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Volume 19, Issue 3 - May - June, 2001

JOE LOVANO/ QUARTET

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JIMMY “T99” NELSON

At the SUITE • EDDIE C. CAMPBELL • MOMENTUM • BITCHES BREW TRIBUTE • THEO JORGENSMANN QUINTET • LESTER QUITZAU • ROBIN EUBANKS AND MENTAL IMAGES • ELLEN MCILWAINE • A.D.D. TRIO • EVOLUTION with MIKE RUD • RIVER CITY BIG BAND • VOLUNTEER PARTY • JUNCTION • JIMMY “T99” NELSON • /JUDI SILVANO QUARTET • DAVE RESTIVO QUINTET CHRIS POTTER QUINTET • MICHEL OCCHIPINTI QUINTET • SEX MOB • CHRIS POTTER QUINTET ROBIN EUBANKS • JESSICA WILLIAMS

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Canadian Publication Mail Product Sales Agreement Yardbird Suite Jazz is a registered trademark of the Edmonton Jazz Society (1973). # 1516698 Eddie C. Campbell ardbird Suite Eddie C. Campbell with Chicago guitarist Eddie C. Campbell will song, "Santa's Messin' with the Kid" (in which Graham Guest, piano and vocals be bringing his warm and engaging brand of sitting on Santa's lap is given a whole new Jim Guiboche, guitar blues to the Yardbird Suite when he meaning). Crawdad (Dave Cantera), harmonica performs with the Suite's house blues band Eddie moved to Europe in the early Dave Bridges, bass on April 27 and 28. 1980s, and then back to Chicago in the early Grant Stovel, drums Eddie C. has the solidest of blues credentials. 1990s. He has now recorded seven blues He was born in the Clarksdale area of Mississippi albums, and he'll be bringing with him to in 1939, and after moving to Chicago with his Edmonton his latest CD, Hopes & Dreams, family as a boy he taught himself ' which came out on the Rooster label last song "Still a Fool" and sat in with Muddy's band summer and promptly received glowing when he was twelve. reviews from all four major U.S. blues By his late teens, he had become one of a magazines and from England's Blues & group of flamboyant guitarists and blues wailers Rhythm. who created the West Side sound in Chicago Eddie C. Campbell's live shows are blues during the late '50s and early '60salong extremely enjoyable and extremely strange. with his good friends Magic Sam, , Eddie is a tall man who wears a wide, toothy , and Buddy Guy. In 1995, Otis, grin; these days his platter-sized Afro has been Luther, and Eddie were reunited in a fiery two- replaced by a long, Euro-style pony-tail. He whimsy: for instance, his signature tune, "King vocals, Jim Guiboche on guitar, Crawdad (aka hour show before hundreds of thousands of blues plays guitar with a reverb-laden, warm tone of the Jungle," is a standard don't-mess-with- Dave Cantera) on harmonica, Dave Bridges on fans on the Chicago Blues Festival main stage (a that is as instantly recognizable as the guitar me boast--except that in this song Eddie forces bass, and Grant Stovel on drums. show preserved on Luther's Live in Chicago 2-CD stylings of T-Bone Walker or B.B. King. Eddie a lion to lie down and go to sleep and an These shows will be Edmonton’s first release on Alligator last year). sings in a rich baritone that suddenly becomes elephant to break and run. chance to experience the music of someone By 1963, Eddie had toured and recorded an eerie falsetto (in his early days he was In his Yardbird shows Eddie will be who was described last year by Living Blues with Little Walter and Howlin' Wolf, among known as Two-Voice Campbell). He plays the performing with The Graham Guest Band, the Magazine as "not just a legend, but one of the others, and in that year he found steady work guitar behind his back, over his head, with his unit that has backed up a series of exciting blues' most unquenchable free spirits and an as the guitarist and bandleader in Jimmy teeth, and if the mood is right, with his toes. blues artists at the Suite in recent months: American resource to treasure." Reed's touring band. After Jimmy's death in He throws the guitar into the air and catches it Larry Garner, Lazy Lester, Big Clara McDaniel, 1976 he became lead guitarist in Koko Taylor's in mid-solo. He'll invite audience members Joe Beard, and Rockin' Johnny. The band band, and then on her recommendation joined onstage and let them pluck his guitar strings. consists of Graham Guest on keyboards and Willie Dixon's Chicago Blues All-Stars, the His songlist is mainly meat-and-potatoes crème-de-la-crème of Chicago bluesmen at the blues, but with sudden shifts to the time. Eddie put out his first LP in 1977, King of unexpected--James Brown's "I Feel Good," a FRI & SAT • APRIL 27 & 28 the Jungle, backed up by his All-Stars surfer instrumental, a Motown ballad. DOORS 8PM • SHOW 9PM MEMBERS $9/GUESTS $13 bandmates pianist Lafayette Leake, harp-player Eddie's own compositions are also Carey Bell, and drummer Clifton James, along distinctive. Many are autobiographical; one of with bass-player Bob Stroger. King of the his best songs, "Sister Taught Me Guitar," is Jungle is widely regarded as one of the gems of based on the fact that when he was a boy in the blues-lean seventies; Frank Scott in The Mississippi his older sister Elnora taught him to Downhome Guide to the Blues writes, "This play guitar on a piece of broom wire that she album represents Chicago '70s blues at its had attached to the outside wall of their home. best." The CD also contains Eddie's best-known Most of his songs display Eddie's goofy brand of

Kent Sangster, Jim Head and Sandro Dominelli Trio

Vadim Budman's "Hebrew Hoedown" Vadim Budman – guitar, horn After his departure in 1994 from the Edmonton alternative band "the Naked & the Dead" Vadim began to at the Yardbird Suite in March explore his musical roots and 2000 with noted American 1996 founded Volatile records. improvisation guru, Eugene Frustrated with conven- Chadbourne. tional music making, Vadim For this performance, a formed Vertrek Ensemble with world premier, Vadim will be like-minded friend Ron de Jong exploring his Jewish/Russian in 1997. Since then they have roots by blending them with folk, traveled to England to record blues, and free improvisation. with the father of free In July Vadim will be improvisation, Derek Bailey. In embarking on a short tour of addition to this they have Europe to promote "Hebrew played many jazz festivals Hoedown". Among others, across Canada, including the stops include London (with prestigious Victoriaville festival past Vertrek collaborator John in Quebec. Vertrek's latest Butcher), Brussels, and Oslo. release was recorded right here THURSDAY • MAY 3

Momentum DOORS 8:30PM • SHOW 9PM EVERYONE $5

MAY.JUNE 2001 Page 3 Bitches Brew Project Recorded in August of 1969 and originally released in 1970 as a 2-LP set, Bitches Brew marked the line of demarcation between the sound of all music before it appeared, and after. Miles Davis and music of the 20th Century would never sound the same. He had created a new sound yet again . . . a dark, simmering Brew that could only have come from the mind of Miles Davis. True believers A couple of years ago, we asked consider it a masterpiece – if not a work of Edmonton’s guitarist Jim Head to put genius. The summing up of all musical together a project dedicated to the music styles that emerged during the decade of of Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew period. The Sixties and the music that gave birth to show was a big success with two nights of John McLauglin’s Mahavishnu Orchestra, intense and true Miles Davis sound. For Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters, Chic Corea’s this show, Jim Head will expand the Return to Forever and Wayne Shorter’s and selection of Miles music beyond the Joe Zawinul’s Weather Report. Bitches Brew album, but will stay in the Bitches Brew is certainly one of the same – electric - period. most important recordings ever made . . . and definitely one of the most unexpected Jim Head - guitar and controversial. Whenever you love it or Bob Tildesley - trumpet hate it, if you haven’t experienced it yet, Jim Brenan – saxophone your reaction will surely be one or the Chris Andrew - piano other. And there is no better way than to Rubim de Toledo - bass experience it live. Mario Allende – percussion Critic Ralph J. Gleason, on the Sandro Dominelli - drums album’s original liner notes, simply stated "this music is". FRI & SAT • MAY 4 & 5 DOORS 8PM • SHOW 9PM MEMBERS $5/GUESTS $9 Theo Jorgensmann Quartet

Making their first Edmonton player who plays an integral role in the appearance, Germany’s Theo Jorgensmann quartet. He has studied and worked Quartet is touring North America in extensively with players known to support of their highly regarded 2000 Edmonton audiences such as Gary release Snijbloemen on the hatOLOGY Burton, Kenny Wheeler and Lee Konitz. label which, among other accolades, His own most recent CD Dancers on a received a 4 star review in Downbeat. Plane was awarded the Prize of the As reviewer Jon Andrews said in his German Record Critics, the German review, "the Theo Jorgensmann Quartet GRAMMY. sustains a mood of mystery and Christian Ramond is an accomplished exploration, offering searching solos bassist whose bowed and plucked and group interactions within a ... subtleties are simply a joy to hear. Since highly listenable setting." studying in the mid-1980s in Cologne Although the quartet may not be and at the Banff Centre for the Arts, he quite as familiar to modern jazz has worked with a plethora of musicians advocates on this continent, Theo including Joe Pass, Albert Mangelsdorff, Quartet since the 1980s. performers captivate you on May 11th Jorgensmann is considered to be among Tomasz Stanko and Bobby Shew. What does Snijbloemen mean? It’s at the Yardbird Suite. the handful of consummate modern Drummer Klaus Kugel has worked Dutch for cut flowers - a graphic title improvisers on the clarinet. His playing with a veritable "Who’s Who" of world- for the group’s CD - magnificently evinces a brooding quality, devoid of class improvisers such as Tomasz radiant - just like the music you are overt sentimentality, yet he carries a Stanko, Kenny Wheeler, John Tchicai, likely to hear from the Theo Theo Jorgensmann - clarinet hard bop aesthetic forward to engage Bobo Stenson and Lee Konitz to name Jorgensmann Quartet. Keep an open Christopher Dell - vibes modern harmonies and concepts of but a few. Both Kugel and Ramond have mind and experience a sense of Christian Ramond - bass freedom. He plays with beautiful been members of the Michael Pilz discovery when these unheralded Klaus Kugel - drums control and mastery of his chosen instrument. Christopher Dell is a strong, FRIDAY • MAY 11 consistently intriguing vibraphone DOORS 8PM • SHOW 9PM MEMBERS $10/GUESTS $14

Page 4 MAY.JUNE 2001 ardbird Suite BLUES Robin Eubanks and Lester Quitzau with Guests Mental Images

Canadian roots music artist Lester Trombonist Robin Eubanks made a huge Quitzau, is a mellow guy who throws impression last October when he appeared at down a heavy groove. In a field where the Yardbird Suite as a member of the Dave intangibles like feel and integrity count Holland Quintet, a concert long to be for so much, Quitzau has forged an remembered as one of the greatest ever on the exemplary career. What began with a solid Yardbird stage. blues apprenticeship in the funky Besides his stellar work with Dave working-class bars of Edmonton has Holland, Robin also performs with Elvin Jones’ grown into an eclectic and constantly Jazz Machine. His resume is extensive evolving musical journey for the guitarist, including teaching at the Oberlin Conservatory singer, composer and producer. Whether of Music; past service as music director for Art he's coaxing languid, hypnotic sounds Blakey and the Jazz Messengers; recording with from his slide guitar in an intimate solo J.J. Johnson, McCoy Tyner, the Rolling Stones, basic instrumental voice. Playing back concert, or improvising freely with Eddie Palmieri and many others; involvement instrumental lines, layering phrase after musical partners like Bill Bourne and with New York’s M-Base Collective with players phrase, echoing and distortion are used, all of Madagascar Slim (with three Juno Awards Greg Johnston - such as Marvin "Smitty" Smith and Steve which make musical sense within his broad and nine Juno Award nominations bass, vocals, piano Coleman; performances with various Broadway concept which also encompasses elements of between them, their CD ‘Tri Continental’ Christine Hanson - cello show pit orchestras; appearances in movies rock and funk. won Juno last March in the Best and possibly others… such as Cotton Club, Mo’ Better Blues and The other members of Mental Images have Roots/Traditional Group category), or his Jungle Fever; and numerous television shows worked with Robin for many years and are all latest band, Lester Quitzau's Very Electric such as the GRAMMY Awards, Saturday Night strong players in their own right - brother Trio, a hard-won honesty underscores Live and The Tonight Show. He has also been Duane Eubanks on trumpet, Michael Cain on every note. named #1 Trombonist at least five times in the piano, Lonnie Plaxico on bass and Gene For his apperance at the Suite, Lester Talent Deserving Wider Recognition category of Jackson on drums. They have recorded a new will be performing material from his past, SATURDAY • MAY 12 the Downbeat International Critics’ Poll. CD Get 2 It which will be the first release on as well as some new material and DOORS 8PM • SHOW 9PM Eubanks is a member of a very musical Robin’s new label REM Music. In fact, the CD different arrangements of selections from MEMBERS $7/GUESTS $11 family. His mother has been a music educator should be released by the time they appear at his latest recording "So Here We Are' in a for over thirty years. His uncle is pianist Ray the Yardbird Suite. variety of settings, solo acoustic as well Bryant. One of his brothers, Duane, is a While Robin Eubanks hasn’t totally balked as electric, with guest musicians. trumpeter who just happens to be a member of at tradition, with Mental Images he focuses on Mental Images, the group which will be the future. "I want to play music that sounds performing at the Yardbird Suite. And, of like it was done today, that relates to the course, there is his brother Kevin who is the times," he says. " ... incorporating some of the bandleader on NBC’s The Tonight Show with electric possibilities in the trombone helps Jay Leno. build a link and a bridge that people can Robin Eubanks is definitely one of the access or relate to." most prominent trombonists on the scene People are going to catch on to the new today but he’s not locked in to the traditional sound when Robin Eubanks and Mental Images approach to playing jazz trombone. Needless takes the Yardbird Suite stage. to say, he can play in the pocket as exemplified by several of his own numerous recordings Robin Eubanks - trombone including Wake Up Call on Sirocco Jazz Limited, Duane Eubanks - trumpet a Downbeat-reviewed disc from 1997. In his Michael Cain - piano hands, the trombone is transformed from an Lonnie Plaxico - bass aging relic of big-band days into a youthful Gene Jackson - drums augur of the future. And that’s basically what he’s attempting to do with Mental Images, a quintet of several FRIDAY • MAY 18 years standing which is truly eclectic in its DOORS 8PM • SHOW 9PM choice of material and in the many variations MEMBERS $16/GUESTS $20 in style it evinces within the leader’s often complex arrangements. Eubanks also uses a variety of electronic devices to enhance his

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MAY.JUNE 2001 Page 5 ardbird Suite BLUES Ellen McIlwaine, guitar and vocals Kit Johnson, bass Ellen McIlwaine Trio Robbin Harris, drums Slide-guitarist Ellen McIlwaine will be display her prowess on piano as well as on making a triumphant return to Edmonton when guitar. Though it is a little-known fact, Ellen she drives up the highway from her current started out as a piano-player, and in her show home in to play the Yardbird Suite on at the Yardbird Suite last year Ellen performed Saturday, May 19. This will be her first show in several numbers on the Suite's state-of-the-art Edmonton since her solo performance to a full Yamaha C-5 grand piano. house at the Yardbird Suite in March of last Raised in Japan by American missionary year and her performances last August at the parents, Ellen received a solid grounding in Edmonton Folk Festival. This time Ellen is American blues and rhythm-and-blues music coming in trio format, her usual format and the from her earliest years, since she listened one in which she made her name, and she'll be addictively to the U.S. Armed Forces radio bringing her new CD, Spontaneous stations. She didn't take up the guitar until her Combustion, with her. Ellen's power trio for teens, when her family sold the piano she had music. She has been performing this song in in 1996 Stony Plain released two of her albums this show consists of Calgary's Kit Johnson on been playing -style since the age her live shows for two or three years, and her together on one CD, The Real Ellen McIlwaine, bass (best known to Edmontonians as the bass of five. She and her family moved back to the performance of it last summer on a Folk Fest originally recorded with members of 's player in the Folk Festival house band each U.S. in the mid-1960s, when Ellen was in her workshop stage got a rapturous reception. Ville Emard Blues Band for United Artists in August) and drummer Robbin Harris, who has mid-teens, and she soon landed a spot opening In 1968, after spending a year opening 1975, and Everybody Needs It, an album that just returned to Calgary after a year and half for blues stars at the Cafe au GoGo in for, and playing with, many of her idols, figures originally came out on the Blind Pig label in playing jazz and funk music--for Kool and the Greenwich Village in 1966, a position that led such as Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy and Junior 1982 and features of Cream on bass Gang, among others--in Hong Kong and to her joining forces for some months with Wells, Howlin' Wolf, Odetta, and and background vocals. Taiwan. then-unknown . Ellen says that and Brownie McGhee, Ellen formed her own Ellen's new CD, Spontaneous Combustion, Ellen's new CD, which just came out in Hendrix, who began their friendship by asking band, Fear Itself, and the following year, 1968, is on the German Tradition & Moderne label, as March, features Ellen in a variety of settings; one night if he could sit in on her set at the she moved to Woodstock, New York, and was her previous album, the live recording, joins her on two songs, one of them Cafe au GoGo, taught her how to use her voice released her first album, Fear Itself, in 1969. Ellen McIlwaine: Women in (E)motion, the rhythm-and-blues standard "Mockingbird," like another guitar. Ellen soon developed a Since then, she has recorded ten more albums, recorded in 1997 at the Women in (E)motion and her band on the CD is Taj Mahal's rhythm distinctive style of slide-playing on electric in both solo and band settings, and she has Festival in Bremen, German section from the 1980s, drummer Kester Smith guitar that has kept her busy for more than toured constantly and performed live with a and bass-player Bill Rich. The CD has lots of thirty years. She plays bass lines, rhythm who's who of the musical scene of the past the screaming slide-playing on electric guitar chords, and stinging lead-guitar lines thirty-plus years. She is probably best known for which she is best known, but it also simultaneously, laying her powerful vocals on for her Polydor albums of the early 1970s, SATURDAY contains two songs which Ellen performs solo top of the heady mix. "If it isn't slide guitar, Honky Tonk Angel and We the People, which in MAY 19 and on acoustic guitar, "Sidu" (a Near-Eastern- it's too limiting," she has told interviewers, 1998 were re-released together on one CD, style lament for the death of a grandmother) explaining that she can apply her style of slide- Ellen McIlwaine: Up from the Sky: The Polydor DOORS 8PM • SHOW 9PM and "Dead End Street" (about the death of a playing to other kinds of music that interest Years. MEMBERS $10/GUESTS $14 love affair). On one song on her new CD, the her: reggae, Middle Eastern music, and East Ellen's 1987 album Looking for Trouble, blues standard "Sitting on Top of the World," Indian music. One of the band numbers on her recorded in (where she then lived), Ellen performs solo and on piano. In her new CD, "Egyptian Blues," displays this came out on Edmonton's Stony Plain label, and upcoming show at the Yardbird, she will distinctive mix of blues and Near-Eastern A.D.D. Trio

The A.D.D. Trio has been together since 1993. Their second recording Sic Bisquitis Disintegrat (That’s the Way the Cookie Crumbles) is scheduled for North American release on ENJA Records this spring. A.D.D.’s music is characterized by a truly original sound colour palette set into a clear rhythmic and harmonic context. They play tunes by all three trio members and the mix and balance of their styles makes the group that much more interesting. They improvise with no apologies for their virtuosity, celebrating a wide range of experience, embracing all types of music - rock, jazz, contemporary music in the "classical" sense and world musics. Former New Yorker Robert Dick now lives in Switzerland and is renowned as someone who has revolutionized the sound and pedals, and can set up an orchestral texture for us to play over." of the flute. He plays several different flutes and has invented a "glissando Like the other members of the trio, drummer Steve Arguelles no longer headjoint" for the flute which enables him to create unique sounds on the lives in the country of his birth having moved from England to France in instrument. He is a member of a number of musical aggregations in Europe 1992. He is a co-founder of Loose Tubes, a group which has also performed and in New York. He has collaborated with the likes of Steve Lacy, George in Edmonton, and is a member of Benoit Delbecq’s The Recyclers. Lewis, Evan Parker and Gerry Hemingway. The new disc displays the band’s rueful and sometimes biting humour, Of the three members of A.D.D., Christy Doran is the most well-known the members’ ability to channel virtuosity, pare down the extraneous, cut to Edmonton audiences, having played here on several occasions, one of to the chase. Robert Dick says, "...I think of how I can get to the soul of the more memorable ones being Doran/ Studer/Minton & Ali playing the an idea, then somehow I’ll work out how to express it." This is the key to music of Jimi Hendrix. As Robert Dick says of Dublin-born but current Swiss their sound and their musical empathy. A.D.D. Trio is in love with music, resident Doran, "... there isn’t anything he can’t play, and what he chooses animated by the imperative to develop and evolve it, letting the chips fall to play is always so tasteful. He’s a master of various multiple delay devices where they may...as the cookie crumbles Robert Dick - flutes Christy Doran - electric FRIDAY • MAY 25 guitar and delay devices DOORS 8PM • SHOW 9PM MEMBERS $10/GUESTS $14 Steve Arguelles - drums

Page 6 MAY.JUNE 2001 Evolution Junction

Brothers Solon and Jeremiah McDade brother Solon, is in his final year of the Junction is a collaborative project, his own CD last year. A graduate of the – best known for their work in the Jazz Performance degree program at McGill a meeting of minds for a quartet of Berklee College of Music in Boston, Celtic/folk community along with their University. Vancouver’s finest jazz musicians. This Chris has studied with Joanne Brackeen dad Terry McDade and sister Shannon Mike Rud – a well-known name in group features compositions from each and Benny Green. His trio won first Johnson – are the driving force behind Edmonton – is one of Canada’s premier of its members and draws from an prize in Belgium’s Europ’ Jazz Contest this band that also features former jazz guitarists. He began his study of jazz expansive array of influences creating a in 1996. Edmontonian Mike Rud and their long at the Grant MacEwan College, and sound with depth, beauty and Bassist Chris Tarry is probably the time collaborator, drummer Dan Skakun. continued at McGill University, where he excitement. The final result is best-known of the band’s members. He Bassist Solon McDade is currently in received his undergraduate degree. He contemporary and substantial. is one of the founders of the JUNO his final year of the Jazz Performance moved to New York to study with jazz The group’s first CD is being readied award-winning Metalwood. Also a degree program at McGill University. He great Jim Hall, and after a year he for release on Maximum Music in late Berklee graduate, Chris has also has toured and performed with blues returned to Montreal where he received May. received several other awards during greats such as Luther Guitar Jr. Johnson, Masters Degree and become a popular Guitarist Daryl Jahnke evokes a Pat the past few years. Billy Boy Arnold, and Wild Child Butler, as member of the faculty at McGill. Since Metheny-like sound in some of his Dave Robbins earned a Masters well as local singer/songwriters Bill then he released two CD’s under his name playing. He has been performing for degree in jazz from McGill University Bourne, Maria Dunn and Luann Kowalek. (‘Whyte Avenue’ and ‘Chimbe’), ands has about twenty years and is a mainstay and has become a favourite of the west His career is marked with performances at performed with Herb Ellis, John Stetch on the Vancouver scene as a player, coast jazz scene since returning to his festivals and events across Canada. As well and Hugh Fraser among others. studio musician, composer, musical native British Columbia. In demand as a as being a busy sideman, Solon has The very first set of the night will director and educator. sideman, he has worked with Slide studied at the Banff School of Fine Arts, feature a trio that includes Uday Ramdas, Chris Gestrin performed at the Hampton, P.J. Perry, Pat LaBarbera and and at the Grant MacEwan College. Solon’s tabla Master from India, Solon and Yardbird Suite in 1999 with vocalist Hugh Fraser. talents have been documented on many Jeremiah’s dad Terry on harp, and Kate Hammett-Vaughan and released Junction is a group which is certain awards nominated recordings through the saxophonist Brett Miles. to make a name for itself on the past few years. Canadian contemporary jazz music A gifted multi-instrumentalist, scene. June 2nd will be your Jeremiah McDade, is a busy studio Solon McDade – bass opportunity to get acquainted with musician currently featured on various Jeremiah McDade – sax them. soundtracks (Biography – Entertainment Mike Rud – guitar Channel NFB films, History Channel, CBC), Dan Skakun – drums and is also featured on recordings by Keri- Lyn, Maria Dunn, David Wilkie, Bourne & with the opening set by Daryl Jahnke - guitar Johnson, and Terry McDade. He recently Terry McDade – harp Chris Gestrin - Hammond organ has performed at the Banff Film & Uday Ramdas – tablas Chris Tarry - bass Television Awards. He has graduated from Brett Miles – tenor and Dave Robbins - drums Grant MacEwan College, and, just like his soprano sax, flute SATURDAY • JUNE 2 DOORS 8PM • SHOW 9PM MEMBERS $7/GUESTS $11 Volunteer Party Thank you volunteers, for all your hard work throughout the year! SATURDAY • MAY 26 DOORS 8PM • SHOW 9PM MEMBERS $7/GUESTS $11 Friday, June 1 • Doors - 8pm • Show 9pm River City Big Band Formed in 1996, The River City Big Band For this spring concert the band will is a seventeen member organization feature charts from Duke Ellington, dedicated to presenting the finest Big Band Maynard Ferguson, Woody Herman, and Jazz. Led by director Larry Schrum, the Stan Kenton libraries, as well as a couple bands continually widening repertoire ranges of new original charts from local arranger from the books of Count Basie and Woody and composer Allan Gilliland and the River Herman to contemporary works of Thad City Big Band director Larry Schrum. Jones, Frank Mantooth and John Fedchok. SUNDAY • MAY 27 DOORS 7:30PM • SHOW 8PM MEMBERS $6/GUESTS $10

MAY.JUNE 2001 Page 7 Jimmy “T-99” Nelson ardbird Suite BLUES

Jimmy "T-99" Nelson is the last of the California. The song remained 21 weeks on great blues shouters, a glorious throwback the Billboard rhythm-and-blues charts that to the days when rhythm-and-blues music summer, and it guaranteed the success of its was dominated by big-voiced singers like his small record label, RPM--a label that became friend and mentor, Big Joe Turner. As all even bigger later that year when the first of those who gave Jimmy a standing ovation B.B. King's many hits on RPM, "Three O'Clock last August at the Edmonton Folk Festival Blues," came out. can attest, Jimmy still has the commanding Jimmy wrote and recorded several other stage presence, the huge voice, the successful songs in the 1950s, notably the R impeccable style and timing that made him & B standard "Meet Me with Your Black Dress a star in the days when his first hit, "T-99 On," described by jazz critic Leonard Feather Blues," ruled the charts in 1951. as "one of the sexiest songs ever written," Now, at the tender age of 82, he is which Jimmy put out on the RPM label in coming back to Edmonton to perform at the 1952, and his 1955 song, "Free and Easy Yardbird Suite. "A blues musician can feel he Mind," which he recorded in Oakland but has died and gone to heaven in Edmonton," came out on Chicago's famed Chess label. By he says. The people are so warm and the late 1950s Jimmy had settled in generous, and the musicians, well, they Houston, met and married his wife, Nettie, aren't just very good, they are disciplined. I and decided to leave the music business. He don't need anybody dancing behind me, I says he was fed up with "the Jesse James just need a good working band." Last August contracts the record companies had then. at the Folk Festival, Jimmy performed with Everything you create belongs to them." For the Folk Fest house band, led by guitarist the next thirty years, Jimmy worked as a Amos Garrett. At the Yardbird Suite Jimmy mason in Houston; he helped put up the will be backed by a six-piece R & B combo concrete walls of Houston's Astrodome. anchored by Winnipeg guitarist Brent Parkin Jimmy bought a house, raised a family, and and keyboardist Graham Guest. dropped out of the music scene except for an and he'd heard on the musicians' grapevine and things have got steadily bigger and Jimmy is in the middle of a remarkable occasional guest appearance at a Houston about Jimmy. better for Jimmy year by year. This comeback return to the music scene. His one CD to nightclub. But by 1988, when his children Jimmy made several tours of Europe with trail has eventually led him to the Yardbird date, Rockin' and Shoutin' the Blues, came were raised and his wife had recently died, Otis Grand's band and soon established Suite this spring. Come and discover why out in 1999 on the Bullseye label and was Jimmy gave up his day job and decided to himself as a crowd favourite. In fact he'll Living Blues Magazine says, "Jimmy's nominated for two W. C. Handy Awards last try to make a life in music once more. He return to England this August to perform with swaggering vocals, with a swinging band in year--as Traditional Blues Album of the Year had gone on writing blues songs all those Otis and his band at the Great British R & B support, are a joyful sound to behold!" and as Comeback Album of the Year. That CD years, and he felt he could sing even better Festival in Colne, Lancashire, where the Jimmy When he plays the Yardbird Suite, was set up by guitarist Duke Robillard and than ever. "The older a blues singer gets, the and Otis show has become an annual fixture. Jimmy will be performing several numbers was recorded in late 1998 in Duke's home better he sounds! It's life experience, man." By the mid-1990s Jimmy was wowing from his second, soon-to-be-released CD, state of Rhode Island with New England Just weeks after making this decision, he audiences at some of the biggest U.S. blues Take Your Pick. He recorded this CD last musicians chosen by Duke, including the got a phone call from Otis Grand, the young festivals, as he did at the Chicago Blues November, once more in Rhode Island and sax-player in his own band, Gordon "Sax" American guitarist who is a blues star in Festival in June of 1996 and the Long Beach mostly with the same band, but this time Beadle. At the last minute, Duke Robillard England. Otis was looking for a vocalist to Blues Festival later that year. His shows with Duke Robillard on guitar. was unable to perform on the CD--but by tour with his ten-piece jump-blues band, brought him to Duke Robillard's attention, good fortune Jimmy's long-time friend from Houston Clarence Holliman, the guitarist on many great Bobby Blue Bland and Junior FRIDAY & SATURDAY • JUNE 8 & 9 Parker recordings made in Houston between DOORS 8PM • SHOW 9PM MEMBERS $11/GUESTS $15 1957 to 1964, was available. (Sadly, Clarence Holliman died of a heart attack several months later in spring, 2000.) He was born in Philadelphia in 1919, but jumped a freight train and headed for California at the age of twenty. His life changed one night in 1941 in Oakland, California when he took his girlfriend out to hear some blues music. "Out walked the biggest man I ever saw," says Jimmy. "It was Big Joe Turner, working with Harland Leonard's Kansas City Rockets. I just loved the way he sang, and as soon as I heard him, I said to myself, 'I can do that!'". Big Joe Turner befriended Jimmy and taught him the tricks of the trade: how to stand flat-footed and bellow out the blues, how to work a crowd, how to get the best out of your band, how to live the high life out on the road-- and how to survive the high life. After years of performing in nightclubs and making several obscure records, Jimmy hit it big in 1951 with his own composition, "T-99 Blues," a jumping song inspired by Route T- 99, the highway that goes from Texas to

Page 8 MAY.JUNE 2001 2001 GRAMMY Winner Joe Lovano to perform at the Yardbird Suite

Once again, Joe Lovano will be Throughout the 1980s and the on the faculty at the Jazz early 1990s, he was a regular in the Workshops at the Banff Centre for Village Vanguard Orchestra as well the Arts in late May and early June. as working with Elvin Jones, Carla The Edmonton Jazz Society is Bley, Charlie Haden and Paul extremely pleased to be able to Motian. His first high-profile gig present Joe together with his wife, providing national attention came vocalist Judi Silvano, Kenny with the Quartet. Werner’s bassist Johannes His first major gig as a leader Weidenmueller, and Edmonton’s own was in 1991 Sandro Dominelli on drums in a very in New York. During the past ten special performance on Sunday, years, he has released a number of June 10. consistently top-quality recordings Awards and accolades come on Blue Note including Universal often and deservedly to Joe Language, Tenor Legacy, Rush Hour, Lovano. most recently for the Best Quartets at the Village Vanguard, Large Jazz Ensemble Album at the Celebrating Sinatra, Flying Colors, 43rd Annual (2001) GRAMMY Trio Fascination, Friendly Fire with Awards for his Blue Note release Greg Osby and 52nd Street Themes. 52nd Street Themes. He was voted His newest release is Flights of tenor saxophonist of the year by Fancy: Trio Fascination Edition 2. both the critics and the readers in It’s doubtful if there is anyone the 2000 Downbeat Critics Polls in jazz who has issued a body of and Readers Polls. He was also work of such a high standard over Downbeat’s Jazz Artist of the Year the past ten years - basically every in both polls in 1995 CD in his discography and 1996 as well as is a gem. winning Album of the "Move over Judi Silvano has Year for Rush Hour in Pavarotti, the become recognized as 1995 and for Quartets greatest Italian one of the leading Live at the Village tenor around today progressive jazz Vanguard in 1996. He isn’t Luciano, but singers of our day. A was also nominated Lovano." New York resident for GRAMMY Awards since the late 1970s, in 1994, 1995, 1996 - The Village Voice Judi has worked on and 1997. many of her own Joe Lovano/Judi Silvano Quartet Growing up in Cleveland, Joe projects and also on several of Joe Joe Lovano - tenor sax was able to learn the saxophone Lovano’s projects and recordings. Judi Silvano- vocals from his father, Tony "Big T" Lovano, Her first major label release was Johannes Weidenmueller - bass who also took him to see many of Vocalise in 1996 which was a daring Sandro Dominelli - drums the jazz greats who passed through set of music bringing the concepts his home town. He learned his chops of collective improvisation to the This event is made possible through the in organ trio and Texas tenor bands song format. Her most recent co-operation and support of the Banff and sessions while still a teenager. recording Songs I Wrote or Wish I Centre for the Arts Music and Sound. He also gained an appreciation for Did shows her growing and maturing some of the free jazz experimenters as a singer and performer of wit, at the same time. depth and substance. While studying at the Berklee It’s not often that someone of College of Music in Boston, he met Joe Lovano’s stature and future collaborators like John prominence plays a concert in an Scofield, Bill Frisell and Kenny intimate setting such as the Werner. His first years after Yardbird Suite so this will be an graduation were spent in the bands extremely special evening which is of Lonnie Smith, Brother Jack guaranteed to be a memorable one McDuff and the Woody Herman for all in attendance. Get your Thundering Herd. tickets early!

SUNDAY • JUNE 10 DOORS 6:30PM • SHOW 7:30PM MEMBERS $26/GUESTS $30

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FRIDAY • JUNE 22 SATURDAY • JUNE 23 MICHAEL OCCHIPINTI QUINTET

Hot on the heels of their exciting show and at the Banff Centre for the Arts. at the Yardbird Suite in November and their Needless to say, he has performed with all recent JUNO nomination, the Michael of the stalwarts of the Toronto jazz scene Occhipinti Quartet returns for another great including such favourites of Edmonton gig for which they have added violinist audiences as Pat LaBarbera and Mike Hugh Marsh. Murley. Other performing credits include Guitarist Occhipinti will also be Kenny Wheeler, Muhal Richard Abrams, bringing the other members of his group - Slide Hampton and Maynard Ferguson. Kevin Turcotte on trumpet, Andrew Michael’s new disc is the third under his Downing on bass and Barry Romberg on own name, the others being Who Meets drums - in support of his CD Creation Dream Who? and Surrealist Blues. Both were - The Songs of Bruce Cockburn which was well-received by critics and fellow DAVE nominated for a 2001 JUNO. musicians. The Bruce Cockburn-inspired Geoff Chapman in the Toronto Star says record-ing has brought Occhipinti more RESTIVO "If genre gurus like Charlie Parker and Miles recognition and accolades. be playing a variety of Occhipinti’s own Davis raided the pop music of their day, why Asked about the inspiration for the compositions and some other music which shouldn’t today’s jazzers probe such a Bruce Cockburn project, he remarks, will be familiar to all. Michael Occhipinti is QUINTET treasure trove? ... Michael Occhipinti and "Lately, I’ve been trying to incorporate a lot quickly becoming a favourite of Edmonton his sophisticated colleagues make a fine of the different music that I heard while audiences so, if you haven’t seen him Dave Restivo is one of Canada’s most job of hit material by Canadian singer- growing up into my own group’s repertoire. before, you should make a special effort to respected and sought after jazz artists. He songwriter Bruce Cockburn." It’s a different experience to play music catch him this time round. is also no stranger to the Yardbird Suite Occhipinti is recognized as one of that you’ve absorbed from radio or Canada’s most innovative young jazz television, as opposed to the jazz standard stage, having previously played with the Michael Occhipinti - guitar artists, not only as a player but also as a tradition." Kevin Turcotte - trumpet Mike Murley Quintet, Mike Downes composer and arranger. In the mid-1990s, With 25 albums of Cockburn’s music to Hugh Marsh - violin Quartet, Carn-Allemano Quintet and as he formed the Neufeld-Occhipinti Jazz choose from, Occhipinti was able to learn a Andrew Downing - bass Orchestra with pianist Paul Neufeld. The great many tunes he hadn’t already heard. part of Jim Head band in October of last Barry Romberg - drums year. This is the first visit, however, where large orchestra’s self-titled first CD won As he says, "It’s been challenging adapting Dave will lead his own quintet in the 1996 JUNO award for Best the music to the personalities of the Contemporary Jazz album. Their second musicians involved, and making the songs DOORS 8PM • SHOW 9PM promotion of his just recently released and third recordings were also JUNO- work apart from the lyrics. I’m hoping MEMBERS $9/GUESTS $13 recording on Toronto’s Radioland label nominated with the third disc You are people will be surprised." ‘Prayer For Humankind(ness)’. Here featuring acclaimed clarinetist Don In addition to music from Creation A critically acclaimed pianist and Byron. He has studied at York University Dream, the Michael Occhipinti Quintet will composer, he is well known for his work with Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass, THURSDAY • JUNE 28 the Mike Murley Quintet, songwriter Marc Jordan, and percussionist Memo Acevedo. their first CD Din of Inequity included Symphonette. He has also performed and recorded with SEX MOB material by Prince, Huddie Ledbetter, All instruments in the Sex Mob melting such musical luminaries as Mel Torme, Hoagie Carmichael, two James Bond themes pot are given equal billing, from Bernstein’s Alex Acuna, Maynard Ferguson, Moe and even Macarena. On Solid Sender, songs swaggering slide trumpet, to Briggan by Duke Ellington, Abba, Nirvana, the Krauss’ edgy, frantic alto sax antics, to Tony Koffman, Ed Bickert, Marcus Belgrave, Grateful Dead, James Brown and so on are Scherr’s super-thick bass to drummer Scott Kenny Wheeler, John Abercrombie, Mark featured. When you listen, you may hear the Amendola’s booming anchor. Whitfield, Pat LaBarbera, and Gene themes of these songs or the band may have Sex Mob is achieving something that Bertoncini. deconstructed them beyond recognition. few bands can - a dose of musical honesty Honoured at the 1997 Jazz Report Perhaps the most fascinating thing and originality, free of pretense and full of Awards as Pianist of the Year, David was about Sex Mob’s sound is its precarious soul. Bernstein sums it up, "People come ... balance of red-faced, wobbly musical to see us because they get something subsequently voted Toronto’s Best acrobatics and crystal-clear, sober playing. rarified that they can’t get anywhere else. Keyboardist of 1998 in Now Magazine. His All of the group’s members are veterans of Everyone wants to experience something piano playing has earned him some the New York downtown scene as REAL." And Sex Mob is as real as music gets. superlative description from the media. Sex Mob? Obviously what many would exemplified by clubs such as the Knitting You never know how things will turn call a "politically incorrect" name for a Factory and Tonic. out. But you can always expect one thing band. Besides, what does jazz have to do Steven Bernstein is probably the only from Sex Mob - the unexpected. Try them. Dave Restivo – piano with sex? As group spokesman Steven person around who plays the slide trumpet. You won’t be disappointed. Ted Quinlan - guitar Bernstein explains, "Jazz used to be popular It’s not just a gimmick. He’s got credentials Ernie Tollar - sax music. People would go out to clubs, listen too. Work with the likes of the Lounge Steven Bernstein - slide trumpet Jim Vivian - bass to the music, dance, drink, have a hell of a Lizards, Mel Torme and Lou Reed proves Briggan Kraus - alto sax this. He was also the musical director for the Kevin Dempsey -drums lot of fun, and then go home and get (you Tony Scherr - bass soundtrack for Robert Altman’s Kansas City. fill in the blank). Simple as that. We’re Scott Amendola - drums bringing that spirit back." And if you follow the New York scene at all, you’re familiar with the other three Jazz is at the core of Sex Mob’s music - DOORS 7:30PM • SHOW 8:30PM DOORS 8PM • SHOW 9PM but they take it up to funk, punk and pop. members of Sex Mob. Briggan Kraus and MEMBERS $9/GUESTS $13 Besides their own compositions, their discs Kenny Wolleson have also both appeared in MEMBERS $18/GUESTS $22 feature a wide variety of tunes, many of Edmonton with various Big Apple-based them unexpected for what could be groups and Scott Amendola’s past work pigeonholed as a jazz group. For instance, includes Charlie Hunter and Oranj

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FRIDAY • JUNE 29 SATURDAY • JUNE 30 CHRIS POTTER QUARTET JESSICA WILLIAMS

Chris Potter is unquestionably one of the York. The album will be a tribute to the Jessica Williams returns to the Jessica Williams - solo piano most creative and exciting saxophone players saxophone legends. Potter plays tenor, alto and Yardbird Suite stage on Saturday, June 30, in modern jazz and he is now gaining public soprano sax as well as bass clarinet and for what will undoubtedly be another recognition as one of the rising stars of his Chinese wood flute on the recording. It is brilliant solo piano performance. This will chosen instrument. He brings his New York- hoped that his new disc will be available by be her third Yardbird appearance in the based quartet to the Yardbird Suite for two the time he reaches Edmonton. past five years and another evening full of special shows on Friday, June 29. In addition to leading his own group, excitement, fun, great creativity and Also featured in the Chris Potter Quartet is Potter is an in-demand sideman. His former moments of rare beauty is eagerly pianist Kevin Hays who has released several label, Concord, featured him on discs by Marian anticipated. CDs as a leader for Blue Note and Steeple Chase McPartland, Susannah McCorkle, Marlena Shaw Williams began piano lessons at the as well as working with Joshua Redman, Roy and Eden Atwood. He has also recorded with age of four, started attending the Peabody Haynes, Nick Brignola and Joe Henderson. the Mingus Big Band, James Moody, Steve Bassist Scott Colley has recorded with pianists Swallow, Ray Brown and the current trumpet Conservatory by the age of eight and was Harold Danko and Fred Hersch, guitarist Jim master . He’s even played with playing jazz gigs by the age of fourteen. Hall and drummer T.S. Monk among others. Steely Dan. She worked with Philly Joe Jones in From the age of 11, Chris Potter knew that At the present time, his two major gigs as Philadelphia before moving to San he wanted to play the saxophone and by the a sideman, both on tour and in recordings, are Francisco in 1977 where she was the time he was in high school, he was gigging with Paul Motian and . In fact, it house pianist at Keystone Korner. It was regularly. He moved to New York at 18 and was because he was on tour in Europe with during that time that she commenced her earned his Bachelor of Music degree from the Paul Motian last fall that Potter was unable to recording career. Over the years, she has Manhattan School of Music in 1993. It was play in Dave Holland’s Quintet at the Yardbird released over two dozen albums as a "Jessica is a beautiful player." during his college years that he met pianist Suite when Holland made his memorable leader. Her performance credits include - McCoy Tyner who was one of his teachers. appearance here in October. work with the likes of Dexter Gordon, Art Through Kenny he met bassist Scott Colley who We now have the opportunity to hear Blakey, Woody Shaw, Tony Williams and "One of the greatest jazz accompanies him for his Yardbird Suite gig. Chris Potter firsthand and see why he was Charlie Haden as well as recordings with pianists I have ever heard." Potter came to prominence playing in named as both the #1 Tenor Saxophonist and Eddie Harris, the aforementioned Philly - Dave Brubeck trumpeter Red Rodney’s Quintet, working with the #1 Alto Saxophonist in the 2000 Downbeat Joe Jones and veteran Monk sideman the bop giant until Rodney’s death in 1994. International Critics Poll. Don’t miss Chris Charlie Rouse. "Williams is the most impressive Rodney said of Potter, "This kid is sensational." Potter at the Yardbird Suite. If you do, you’ll be In the late 1980s Jessica began to pianist to arrive since Bill After a CD for Criss Cross in 1992, he recorded kicking yourself later. come to prominence as a solo acoustic Evans." a number of discs for Concord Jazz. Some of his pianist. Considered by Scott Yanow of the - Alun Morgan, better-known Concord recordings include Chris Potter - saxophones Gramophone Magazine Concentric Circles, Moving In, Unspoken and Kevin Hays - piano All Music Guide to Jazz as "one of the top Vertigo. Scott Colley - bass jazz pianists of the 1990s", she is a He recently signed with Verve Records and Clarence Penn - drums powerful virtuoso whose complete has just recorded his debut CD for them in New command of the keyboard, wit, solid sense Anyone who has heard Jessica of swing and the influence of Thelonious Williams live will be aware of the rapport Monk have combined to make her a she has with her audience and the intense particularly notable player. emotional impact her music has on her Now living oceanside in Northern listeners. This concert will be a sublime California, she is well known as a mainstay way to conclude our 2000-2001 season at of Calgary based Jazz Focus Records for the Yardbird Suite. whom she has recorded at least nine discs all of which are strongly recommended. She brings her own style to each song whether it’s a standard or one of her own compositions. Williams comes up with fresh DOORS 8PM • SHOW 9PM variations and consistently inventive ideas MEMBERS $14/GUESTS $18 even when the influence of Thelonious Monk, McCoy Tyner, Oscar Peterson or Earl Hines is identifiable in her playing.

FIRST SHOW: DOORS 7PM • SHOW 7:30PM MEMBERS $18/GUESTS $22

SECOND SHOW: DOORS 9:30PM • SHOW 10PM MEMBERS $18/GUESTS $22

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MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 29 EDDIE C. APRIL CAMPBELL FRI & SAT • APRIL 27-28

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 23MOMENTUM 6 • VADIUM BUDMAN’S BITCHES BREW “HEBREW HOEDOWN” • KENT SANGSTER, TRIBUTE MAY JIM HEAD, SANDRO DOMINELLI TRIO FRI & SAT • MAY 4-5 78 910 13 TUESDAY LESTER JAM QUITZAU THEO JORGENSMANN SESSION QUARTET FRI • MAY 11 SAT • MAY 12 14 15 16 17ROBIN 20 EUBANKS & ELLEN MENTAL MCILWAINE IMAGES FRI • MAY 18 SAT • MAY 19 21 22 23 24 EVOLUTION A.D.D. WITH RIVER CITY TRIO MIKE BIG BAND RUD FRI • MAY 25 SAT • MAY 26 SUN • MAY 27

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 3 VOLUNTEER JUNCTION JUNE PARTY FRI • JUNE 1 SAT • JUNE 2 45TUESDAY 67 8 JOE JIMMY “T99” LOVANO/ JAM NELSON JUDI SILVANO SESSION QUARTET FRI & SAT • JUNE 8 & 9 SUN • JUNE 10 18 19 20 21 24 DAVE MICHAEL RESTIVO OCCHIPINTI QUINTET QUINTET FRI • JUNE 22 SAT • JUNE 23 25 26 27 CHRIS POTTER JESSICA SEX MOB QUINTET WILLIAMS THU • JUNE 28 FRI • JUNE 29 SAT • JUNE 30 YARDBIRD SUITE IS A CONCERT VENUE. During the show, please turn off your cell phones and pagers. If you need to talk — remember that other patrons came to LISTEN to the performance. FRIDAY NIGHTS ARE NON-SMOKING NIGHTS AT THE SUITE! Starting September 2001, all our shows will follow non-smoking policy.

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