman Chair, BC Arts Council
6 TD VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2016 Message from Co-Founders that is in the planning stage. Coastal Jazz has commissioned the superb John Orysik and Ken Pickering Vancouver cellist Peggy Lee to compose a new suite of music—Echo Painting—for a ten-piece ensemble to premiere at the Festival. John Ken Orysik Pickering Also new and exciting at this year’s edition is the integration of Frankie’s Jazz Club into the multi-layered fabric of our event. Since its launch last October, Frankie’s (a Coastal Jazz initiative) has become the epicentre for jazz and blues in Vancouver. Centrally located downtown, the room has a Now entering its 31st season, the TD Vancouver International Jazz capacity of 100 and is designed for maximum listening pleasure. In ad- Festival continues to enrich our community with a vibrant, wide-ranging dition to early evening performances, we are delighted to announce that calendar of diverse artistic experiences and free educational programs audiences will have the opportunity to enjoy free Festival jam sessions and workshops. hosted nightly at 11pm by saxophonist Mike Allen and his quartet. Hundreds of thousands of music fans from across the region will attend Providing access to the Festival is important to us. And in the spirit of our annual celebration of exceptional musical talent and cross-cultural openness, discovery and community building we o er a bevy of free inclusivity. With over 300 concerts featuring 1800 musicians at 35 indoor concerts and workshops featuring both resident and international artists and outdoor venues the Festival generates signi cant economic and in venues throughout the city. social bene ts as well. One of the Festival’s most cherished annual free performances came Widely recognized by a cionados to be among the most esteemed from iconic bandleader Dal Richards. Sadly, Dal passed away on New events of its kind on the planet, the Festival has earned a reputation for Year’s Eve just shy of his 98th birthday. For over six decades, Dal and curatorial excellence. Our dedicated programming team never rests on its his Orchestra delighted generations of swing fans during longstanding laurels. It searches far and wide to nd the very best that the Canadian gigs at the Hotel Vancouver and the PNE, at various tea dances and, of and international jazz scenes have to o er. course, at the Jazz Festival. Vancouver’s “King of Swing” may be gone Our long-term commitment to Spotlight on French Jazz and the but many great memories will remain. As a parting farewell the Festival Made in the UK Series continues unabated for a fth year alongside is honoured to present the Dal Richards Orchestra in “A Salute to Dal new stimulating international collaborations with the Novara Jazz Richards” on opening weekend during Downtown Jazz on the historic Festival (Italy) and the Jazztopad Festival (Poland). A freshly minted grounds of the Vancouver Art Gallery. co-presentation with Early Music Vancouver entitled Common Grounds On behalf of everyone at Coastal Jazz and music fans across the city and is a cross-genre venture (jazz and baroque) conceived to support the throughout the Province of British Columbia we say: “Keep swinging important Vancouver Independent Music Centre (VIM House) initiative Maestro!”
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TD VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2016 7 Table of Contents
GENERAL INFORMATION David Lam Park Jazz Weekend ...... 34 Greeting, Messages and Board of Directors ...... 4 Club Series ...... 36 Jazz Friend Donor Listings ...... 10 Made in the UK Jazz Concert Series ...... 54 Spotlight on French Jazz ...... 56 Our Team ...... 12 Education Programs ...... 14 ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES Sponsorship & Government Support ...... 60 (Listed in alphabetical order by rst name) A to H ...... 16 CONCERT SCHEDULES & TICKET INFO H to Z ...... 38 Ticket & Membership Info ...... 13 MAPS Downtown Jazz Weekend ...... 30 Downtown Jazz ...... 31 Ticketed Concert Series ...... 32 David Lam Park ...... 35 Granville Island Jazz (including Canada Day) ...... 26 Venues & Parking ...... 62 Jazz Around Town ...... 27
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We Love Our Jazz Friends
Our Jazz Friends ensure that Vancouver continues to be a major creative centre for music and the arts. Your donation supports the presentation of over 150+ free shows during the Festival, great concerts throughout the year, and the next generation of artists who rely on our exemplary (and free) music education programs. Thank you for your support; we couldn’t do it without you!
JAZZ LOVER Lynn Copeland Richard Lusk JAZZ MEMBER Marshall Letcher ($5000+) Kevin Coyne Alison Maclennan ($50+) Aileen Lew Yvonne De Troye Nou Dadoun Zahid Makhdoom Douglas Akerman Lisa Loutzenheiser Allan Diamond Jan Manson Sandy Allen John Maclean JAZZ PATRON Keith Dickinson J. Gordon Marshall Kathleen Anderson Maureen MacNeill ($1000+) Peter Dodek Nobuko Masahara Claudio Arato Andrew Major Je rey Marus Gary Kushnir Elise Drake Michael & Jennifer Matich Nicole Austin Patricia Mason Patrick Julian Mitchell Edgar Anne & Peter McIlvaney Giancarlo Baru a Frances McGrath Linda Belton Lorraine Maze Lorene & Herbert Ely Pam McPhail Terry McBurney Gary Parkinson Kathy Evans Mark Mitchell Egill Bjornson Tracy Penner & Sam Shamash Jeannette Bourbonnais Caitlin McKee Carol Faria Jayeson Nicols Brenda Mendieta Ellen Boyer David Ferguson Mark Nishiguchi Richard Menkis JAZZ BENEFACTOR Jeanne Broussard Christian Findlay Cameron Northcott Terry Munro ($500+) Susan Buie Jean Fowler Gretchen O’Brien Sandra Murley Thomas Adair Edward Byrne Stephen Gaerber Calla Nestibo Lynn Buhler May Oltmann Lee Caldwell Lance Panerio Barbara Cooper Gordon Gallagher Eduardo Ottoni Ronald Charles Parveen Parhar Franco Ferrari Larry Garaway Chris Pekar Maxine Charlton Allen Pasnak Charles Gauthier Heather Gardner Jaime Peschiera Jane Cherry Betty Perverzov Ray Giesbrecht Robert & Alwynn Pollard Robert Mackay Darlene Clarke Hole Ranko Petrovic Karen Gilmore & Rob Van Nus Richard Pomeroy Dieter Nachtigall Pamela Cohen James Pitcher Jim Poole Je rey Goldberg Tim Poole Gillian Collins Elizabeth Reilly Jo-Anne Thomas Judith Goodman Eric Posen William Cooke Heather Renforth Carol Walls Peter Goodwin Roy & Maynetta Raymond Flavia Corbella Marianne Rev Michael Gordon Jennie Reckon Gary Deck Carol Roberts JAZZ CONTRIBUTOR Sangam Grant Valerie Richards Dennis Del Torre Chris Rose ($300+) John Groenewold Paul Richardson Darlene Dobson Carlo Rossetti Joseph Alexis Christian Guerino Dudley Robinson Christine Fedina Mark Schad Donna & Anssi Rantamaa Chris Guzy Deborah Roitberg Susan Fife Leonard Schein Judith Trowbridge Richard & Linda Hanson Christopher Sebert David Gartley Stephanie Shack Timothy Wyman Bruce Hardy Lindy Sisson Cary Gertsen Johanna Shapira Bill Hay Brent Smart Debra Gettling Maureen Shaw JAZZ DONOR Grant Gettling Melville & Joan Shaw Dean Hirschfeldt Lynda Spikerman ($100+) Christopher Glen Jon Sigurdson John Hodgins Joyce Statton Sima Abelev Fred Glick Richard Sims John Hooge Norm Steil Patrick Aldous Carrie Graham Lee Smith Jack Amar Karen Hudon William Gary & Janet Diane Allan Greenwood Deborah Sommerfeld Jim Anhorn Elaine Hunter Stevens Gordon Hartney Jim Southcott Bryan Arnold Lance Husoy Mary Stott Bianca Hayes Paul Summers Charles Arthur Penny Irvine Lionel Such Justine Hills Mary Tait Murat Aydede George Istrate Barrie Sullivan Jay Hirabayashi Kimberley-Anne Trueman K. Anthony Bailey Jacqueline & Scott Jacob Adrian Swanston Tom Hockin Diane Tullson Chris Balma Richara Johnson Randall Takasaki Rennie Holley Mariken Van Nimwegen Andrew Bartlett Norah Johnston Robert Taylor Darby Honeyman Russell Verrall Wayne Beggs Camron Karpiak Richard Tetrault Nicole Jackson Christopher Wallace David Beneteau Henry Karpus David Tobin Eric Johnson Jerry Wanek Kenneth Weremchuk Robert Bloom Leah Kaser Kenneth Tolmie Gary Johnson Daniel White Norma Boutillier Barbara Kay Kelvin Ketchum Du Waddell Alan Wilson Murray Braaten Marla Kiess John Watson Melanie Kirkland Karen Bunting Lorraine Koren Rod Wong Maureen Kling Deryk Whitehead Simon Wosk Allan Carruthers Paul Kyba Mariusz Kwiatkowski Paul Whitney Mary-Helen Wright Joanne Challenger Dennis Larsen Emma Lancaster Wayne Wiens Deborah Zbarsky Joe Chan Peter Lattimer Michael Lebowitz Kevin Wright Nancy Zegarchuk Vince Chura Shaun Ledding Peter Lewieniec Steve Young Dan Cohrs Allison Lee Karen Cooper Lydia Lovison Kevin Zimka Lisa Lennie 10 TD VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2016
Our Team
Thanks for being part of the Coastal Jazz Family. We couldn’t do it without you! VOLUNTEERS PROGRAMMING MANAGER, CLUBS & ASSISTANTInsta SITE MANAGER: Nearly 800 volunteers devote substantial SPECIAL PROJECTS: Cory Weeds Julie Martens hours and boundless energy to support ARTIST LOGISTICS COORDINInstaATOR: SOCIAL MEDIA CONSULTANT: the Festival every year. Our sincere thanks Georgia Mock Greg Morgan to each & every one of you. BUSINESS MANAGER: Phil Daum TRANSPORTATION COORDINATOR: ACCOUNTANT: Je Turner Donna Lytle BOARD OF DIRECTORS VIDEOGRAPHERS: PRESIDENT: Patrick J. Julian FESTIVAL STAFF Devan Scott, Will Ross VICE-PRESIDENT: Franco Ferrari ARTIST HOSPITALITY COORDINATORS: VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR: TREASURER: Michael Matich Laura Ross & Jenny Lee Craig Arlene Viccto SECRETARY: Gary Kushnir ARTIST LOGISTICS ASSISTANTS: VOLUNTEER COORD ASSISTANT: MEMBERS AT LARGE: Patrick Aldous, Marijka Asbeek Brusse, Rebecca Mulvihill Michelle Yuen Wayne Beggs, Nou Dadoun, Mo Dhaliwal, BANNER COORDINATOR: Bodie MacNeil INTERN: Graham Lim Mitchell Edgar, Zahid Makhdoom BIO WRITER: Stephen Lyons PUBLISHER: Westender: ADVISORY BOARD: Lynn Buhler, Keith BOX OFFICE ASSISTANTS: Gail Nugent, Robbin Sheriland, Tara Ra q Jakobsen, Bob Rebagliati, Deborah Will Haberl, Kaen Seguin, Leila Toledo, Roitberg Joanne Tsung, Logan Trudeau MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST: CORE STAFF Sophy Romvari EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Mike Forrester EDUCATION & OUTREACH COORDINATOR: ARTISTIC DIRECTOR & CO-FOUNDER: Flora Ware Ken Pickering FOOD, BEVERAGE & EXHIBIT MANAGER: MEDIA DIRECTOR & CO-FOUNDER: Rod Grant John Orysik GRAPHIC DESIGN: CONSULTANT: Michael Dibblee Emma Lancaster INFORMATION COORDINATOR: OPERATIONS DIRECTOR: Eduardo Ottoni Chloe Numbers DIRECTOR OF ADMINISTRATION: PRODUCTION MANAGERS: Jen Thomas Robert Wilson & James Ong MANAGER OF ARTISTIC PROGRAMMING: PRODUCTION COORDINATOR: Rainbow Robert Ori Nevares TICKETING AND PATRON SERVICES PROGRAMMING COORDINATOR: MANAGER: Kelly Creelman Cole Schmidt MARKETING MANAGER: Kate Knox SITE MANAGER: Tom Fijal
CONTACT US Coastal Jazz & Blues Society 2nd Floor, 295 West 7th Avenue Vancouver, BC, V5Y 1L9
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12 TD VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2016 Ticket Purchase Info
ADVANCE TICKET SALES
Please NOTE our ticket prices are in inclusive of tax, Online: capilanou.ca/centre service & facility fees. Additional charges apply only In Person: Arbutus Building 106D, Capilano University, 2055 for the following: Purcell Way, North Vancouver Phone Fee: $2 per ticket if sold by Ticket y’s Call Center Mon - Fri 11am –4pm 1.888.732.1682 Mailing Fee: $3.50 per order sent via Canada Post by Ticket y or Ticket policies: All advertised prices include taxes and additional free for Coastal Jazz Members via Coastal Jazz o ce service charges apply. Please note: all tickets are non-refundable. 2-Day Mail Fee: $19 Additional fee per order sent direct to customer via UPS 2-Day mail by Ticket y Club Series • No refunds or exchanges. Tickets for the Club Series can be purchased directly from the • If you wish to have your ticket on your mobile device, individual clubs on the night of the show. Please contact the club choose mobile druing checkout. for more info. • The entire Print At Home electronic ticket must be Discounted tickets presented at the door to allow event access. Discounts are available on advance ticket sales only except North Shore Jazz Series, where discounts are available at the door. Day of Show Ticket Purchases: Senior • Tickets go off sale through Ticketfly at 3PM on the day of show 15% discount on ticket price available before the day of the event • Tickets may still be purchased (if show isn’t sold out) approxi- to anyone 65 and better, a maximum of two tickets per person. mately one hour prior to show time at the WILL CALL O ce at Must pick up tickets at Will Call with valid photo ID. each venue Groups of 15 or more 10% discount on ticket price available before the day of the Website: coastaljazz.ca event to anyone. For purchases of 15 or more tickets please call General Public Phone: 604.872.5200 604-872-5200 ext 5 for assistance. Jazz Friend Phone: 604.872.5200 ext 5 30 under 30 Toll-free North America: 1-888-438-5200 ext 5 For selected events, anyone under the age of 30 can receive a In-Person Sales: No in-person sales available for these events 30% discount o the advance ticket price, max. of two tickets per Accessible Seating: There are reserved accessible seats at The person. Notices will go out via our e-newsletter, at least 1 week Queen Elizabeth Theatre and The Vogue Theatre, the rest of the in advance. TD VIJF venues are general admission. If you have accessibility based questions about any of our events or to purchase reserved Roundhouse Performance Centre Pass accessible seats please call 604-872-5200 ext 5 or email cjbs@ The Roundhouse Performance Centre Pass allows access to all six coastaljazz.ca for assistance. events Saturday, July 2 and Sunday, July 3 for $32 (includes all fees, service charges and taxes) Available online at coastaljazz.ca Frankie’s: Reservations for Frankie’s events can be made via Single set tickets for Roundhouse Performance Centre events [email protected], 778-727-0337 voice mail only. Full available at the door only. details available at coastaljazz.ca/frankies_italian Innovation Series 3 Event Bundle NORTH SHORE JAZZ SERIES: Choose any three events from Innovation Series - Ironworks & BLUESHORE FINANCIAL CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS BOX Ironworks Late Night for $46 (includes all fees, service charges OFFICE and taxes) Available via Coastal Jazz 604-872-5200 ext 5 Tickets for North Shore Jazz shows at BlueShore Financial Centre exclusively. Search for Ironworks Innovation and select three for the Performing Arts at Capilano University, Presentation House events you want to see. Choose your events early as the number Theatre and Kay Meek Centre. of discounted tickets are limited. Phone: 604.990.7810
TD VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2016 13 Education & Outreach
The Coastal Jazz and Blues Society presents education programs to secondary and post-secondary schools in the Lower Mainland on a year-round basis, giving students access to Canadian and international talent. Local and tour- ing artists participate in a wide range of these activities during the periods in which they perform public concerts for the Society. These activities are supported by our generous donors – to see how you can participate as a donor or volunteer, visit coastaljazz.ca.
TD High School Jazz Intensive The future of Jazz! Thanks to our generous sponsors at TD Sounds of Youth Stage Bank Group, the TD High School Jazz Intensive is now Presented by in its 13th year, providing high school students in the Lower Mainland with a unique opportunity to be a part Come hear the Sounds of Youth! This initiative is dedi- of a free nine-day music residency. This year we cated to showcasing some of Metro Vancouver’s best again welcome composer and guest conductor Tomeka high school jazz combos and big bands. Reid to lead the program. Saturday June 25 & Sunday June 26, 12-4:30pm: Robson Square, Ice-Rink Level Community Partners:
Vancouver School Board Free Public Workshops Up close and personal with Jazz masters Each year, we o er free workshops & lectures at the Tom Lee Music Hall and The Studio at the Roundhouse Up to 21 talented teens are selected through an audi- Community Centre led by some of the best artists in the tion process open to students in Grades 10-12 from world. In 2016, acclaimed international artists such as 150 schools across the Lower Mainland. Successful Alexander Hawkins, Tord Gustavsen, and Tomas Fujiwara participants receive extensive rehearsal opportunities, as well as local stars JP Carter, Tommy Babin and Skye bursaries and scholarships, complimentary concerts and Brooks will be sharing their genius. Don’t miss these op- workshops with visiting international artists, and get to portunities to learn from the pros in an intimate setting. perform on the main stage at David Lam Park! Details at coastaljazz.ca and Jazz Around Town schedule in this guide. Public performances: Saturday July 2, 1-4pm: Open Rehearsal at Tom Lee Music Hall, 929 Granville St. Sunday July 3, noon-1pm: Feature perfor- mance and announcement of scholarship winners, David Lam Park Stage A special thanks to program co-founder Bob Rebagliati for his continued support. 14 TD VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2016 Education & Outreach
Coastal Foundation for the Performing Arts Breathturns: Improvisation and Match for $1 Million Freedom June 25-26 @ UBC Robson Campus Room C100 The Coastal Foundation for the Performing Arts has 10am - 5pm Free been established to support the longer-term goals of the Coastal Jazz and Blues Society. Over $300,000 A Colloquium presented in partnership with the has been raised, with an objective to raise a further University of British Columbia and the International $200,000 during 2016 and apply for matching funds Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI). This through the Endowment Incentives Program of the two-day academic symposium will feature presenta- Department of Canadian Heritage. tions from artists, performers, scholars and community members – with keynotes by musicians performing Your contribution to the Foundation, if made before at the Festival, including world-renowned improvisers November 30, 2016 will be matched 100% through Evan Parker, Georg Graewe, Ayelet Rose Gottleib and the Endowment Incentives Program, to create and Tommy Babin . endowment of $1 million in raised and matched funds in early 2017. This year, the colloquium will focus on the relationships between improvisation and freedom. How do impro- The Foundation will ensure that the Coastal Jazz and visational practices in the arts challenge our limits? Blues Society can continue to provide access to jazz and How do liberation and spontaneity intersect? How do creative music to the community on a sustainable basis, to further education and outreach platforms currently collective actions negotiate with individualities? in development, to diversify the Society’s revenue, and to support artists and organizations aligned with the Check out the Education section of coastaljazz.ca for full Society’s mandate. information For more information about the Coastal Foundation for the Performing Arts, its mission, mandate and founding Board of Directors, visit coastaljazz.ca. To nd out how you can play a role in the goals of this new Foundation, call Mike Forrester, Executive Director, at 604.449.5532.
TD VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2016 15 The 24th Street Wailers Ana Popovic July 3 Roundhouse David Lam Park Stage @ 5:15pm Free June 29 Performance Works @ 9pm $48 All In Fronted by the drums and hell re vocals of Lindsey Beaver, the multiple Maple Blues Award and JUNO Award-nominated 24th Street Wailers are a hard-driving electric blues and boogie rock freight train that’ll get any crowd moving down the track. With Michael Archer bass, Marc Doucet guitar, Jesse Whitely piano, Jon Wong sax. Alexander Hawkins Trio See “Made in the UK” series page 54 Alicia Hansen (with Hiromi: The Trio Project) June 24 The Vogue Theatre @ 8pm $80/69 All In Complex and ambitious, pianist Alicia Hansen’s “ethereal voice and classically informed arrangements come together in “The lady can at out rip! Her Strat-driven blues variations experimental pop that’s both listenable and challenging” (Now range from high octane SRV-style throwdowns to electric Magazine). Ranging from driving, experimental instrumentals slide-and-wah excursions to Ronnie Earl-inspired jazziness and to intimate and lush songs, her sublime band features Ben acoustic Delta stomps.”—Guitar World Brown drums, Peggy Lee cello, David Sikula guitar, James With a soulful voice, scorching guitar chops, and heart-stopping Meger bass. stage presence, Serbian-born, Memphis-based Ana Popovic is a Alvaro Rojas Trio powerhouse of contemporary blues, rock, and electrifying funk. July 2 Roundhouse – Exhibition Hall @ 2:30pm and 3:40pm AllMusic praises her as a rare “triple threat: she is an excellent Free singer, an excellent guitarist, and an excellent songwriter.” Vancouver guitarist/composer on the rise Alvaro Rojas creates Equally inspired by Albert King and WAR, Popovic’s smoking engaging and challenging music across a wide spectrum of band Mo’ Better Love is stacked with some of Memphis’ hottest genres. From space-groove, to roots, rock, and the forward- barnburners and boogie men. thinking jazz of his Trio, he’s a talent to watch. Enjoy Monk, Anat Fort & Ayelet Rose Gottlieb Ellington, and Ornette, plus absorbing originals with Wynston July 1 Granville Island – Performance Works @ 3:45pm Free Minckler bass and Sam Cartwright drums. Called “a commanding vocalist” by the New York Times, Ayelet Amanda Toso “Words” Project Rose Gottlieb is a regular John Zorn collaborator. In this duo June 30 Frankie’s Jazz Club @ 8pm $15 + GST with fellow Israeli, ECM recording artist Anat Fort (Gianluigi On her new release Words, pianist/composer Amanda Toso Trovesi, Paul Motian) piano, the compelling, wildly-talented stretches the con nes of conventional jazz. She has taken pair blend French Chanson, avant-jazz, Jewish and Middle- poems and lyrics that possess a personal resonance for her Eastern traditions, and improvisations ranging from breathy and framed them in original new compositions that include delicateness to uncompromising sonic exploration. vocals for the rst time. The result is an eclectic collection that Thanks to the Consulate General of Israel-Ottawa. incorporates elements of jazz, art song, classical, and folk/pop Anat Fort and Gianluigi Trovesi while re-casting the poems of award-winning Canadian poets July 3 Roundhouse – Performance Centre @ 1:30pm $10 at Tim Bowling and Laura Lush, as well as William Wordsworth door only, or RHPC Innovation Weekend Pass $32 All In and Edgar Allan Poe, and contemporary artists like Joni Mitchell A rare opportunity to experience two of modern jazz’s most and Yo Yo Ma. With Felicity Williams voice, Alex Goodman eclectic and masterful musicians in an intimate duo setting. guitar, Jon Maharaj bass, Morgan Childs drums. A major gure in the Italian avant-garde, chamber jazz, and Thanks to Canada Council for the Arts. improvised music scenes since the late 1970s, composer and clarinet maestro Gianluigi Trovesi is “a visionary spirit and a con- ceptualizer who reimagines jazz in vivid Mediterranean hues, dancing folkloric themes, and bursts of vivid color” (JazzTimes). A daring improviser, Israeli pianist/composer Anat Fort’s “re ec- tive yet probing style” (New York Times) is “a skillful mix of the romantic and the cerebral, like watching a ower open; an enthralling combination of geometry and color” (Jewish Week). Watch for their new ECM album Birdwatching. 16 TICKETED FREE TD VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2016 Thanks to the Italian Cultural Institute – Toronto, Consulate Anita Eccleston General of Israel – Ottawa and Toronto and the Novara Festival July 1 Granville Island – Railspur District Stage @ 5:30pm Free – Italy Kamloops-born, Vancouver-based vocalist/trumpeter Anita André Leroux Quartet Eccleston’s music ranges from traditional jazz standards to June 26 Frankie’s Jazz Club @ 8pm $15 + GST funk, soul, Motown, reggae, blues, pop, and bold originals. Her Founding member of the acclaimed Quasar saxophone quartet, sweetly sultry voice and lyrical trumpet meshes beautifully with Montreal’s André Leroux (Christine Jensen, François Bourassa, a hotshot septet featuring Ben Henriques sax, Andrew Smith Jazzlab) is a versatile reedsman who brings warm-toned virtu- guitar, Kris Ruston keys, Doug Gorko cello, Graham Clark bass, osity to tenor and soprano saxophones, ute, and bass clarinet. and Richard Graham drums. His recent album Synchronie-Cités honours his John Coltrane Arild Andersen Trio w/Tommy Smith & Paolo and Sonny Rollins in uences through new compositions and Vinaccia passionate interpretations. With Frederic Alarie bass, James June 30 Innovation Series - The Ironworks @ 9:30pm $30 All In Gelfand piano, Christian Lajoie drums. or 3 Event Bundle $46 All In Thanks to Canada Council for the Arts June 26 Downtown Jazz – Robson Stage @ 3pm Free Andy Shauf (with case/lang/veirs) June 29 Queen Elizabeth Theatre @ 8pm $79 – $140 All In Channeling heartbreak, bittersweet regret, and prairie isolation, “Andy Shauf is slowly but surely becoming recognized as one of Canada’s best young folk singer-songwriters” (Exclaim!). A gifted storyteller, he’s an understated but captivating presence. Known for goose bump-inducing, pin-drop quiet perfor- mances, Shauf has inherited the poetic mantle of Elliott Smith “Nothing short of a master class” — Jazzwise and Nick Drake. One of the most captivating jazz trios and ECM recording artists to have emerged in the last ten years is the international
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TD VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2016 TICKETED FREE 17 Vancouver Jazz Job info: CYAN Project: Coupon ad MAGENTA Client: White Spot Trim size: 4.75 in x 3.58 in YELLOW Colours: 4C BLACK Proof #: 1 Date: April 14, 2016 Sign-off: Joel Berggren: [email protected] | 778-251-4105 collaboration between Norwegian master bassist Arild Brian Drye and Curtis Hasselbring trombones, Rachel Drehmann Andersen (Jan Garbarek, Terje Rypdal), renowned Scottish saxo- alto horn, Justin Mullens, Ben Holmes trumpets. phonist Tommy Smith (Gary Burton, John Sco eld), and proli c Thanks to the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Italian/Norwegian drummer Paolo Vinaccia. A compelling live Benoit Delbecq with François Houle/Gordon act, the Trio has the rare ability to balance “lyrical and, at times, Grdina/Kenton Loewen near-orchestral tendencies” (AllAboutJazz) with astonishing See “Spotlight on French Jazz” series page 56. power, precision and dynamism. Thrilling and unpredictable, “the sheer depth and lustre of this trio’s sound can invite you to Bernie Arai’s Goat Logic start purring in grateful imitation” (The Guardian). July 3 Roundhouse – Exhibition Hall @ 5:30pm & 6:40pm Thanks to Creative Scotland, Arts Council Norway, Music Norway. Free A sax, bass, and drums trio… plus another drummer for good The Arnt Arntzen Quintet measure! You can’t argue with the Goat Logic of it. This new July 1 Granville Island – Ron Basford Park Stage @ Noon Free quartet absolutely slays originals by drummer/composer Bernie Charming and tons of fun, banjo man Arnt Arntzen mixes Arai, free improv, and material by Ornette Coleman, Keith foot-stomping originals with traditional jazz, Dixieland, old Jarrett, and Bad Brains. With Skye Brooks drums, Tommy Babin time country, and blues. Expect a beguiling mix of Sydney bass, Chad Makela tenor sax. Bechet, Louis Armstrong, Eddie Condon, and Maurice Bolyer, with some blues-shouters inspired by Joe Williams thrown in BigFate for good measure! July 1 Granville Island – Railspur District Stage @ 8pm Free Led by bassist James Calvin “JC” Thompson, BigFate absolutely Banda de los Muertos rips the funk! This hot new Vancouver group’s modern jazz July 2 Roundhouse - David Lam Park Stage @ 7pm Free crosses over into R&B while mixing juicy odd-metre grooves, Co-led by clarinetist Oscar Noreiga (Tim Berne, Endangered adventurous harmony, and challenging arrangements in u- Blood) and sousaphonist Jacob Garchik (Lee Konitz), Banda de enced by Dave Holland, Thundercat, and Snarky Puppy. With los Muertos is a boisterous Mexican-style brass band made up Malcolm Aiken trumpet, Dominic Conway tenor sax, Daniel of some of Brooklyn’s best jazz and classical players. “Unadulter- Klenner drums, Mary Ancheta, Ian Cox keyboard/synth. ated fun” (NPR) with Jim Black drums, Chris Speed clarinet,
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18 TICKETED FREE TD VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2016 The Boys of BenRiach Neko Case/k.d. lang/Laura Veirs with special July 1 Granville Island – Performance Works @ Noon Free guest Andy Shauf This artful modern jazz band is a ne blend of iconic standards June 29 Queen Elizabeth Theatre @ 8pm $79 - $140 All In and original compositions by trumpeter Kevin Elaschuk. Hints of Miles Davis, Woody Shaw, Lee Konitz, and Don Cherry are stirred up by his long time collaborators, Dave Say saxophones, André Lachance guitar, Steve Holy bass and Joe Poole drums. Brejera July 1 Granville Island – Ron Basford Park Stage @ 2:30pm Free Brejera is the real deal! Playful and lively, this Vancouver-based band uses authentic samba instruments (cavaquinho, pandeiro, surdu, etc.) as they exuberantly explore the rich variety of Brazilian styles such as choro, pagode, bossa nova, forro and frevo, as well as some ashes of funk and classic rock! Several years ago k.d. lang sent an email to Neko Case and Brickhouse Laura Veirs on a whim. It read simply, “I think we should make June 26 Lynn Valley Village @ 1pm Free a record together.” Though the three musicians were barely With their brand of original, funky tracks and cleverly covered more than acquaintances “Laura and I both responded im- classic R&B tunes Brickhouse blends classic and modern with mediately,” recalls Case. “There was no question.” a groovin’ ease that always makes for a great time. With Rob But now there is an answer. case/lang/veirs, a new album by Bracken vocals/harmonica, Ray Keesh bass guitar, Ed Johnson three phenomenal, self-driven artists will be released June drums/percussion, Oldrich (Oz) Zitek sax, Todd Taylor guitar, 17 on Anti- with an extensive tour to follow. case/lang/veirs Darryl Havers Hammond organ/keyboards. features 14 new, original songs written by the artists over a Bruno Hubert Trio (with Gregory Porter) period of two-and-a-half years. July 2 The Vogue Theatre @ 8pm $80/69 All In Full of stunning harmonies and spellbinding rhythms, ‘case/ A beloved xture on the Vancouver jazz scene, pianist Bruno lang/veirs’ draws inspiration from alluring, mysterious subjects: Hubert has played with Brad Turner, Jacyln Guillou, Seamus a supermoon, the tumbledown story of ‘70s singer Judee Sill, Blake, and scores of other jazz luminaries. Hubert brings huge and the “best kept secret” in Silver Lake, to name but three. personality and rare talent to entrancing standards and nimble, Cat Toren / Peggy Lee / Sam Davidson swinging post-bop. With James Meger bass, Joe Poole drums. June 27 Ironworks @ 5pm Free Busty and the Bass These sublime musicians straddle the lines between thoughtful June 26 Downtown Jazz – Georgia Stage @ 7:30pm Free composition and expressive improvisation. JUNO-winning Busty and the Bass’s deal with their audiences is refreshingly pianist Cat Toren (Pugs & Crows) leads expansive groups in straight up: “we play music, you dance, we all live happily ever Vancouver and New York. Cellist Peggy Lee “has written beauti- after.” The energetic and versatile Montreal electro soul nine- fully contemplative tunes, but she’s also capable of exposing piece collective is loaded for bear with dance grooves, infectious her darkest and most demented secrets by way of her cello” hooks, intricate instrumental textures, and soulful vocals. And a (Georgia Straight). Sam Davidson brings his emotive clarinet to keytar, of course. Brasstronaut, ElkHorn, and his striking new electro/jazz project, Camaro 67 Skim Milk. July 3 Roundhouse David Lam Park Stage @ 1:45pm Free Christine Tobin Explosive ten-piece instrumental groove monsters Camaro 67 See “Made in the UK” series page 54. channel classic Fela Kuti and the modern Afrofunk of Antibalas, Cole Birney-Stewart Quartet whipping up a made-in-Vancouver heavy funk experience. June 26 Granville Island - Public Market Stage @ Noon Free Featuring members of the now-defunct Miami Device, Camaro Bassist Cole Birney-Stewart’s pulsing and forward-thinking 67 is the next big deal in the smoking hot BC groove scene! compositions lay out arcing melodies and sinewy rhythmic spines to be artfully interpreted by some of the Vancouver jazz scene’s most gifted creative players. With Tom Wherrett guitar, Jesse Cahill drums, and Chad Makela saxophones.
TD VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2016 TICKETED FREE 19 Common Grounds with Alan Matheson Septet Cory Weeds Quintet featuring Terell Sta ord and Paci c Baroque Orchestra July 1 & 2 Frankie’s Jazz Club @ 8pm $25 + GST June 30 Christ Church Cathedral @ 7:30pm $46 All In
Vancouver tenor saxophonist Cory Weeds is an expressive player Two Ensembles. Two starkly di erent genres. In this remarkable with a sound rmly rooted in the jazz tradition. This past year project, a Baroque ensemble led by JUNO Award-winning Weeds’ 10th release as a leader, This Happy Madness, spent 3 harpsichordist/chamber organist Alexander Weimann and a weeks at #1 on the JazzWeek charts. Trumpeter Terell Sta ord is brilliant jazz septet led by trumpeter/composer Alan Matheson a giant of contemporary jazz, an incredibly gifted and versatile explore threads running from the 17th century through to player who combines a deep love of melody with his own today’s creative jazz scene. Bringing together disparate musical brand of spirited and adventurous lyricism. The quintet will play communities, the two groups will perform works from their music from Sta ord’s latest release on Capri Records, BrotherLee respective elds as well as pieces written for the “common Love (Celebrating Lee Morgan) With Miles Black piano, Michael ground” of both. In this timeless meeting place, the long Glynn bass, Julian MacDonough drums. melodic lines of Ellington and Strayhorn echo Handel and Bach, July 3 Roundhouse – David Lam Park Stage @ 3:30pm Free while the endlessly creative practice of “theme and variation” is Crane Wreck a keystone of jazz improvisation, of the Baroque and, one could July 2 Roundhouse – Exhibition Hall @ 5:30pm and 6:40pm argue, of life. Free Thanks to BC Arts Council, City of Vancouver, the Leon and Thea This compelling new project from JUNO Award-winning cellist Koerner Foundation and Early Music Vancouver. Shanto Acharia (Fond of Tigers, Gentle Party) blends catchy Copilots rhythms and expressive melodies with adventurous improvisa- June 25 Downtown Jazz – Georgia Stage @ 2:15pm Free tion. Equal parts soaring and grounded, this excellent band Renowned for his driving and empathetic drumming with features François Houle clarinet, John Paton saxophone, Tommy Fond of Tigers, Veda Hille, Inhabitants, and others, guitarist Babin bass, and Sam Cartwright drums. Skye Brooks brings his soaring voice, dream-like lyricism and A Salute to Dal Richards adventurous song craft to this engaging ve-piece indie rock June 25 Downtown Jazz – Georgia Stage @ 12:30pm Free band. Undercurrents of the group’s jazz and improv sensibilities inform their arcing and propulsive organic folk rock. Featuring Pete Schmitt bass, Cole Schmidt guitar, Karma Sohn keys, and Dylan Smith drums. Cortex June 25 Downtown Jazz – Georgia Stage @ 3:45pm Free “One of the greatest bands in Norway” (AllAboutJazz), Cortex takes cues from ‘60s freebop and pushes them into uncompro- misingly modern territories. Bassist Ola Høyer and drummer Gard Nilssen propel wildly, while trumpeter Thomas Johannson For over eight decades, iconic bandleader Dal Richards and his and saxophonist Kristo er Berre Alberts mix strident unison Orchestra dazzled audiences with big band hits from the ‘30s lines and high-wire improvisations. “You want genre labels, call and ‘40s, swinging dance numbers, and brassed-up pop tunes. it avant garde party music”—Jazzwise Sadly, Dal passed away on New Year’s Eve 2015, just shy of his Thanks to Norwegian Jazz Federation, Arts Council Norway, 98th birthday and 80th consecutive NYE performance. Another Music Norway great Dal Richards tradition was his annual Jazz Festival set. Join Dal’s Orchestra for a high-spirited salute to a true entertainer and gentleman, Vancouver’s charismatic King of Swing! 20 TICKETED FREE TD VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2016 The Dan Brubeck Quartet Dave Sikula Trio July 3 Performance Works @ 9pm $35 All In July 3 Roundhouse – Exhibition Hall @ 2:30pm & 3:40pm Free From the cooking swing of The NightCrawlers to the post-rock/ noise of Inhabitants, to the interlocking melodicism of Alicia Hansen, Dave Sikula is one of Vancouver’s nest and most versatile guitarists. His tasteful, simmering trio plays originals and covers by Ornette Coleman, Neil Young, and Paul Motian. With James Meger bass, Dan Gaucher drums. David Ward & the Golden Future Orchestra July 2 Roundhouse - David Lam Park Stage @ Noon Free “The dude can totally sing, to the point where you have to wonder why the hell modern Motown hasn’t come calling.” — Georgia Straight A thrilling blend of R&B, art-rock, and funk, singer/songwriter With his astonishingly textured solos and mastery of odd- David Ward’s stunningly soulful songs are writ large by a daz- time signatures and mind-boggling polyrhythms, JUNO zling 12-piece band, including horns, strings, and rich backing Award-nominated drummer Dan Brubeck plays with “drama, vocals. potency and virtuosity” (DownBeat). His compelling new Vancouver-based group is a labour of familial love. Drawing Dawn Pemberton from a songbook of music by his late parents—legendary JUNE 25 Downtown Jazz – Georgia Stage @ 5:15pm Free pianist Dave and noted jazz lyricist Iola Brubeck—the Dan Vibrant, honest, and soulful, WCMA nominee Dawn Pember- Brubeck Quartet brings out hidden gems from the vault and ton’s deep musicality and powerful voice beats a soulful path dives joyously into some classic tunes (Blue Rondo a la Turk, from gospel and R&B to jazz, funk and world music. A col- Take 5). Featuring soulful vocalist/bassist Adam Thomas whose laborator with The Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer and Khari easygoing authority evokes Louis Armstrong, tenor saxophonist Wendell McLelland, her big voice and irresistible verve leads a Steve Kaldestad, and pianist Miles Black. smoking band of Vancouver soulmen.
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Flip, op, and y with The Legendary Downchild Blues Band! For more than four decades, this multiple Maple Blues and JUNO Award-winning Toronto powerhouse has been tearing up stages with its rollicking, sax-driven jump blues. Led by guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Donnie “Mr. Downchild” Walsh– who also lays down some serious train-a-comin’ harp –this internationally renowned juggernaut is “one of the greatest Get ready for a wild, genre-bending cross-cultural dance party blues bands in the world. Period” (Toronto Star). The immense explosion! With their free-thinking blend of Bhangra and Celtic charisma and smoking hot take on Chicago and Delta blues music, hip hop, dub reggae, breakbeats, rock, and electronica, inspired Dan Aykroyd to create The Blues Brothers who then Delhi 2 Dublin is “part Bollywood wedding, part Celtic kitchen covered Downchild classics like “Everything I Need (Almost)” party, and all electronic dance fest.” (The Snipe) and “Shotgun Blues.” Come get some full-tilt blues direct from the source! Vivo Media Arts Centre Presents: Destroy Vancouver XVII ElkHorn June 25 Innovation Series – VIVO Media Arts Centre @ June 26 Downtown Jazz – Robson Stage @ 5pm Free 9:30pm $20/$15 Featuring members of Pugs & Crows and Brasstronaut, ElkHorn Curated by John Brennan and Elisa Ferrari, the Destroy creates compelling music inspired by guitarist/composer Tom Vancouver series presents a broad range of experimental music Wherrett’s Nebraskan childhood. Elements of jazz, post-rock, and art aesthetics while bringing together local, national, and and folk make for a sublime and imaginative trip to where the international improvisers, sound artists and avant-garde musi- west begins. With Meredith Bates violin/viola, Russell Sholberg cians. Edition XVII features the perpetually innovative, iconic bass, Sam Davidson bass clarinet, Mike Magnusson drums. British saxophonist Evan Parker, the “impressive chops and vivid Emile Parisien Quartet imagination” (JazzTimes) of American drummer Chris Corsano See “Spotlight on French Jazz” series page 57. (Joe McPhee, Bjork, Thurston Moore), installation/performance artist Erin Sexton, local audio experimenter Constantine Katsiris, and Selector Records (DJ). Donkey Monkey with Eve Risser & Yuko Oshima See “Spotlight on French Jazz” series page 56.
22 TICKETED FREE TD VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2016 Endangered Blood Geo Claridge Quartet July 2 Innovation Series – Ironworks Late Night @ Midnight June 29 Granville Island - Public Market Stage @ Noon Free $21 All In or 3-Event Bundle $46 All In Hot o the release of his new album Sketches in Colour, “A head-rush of aggressive improvising”—Seattle Times saxophonist/clarinetist Geo Claridge engages the impressive Brooklyn’s Endangered Blood are a rare blend of ery interplay, talents of local heavy hitters Brad Turner piano/Rhodes, Eli compositional complexity and intense soulfulness. Endlessly Davidovici bass, and Bernie Arai drums to constantly shift the inventive and thrillingly unpredictable, the beating heart of colour and tone of his compositions, making every performance traditional jazz is always at the group’s core, no matter how a new window into a singular sound world. far they push the sonic envelope. Elements of post-bop, free Georg Graewe jazz, and high-energy rock coalesce in a surprisingly melodic July 2 Roundhouse – Performance Centre @ 5pm $10 All In and engaging whole. With cutting edge jazz innovators Oscar at door only or RHPC Weekend Innovation Pass $32 All In Noriega bass clarinet/alto sax (Tim Berne’s Snakeoil), Chris “Listen and be awed.”—AllMusic Speed tenor sax/clarinet (Uri Caine, Claudia Quintet), drummer Award-winning German pianist Georg Graewe works on the Jim Black (Nels Cline, AlasNoAxis), and bassist Trevor Dunn borders of jazz, free improvisation, and contemporary avant- (Mike Patton, John Zorn, The Melvins). garde. Balancing spontaneous creation with a poetic sense Equilibrium of restraint, Graewe is a “true explorer of sound and thematic June 28 Performance Works @ 2:30pm Free development” (AllAboutJazz). Active since the early ‘70s, Danish guitarist/composer Graewe has worked with John Butcher, Ken Vandermark, and Mikkel Ploug, Norway’s Sissel Hamid Drake, while maintaining his trio with Gerry Hemingway Vera Pettersen soprano sax, and Ernst Reijseger since 1989. In his deeply moving solo work, vocals and electronics, and “virtually every piece is steeped in the kind of immediacy that Belgian clarinetist/tenor can only be expressed when one’s discipline is equal to that of saxophonist Joachim his inspiration and technique” (AllMusic). Badenhorst (Han Bennink) JUNE 24 Performance Works (Parker/Graewe/Muller) @ “create a stunning ambience” 2:30pm Free (AllAboutJazz) and a daringly Georg Graewe / Dylan van der Schy / John cohesive whole with their Paton spacious, pastoral chamber June 28 Ironworks @ 5pm Free sounds and electronic German pianist Georg Graewe “traverses the distance from soundscapes, minimalist avant-garde, nuanced jazz, and intensely thoughtful sparseness through to throttling, high- idiosyncratic, otherworldly folk music. They’ve released three density hyperactivity” (AllAboutJazz). Rising Vancouver jazz gorgeous albums on Vancouver’s Songlines label. star saxophonist John Paton has worked with Han Bennink, Jon Thanks to Jazz Denmark. Bentley, and Orkestra Futura. “A master manipulator” drummer Evan Parker / Georg Graewe / Torsten Müller Dylan van der Schy “tests and expands common notions of See “Made in the UK” series page 54. timbre” (DownBeat). Evan Parker with Torsten Müller / Meredith Giorgio Magnanensi/Kenton Loewen/Chris Bates / Peggy Lee Kelly/Sam King See “Made in the UK” series page 54. June 29 Ironworks @ 5pm Free Flat Earth Society Vancouver New Music artistic director Giorgio Magnanensi June 25 Downtown Jazz – Georgia Stage @ 7:30pm Free laptop/electronics “is one of the most outgoing, provocative, and It’s been ten years since Belgian big band Flat Earth Society last multifaceted musicians on the local scene” (Georgia Straight). A treated Vancouver audiences to their adventurous punk anarchy, fearless improviser, drummer Kenton Loewen works with Dan orchestral intricacy, and cinematic dynamism. AllAboutJazz Mangan, Peregrine Falls, Benoit Delbecq, and The Crackling. calls Peter Vermeersch’s Zappa and Ellington-infused 15-piece Chris Kelly brings his impassioned sax playing to avant-Arabic ensemble “the sonic equivalent of a freak show—weird, ensemble Haram and a range of improvised settings, while gui- wonderful and like nothing you’ve come across before.” tarist Sam King (John Paton) is a rising star in Vancouver jazz. Thanks to City of Ghent and Flanders State of the Art
TD VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2016 TICKETED FREE 23 Gordon Grdina’s Haram Greasy G and The Poole Party! July 2 Performance Works @ 9pm $35 All In Featuring JACKITO! June 25 Downtown Jazz – Robson Stage @ 3pm Free Driving Latin, swing and afrobeat grooves + greasy Hammond organ = good times! The spontaneously combustible trio of Chris Gestrin keyboards, Joe Poole drums, and Jack Duncan congas/percussion deliver the funky goods. Recommended for anyone who loves some Green Onions while on the Corner. Gregory Porter (with Bruno Hubert Trio) July 2 The Vogue Theatre @ 8pm $80/69 All In “The music’s backbone is traditional, but wild outbursts of free improvisation and subtle injections of noise make it quite unlike anything you’d hear in the shisha dens of Cairo or Baghdad.” — Georgia Straight A phenomenal culture-mashing juggernaut led by Gordon Grdina (Dan Mangan, Mark Helias) on Iraqi oud, Haram pays homage to traditional Arabic music while mixing elements of noise, electronic soundscape, and western free improv into its explosively self-expressive sound. With creative heavy-hitters JP Carter trumpet, Jesse Zubot violin, Kenton Loewen drums, Tommy Babin bass, Emad Armoush vocals, François Houle clarinet, Chris Kelly saxophone, Tim Gerwing, Liam MacDonald percussion.
“Massive vocal power o set by a rich tone and delicate control, his interpretations it between jazz and soul.”—MOJO Equal parts Bill Withers and Nat King Cole, Grammy Award- winning vocalist Gregory Porter can moan a soulful blues ri and dart through a playful, stomping jazz number with equal Enjoy the perfect pairing of wine, power. With a smooth and smoky baritone, Porter continues the food and live music in a unique traditions of soul and jazz artists of the past, but sets himself setting during the Vancouver International Jazz Festival. apart from mere revivalists with his exceptional songwriting. His insightful lyrics and stirring melodies are sincere, romantic, 328 W. 2nd Avenue near Olympic Village and deeply grooving. This enormous talent raised the roof at citysidewinery.com the 2013 Festival. With Chip Crawford piano, Emanuel Harrold drums, Jahmel Nichols bass, Tivon Pennicott sax. Gwyneth Herbert Trio See “Made in the UK” series page 55. Hildegard’s Ghost June 30 Granville Island - Public Market Stage @ Noon Free Full of extended technique, imaginative melodies, and electro- acoustic interweaving, composer/keyboardist Roisin Adams’s ethereal sonic world is explored through broadly cinematic arrangements and textured improvisations. With harpist Elisa Vancouver’s BEST stand up comedy, Thorn (Gentle Party), bass Je Gammon (Paul Pigat), and every Tues. thru Sat. Check us out at: drummer Justin Devries. yukyuks.com 604-696-9857 2837 Cambie (at 12th)
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Fri. June 24 Sat. June 25 Sun. June 26 Mon. June 27 QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE An Evening with Ms. Lauryn Hill Sarah 650 Hamilton Joe Jackson w/ Khari Wendell McLachlan w/ Lobby 6:30/Door 7/Show 8pm $52-$96 ALL IN McClelland Marin Patenaude Reserved Seating 8:00pm All Ages $79-$151 ALL IN $79-$140 ALL IN
VOGUE SERIES Hiromi: Oliver Jones Trio The Legendary 918 Granville St. The Trio Project w/Oliver Gannon Downchild Door 7pm/Show 8pm w/Alicia Hansen Quartet Blues Band 8:00pm Orchestra Reserved Seating. Balcony General Admission Seating $69-$80 ALL IN $69 ALL IN w/Steve Hill All ages $52/$63 ALL IN
CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL The Jacky 690 Burrard St. Terrasson Trio Door 6:30pm/Show 7:30pm $46 ALL IN 7:30pm General Admission Seating All Ages
PERFORMANCE WORKS Soil & “Pimp” Polyrhythmics 1218 Cartwright St. Sessions $35 ALL IN Lobby 8pm/Door 8:30pm/Show 9pm $35 ALL IN General Admission
9:00pm No Minors 19+
“INNOVATION SERIES” The Thing Peggy Lee’s Echo Marcin Mats Eilertsen Trio AT THE IRONWORKS $30 ALL IN Painting Wasilewski Trio $30 ALL IN 235 Alexander St. $30 ALL IN “Spark of Life” Door 8:30pm/Show 9:30 pm $30 ALL IN
9:30pm General Admission No Minors 19+ 3 PACK BUNDLE $46 All In “LATE NIGHT Evan Parker with VIVO Media Arts INNOVATION SERIES” AT THE Torsten Müller/ Presents: Destroy IRONWORKS Peggy Lee/ Vancouver XVII 235 Alexander St. Meredith Bates Ticket info at Door 11:30pm $21 ALL IN vivomediaarts.com
Midnight General Admission No Minors 19+ at VIVO Media Arts Centre, 2625 Kaslo St., 9:30 pm FRANKIE’S Larry Fuller Trio Larry Fuller Trio Andre Leroux Steve Kaldestad 765 Beatty Street ft. Lewis Nash ft. Lewis Nash Quartet & The Renee Cover Charge May Apply $25 ALL IN $25 ALL IN $15 ALL IN Rosnes Trio Reservations @ coastaljazz.ca
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FRANKIE’S 765 Beatty Street Late Night Coastal Jazz Jam Session FREE hosted by Mike Allen Quartet 11:00 pm Ticketed Concert Series
Tue. June 28 Wed. June 29 Thu. June 30 Fri. July 1 Sat. July 2 Sun. July 3 Tedeschi Trucks case/lang/veirs Band w/Andy Shauf $69-$118 ALL IN $79-$140 ALL IN
Joe Lovano Gregory Porter/ Classic Quartet Bruno Hubert Trio w/Matt Choboter $69/80 Trio with Brad ALL IN Turner $69 ALL IN Tord Gustavsen Common Grounds: Hymns and Visions Alan Matheson w/ Simin Tander and Septet & Paci c Jarle Vespestad Baroque Orchestra $46 ALL IN $46 ALL IN Moon Hooch Ana Popovic Steve Riley & the Canada Day Gordon Grdina’s The Dan Brubeck $35 ALL IN $48 ALL IN Mamou Playboys See page 26 Haram Quartet $48 ALL IN for details $35 ALL IN $35 ALL IN
Alexander Piotr Arild Andersen Trio Vinny Golia Trio w/ Tomeka Reid Hawkins Trio Damasiewicz Quintet w/ Tommy Smith & Clyde Reed & Dylan Quartet $30 ALL IN “Tribute to Szakal” Paolo Vinaccia van der Schy $30 ALL IN $30 ALL IN $30 ALL IN $30 ALL IN
Endangered Blood Mary Halvorson/ $21 ALL IN Tommy Babin/ Skye Brooks/JP Carter $21 ALL IN
Steve Kaldestad Mike Rud Minatures/ Amanda Toso Cory Weeds Cory Weeds Quintet Jaclyn Guillou & The Renee Two Much Guitar “Words” Project Quintet ft. ft. Terell Sta ord $15 ALL IN Rosnes Trio $15 ALL IN $15 ALL IN Terell $25 ALL IN $30 ALL IN Sta ord $25 ALL IN
Late Night Coastal Jazz Jam Session hosted by Mike Allen Quartet David Lam Park Jazz Weekend FREE! Presented by DAVID LAM PARK ROUNDHOUSE ROUNDHOUSE WORKSHOPS STAGE EXHIBITION PERFORMANCE ROUNDHOUSE HALL CENTRE THE STUDIO $32 All in Weekend Pass or $10 per set
David Ward and the Alvaro Rojas Trio Mattias Risberg and JP Carter Golden Future Orchestra 2:30pm & 3:40pm François Houle 1:30pm
Saturday, July 2 12:00pm 1:30pm Crane Wreck $10 All In Tommy Babin Star Captains 5:30pm & 6:40pm 3:00pm 1:45pm Ron Samworth’s Dogs Do Dream Skye Brooks Khari Wendell McLelland 3:15pm 4:30pm and the Unsung Heros $10 All In 3:30pm Georg Graewe WIL CAMPA y Su Orquesta 5:00pm 5:15pm $10 All In Banda de los Muertos 7:00pm Roots Roundup 8:45pm
TD High School Intensive Bernie Arai’s Goat Logic Anat Fort/Gianluigi Jason Roebke with Tomeka Reid 2:30pm & 3:40pm Trovesi 1:30pm
Sunday, July 3 12:00pm 1:30pm Dave Sikula Trio $10 All In Tomas Fujiwara Camaro 67 5:30pm & 6:40pm 3:00pm 1:45pm Mammal Hands 3:15pm Vinny Golia Cory Weeds Quintet $10 All In 4:30pm ft. Terell Sta ord 3:30pm Matthew Halsall & the Gondawana Orchestra The 24th Street Wailers 5:00pm 5:15pm $10 All In
Wooden Horsemen 7:00pm Delhi 2 Dublin 8:45pm DAVID LAM PARK JAZZ WEEKEND - SATURDAY, JULY 2 & SUNDAY, JULY 3, 2016 - Noon to 10pm
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Bob Liley Jazz Quartet The Paris Trio June 24
The Falcon Trio The Grand Trio Steve Kaldestad Trio June 25
Guenter Schulz Trio Deanna Knight and the Hot Nobuki Takamen Trio Club of Mars 7:00pm
June 26 Mostly Marley 9:00pm
Gabriel Mark Hasselbach Jaqueline Dawn 7:00pm Alvaro Rojas 9:00pm June 27
Jaclyn Guillou Quartet Bruno Solo Piano 5:00pm Monk’s Dream 7:00pm
June 28 Alvaro Rojas Trio 9:00pm
Malcolm Aiken Quartet Jon Roper 7:00pm Autobahn Zak Youssef 9:00pm June 29 June
Kris Schulz & Calum Graham Hot Club of Mars 7:00pm Victor Noriega Quartet Tim Sars Band 8:00pm June 30
Ron Johnson Trio with Maria Ho Bruno Piano Trio +1 7:00pm Jay Leonard Jautco 8:00pm July 1
Kelly Brown Quartet Winston Minkler Band 7:00pm Meghan Gilhespy Quartet Alma Chevere 9:00pm July 2
Sharon Minemoto’s Simmer Los Duendes Latin Band July 3
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y Hiromi: The Trio Project (with Alicia Hansen) The Jacky Terrasson Trio June 24 The Vogue Theatre @ 8pm $80/69 All In See “Spotlight on French Jazz” series page 57. “She’s to the Jacques Kuba Seguin Quartet: Litania Projekt piano what June 26 Downtown Jazz – Robson Stage @ 1:30pm Free Hendrix and Van Montreal trumpeter/composer Jacques Kuba Seguin’s arresting Halen are to the Litania Projekt moves masterfully between traditionalism guitar. Yeah, and cutting-edge modern sensibilities, marrying neoclassical she’s that good” melodies with Northern European jazz and subtle electron- — All About ics. Cinematic in his use of dramatic tension and long-game Jazz arrangements, his fantastic quartet features Frédéric Alarie bass, Ever since the Kevin Warren drums, Jonathan Cayer piano. release of her Thanks to Canada Council for the Arts. 2003 debut album, Another James Danderfer’s Hummingbird Brigade Mind, Japanese June 26 Downtown Jazz – Georgia Stage @ 3:45pm Free pianist/com- “A meaty, beaty, big and bouncy all-star band” —Georgia poser Uehara Straight Hiromi has elec- Composer/clarinetist James Danderfer delivers his contempo- tri ed audiences rary big band take on the New Orleans Brass Band tradition, worldwide. “One mixing soul, funk, and jazz with irresistibly propulsive results. of the most Populated with 16 of Canada’s nest jazz musicians, James’s exciting groups working in any genre today,” writes Downbeat. Hummingbird Brigade is a jubilant powerhouse! With electric bass master Anthony Jackson (Chick Corea, Steely Jen Hodge All Stars Dan) and hard-hitting drummer Simon Phillips (Al DiMeola, June 26 Downtown Jazz – Robson Stage @ 6:45pm Free David Gilmour), this erce but playful trio blends percussive Vancouver bassist Jennifer Hodge leads this pack of talented post-bop, proggy polyrhythms, mesmerizing counterpoint young musicians with a passion for playing raucous, sassy jazz melodies, swing, and rock—all accompanied by Hiromi’s joyful that’s reminiscent of the prohibition era. Think ’20s, ’30s, Jelly o hand vocalizations and gleeful bouncing o the piano bench! Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke, Bob Wills, speakeasies, road- Huu Bac Quintet with Jou Tou houses, underground parties... you get the idea. Guaranteed to June 25 Civic Plaza (14th & Lonsdale) @ 1pm Free be great fun! Huu Bac Quintet blends jazz and world music seamlessly. Jennifer Scott Quartet featuring Dave Sikula Vietnamese-born Huu Bac Quach uses everything from the July 2 Performance Works @ 2:30pm Free Chinese ddle and the Andean ute to the jazz guitar, creating With “gorgeous tone and absolutely killer technique” (The a sound that is simultaneously familiar and mysterious. Province), vocalist/pianist Jennifer Scott puts a distinctive stamp The quintet will be joined by Vancouver-based world music on repertoire ranging from Joni Mitchell and the Beatles to ensemble Jou Tou. With Huu Bac Quach dan bau/erhu/quena/ Brazilian classics and jazz standards. With a “supple sense of guitar, Guillaume Martineau piano, Jean-Félix Mailloux bass, swing and deft, slippery phrasing” (Seattle Times), her stellar Marie-Neige Lavigne violin and Etienne Mason drums. combo features Dave Sikula guitar, Cory Weeds sax, Rene Worst Jou Tou features Andre Thibault amenco guitar/oud and Qiu bass, Joel Fountain drums. Xia He pipa. Jesus Caballero’s Solo Picnic Jaclyn Guillou July 2 Granville Island - Public Market Stage @ Noon Free July 3 Frankie’s Jazz Club @ 8pm $15 + GST Drummer Jesus Caballero’s exciting new project spotlights his “A treasure that is quietly evolving into one of the premier ery original compositions. Blending jazz, free improv and vocalists of our time.”—Critical Jazz prog rock, Caballero’s in uences (Bill Frisell, Elvin Jones, Pink Nominated for a JUNO Award in the Best Vocal Jazz Album of Floyd, Radiohead) inhabit his loose melodies, pulsing vamps, the Year category for her new release This Bitter Earth, A Tribute and thrilling free improv. With local jazz stalwarts Emma Postl to Dinah Washington, Jaclyn Guillou brings a signature vocal vocals, Jared Burrows guitar, Clyde Reed bass, Bill Clark trumpet. style that draws laudatory comparisons to Betty Carter, Joni Mitchell and Diane Reeves. With Campbell Ryga saxophones, Jillian Lebeck piano, Darren Radtke bass, Bernie Arai drums.
38 TICKETED FREE TD VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2016 Joe Jackson collection of original songs in seven years and features guest June 24 Queen Elizabeth Theatre @ 8pm $52-$96 All In musicians including Bill Frisell, Stefan Kruger (Zuco 103), Earl Harvin, and Stanton Moore. His career-spanning Festival show will feature Jackson “as my own opening act,” playing a short solo piano set before bringing out a full band which will include Graham Maby bass, Teddy Kumpel (Rickie Lee Jones, Feist) guitar, and Doug Yowell (Suzanne Vega, Ari Hest) drums. Joe Lovano Classic Quartet (with Matt Choboter Trio with Brad Turner) June 28 The Vogue Theatre @ 8pm $69 All In
The ever-restless British-born, NYC/Berlin-based singer/ songwriter Joe Jackson makes his highly anticipated debut at the Jazz Festival. With a string of 19 studio albums and multiple Grammy nominations, Jackson rocketed to stardom with songs including “Is She Really Going Out With Him?”, “Steppin’ Out” A massive force in jazz for four decades, Grammy Award- and “It’s Di erent for Girls”. Over a long career Joe has traversed winning saxophonist Joe Lovano cut his teeth in early gigs with territory ranging from cabaret and lm scores to classical music, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Chet Baker, Rashied Ali, and Paul Motian pop and jump blues. His latest release, Fast Forward, is his rst before emerging as a leader in his own right. Versatile and
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Free Concerts in the Piazza ITALIAN CULTURAL CENTRE JUL 27, 7:00pm 3075 Slocan St, Vancouver, BC AUG 24, 7:00pm 604.430.3337
TD VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2016 TICKETED FREE 39 omnivorous in his collaborations, he’s worked with a who’s unforgettable melodies and pop accessibility and incorporates who of jazz stalwarts, including John Sco eld, Herbie Hancock, elements of funk and reggae. The Monster Gentlemen features Dave Holland, Bill Frisell, and Dave Douglas. “Expertly balancing some of the best musicians in New Orleans with Derwin “Big D” heartfelt melodicism and cerebral harmonic improvisation” Perkins guitar, Cornell C. Williams bass, and Jellybean drums. (AllMusic), Lovano is constantly creative, constantly exploring. Julian Jayme Quintet With rising star pianist Lawrence Fields, and the in-demand June 28 Granville Island - Public Market Stage @ Noon Free New York-based rhythm section of Bulgarian bassist Peter Local guitarist Julian Jayme has taken giant steps since relocat- Slavov, and Kosovo transplant Lamy Istre drums. ing to Boston to study at The Berklee College of Music. His John Korsrud’s Latin Ensemble incisive original tunes are in uenced by Kurt Rosenwinkel and July 1 Granville Island – Ron Basford Park Stage @ 5pm Brad Mehldau, and rendered skillfully by emerging Vancouver Free talents Eli Bennett tenor sax, Jonathan Tobin keyboards, Cole Led by the rigorous trumpet of Hard Rubber Orchestra founder Birney-Stewart bass, and Matt Skepasts drums. John Korsrud, and featuring a who’s who of leading Canadian Khari Wendell McClelland and The Unsung jazz, world, and new music players, this hard-hitting band Heroes (with Ms. Lauryn Hill) plays tunes by Michel Camilo, Arturo Sandoval, Chucho Valdes, June 26 Queen Elizabeth Theatre @ 8pm $79 - $151 All In and many more. A powerhouse of pulsing Latin grooves and Known for his key role in local gospel heavyweights The virtuosic melodic interplay. Sojourners, vocalist Khari Wendell McClelland leads a soulful Jon Cleary and the Absolute Monster journey from heart-wrenching experiences of personal loss to Gentlemen heart-swelling messages of redemption, hope and positive July 3 The BlueShore at Cap @ 8pm $35/$33 social change. Smoking soul tunes, moving interpretations of Underground Railroad slave songs, and some choice covers; this is a deeply grooving, deeply a ecting, must-see group. July 2 Roundhouse - David Lam Park Stage @ 3:30pm Free Kristian Braathen Trio June 25 Granville Island - Public Market Stage @ Noon Free Drawing on in uences from Jacky Terrasson and Bill Charlap, Vancouver drummer Kristian Braathen’s Trio performs superb originals as well as sophisticated arrangements of jazz standards and tunes by everyone from Joni Mitchell to Pearl Jam all with exceptional feel and killer chops. With Miles Black keyboards, Jodi Proznik bass. Jon Cleary and the Absolute Monster Gentlemen is a southern Laila Biali soul band like no other. Born and bred in England, but claiming July 1 Granville Island – Performance Works @ 9:30pm Free New Orleans as his adopted hometown, keyboardist/singer/ “A voice that makes the listener shudder it’s so rounded and guitarist Jon Cleary has become one of the most well-respect- pure”—Montreal Gazette ed, hard working artists in the R&B and soul scene. He blends Award-winning keyboardist/vocalist Laila Biali moves e ort- the soulful jazz and R&B heritage of New Orleans with smart, lessly between incandescent contemporary jazz and absorbing modern pop. An acclaimed composer, deeply personal lyricist, and acute interpreter, the New York-based Vancouverite has worked with Phil Dwyer and Sting. With George Koller bass and Ben Wittman drums. Larry Fuller Trio featuring Lewis Nash June 24 & 25 Frankie’s Jazz Club @ 8pm $25 + GST “Whether playing rapid- re, intricate passages or subtly interpreting a tender ballad, Fuller is always totally in command and engaging.”—Jazz Times Cakes • Pastries • Cookies • and more! A world-class jazz pianist rooted in the hard-swinging tradi- 100% gluten free using all natural ingredients tions of mainstream jazz, Larry Fuller has worked with legend- 3385 Cambie Street • 604.873.9993 ary bassist Ray Brown, drummer Je Hamilton, and guitarist Open Every Day • lemonadebakery.ca John Pizzarelli among others.
40 TICKETED FREE TD VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2016 “Perhaps the most talented drummer of his generation,” opined Malleus Trio jazz critic Ira Gitler of drummer Lewis Nash. He has been the June 27 Granville Island - Public Market Stage @ Noon Free drummer of choice for an incredible array of artists from Betty High-energy originals, choice standards, and expansive free Carter, Tommy Flanagan and Ron Carter to Branford Marsalis, improv from three of Vancouver’s most in-demand, cutting- Sonny Rollins and Renee Rosnes. With Russ Botten bass. edge young talents. Featuring bassist Geordie Hart (The Boom Ms. Lauryn Hill (with Khari Wendell Booms), tenor saxophonist Dominic Conway (We Just Stole A McCelland) Car), and JUNO Award-winning drummer Ben Brown (Pugs & June 26 Queen Elizabeth Theatre @ 8pm $79 – $151 All In Crows). Mammal Hands See “Made in the UK” series page 55. Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog June 24 The BlueShore at Cap @ 8pm $35/$33 In perhaps his rawest ensemble to date, New York-based jazz guitarist Marc Ribot and his trio bring down the house with their jam-heavy, rock-driven electro-freak funk, shamelessly drawing on hard rock and extreme sonorities while remaining accessible and delectable. Hovering in and out of jazz as e ortlessly as he does in rock, From a young age it was obvious that Ms. Hill possessed Ribot and his stooges aim to push listeners into an experience extraordinary talents and creativity. Her love a air with music somewhere between jazz and funk, bringing a whole new would extend in many di erent directions, from jazz and soul to meaning to the term “hard rock.” But, as Ribot says, “Ceramic reggae, rock, and classical. She would establish her reputation Dogs just wanna have fun.” With Marc Ribot guitar/voice, Ches in the music world as the lone female member of The Fugees, Smith drums and Shahzad Ismaily bass/electronics. whose record sales would make them the second biggest- selling R&B act worldwide since Michael Jackson. She launched Jazztopad presents: her solo career with the release of the commercially successful Marcin Wasilewski Trio “Spark of Life” and critically acclaimed album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, June 26 Innovation Series - The Ironworks @ 9:30pm $30 All which earned a record-breaking ve Grammy Awards. In or 3 Event Bundle $46 All In “His sense of musical space and Longhand his aural imagery are so fresh June 25 Downtown Jazz – Robson Stage @ 5pm Free they are initially mysterious, Led by iconic West Coast guitarist/composer Tony Wilson, then get more so.”— JazzTimes Longhand’s lyrical, deeply emotional music borders on the A Polish pianist/composer spiritual. With JUNO Award winners Tyson Naylor keys, Russell of cinematic and profoundly Sholberg bass, and Skye Brooks drums, Longhand gets to the melodic originals, (and long time collaborator with Tomasz soul of inventive originals and covers of Pharoah Sanders, Tom Stanko), ECM artist Wasilewski’s superb o -book explorations Waits, Nirvana, and more. reinforce his “growing reputation as a visionary improviser” Los Straitjackets (All About Jazz). Daring re-workings of Herbie Hancock, June 30 The BlueShore at Cap @ 8pm $30/$28 Ennio Morricone, The Police, and legendary Polish pianist and Formed in Nashville, Los Straitjackets used the music of Ven- lm music composer Krzysztof Komeda (Rosemary’s Baby) tures, The Shadows, and Dick Dale as a launching pad to capture beautifully frame his Keith Jarrett-in uenced lyricism alongside audiences with their unique, high-energy brand of original rock the spacious and deeply engaged rhythm section of bassist & roll. They have delivered their trademark guitar licks on over Slawomir Kurkiewicz and drummer Michal Miskiewicz. “One of 16 albums, thousands of concerts, dozens of lms, and two the best [trios] to appear on the European jazz scene in the past albums speci cally written for TV. Clad in their trademark Lucha decade.”—The Guardian Libre Mexican wrestling masks, the “Jackets” will make you Thanks to the Jazztopad Festival in Wroclaw, Poland the Polish grab your surfboard and hit the beach or watch a Mexican heist Cultural Institue in New York and National Forum of Music movie. With Eddie Angel guitar, Sugar Balls drums, Gregorio Poland. Cortez guitar, and Pedro del Mar bass.
TD VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2016 TICKETED FREE 41 Marianne Trudel Quartet featuring Ingrid is “a fount of robust tone and singing texture” (AllAboutJazz) Jensen who has played with Mathias Eick, Bobo Stenson, and Atomic’s June 26 Performance Works @ 2:30pm Free Fredrik Ljungkvist. Drummer Thomas Strønen’s “arsenal of clatter JUNO Award-nominated Montreal pianist/composer Marianne drives things with an abstracted, occasionally swinging groove” Trudel’s new project “Life Begins Here” is expansive and (BBC), while Dutch pianist Harmen Fraanje vocalizes as he emotional modern jazz of the highest order. With captivating plays, as though dictating sublime melodic imagination to his Vancouver-born, New York-based trumpeter Ingrid Jensen hands. This trio’s sound is “so intelligently crafted and beauti- (“plays with the re and brilliance of a true virtuoso” Marian fully distilled that it is nigh on perfect” (JazzJournal). McPartland), bassist Morgan Moore, and Jim Doxas drums, June 27 Tom Lee Music Hall (Mats Eilertsen Trio Workshop) Trudel holds audiences spellbound with “deeply adventurous, @ 1pm Free lyrical and utterly personal music”(Ottawa Citizen). Thanks to Music Norway Thanks to Canada Council for the Arts Matt Choboter Trio with Brad Turner (with Joe Marin Patenaude (with Sarah McLachlan) Lovano Classic Quartet) June 27 Queen Elizabeth Theatre @ 8pm $79 - $140 All In June 28 The Vogue Theatre @ 8pm $69 All In Singer/songwriter/guitarist Marin Patenaude’s absorbing sound When acclaimed Vancouver trumpeter Brad Turner (Metal- is earthy, soulful, and heartbreakingly beautiful. Her pure voice wood) was honoured with the Mayor’s Arts Award in 2014, he ties together country, blues, and folk into something sublimely chose pianist/composer Matt Choboter as his Emerging Artist intangible. Her band features two Vancouver players who counterpart. For this concert, the mentor joins the rising star expertly blend nuance and re in Cole Schmidt (Pugs & Crows) for adventurous, wide-ranging post-modern jazz. With Cole guitar, and Kenton Loewen (Peregrine Falls, Dan Mangan, Birney-Stewart bass, Andrew Thomson drums. Crackling) drums. Matthew Halsall & the Gondwana Orchestra Mary Halvorson/JP Carter/Tommy Babin/ See “Made in the UK” series page 55. Skye Brooks Mattias Risberg and François Houle July 3 Innovation Series – Ironworks Late Night @ Midnight July 2 Roundhouse – Performance Centre @ 1:30pm $10 All $21 All In or 3 Event Bundle $46 All In In @ door ONLY or RHPC Innovation Weekend Pass $32 All In A must-see for forward-thinking jazz fans, this meeting Swedish pianist Mattias Risberg has collaborated with an array between a New York avant titan and three of Vancouver’s most of great European improvisers, including Fredrik Ljungkvist, dynamic creative voices is sure to be full of originality and re. Mats Äleklint, Joe Williamson, and Raymond Strid. His Called “the most impressive guitarist of her generation” (All- otherworldly sonic explorations span jazz, improv, art-rock, AboutJazz), Mary Halvorson has worked with Anthony Braxton, and contemporary classical worlds. Vancouver’s François Houle Tim Berne, and a plethora of cutting-edge jazz artists. is “a spectacularly versatile clarinetist who appears to have no Skye Brooks’s drumming is as incisive as it is emotional. His limitations stylistically or sonically” (LA Times). Co-founder of main projects include Inhabitants and Tony Wilson’s Sextet. the Turning Point Ensemble, he plays in avant-Arabic ensemble JP Carter brings his idiosyncratic melodicism and signature Haram, and has worked with Samuel Blaser, Harris Eisenstadt, a ected trumpet sound to acts as diverse as Destroyer and Fond and many others. “Never less than excellent” (Exclaim!), of Tigers. Bassist Tommy Babin (Haram) plays with muscularity Houle brings an astonishing range of extended techniques, and rare artistic vision. wild percussive pops and clacks, and stratospheric melodic July 2 Roundhouse – Studio (JP Carter Workshop) @ experimentation to his choice collaborations. 1:30pm Free Thanks to Konstnårsnamnden, Sweden July 2 Roundhouse – Studio (Tommy Babin Workshop) @ Mike Rud Miniatures/Two Much Guitar 3pm Free (Double Bill) July 2 Roundhouse – Studio (Skye Brooks Workshop) @ June 29 Frankie’s Jazz Club @ 8pm $15 + GST 4:30pm Free Mike Rud magically weaves multiple melodic lines without Mats Eilertsen Trio multi-tracking using just voice and guitar. The result is a June 27 Innovation Series - The Ironworks @ 9:30pm $30 All ‘miniature’ band that lights up jazz classics, originals and even In or 3 Event Bundle $46 All In Bach. Rud has the uncanny ability to sing and play one musical “Contemporary European jazz of the highest quality; under- line against another while generating the sound of a large stated and compelling, it is music that makes its point through ensemble in the process. It makes for a delightful listening eloquence and sensitivity.” —JazzWise experience. One of Norway’s nest young players, bassist Mats Eilertsen
42 TICKETED FREE TD VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2016 We’re collecting used iPods®
Coastal Jazz is partnering with Music Heals, and is collecting your used iPods for the iPod Pharmacy. Good as new iPods are delivered to music therapists in BC for use with their clients. Bring devices you’re no longer using to the Coastal information and ticket booth, downtown on June 25/26, and at David Lam Park July 2/3. The iPods that enhanced your life can change the lives of others! Moon Hooch Oliver Jones Trio (with Oliver Gannon Quartet) June 28 Performance Works @ 9pm $35 All In June 25 The Vogue Theatre @ 8pm $69 All In
Moon Hooch’s early subway busking days were cut short by the NYPD after the double-sax and drum trio’s raw grooves incited some frenzied and decidedly disorderly commuter dance par- ties. Bedford Avenue station’s loss is our gain, as the electrifying group takes stages everywhere by storm. “Loud, proud, and deliriously unre ned” (Village Voice), Moon Hooch blazes through jagged groove-jazz with frenetic post-punk energy, ridiculous technical chops, and a daredevil approach to extended technique (adding PVC tubes, trac cones, or whatever’s handy to the bells of their saxes). This is primordial art mischief at its best. With Mike Wilbur and Wenzi McGowen saxophones, James Muschler drums. Oliver Gannon Quartet (with Oliver Jones Trio) At 81 years young, the masterful Canadian pianist Oliver Jones June 25 The Vogue Theatre @ 8pm $69 All In remains “one of the most consistently inventive and technically Echoes of Wes Montgomery and Barney Kessel can be heard in awesome mainstream jazz pianists on the planet” (All About the uid, swinging style of Vancouver guitarist Oliver “Fingers” Jazz). Gannon, while his primo band expertly distils classic ‘50s A JUNO and Governor General’s Award-winning Ocer of the and ‘60s bop in the manner of the great Art Blakey. With Jodi Order of Canada, Jones is as decorated as he is beloved. A strong Proznick bass, Miles Black piano, and Andrew Miller drums. musical kinship with lifelong friend Oscar Peterson can be heard in his phenomenal swing and bebop shredding, while his Bach and Chopin in uences nd expression in the arching emotion of his restrained, tender ballads. Oliver Jones retires from touring in the fall of 2016 so don’t miss his top shelf trio— Eric Lagacé bass, and Jim Doxas drums. Only A Visitor June 26 Downtown Jazz –Robson Stage @ Noon Free Vocalist/pianist Robyn Jacob’s eclectic avant-pop compositions and adventurous vocal arrangements evoke Bjork and Dirty Projectors. With drummer Kevin Romain, bassist Je Gammon and singers Emma Postl and Celina Kurz, Only A Visitor is “one of the most fascinating and singular musical projects to come out of Vancouver in recent memory” (Discorder Magazine).
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July 7 Cannery Row July 8 Alita Dupray/Rob Montgomery July 9 Brickhouse July 10 Steve Kozak & The West Coast All-stars July 14 Heather Keizur and Steve Cristofferson July 15 Gabriel Hasselbach July 16 Bradley/McGillivray Blues Band July 17 Paul Rushka Sextet July 21 ONE NIGHT ONLY: Jeff Hamilton Trio w/ Cory Weeds July 22-23 Trumpet Summit featuring Ray Vega & Thomas Marriott July 24 Helen Hansen
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@coastaljazz Paul Keeling Ancient Lights Quintet Petunia June 25 Downtown Jazz – Robson Stage @ Noon Free June 26 Presentation House Theatre @ 8pm $25/$23 WCMA-nominated pianist/composer Paul Keeling’s Ancient Imagine David Lynch and Nick Cave had a hillbilly baby that Lights Quintet digs deeply into earthy, propulsive hard-bop yodeled or that Tom Waits met Elvis at Woody Guthrie’s hobo with luminous melodies drawn from classical music and ‘70s junction and you have the one and only Petunia. For fans who rock. His Quintet is a dream team of Vancouver’s nest jazz saw him with his band at North Shore Jazz last year, you’ll musicians, featuring Brad Turner trumpet, Jon Bentley tenor sax, know that he is a true musical gem, not de ned by any one Bernie Arai drums, and André Lachance bass. genre, but residing somewhere elegantly between rockabilly, Paul Rushka Sextet country blues, swing, and latin rhythms. This year he’ll perform July 3 Performance Works @ 2:30pm Free in the intimate setting of Presentation House Theatre with a Award-winning bassist Paul Rushka leads his dynamic Sextet special solo show featuring just his achingly beautiful, virtuosic through original compositions and formidable group improvi- voice and his guitar. sations. A noted collaborator with Mike Allen, Denzal Sinclaire, Jazztopad presents: and Karin Plato, this “postmodern Milt Hinton” (All About Jazz) Piotr Damasiewicz Quintet ‘Tribute To Szakal’ moves into the leadership role with an emphasis on instrumen- June 29 Innovation Series - The Ironworks @ 9:30pm $30 All tal dialogue and strong, intertwining melodic textures. With Jon In or 3 Event Bundle $46 All In Bentley and James Danderfer reeds, Dave Sikula guitar, Jillian Rising star trumpeter/ Lebeck piano, Joe Poole drums. composer Piotr Peggy Lee’s Echo Painting Damasiewicz has June 25 Innovation Series - The Ironworks @ 9:30pm performed with Phil $30 All In or 3 Event Bundle $46 All In Minton, Paal Nilssen-Love, and Samuel Blaser. A Fryderyk (Polish Grammy) winner, Damasiewicz has assembled a stellar band to pay tribute to proli c and charismatic Polish jazz icon Tomasz ‘Szakal’ Szukalski, In celebration of her exceptional impact on the Vancouver who passed away in 2012. creative music scene, Coastal Jazz has commissioned Peggy Lee A major force in European to compose Echo Painting, an original suite of music for an ex- jazz since the 1960’s, Szakal appeared on over 100 albums, and citing new ensemble. The cast of characters is the brainchild of performed with Tomasz Stańko, Dave Holland, Terje Rypdal, and Peggy Lee and Rainbow Robert, who had it in mind to present a legendary Polish progressive rock band SBB. Damasiewicz’s new group that features and celebrates the voices of Vancouver Quintet features tenor saxophonist Gerard Lebik, pianist Artur creative music artists across the generations. Tuźnik, bassist Max Mucha, and Szakal’s former collaborator, With many colours to draw upon, Peggy Lee’s Echo Painting drummer Krzysztof Dziedzic. features music that is multi-layered, texturally varied, and Thanks to the Polish Cultural Institute in New York, Jazztopad melodically rich. From incendiary improvisation and intensely Festival in Wroclaw, Poland and the National Forum of Music cerebral New Music to achingly beautiful melodic composi- Poland tions, she takes anything she touches to a deeper and more artful level creating “music that combines the timeless and the otherworldly in equal measure” (Georgia Straight). With Brad Turner trumpet, John Bentley tenor sax, Dylan van der Schy drums, James Meger bass, Cole Schmidt guitar, John Paton saxophones, Meredith Bates violin, Roderick Murray trombone, Bradshaw Pack pedal steel guitar. The commissioning and development for this project were made possible through the generous support of the BC Arts Council and the Province of British Columbia.
46 TICKETED FREE TD VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2016 Polyrhythmics Ron Samworth’s Dogs Do Dream June 27 Performance Works @ 9pm $35 All In July 2 Roundhouse – Performance Centre @ 3:15pm $10 All In at the Door ONLY or RHPC Innovations Weekend Pass $32 All In An imaginative new project from Vancouver composer and guitar great Ron Samworth (Talking Pictures), Dogs Do Dream attempts to evoke the inner world of man’s best friend, narrated in rst person by Barbara Adler. Featuring local innovators JP Carter trumpet, Tyson Naylor keyboards/accordion, James Meger bass, and Skye Brooks drums. Roots Roundup July 2 Roundhouse David Lam Park Stage @ 8:45pm Free “The controlled tempest of the Polyrhythmics is like manna One of the hardest working—and most fun—bands of the from heaven” —The Stranger mid-’80s and ‘90s, Roots Roundup are back to get the crowd This hard-driving Seattle eight-piece’s taut, complex grooves bouncing to their trademark high-energy, globe-spanning mix and vividly cinematic instrumental imagery is going a long way of rock, reggae, ska, funk, folk and punk. These guys are having towards rede ning the term “funk” for 21st century audiences. a rip-roaring good time, and their mood is highly contagious! A modern afrobeat/psych sound that recalls Fela Kuti, The Me- ters, and the sharpest of jam bands, “the group’s 32 limbs work Rossi Gang in intricate harmony to generate a sophisticated slinkiness and June 24 Granville Island - Public Market Stage @ Noon Free expressive brassiness” (The Stranger). With Ben Bloom guitar, A British Columbian twist on New Orleans hot jazz, this young Grant Schro drums, Nathan Spicer keys, Lalo Bello percussion, quintet brings a raw exuberance to their swinging, greasy Jason Gray bass, Scott Morning trumpet, Elijah Clark trombone, party music. Mardi Gras and Mingus-in ected fun with Connor Art Brown sax/ ute. Stewart sax, Joseph Abbott clarinet, Skye Lambourne trumpet, Noah Gotfrit bass, Aaron Levinson drums. Quatuor André Lachance June 30 Performance Works @ 2:30pm Free Sarah Kennedy Quintet Drawing on jazz, rock, and electric improvisation, one of July 3 Granville Island - Public Market Stage @ Noon Free Canada’s top bassists André Lachance switches to guitar for Vancouver-based vocalist Sarah Kennedy pays tribute to this dazzling mix of cool tunes, pulsing grooves, and cosmically the poetic folk/jazz of songwriting icon Joni Mitchell and compelling sonic excursions. Featuring fellow renaissance men groundbreaking bassist/composer Charles Mingus’s late-1970s Brad Turner Rhodes, Chris Gestrin Moog, Joe Poole drums. collaboration with polished elegance and a transcendent voice. Complex and sublime, Kennedy weaves lyrical magic with Ben Rachel Therrien Quintet Henriques sax, Dan Reynolds piano, Michael Rush bass, Sam July 1 Granville Island – Performance Works @ 5:30pm Free Cartwright drums. An exciting new creative voice, Montreal-based trumpeter/com- poser Rachel Therrien took home the 2015 TD Grand Jazz Award at the Montreal International Jazz Festival for her charged blend of melodic lyricism, imaginative arrangements, and uidly inventive improvisation. With Benjamin Deschamps sax, Charles Trudel piano, Simon Page bass, Alain Bourgeois drums. Thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts. Robin Layne Quartet July 1 Granville Island – Railspur District Stage @ 12:30pm Free The soundtrack to summer! Led by the percussion and marimba of Robin Layne, this groove-heavy ensemble’s irresistible mix of Jazz, Latin, and African traditions hints at Abdullah Ibrahim, Steve Coleman, Thomas Mapfumo, and the marimba music of Chiapas while remaining entirely original. With Wynston Minck- ler bass, Colin Maskell sax/ ute, Justin James drums. 217 Carrall Street | 604.568.1701 | labattoir.ca labattoir.van | @labattoir_van
TD VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2016 TICKETED FREE 47 Sarah McLachlan (with Marin Patenaude) Soil & “Pimp” Sessions June 27 Queen Elizabeth Theatre @ 8pm $79 - $140 All In June 25 Performance Works @ 9pm $35 All In For a group that calls themselves “death jazz”, Japan’s Soil & “Pimp” Sessions is pretty damn lively! Whether exploding o the stage at Glastonbury, Fuji Rock Festival, or a sweaty nightclub, Soil & “Pimp” Sessions are one of the most engaging live bands in jazz. Shamanic hype man Shacho plays the role of agitator while the group at out slays, creating a feedback loop of energy between band and audience. It’s an ecstatic, almost aggressively entertaining molten mix that’s stirred up by Tabu Zombie trumpet, Motoharu sax, Josei piano, and the pulsing rhythm section of Akita Goldman bass, and Midorin drums. Speeding West July 1 Granville Island – Railspur District Stage @ 3pm Free Speeding West’s sizzling country jazz, Western swing, and rockabilly is inspired by the 1950s collaboration between pio- With over 25 years in the recording industry, Sarah McLachlan neering pedal-steel guitarist Speedy West and guitar virtuoso is a multi-platinum singer/songwriter best known for her Jimmy Bryant. Featuring recently relocated New York guitarist intimate vocals and engaging lyrics. Canadian-born, this Luca Benedetti (Jim Campilongo), local guitar/pedal steel ace Grammy and Juno Award-winning artist has sold over 40 mil- Scott Smith (Just A Season, Rich Hope), Jeremy Holmes bass, lion albums. She is the recipient of numerous awards including and Nino DiPasquale drums. the Order of Canada and the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement. Her philanthropic e orts Star Captains extend to The Sarah McLachlan School of Music—a non-pro t July 2 Roundhouse David Lam Park Stage @ 1:45pm Free music education program for at-risk and underserved youth. Navigating a constellation of in uences from slamming funk to Sarah’s latest album Shine On celebrates the human ability to sultry groove and hip-hop, the Star Captains take you higher. grow from our experiences, thrive and shine on. With NaRai Dawn’s luscious, emotional vocals, the hot guitar of Jim Black, Gavin Youngash bass, Max Zipursky keys, David Sissel Vera Pettersen / Viviane Houle / Lee Mergen sax/EWI/keys, and Daniel Klenner’s funky drums. Hutzulak June 30 Ironworks @ 5pm Free Steve Hill (with The Legendary Downchild Viviane Houle is “an attention-riveting artist” (Exclaim!) capable Blues Band) of lush melodies, intimate whispers, guttural bellows and June 27 The Vogue Theatre @ 8pm $63/52 All In decibel-defying vocal squelches. With a painter’s touch, Lee “Montreal’s Steve Hill is hands-down the meanest guitar player Hutzulak creates immersive sonic worlds using an unlikely array in Canada.” —Montreal Gazette of sources, from stratospheric synths to wadded-up tinfoil. Last year, Hill took home a JUNO for Blues Album of the Year, Norwegian vocalist/saxophonist Sissel Vera Petteren uses subtle plus Maple Blues Awards for Electric Act, Guitarist, Producer, electronics to push her beautiful, otherworldly vocals and sax and Entertainer of the Year! The man is a gritty force of nature, even further outward. funneling intense virtuosic blues through his elaborate one- JUNE 30 Tom Lee Music Hall (Sissel Vera Pettersen & Viviane man-band set up of drums, harmonica, hell raising vocals, and Houle workshop) 1pm Free some seriously heavy guitar licks. June 26 Downtown Jazz – Georgia Stage @ 12:30pm Free
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TD VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2016 49 Steve Kaldestad & The Renee Rosnes Trio The culmination of an exciting and focused series of student June 27 & 28 Frankie’s Jazz Club @ 8pm $30 + GST music workshops led by Chicago-based experimental jazz Vancouver saxophonist Steve Kaldestad is an in-demand musi- cellist, composer, and educator Tomeka Reid, this performance cian as his work with Jesse Cahill’s Nightcrawlers, Jodi Proznick gives the kids a chance to show o their chops, and gives all of and others clearly attests. His latest album NY Afternoon (fea- us a chance to see some up-and-coming musical stars. turing The Rosnes Trio) was released to critical acclaim. Joining Tedeschi Trucks Band Kaldestad is one of the great artists of her generation—pia- June 28 Queen Elizabeth Theatre @ 8pm $69 -$118 All In nist/composer Renee Rosnes. A four-time JUNO Award winner, NY-based Rosnes creates ery, forthright post-bop, full of bold imagination. She’s performed with Joe Henderson, Ron Carter, Wayne Shorter, and with husband and fellow pianist Bill Char- lap. Her music “o ers exquisite balances of delicacy and power, assertiveness and deference.” (Downbeat) With Neil Swainson bass, Lewis Nash drums. Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys June 30 Performance Works @ 9pm $48 All In
For almost 30 years, Grammy Award-winning master ac- cordionist Steve Riley has been celebrating Cajun and Creole greats (such as Canray Fontenot, Willie Broussard and Boozoo Chavis) and pushing the envelope of his regional roots by mix- ing in newer avours of ska, funk, country swing, and swamp Tedeschi Trucks Band, a 12-piece tour-de-force, has quickly rock. Singing in French and English, Riley’s soaring voice become the vanguard of modern roots music. Driven by Derek and infectious charisma steers crowds through bittersweet Trucks, #16 of the top 100 Guitarists of All Time (Rolling Stone), front-porch waltzes, high-spirited dance hall barnburners, and and Susan Tedeschi, blessed with a voice that passionately bluesy stomps. His hot stepping Mamou Playboys whip up an delivers both powerful R&B belters and gentle ballads, the unforgettable good time with their conversational musicality group enlists dual drummers, two vocalists, a three-piece horn and southwest Louisiana charm. section, bass, and a multi-instrumentalist keyboard player for Sweet Papa Lowdown a greater-than-the-sum-of-its parts collective. It’s “a deeply July 2 Civic Plaza (14th & Lonsdale) @ 1pm Free skilled groove machine,” raves the Los Angeles Times. Tedeschi Here’s a modern take on classic jazz and blues. Drawing from Trucks Band debuted big with its Grammy Award-winning such masters as Ma Rainey, Bo Carter, and Leroy Carr, the band Revelator, 2012’s dynamic live follow up, Everybody’s Talkin’, combines the raw intensity of country string blues with the and 2013’s critically acclaimed Made Up Mind bolstered the sophisticated horns of New Orleans. With Je Shucard vocals/ Jacksonville-based group’s growing reputation as the preemi- guitar, Rick Van Krugel mandolin/comb/vocals, Dan Marcus nent blues-rock leader. With guitarist Derek Trucks’s departure horn/bass/trombone, and Blaine Dunaway violin/trumpet . from The Allman Brothers Band nal at the end of 2014, the band has fully dedicated itself to expanding its legendary live TD High School Jazz Intensive with Tomeka performances. TTB has just released a third studio album, Let Reid Me Get By. JULY 3 Roundhouse - David Lam Park Stage @ Noon Free
50 TICKETED FREE TD VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2016 The Thing Tord Gustavsen Hymns and Visions June 24 Innovation Series - The Ironworks @ 9:30pm $ 30 with Simin Tander and Jarle Vespestad All In or 3 Event Bundle $46 all In June 29 Christ Church Cathedral @ 7:30 pm $46 All In “The sheer power they generate from wood, metal, breath and muscle is stunning”—BBC Potent and uncompromising, The Thing’s high-energy im- molation of genre renders free jazz, noise and garage rock into “a seething mass of molten bass saxophone, lthy fuzz bass and machine gun snare” (The Quietus). With a repertoire that ranges from Steve Lacy to the White Stripes and noise rock guerillas Lightning Bolt, The Thing is a sonic strike force of three of Scandinavian creative music’s most commanding and important gures. With Sweden’s Mats Gustafsson sax/live electronics, and Norwegians Ingebrigt Håker Flaten bass and Paal Nilssen-Love drums. The sonically spare and alluring sound world of award-winning Thanks to Swedish Arts Council, Norwegian Jazz Forum, Norsk Norwegian pianist/composer Tord Gustavsen “draws the listener Kulturråd – Arts Council Norway, Music Norway in so completely – making us consider each note, each small Tom Wherrett’s Evil Three gesture in its ethereal, shimmering whole” (DownBeat). His June 25 Downtown Jazz – Robson Stage @ 1:30pm Free new project Hymns and Visions explores and interprets ancient Vancouver guitarist Tom Wherrett composes beautifully arcing, Norwegian hymns translated into the hauntingly beautiful complex tunes that bridge cerebral jazz and groove-driven Pashto language, as well as newly composed settings of Su post-rock. Thought-provoking and head-bobbing, there’s still poetry. A rising star in European jazz, Afghan-German vocalist lots of room for seriously stunning melodies within the dense Simin Tander hums, sighs, and bends notes tenderly, arching and muscular rhythms of James Meger bass and Omar Amlani upwards from Gustavsen’s lyrical minimalism and subtle drums. electronics, and the impressionist drumming of Jarle Vespestad Tomeka Reid Quartet (formerly of Supersilent). June 29 Tom Lee Music Hall (Tord Gustavsen Q&A) @ 1pm July 3 Innovation Series - The Ironworks @ 9:30pm $30 All Free In or 3 Event Bundle $46 All In The New York Times recently called Chicago-based cellist/ Trevor Whitridge Quintet composer/educator Tomeka Reid “one of the great energies in July 1 Granville Island - Public Market Stage @ Noon Free jazz: a melodic improviser with a natural, owing sense of Cutting across a wide range of eras and genres—including tra- song and an experimenter who can create heat and grit with ditional jazz, funk, fusion and Latin jazz—budding Vancouver the texture of sound.” A “remarkably versatile” (Chicago Tribune) trumpeter Trevor Whitridge incorporates inspiration from Art collaborator, her compositions take centre stage in her new Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, the Omar Thomas Large En- Quartet. She was cited Chicagoan jazz musician of 2015 while semble, and beyond. With Rowan Whitridge and Ben Henriques her Thirsty Ear debut album received universal rave reviews. saxophones, Eli Davidovici bass, Ethan Honeywell drums. No stranger to Vancouver, she’s led our TD High School Jazz Two Much Guitar/Mike Rud Miniatures Intensive for several years. This year it’s her turn in the spotlight! (Double Bill) With Mary Halvorson guitar, Jason Roebke bass, and Tomas June 29 Frankie’s Jazz Club @ 8pm $15 + GST Fujiwara drums. Award-winning guitarists Bill Coon and Oliver Gannon join July 3 Roundhouse – Studio (Jason Roebke Workshop) @ forces for a swinging a air. With rock solid rhythm mates Darren 1:30pm Free Radtke bass and Dave Robbins drums, this classic jazz quartet July 3 Roundhouse – Studio (Tomas Fujiwara Workshop) celebrates in uences such as Wes Montgomery and Jim Hall @ 3pm Free but has a sound all its own.
TD VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2016 TICKETED FREE 51 Tyson Naylor’s Tribute to Paul Bley WDF June 29 Performance Works @ 2:30pm Free June 26 Downtown Jazz – Georgia Stage @ 5:15pm Free JUNO Award-winning keyboardist Tyson Naylor (Dan Mangan, A star in the making, rising R&B vocal sensation Warren Tony Wilson) pays artful tribute to pioneering Canadian Dean Flandez “has soul to burn” (Exclaim!). Infectious hooks, avant-garde pianist Paul Bley, who passed away in January. jaw-dropping vocal skills, and a joyful take on gospel, Motown, With inventive improvisers James Meger bass and Dylan van contemporary urban, and old school funk. WDF stirs the soul der Schy drums, Ted Crosby sax. Naylor explores notable Bley and gets the people moving! tunes and new compositions inspired by Bley’s adventurous, Wil Campa y Su Orquesta unorthodox spirit. July 2 Roundhouse David Lam Park Stage @ 5:15pm Free Vahagni For those who like their salsa muy caliente! charismatic Cuban June 24 West Vancouver Memorial Library @ 7:30pm Free vocalist Wil Campa leads his sizzling 13-piece band of merry Armenian-born Vahagni blends amenco guitar with jazz, musicians through festive Afro-Cuban music perfect for a folk and classical with an intuitive ability to cross genres and hot summer’s night. Their previous Festival appearance was borders. With in uences as far ranging as Beethoven to Pat a triumph of all-out dance revelry The Georgia Straight called Metheny and amenco masters such as Niño Ricardo, Vahagni “Caribbean party fever!” has created a new style with a modern take on amenco. Wooden Horsemen Vinny Golia Trio with Clyde Reed and Dylan July 3 Roundhouse - David Lam Park Stage @ 7pm Free van der Schy “Americana rock with Latin and Afro in uences, psych-funk July 2 Innovation Series - The Ironworks @ 9:30pm $30 All and folk…a melting pot of styles that has to be heard to be In or 3 Event Bundle $46 All In believed” —Beatroute Reprising a potent cross-border collaboration from 20 years A local band to watch, the nine-piece Wooden Horsemen have ago, this compelling trio is back for more magic. quickly evolved from the understated folk of their inception into Virtuosic California-based creative giant Vinny Golia (Nels a swaggering, gritty, horn-driven electric groove demon! Cline, Anthony Braxton) blends jazz, contemporary clas- sical and world music on a vast array of wind instruments. Forever pushing the cutting edge of vanguard jazz, “even at his boundary-stretching limits Golia has something for even the uninitiated listener” (Jazznews). Known for his work with The NOW Orchestra, Claude Ranger, and George Lewis, Vancouver bassist Clyde Reed is the consummate collaborator. Textural and endlessly inventive drummer Dylan van der Schy has played with John Butcher, Phil Minton, and Eyvind Kang. July 3 Roundhouse – Studio (Vinny Golia Workshop) @ 4:30pm Free
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TD VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2016 53 The UK scene is widely considered to be one of the most Braxton, John Zorn) a leader in his own right is among the vibrant on today’s global- jazz landscape. Entering its fth most versatile and proli c musicians of his generation, while year we believe this is our deepest Made in the UK program to Neil Charles (Soweto Kinch) is one of the most in-demand bass date. A pivotal gure in European free jazz and improvisation, players on the UK scene. saxophonist Evan Parker returns to the Festival for a mélange June 28 Tom Lee Music Hall (Alexander Hawkins Trio of collaborative performances. Outstanding pianist Alexander Workshop) @ 1pm Free Hawkins returns to the Festival for the third year running – this time with his hard-hitting trio! Manchester’s Matthew Halsall Christine Tobin brings his genre-bending Gondwana Orchestra to Vancouver for July 1 Granville Island – Performance Works @ 7:30pm their inaugural show. Gondwana labelmates (remember GoGo Free Penguin last year?) – the trio Mammal Hands will join in the “Gorgeous, a ecting and deeply human,” award-winning festivities. Wrapping up the program are two of the UK’s most Irish singer/songwriter Christine Tobin’s “24-carat voice” (The unique and distinctive vocalists - Christine Tobin and Gwyneth Guardian) alights on imaginative settings of W.B. Yeats poems, Herbert. inspired versions of Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, and Bessie Thanks to the two architects of Made in the UK - John Ellson Smith songs, and her own far-reaching originals. Over ten and John Nugent - for making this project possible. acclaimed albums, Tobin has transcended simple genre labels, blending folk, jazz, and 20th-century classical in uences “with an unmistakable re nement, free-spirited earthiness and giddy romanticism; this singer-songwriter is in a eld of one” (MOJO). With Phil Robson guitar and Leo Genovese piano. Evan Parker / Georg Graewe / Torsten Müller June 24 Performance Works @ 2:30pm Free The Guardian recently called Evan Parker “the greatest living exponent of free improvisation.” High praise, but consistently earned by the tirelessly innovative British saxophonist. A distinct creative voice and masterful collaborator, German pianist Georg Graewe is “always identi ably himself, but deeply a ected by the colleagues in any given session.” (AllAboutJazz) German ex-pat and Vancouver improv heavy-hitter Torsten Alexander Hawkins Trio Müller (Phil Minton, Achim Kaufmann) is a far-ranging bassist June 28 Innovation Series - The Ironworks @ 9:30pm who mixes extended technique with a masterful sense of group $30 All In or 3-Event Bundle $46 All In dynamics. “If Hawkins really is the future of jazz pianism, the future looks bright.”— Daily Telegraph Evan Parker with Torsten Müller / Meredith One of the UK’s fastest rising stars and a Festival favourite, Bates / Peggy Lee pianist Alexander Hawkins has played with Evan Parker, Wa- June 24 Innovation Series – Ironworks Late Night @ dada Leo Smith, and Louis Moholo-Moholo. His wide-ranging Midnight $21 All In or 3 - Event Bundle $46 All In style moves “from stride piano to all-out Cecil Taylor-inspired “One of the best improvisers of our time.”— AllAboutJazz mayhem” (All About Jazz). An innovative improviser and a British saxophonist Evan Parker is an iconic artist who plays with profoundly curious composer, Hawkins has reached “a dazzling striking dexterity and deep emotional connection. “Bracingly new apex” (DownBeat). Drummer Harris Eisenstadt (Anthony unpredictable” (The Guardian), Parker has collaborated with
54 TICKETED FREE TD VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2016 Derek Bailey, Peter Brötzmann, and scores of cutting-edge Matthew Halsall & the Gondwana Orchestra improvisers. Cellist Peggy Lee’s omnivorous musicality ranges July 3 Roundhouse – Performance Centre @ 5pm $10 from work with new music ensemble Standing Wave to “beau- All In @ door ONLY or RHPC Innovation Weekend Pass tifully abstract, and magni cently composed” (Panpot) playing $32 All In with Tony Wilson, Dave Douglas, and her own ensemble. A rising star in the European jazz scene, The Times calls German-born Vancouver bassist Torsten Müller creates dramatic Manchester-based trumpeter/composer Matthew Halsall “the music using knotty plucks, audacious bowing, and a wide master of Mancunian spiritual jazz.” His cool, clear tone, modal vocabulary of extended technique, while JUNO Award-winning melodicism and Eastern in uences “ eloquently blend the violinist/violist Meredith Bates (Pugs & Crows) blends classical tranquil tone-poetry of Alice Coltrane and the jazz intensity foundations with transcendent sonic excursions. of her husband, John” (The Guardian). His latest Gondwana Gwyneth Herbert Trio Orchestra album was “unreservedly recommended” by All About June 25 Downtown Jazz – Robson Stage @ 6:45pm Jazz, who hailed it as “one of the nest British jazz records of Free the modern era.” With harpist Rachael Gladwin, Taz Modi piano, “A remarkably Luke Flowers (Cinematic Orchestra) drums, and Jordan Smart gifted talent” (The (Mammal Hands) saxophone. Guardian), award-winning composer/lyricist/ multi-instrumen- talist Gwyneth Herbert is a strikingly original musical adventurer. With one foot in jazz and the other in the thrilling unknown, she’s collaborated with writers, choreographers, visual artists, clowns, pirates and young people to make a huge canon of genre-defying interdisciplinary work. Switching between vocals, ukulele, and piano, Gwyneth, along with Ned Cartwright piano and Dave Price percussion, takes audiences on a wild journey through her varied musical world. Mammal Hands July 3 Roundhouse – Performance Centre @ 3:15pm $10 All In @ door only or RHPC Innovations Weekend Pass $32 All In Drawing on Steve Reich, Pharoah Sanders, and the Cinematic Orchestra, as well as traditional North Indian and African musics, the bassless UK trio of Nick Smart piano, Jesse Barrett drums, and Jordan Smart saxophones play an immersive and masterfully restrained blend of cyclical minimalism, contemplative atmospherics, and hypnotic melodicism. With remarkable assurance for such a new group, their “overall e ect is something like what GoGo Penguin might have been had they grown up somewhere quieter, away from the temptations of clubland.” (AllAboutJazz)
TD VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2016 TICKETED FREE 55 Our fth year of Spotlight on French Jazz puts the focus on some Returning to Vancouver to build upon last year’s amazing of the exciting jazz to be found on the European continent. Festival collaboration, French pianist Delbecq rejoins his cohorts Building on the success of last year’s Spotlight project with this June to record their rst album as an ensemble. Delbecq’s Benoit Delbecq, François Houle will reconvene the band in mastery of extended technique and melodic free improv is “at Vancouver this summer for a recording session and a follow up once otherworldly and organic” (Georgia Straight), while Van- Festival concert. The distinguished jazz pianist Jacky Terrasson couver’s François Houle is “a spectacularly versatile clarinetist makes a rare Vancouver appearance; Donkey Monkey (Eve who appears to have no limitations stylistically or sonically” (LA Risser and Yuko Oshida) bring their quirky, delightful and Times). Regular co-conspirators in numerous projects, guitarist individualistic sensibility to a set that combines composition Gordon Grdina and drummer Kenton Loewen are boldly and improvisation with vocal interludes. Our most exciting nd adventurous, cutting-edge improvisers. for this year’s Spotlight could be saxophonist Emile Parisien’s Thanks to Consulat Général de France à Vancouver and Institut Quartet. They were cited as a slam-dunk hit of the recent Winter Français Jazz Festival according to the NY Times. Not to be missed! Benoit Delbecq with François Houle/Gordon Donkey Monkey with Eve Risser & Yuko Grdina/Kenton Loewen Oshima July 1 Granville Island – Performance Works @ 2:15pm June 27 Performance Works @ 2:30pm Free Free
“Donkey Monkey guides a very exciting–and undoubtedly exotic–strange trip.”—All About Jazz At the intersections of drama and delicacy, humour and heaviness is where you’ll nd the thrillingly unique, virtually indescribable duo of French pianist Eve Rissler and Japanese/ French drummer Yuko Oshima. Check your preconceptions at the door, this is some next-level creativity. Thanks to Consulat Général de France á Vancouver & Institut Français
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Consulat général de France à Vancouver 56 TICKETED FREE TD VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2016 can recall Oscar Peterson”(The New York Times), while echoes of Ahmad Jamal inform his almost impossibly light touch and “sublime sense of space” (London Jazz News). Between the sly eclecticism of his jazz and pop re-interpretations, the virtuosity of his rhythmic variations, and his infectious energy, Terrasson is a joyfully masterful artist that blurs lines and stirs souls. With Burniss Travis bass, Jamire Williams drums. Thanks to Consulat Général de France à Vancouver and Institut Français Emile Parisien Quartet June 25 Performance Works @ 2:30pm Free French saxophone star Emile Parisien’s “jaggedly restless sound- The Jacky Terrasson Trio world” (The Guardian) takes in uences from Wayne Shorter June 27 Christ Church Cathedral @ 7:30 pm $46 All In and Cecil Taylor to Stravinsky and Schoenberg, exploding them “It takes sharp musical intelligence as well as chutzpah to make outwards in all directions. His startlingly tight, strikingly cre- Duke Ellington’s Caravan morph into Michael Jackson’s Don’t ative, and at times impishly humorous quartet features Sylvain Stop Till You Get Enough. Jacky Terrasson has both in spades.” Darrifourcq drums, Ivan Gélugne bass, Julien Tourey piano. —The Telegraph Thanks to Consulat Général de France à Vancouver and Institut French pianist Jacky Terrasson’s boldly physical playing makes Français. him “one of the few post-bop pianists whose amiable virtuosity
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GRANVILLE ISLAND July 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, 2016
A team of volunteers, artists and professional printmakers will celebrate the art of large-scale woodcut printing using a steamroller as a press. Elevating relief printmaking to an epic art form, twelve artists will be engaged in reflecting themes of music and the city. The artists will carve the blocks, and the works will be printed in small editions in a public performance atmosphere. The resulting suite of unique 4’ X 8’ woodprints on cloth and on paper will be displayed on-site, as they come off the press. This highly accessible event will take place on Granville Island for four days in early July 2016, as a part of this year’s TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival. An exciting addition to this summer’s festival, Big Print Project is coordinated by Vancouver-based Photo Credit: Esther Rausenberg Society for Contemporary Prints on Paper and Creative Cultural Collaborations Society.
“The event unfolded as a public performance and a very enjoyable, mostly spectacular act. The ritual of essential steps—inking the plate, covering it with paper or canvas, rolling over it, displaying the resulting images on the walls of the neighbouring buildings—that had to be repeated many times, engaged the public in the creative process, allowing for a moment of (artistic) communion between all the participants, artists and audience. With each set of prints, everyone seemed equally invested in the successful outcome of the process. It was a beautiful summer afternoon in a city that can use a lot more of this kind of art project: simple, playful, ambitious and carefully attuned to the unique topography of the surrounding metropolis.” —Antonio Eligio (Tonel) Vancouver, Big Print project 2014 Photo Credit: Esther Rausenberg
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