Presenting Some of Canada’s Finest Musicians november 8-15, 2008

• Tommy Banks and P.J. Perry • Turtleboy • Chandelle Rimmer and Joel Gray • Jim Head • Steve Kirby Our 36th Year, Issue 5 – November /December 2008 • Alain Bédard Auguste Quintet

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SATURDAY • NOV 8 SUNDAY • NOV 9 Tommy Banks Turtleboy and P.J. Perry From From Edmonton Doors 7:30pm Doors 8pm Show 8pm Show 9pm

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Tommy Banks - piano P.J. Perry - alto sax Bobby Cairns - guitar Jonathan Lindhorst - saxophone John Taylor - bass Ryan Butler - guitar/effects Dan Skakun - drums Adam Miller - drums/voice

www.pjperry.com www.myspace.com/turtleboytrio MONDAY • NOV 10 TUESDAY • NOV 11 Littlebirds Big Band Festival Jam Session Workshop with “Tenor Madness” featuring Dave Babcock, Don Berner Dino Dominelli and Jerrold Dubyk along with Chris Andrew on piano, Mike Lent on bass and Sandro Dominelli on drums. 6:30pm - 9pm Admission free Doors open at 8:30pm with the session starting at 9pm. Come down and listen to some great big band sounds. Tickets just $3.00 for everyone! Don’t miss it!

WEDNESDAY • NOV 12 Chandelle Joel Rimmer Gray From Edmonton From Edmonton

Doors 7:30pm Show 8pm

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Chandelle Rimmer - vocals John Taylor - bass Joel Gray - trumpet Doug Berner - bass Kent Sangster - saxophone Sandro Dominelli - drums Don Berner - clarinet, saxophone John Newton - drums Chris Andrew - piano Rob Thompson - piano 4

THURSDAY • NOV 13 FRIDAY • NOV 14 Jim Head Steve Quartet Kirby From Edmonton From Winnipeg/Edmonton

Doors 7:30pm Doors 8pm Show 8pm Show 9pm

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Jim Head -guitar Jamie Cooper - drums Steve Kirby - bass Chris Andrew - piano Chris Andrew - piano Kent Sangster - saxophone Sandro Dominelli - drums John Taylor - bass Dave Morgan - trumpet

SATURDAY • NOV 15 Alain Bédard Auguste Quintet From Montreal ADVANCETICKETS • TICKETMASTER.CA

Doors 8pm Show 9pm 780-451-8000 MEMBERS $16 GUESTS $20 • for more info • Yardbirdsuite.com

Frank Lozano - sax Alain Bédard - bass Jean-Christophe Beney - sax Pierre Tanguay - drums Alex Grogg - piano 5

Tommy Banks and P.J. Perry Turtleboy Saturday, November 8 Sunday, November 9 MEMBERS $20 • GUESTS $24 MEMBERS $12 • GUESTS $16

A special performance by jazz legends Inspired by such great musicians as Paul Tommy Banks and PJ will be an Motian, Joe Lovano, Bill Frisell, and Jim exciting opening to this year’s Yardbird Black, the bass-less jazz trio Turtleboy from Jazz Festival. Tommy Banks will be Montreal combines free collective jazz and presented with an Honorary Licentiate instrumental rock to create a truly unique from Conservatory Canada as part of musical experience. More often than not, their annual Convocation ceremony to the emphasis is placed more on a group be held at Taylor University November 8, sound and collective improvisation, rather 2008. Conservatory Canada is a national, than any one person’s individual solo. The accredited music examination system. band has worked tirelessly developing It is their tradition to present Honorary this concept in order to create a seamless Licentiates to Canadian musicians who blend of total music. have made a significant contribution to the world of music and music education. Turtleboy was formed in July, 2007, and has recently completed their debut album. The performance by Banks and Perry They were recently voted Montreal’s #2 recognizes the conservatory’s new jazz jazz act. They will be promoting the disc curriculum and examination system, the at their Yardbird Suite debut which will first of its kind by a Canadian organization. follow several weeks at the prestigious Students can now be musically assessed Banff Centre’s Fall Career Development on the performance of contemporary Residency as recipients of the TD styles of music such as Swing, Blues, Fellowship Trust Scholarship. Rock. Successful candidates receive secondary school credits for such accomplishments. “... stripped-down and heartfelt...A fresh new discovery” Conservatory Canada Executive Director, L’Off Festival de Jazz de Montreal Victoria Warwick, is excited by Senator Banks’ willingness to accept the Licentiate. “Conservatory Canada wants to keep music students studying longer. Chandelle Rimmer We are all aware of the wonderful benefits Wednesday, November 12 gained through music study and we feel MEMBERS $14 • GUESTS $18 that young people will stick with their private lessons if the music is engaging Upon graduation from Grant MacEwan and familiar for them. And what better College with a Major in Vocal Performance, role model than Tommy Banks, well known Ms. Rimmer has been an active singer politician and jazz musician. I know the in the Edmonton area. She has also students attending convocation to receive directed the Festival Singers in Sherwood medals and scholarships will be inspired Park and the MacEwan Jazz Choir and and motivated by the words and music of Contemporary Choir. She now teaches this very accomplished musician.” some of the vocal performance classes at MacEwan. • for more info • Yardbirdsuite.com In 1993, Chandelle returned from the Jazz Generations Tuesday, November 11 7:30 pm

Bill Eddins unites jazz stars of today and tomorrow with the power of full orchestra in memorable night of jazz standards, bebop and scat. Crooner Denzal Sinclaire, teenage sensation Nikki Yanofsky, and local legends P.J. Perry and Tommy Banks perform music by Ella Fitzgerald, George and Ira Gershwin, and more!

P.J. Perry Nikki Yanofsky

Denzal Sinclaire Tommy Banks

Tickets on sale now! www.edmontonsymphony.com 780-428-1414

Dress Circle $65 • Terrace $55 • Orchestra $45 • Upper Circle $25 • Gallery & Orchestra Front $20 Student & senior discounts available. Agency fees apply 7

prestigious Jim Head in Boston, USA, graduating summa Thursday, November 13 cum laude with a Bachelor of Music in MEMBERS $14 • GUESTS $18 Vocal Performance. She was a recipient of numerous scholarships and awards Jim Head has played with many artists including Most Outstanding Vocal including Tim Hagans, Sheila Jordan, Kirk Performer for the 1992-93 academic year. MacDonald, Lew Tabackin, P.J. Perry, John O’Gallagher, Rob McConnell, Owen Since returning from Berklee, Ms. Rimmer Howard, Dave Restivo, Andre White, has been a local clinician in jazz scatting Campbell Ryga, John Stetch, Keiran Overs, and singing, has recorded commercials for Hugh Fraser, Chet Doxas, Doug Riley, Jane radio and television and continues to be Bunnett, Jim Vivian, Pat LaBarbera, Steve a busy musician in Edmonton. Chandelle Wallace, Chris Tarry, and Steve Slagle. has been instructing vocal students for many years, specializing in jazz, pop and He has also worked with a number of country music. pop, folk, and blues artists, including Jann Arden, Serena Ryder, and Darrell Scott. Jim’s first CD as a leader, Mind’s Eye, Joel Gray features Josh Rager on Rhodes, Jim Vivian Wednesday, November 12 on bass, and Owen Howard on drums. Since 2007, Jim is Guitar Section Head in MEMBERS $14 • GUESTS $18 the Music Program at MacEwan. Joel Gray has spent 15 years as a freelance trumpet player and educator in Edmonton and its surrounding areas. Joel attended Steve Kirby the music programs at MacEwan College Friday, November 14 and the University of Alberta. As a music MEMBERS $16 • GUESTS $20 educator, he teaches trumpet at MacEwan College, Keyano College, the Augustana Before coming to Winnipeg from New Campus of the University of Alberta, and York in 2003, jazz bassist Steve Kirby had directs the Littlebirds Big Band. established an enviable career, performing, recording and touring with some of the Joel is a regular performer with many biggest names in jazz including Elvin local artists and ensembles, including the Jones, Wynton Marsalis, , Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Edmonton Abbey Lincoln, , , Opera, the Tommy Banks Big Band, the New Slide Hampton, Joe Lovano, Orleans Connection, the Don Berner Sextet, and . He continues to be a busy the Urbanites, Trembita, Hot Cottage, and performer and clinician in Canada and the Capital Brass. He is a veteran in the orchestra United States. pit, having performed many professional musical theatre productions at the Citadel Kirby came to Winnipeg to be the Director Theatre, as well as in other venues. He has of Jazz Studies at the University of graced the stage alongside such greats as Manitoba in 2003 and since his arrival Tommy Banks, Kent Sangster, and P. J. Perry, has also become the artistic director of to name a few. the Izzy Asper Jazz Performance series, advisor to the Jazz Winnipeg Festival, • for more info • director of the university’s summer jazz Yardbirdsuite.com camp, and editor of dig! Magazine. 8

He received the 2006 Xerox Manitoba Alain Bédard Jazz Educator of the Year Award. As a Saturday, November 15 contributor to Coda Magazine, he writes MEMBERS $16 • GUESTS $20 frequently on the Prairies’ jazz scene including a laudatory article on our own Montreal bassist Alain Bédard has been Yardbird Suite in the May/June 2008 50th a force on ’s music scene since anniversary issue of the magazine. the ’80s. The president and founder of the important jazz label Effendi, he formed February, 2008, saw his first Yardbird Suite his acclaimed Auguste Quintet in 1994 appearance as a part of saxophonist Ralph and since then has performed numerous Bowen’s group. In May, he released a CD times throughout Quebec as well as with guitarist Larry Roy called “Wicked abroad. Alain recently performed at the Grin”, an album which shows a wide range Jazz Festival in Vancouver with Jazzlab of styles, several distinct personalities, and Chinese jazz vocalist/instrumentalist a great deal of wit and subtlety and a Coco Zhao. Auguste Quintet’s current CD, beautiful overall sound. Sphere Reflexion, is inspired by the music of Thelonious Monk. While paying homage to the great jazz pianist/composer, Bédard and company add their own contemporary twist to the tradition. This hip ensemble plays contemporary acoustic jazz informed by rich and modern, soaring and dynamic compositions.

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November-December 2008

• Hecubus Trio • Marty Majorowicz • Rob Thompson • Brenan Brothers • Ralph Alessi & This Against That • Charlie Austin • Nellie Travis 10 YARDBIRDSUITE • EVENTS • YARDBIRDSUITE Doors at 8pm, Show at 9pm unless otherwise stated

FRIDAY • NOV 21 SATURDAY • NOV 22 Hecubus Trio Marty From Edmonton Majorowicz Quintet

From Edmonton

MEMBERS $10 MEMBERS $12 GUESTS $14 GUESTS $16

Mo Lefever - guitar Marty Majorowicz - trombone Jeff Johnson - bass Thom Golub - bass Jerrold Dubyk - tenor saxophone Jamie Cooper - drums John Newton - drums Tom King - piano

www.molefever.com www.martymajorowicz.com FRIDAY • NOV 28 SATURDAY • NOV 29 Rob Brenan Thompson Brothers Band From Edmonton// CD Release Special Guest:

Event With the help of the Alberta From Edmonton Foundation for the Arts and Mount Royal College, the Brenan Brothers present “The Throwdown” MEMBERS $12 GUESTS $16 MEMBERS $18 GUESTS $22

Rob Thompson - piano John Taylor - bass Craig Brenan - trombone Rubim De Toledo - bass Kent Sangster - saxophone Sandro Dominelli - drums Jim Brenan - tenor saxophone Dana Hall - drums Mo Lefever - guitar Tom King - piano

www.jimbrenan.com • www.danahallmusic.com

FRIDAY • DEC 5 SATURDAY • DEC 6 Ralph Alessi Charlie & This Austin Trio Against That From Edmonton From New York

MEMBERS $20 MEMBERS $12 GUESTS $24 GUESTS $16

Ralph Alessi - trumpet Drew Gress - bass Charlie Austin - piano Jamie Cooper - drums Tony Malaby - saxophone Mark Feber - drums Doug Berner - trumpet Andy Milne - piano Greg Dust - bass

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FRI & SAT • DEC 12 & 13 YARDBIRD SUITE BLUES: Nellie Travis with the Jimmy Guiboche Band

From Chicago

MEMBERS $18 GUESTS $22

Nellie Travis - vocals Dave Bridges - bass Jimmy Guiboche - guitar Bill Hobson - drums Graham Guest - piano, keyboards

www.NellieTravis.com

Hecubus Trio graduate of the BMus/BEd program at the Friday, November 21 University of Alberta, he maintains a busy MEMBERS $10 • GUESTS $14 schedule of performing and composing.

Hecubus formed in 2005 in order to “Marty Majorowicz is one of the most explore improvised music with a focus on talented and driven young musical artists modern reinterpretations of standard jazz I have had the pleasure of working with in repertoire. The group infuses tunes old and many years. As a totally literate artist, he new with elements of electronica, funk, has the rare ability to participate in a vastly dub, and any other styles as the spirit wide range of musical environments and moves. participate in the most inspired manner.” Hugh Fraser, two time Juno winner Marty Majorowicz Saturday, November 22 MEMBERS $12 • GUESTS $16 Rob Thompson Friday, November 28 Marty Majorowicz is a rising star in the MEMBERS $12 • GUESTS $16 Canadian music scene. Although he is young, he has enjoyed a diverse career Rob Thompson began playing piano at including stints with the Canadian Forces age six, and started exploring jazz in his and on cruise ships. Marty has been teens. After attending Grant MacEwan featured on CBC recordings with Tilo Community College and the University Paiz and has appeared at the Saskatoon of Alberta in Edmonton, Rob began Jazz Festival and the Revelstoke Blues performing professionally around Western and Beats Festival. Marty has shared the Canada and abroad. He has studied stage with Juno winners Hugh Fraser and privately with , D. D. Johnny V, and Grammy winning Cuban Jackson, and John Stetch. Rob has also jazz pianist Chucho Valdes. A recent been honoured to play as a sideman with artists like Slide Hampton, Hugh Fraser, 12 SHOWINFORMATION • PERFORMERBIOS and P.J. Perry, among others. His time was well spent in the South Pacific having performed and recorded He counts many jazz greats among his with New Zealand’s most talented Jazz influences, including Herbie Hancock, Bill musicians. After completing two years in Evans, Brad Mehldau, and Jacky Terrason. New Zealand Jim returned to Canada to Rob’s playing is considered modern, become Coordinator of Credit Music at energetic, inspired, and accessible. Mount Royal College in Calgary.

Jim holds a Bachelor in Jazz Studies from Brenan Brothers Band St. Francis Xavier University and a Masters Saturday, November 29 in Jazz Studies from Rutgers University MEMBERS $18 • GUESTS $22 in New Jersey, where he studied with renowned master saxophonist Ralph Trombonist, composer and educator Craig Bowen. Brenan has been an active performer throughout Canada. A graduate of the New Jim has recorded two CD’s under his England Conservatory where he received own name the most recent titled “The his Master’s degree in Jazz Performance, Spectre”. “...this album is the result four like Craig has had the opportunity to work minded musicians recording music they and study with George Russell, Slide love to play, it showcases the dynamic Hampton, Bob Brookmeyer, Danilo Perez, nature of Brenan’s saxophone virtuosity, George Garzone, Jerry Bergonzi and and the overall ease with which the band Marty Ehrlich. Craig Brenan is also the first performs together”. The new CD features trombonist in Canada to perform with a Western Canada’s best jazz musicians: complex system of digital harmonizers and Chris Andrew on piano, Rubim de Toledo looping devices, creating a new sound for on bass, and Ron Samsom on drums with the trombone. Craig is a member of the compositions by all members of the band. Modo Trio which has released three CDs to date with a fourth on the way featuring For their first CD, recorded on one day keyboardist Wayne Horvitz. in March, 2008, the Brenan Brothers brought to Edmonton Dana Hall on drums, Craig has appeared with almost every jazz on piano, Ralph Bowen on musician and jazz group in Edmonton, alto saxophone, Terell Stafford on trumpet, including the Tommy Banks Big Band and Rubim de Toledo on bass to record and Latin group Bomba!, plus groups with them. This collection of original outside of Edmonton, including the Bob music is the culmination of many years of Brookmeyer Big Band, Jim McNeely Big discussion by Jim and Craig. With both of Band, the Gunther Schuller Jazz Orchestra their individual projects recently recorded and the Hugh Fraser Orchestra. (Jim Brenan Quintet’s The Spectre and Craig Brenan’s Modo Trio with Wayne Jim Brenan established himself as a Horvitz) they both found time and energy top-notch performer and educator in the to collaborate on something they have Canadian jazz community before accepting both been wanting to do yet never quite the position of Coordinator of Jazz Studies found the time to accomplish. at The School of Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Auckland. The list of exceptional artists that Dana SHOWINFORMATION • PERFORMERBIOS 13

Hall has performed, toured, and/or the Jazz at Lincoln Center Band Directors recorded with reflects the diverse and Academy and Essentially Ellington faculty, varied approaches of his music-making in under the musical and artistic directorship the fields of jazz and popular music and of Grammy and Pulitzer prize winner includes , Ray Charles, Wynton Marsalis. In the summer of Roy Hargrove, Joshua Redman, Horace 2000, Mr. Hall joined the faculty of the Silver, Michael Brecker, Nicolas Payton, distinguished musicians and educators Kurt Elling, , Frank Wess, at the Merit School of Music, continuing Ken Peplowski, Wycliffe Gordon, Russell his mission to assist in bringing quality Malone, Frank Foster, George Coleman, education to music and arts students Betty Carter, Jimmy Heath, , in the City of Chicago. Mr. Hall is also a Bobby Hutcherson, , Diana member of the Thelonious Monk Institute Krall, Harold Mabern, Renee Rosnes, Clark of Jazz’s Jazz in America Program and Terry, the Mingus Big Band, Steve Lacy, the Jazz Institute of Chicago’s Artists Muhal Richard Abrams, Eric Alexander, Residency Program. Buster Williams, Gary Bartz, David Murray, Bobby Broom, Lester Bowie, Slide Dana Hall uses and endorses Yamaha Hampton, James Moody, Shirley Scott, Drums, Bosphorus Cymbals, and Pro-Mark Sonny Fortune, Joe Williams, Dr. Lonnie Drumsticks. Smith, Billy Harper, Patricia Barber, Rick Margitza, Tim Hagans, Ralph Bowen, Bud Shank, Phil Woods, Von Freeman, Kenny Ralph Alessi & This Against That Barron, Maria Schneider, Jackie McLean, Friday, December 5 , Hamiet Blueitt, the Woody MEMBERS $20 • GUESTS $24 Herman Orchestra, Joe Henderson, , Charles McPherson, and Oliver Since 1991, trumpeter/composer/educator Lake, among others. Additionally, Hall Ralph Alessi has been an active member is both a member of the Terell Stafford of the New York jazz and improvised Quintet and the Chicago Jazz Ensemble, music scene as both sideman and and formerly a regular member of the leader. Called “…a highly-in-demand, prestigious Grammy-nominated Carnegie adventurous virtuoso who can handle just Hall Jazz Band under the musical and about anything” (L.A. Weekly), Alessi has artistic direction of trumpeter, and Dizzy performed and recorded with the likes Gillespie protégé, Jon Faddis. of Steve Coleman, Uri Caine, Don Byron, Ravi Coltrane, Sam Rivers, In addition to his active schedule as a full- and many other of the great innovators in time student and freelance musician with jazz and improvised music. a number of jazz, popular, and world music ensembles, he is also an active clinician As a leader, Alessi has four recordings and educator. He has served as a faculty to his name: Hissy Fit, Vice & Virtue, This member of the undergraduate college at Against That (voted one of the top ten the University of Chicago teaching courses records of 2002 by Jazz Times) and the in world music and was a member of second disc released by This Against That the faculty at Columbia College Chicago, in 2007 entitled Look. teaching a select number of private students. Mr. Hall is also a member of New releases on the horizon for Alessi 14 SHOWINFORMATION • PERFORMERBIOS include Open Season (on the RKM music Charlie Austin label) featuring his band Modular Theatre, Saturday, December 6 a quartet date featuring Jason Moran and MEMBERS $12 • GUESTS $16 a new This Against That record. Charlie has played in a variety of With its innovative compositions and professional musical situations in both dynamic improvising, This Against That British Columbia and Alberta including the tows the line between jazz, pop and Tommy Banks show on CBC and the ITV contemporary classical music. The group series of concerts produced in the 1970’s has toured Europe and the United States and 1980’s. Through these productions extensively over the past four or five he has accompanied artists such as, Mel years. Sean Patrick Fitzell of All About Jazz Torme, Henry Mancini, Vicki Carr, Connie describes the music as “…edgy enough to Stevens, Carol Lawrence, Julius LaRosa, appeal to the creative set, while not too far Bob Magrath, Frank Gorshin, Rich Little, flung for modern mainstream listeners.” and Conway Twitty. Other engagements The other members of the group – Tony include the Secon City TV series, and Malaby, Andy Milne, Drew Gress and CBC’s Jazz Canadiana. He has worked Mark Ferber - are all stalwarts of the New with visiting singers to the Yardbird Suite York jazz scene. including Trudy Desmond, Jeri Brown, and Flora Ware amongst others. As an educator, Alessi has been a member of the faculties at Five Towns College After teaching as a full time professor at and the Eastman School of Music. He is the MacEwan Music Program for over 30 currently the founder and director of the years, Charlie has been developing a solo School for Improvisational Music (www. jazz piano style, along with a piano trio schoolforimprov.org), a non-profit entity ensemble. His trio will be playing originals, currently holding improvisational music standard jazz fare, and some vocals. A workshops in Brooklyn. Since 2002, he consistent presence at the Yardbird Suite has been on the jazz faculty at New York Jams, he lends support to both emerging University. musicians and veterans in the jazz jam scene. Now “retired” from teaching “Look is an hour’s worth of wonderfully Charlie has an open mind towards learning warm, human music. Intelligent, and listening to all music and looks entertaining, and stimulating.” forward to playing and recording. Dave Wayne, jazzreview.com The trio will be heard along with Doug Berner on trumpet as a special guest player added to the mix.

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Nellie Travis Soul composer Floyd Hamberlin, who Friday & Saturday, December 12 & 13 produced Nellie’s latest two CDs. “Wanna MEMBERS $18 • GUESTS $22 Be With You”, (Liaison, 2005), became an underground smash on the “Southern Nellie “Tiger” Travis’s love affair with Soul” circuit, and her latest CD “I’m A music goes all the way back to southern Woman” (CDS Records, 2007) is getting Mississippi with a childhood filled with excellent reviews. singing at church functions, weddings and talent competitions. She For her appearance at the Yardbird Suite, hails from Mound Bayou, Mississippi, Nellie Travis will be backed up by an all star and during the mid 1980’s she was lead Edmonton band led by Jimmy Guiboche vocalist for the Mississippi based group on guitar, Dave Bridges on bass, Graham “SSIPP”, opening for acts from Dee Dee Guest on keyboards and Hammond Warwick to Ray Charles. During this period organ, and Bill Hobson on drums. Jimmy she also recorded extensively in Memphis. Guiboche is also the bandleader of the Sleepers, Edmonton’s top blues band. Since relocating to Chicago in 1992, Nellie has become an R & B and blues staple in “Nellie Travis has arrived fans, she is a Chicago. Her passionate, soulful, melodic phenomenal southern soul diva. She voice commands the stage. Nellie’s blends the sounds of Tina Turner, Gladys expressive tone and fresh contemporary Knight, Mavis Staples and Patti Labelle all originals have made her a blues force to rolled up in one. Her show is a must see.” be reckoned with. She has worked with www.bluescritic.com many blues greats including Buddy Guy, Koko Taylor, Bobby Rush, Tyrone Davis, Otis Clay, Buddy Miles, Artie “Blues Boy” White, Little Milton, Willie Clayton, Benny Latimore, and Shemekia Copeland.

She won the 2006 Chicago Blues Diva Contest and has won over Chicago ADVANCETICKETS • TICKETMASTER.CA audiences with her performances at the Chicago Blues Festival. Her many overseas 780-451-8000 tours have included performances in Germany, Brazil, Italy and Japan. • for more info • Yardbirdsuite.com Nellie Travis released her debut CD in September, 2000, entitled “I Got It Like That” (Tiger Belle) as well as a Japanese backed CD featuring Shun Kikuta entitled “Heart & Soul” (Blue Sox) . In 2002, she released a live CD entitled “Nellie Tiger Travis…Live at Sweet Georgia Browns”. For Southern Soul fans, the most fortuitous development in Travis’s career was her collaboration with Southern YARDBIRDSUITE • ATAGLANCE • YARDBIRDSUITE

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 1 2 Morgan Childs Quintet See October issue for show information Members $14 • Guests $18 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 JAM Gravitas session Quartet Tommy Banks Sandro See October issue for Turtleboy show information & PJ Perry Dominelli Members $20 • Guests $24 Members $20 • Guests $24 Members $12 • Guests $16 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

Littlebirds Big “Tenor Madness Chandelle Rimmer Jim Head Steve Alain Bédard Festival Jam & Joel Gray Quartet Kirby Auguste Quintet Band Workshop Session Members $14 • Guests $18 Members $14 • Guests $18 Members $16 • Guests $20 Members $16 • Guests $20 NOV 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 JAM Marty session Hecubus Majorowicz Jerrold Trio Quintet Dubyk Members $10 • Guests $14 Members $12 • Guests $16 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 JAM Rob Thompson Brenan session CD Release Brothers Jim Event Band Head Members $12 • Guests $16 Members $18 • Guests $22

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 JAM Ralph Alessi & Charlie session This Against Austin Trio Nathan That Ouellette Members $20 • Guests $24 Members $12 • Guests $16 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 JAM YARDBIRD SUITE BLUES: DEC session Nellie Travis with the Jimmy Dan Guiboche Band Davis Members $18 • Guests $22

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