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March/April 2008 Publication Mail # 40047729 • Darryl Meyer Quintet • Laura Crema Quartet • Lester Quitzau Trio Yardbird Suite Blues ® • Michael Herring’s Vertigo featuring David Binney • Rez Abbasi Quartet • Dapp Theory • Alexis Baro Sextet • Doug Organ Trio • Bob Tildesley’s Indigenous Aliens Our 36th Year - Issue 2 – March/April 2008 • Dee Daniels with Chris Andrew Trio • Shelley Jones Quartet • Dave Babcock Quintet Publication Mail # 40047729 EDMONTON JAZZ SOCIETY 11 TOMMY BANKS WAY (Corner of 102 St & 86 Ave) EDMONTON AB T6E 2M2 Edmonton Jazz Society’s Board of Directors YARDBIRD 2007•2008 Jasiek Poznanski • President SUITE Adrian Albert • Vice-President 11 Tommy Banks Way (corner of 102 St & 86 Ave) Shelley Chebry • Secretary Edmonton, Alberta T6E 2M2 Paul Wilde • Treasurer Phone: (780) 432-0428 Fax: (780) 433-3773 Board Members Dave Babcock • Chris Brown Pam Josey • Craig Magill THEYARDBIRDCREW Yardbird Suite Our Volunteer House Managers PROGRAMMING • Adrian Albert, Julie Bill Hume • Judy Hume • Pam Josey King, Craig Magill, Jasiek Poznanski • Tracy Kolenchuk • Rhonda Netterfield PRODUCTION • Lisi Sommer • Mary Richards • Marilyn Rude JAM SESSIONS • Don Berner, • Rosalynn Ruptash • Suzanne Slade Raymond Baril • Collette Slevinsky • Karen Voller LITTLEBIRDS DIRECTOR • Joel Gray • Gail Wozny FINANCE • Suzanne Morter PRESS RELEASES • Paul Wilde TRANSPORTATION • Lonnie Hanson Yardbird Suite HOUSE MANAGER & VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR • Pam Josey Newsletter The Yardbird Newsletter is published five times per year by the Edmonton Jazz Society. Yardbird Suite Jazz is a registered EDITORS • Adrian Albert, Jasiek Poznanski trademark of the Edmonton Jazz Society (1973). ADVERTISING • Shelley Chebry NEWSLETTER DESIGN • Vikki Wiercinski GRAPHIC LAYOUT • Kim Deley, Critical Path Return undeliverable Canadian Marketing Communications addresses to: DISTRIBUTION • Monique Bielech, EDMONTON JAZZ SOCIETY Shelley Chebry, Bill Harper 11 TOMMY BANKS WAY EDMONTON AB T6E 2M2 PRINTING • Nisku Printers (1980) Ltd. www.yardbirdsuite.com Canadian Publication Mail Product Sales Agreement # 40047729 YARDBIRDSUITE • EVENTS • YARDBIRDSUITE 3 Doors at 8pm, Show at 9pm unless otherwise stated FRIDAY • MARCH 7 SATURDAY • MARCH 8 Darryl Laura Meyer Crema Quintet Quartet From Edmonton From Vancouver MEMBERS $10 • GUESTS $14 MEMBERS $14 • GUESTS $18 Darryl Meyer - drums Chris Andrew - piano Laura Crema - vocals Paul Townsend - drums Jim Head - guitar Joseph Lubinsky-Mast - bass Bill Coon - guitar Jim Brenan - tenor saxophone Paul Rushka - bass www.lauracrema.com FRIDAY & SATURDAY • MARCH 14 & 15 Lester Quitzau Trio YARDBIRD SUITE BLUES From the West Coast/Edmonton “Diverse, surprising, and casually entrancing. Words like ‘eclectic’ and ‘beyond category’ spring to mind in trying to describe how he’s taken elements of rhythm and blues, jazz, folk, rock, and even hip-hop, and blended them together seamlessly.” Roger Levesque, Edmonton Journal MEMBERS $16 • GUESTS $20 Lester Quitzau - guitar, vocals Mike Lent - bass Sandro Dominelli - drums www.lesterq.com FRIDAY • MARCH 21 SATURDAY • MARCH 22 Michael Rez Abbasi Herring’s Quartet Vertigo From New York featuring David Binney From Toronto/New York MEMBERS $16 • GUESTS $20 Michael Herring - double bass William Carn - trombone David Binney - alto saxophone Don Scott - guitar MEMBERS $18 • GUESTS $22 Quinsin Nachoff - tenor Nick Fraser - drums saxophone and clarinets Rez Abbasi - guitar Doug Weiss - drums Kiran Ahluwalia - vocals www.dangerherring.com • www.davidbinney.com Gary Versace - keyboards www.quinsin.com • www.williamcarn.com www.feastyourears.com www.reztone.com 4 YARDBIRDSUITE • EVENTS • YARDBIRDSUITE Doors at 8pm, Show at 9pm unless otherwise stated FRIDAY • MARCH 28 SATURDAY • MARCH 29 Dapp Alexis Theory Baro From New York Sextet From Toronto MEMBERS $18 • GUESTS $22 MEMBERS $14 • GUESTS $18 Andy Milne - panio, keyboards Chris Tordini - bass Alexis Baro - trumpet Alberto Suarez - percussion Loren Stillman - saxophone Kenny Grohowski - drums Jeff King - saxophone Paco Luciano - bass John Moon - vocals, percussion Luis Guerra - piano Rosendo “Chendy” Leon - drums www.andymilne.com/dapp_site/ FRIDAY • APRIL 4 SATURDAY • APRIL 5 Doug Bob Organ Tildesley’s Trio Indigenous From Edmonton Aliens From Edmonton MEMBERS $12 • GUESTS $16 MEMBERS $10 • GUESTS $14 Bob Tildesley - trumpet Bryan Sim - piano Doug Organ - Hammond B3 Mo Lefever - guitar Greg Smith - guitar Peter Belec - guitar Brett Miles - saxophone Jamie Cooper - drums Jamie Cooper - drums Bill Jamieson - saxophone Mike Lent - bass www.dougorgan.com FRIDAY & SATURDAY • APRIL 11 & 12 Dee Daniels with Chris Andrew Trio From Vancouver/Edmonton MEMBERS $14 • GUESTS $18 Dee Daniels - vocals Sandro Dominelli - drums Chris Andrew - piano Mike Lent - bass www.deedaniels.com • www.chrisandrew.ca www.sandrodominelli.com SHOWINFORMATION • PERFORMERBIOS 5 FRIDAY • APRIL 18 SATURDAY • APRIL 19 Shelley Dave Jones Babcock Quartet Quintet From Edmonton plays the music of Stanley Turrentine From Edmonton MEMBERS $12 • GUESTS $16 MEMBERS $14 • GUESTS $18 Shelley Jones - vocals John Taylor - bass Dave Babcock - saxophone Jim Head - guitar Wes Yaciuk - guitar Jamie Cooper - drums Doug Organ - piano, Mike Lent - bass Andrew Glover - piano, keyboards Hammond B3, vibes Sandro Dominelli - drums www.shelleytime.com www.davebabcock.com Rez Abbasi Quartet his long-standing association with bassist Born on the Indian sub-continent, Rez David Phillips, drummer Tony Moreno and Abbasi moved to Southern California alto saxophonist John O’Gallagher in the at the age of four. He studied at the highly acclaimed, collective ensemble, University of Southern California and “Freedance”. Rez is also musical director the Manhattan School of Music in jazz and producer for Indian/Canadian Juno and classical music. Rez also made a winning vocalist Kiran Ahluwalia’s pilgrimage to India where he studied ensemble. He also plays an integral role with master percussionist, Ustad Alla in Rudresh Mahanthappa’s Indo-Pak Rakha. He is a vivid synthesis of all the Trio, Dakshani Ensemble, Dave Pietro’s above stated influences and genres. Quintet and Sunny Jain’s Collective. Making New York home for the past 15 With five albums of original compositions years, Abbasi is considered by many under his belt, Abbasi continues to to be one of the foremost modern jazz garner new groups of musicians to help guitar players on today’s scene. He has his musical vision come to life. His 2005 developed a unique sound both as a recording “Snake Charmer” has created composer and an instrumentalist and a stir in the music world partly due to has honed his skills with performances his organic, original approach in blending through out the world. He has performed two complex musical genres together, and recorded with many greats including namely jazz and Indian music. 20th Grammy winner Ruth Brown, Peter Century Guitar reviewed the CD as, “One Erskine, Kenny Werner, Barre Phillips, of the best examples yet of how Tim Hagans, Marc Johnson, Billy Hart, Marvin ‘Smitty’ Smith, Gary Thomas, Rick Margitza, D.D. Jackson, Dave Douglas, ADVANCETICKETS • TICKETMASTER.CA Rudresh Mahanthappa, Tony Malaby, Pandit Ronu Majumdar, Pandit Kadri Gopalnath, Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, 451-8000 Greg Osby and a host of others. • for more info • Among Rez’s other creative projects is YARDBIRDSuITE.CoM 6 SHOWINFORMATION • PERFORMERBIOS to merge Indian music with jazz...Snake program, he honed his skills with local Charmer really breaks new ground.” acts playing a variety of Jazz, Blues, R&B and Pop music. Abbasi’s most recent recording “Bazaar”, released in 2006 on the prestigious Since those early days, Dave has gone Zoho Music label, continues the group’s on to perform or record with artists journey through uncharted territory and like Long John Baldry, Tommy Banks, achieves results unparalleled in today’s Solomon Burke, Glen Campbell, Petula jazz/world music scene. Rez makes Clark, The Coasters, Tom Cochrane, wise use of his fellow player’s talents to Albert Collins, Jack deKeyzer, Floyd create a larger sphere of sound. Besides Dixon, Cornell Dupree, The ESO, Amos Gary Versace on organ and Dan Weiss on Garrett, Crystal Gayle, Rosco Gordon, drums and tabla, Kiran Ahluwalia returns Colin James, Flaco Jimenez, Johnnie as a central member of the group. In her Johnson, K.D. Lang, Tom Lavin of Powder own group, Ahluwalia focuses on the Blues, Jimmy McCracklin, Taj Mahal, Big Indian genres of ghazal and Punjabi folk Jay McShann, Big Miller, Geoff Muldaur, music. On “Bazaar”, however, the group Maria Muldaur, The Platters, Doug Riley, stretches way out. Duke Robillard, The Rockin’ Highliners, Doug Sahm, The Temptations, Ian Tyson, Abbasi says, “To create a world-based Mary Wilson of The Supremes and music steeped in jazz is my goal. In this Jimmy Witherspoon. He’s also warmed way, I’m following in the footsteps of up for Willie Dixon, Dr. John, Delbert some of the greatest jazz musicians. McClinton, NRBQ, The Pointer Sisters, Coltrane, Ellington and Gillespie all George Thorogood and Stevie Ray immersed themselves into music from Vaughan. around the world and then brought it back home. If I have that kind of unifying For over fifteen years, Dave has also effect, I’ve succeeded.” led several of his own successful and critically acclaimed bands. They include Dave Babcock soul project The Devotees, highly For over two decades, Dave Babcock has regarded jazz group The Jump Orchestra, built his reputation as one of Canada’s tex-mex and zydeco band Fat Tuesday finest saxophonists. This dynamic horn
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