DOCSLIB.ORG

Local Jazz Lives at Bellevue and Gig Harbor Festivals Bob Russell

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Local Jazz Lives at Bellevue and Gig Harbor Festivals Bob Russell INSIDE: Reviews of Marc Seales, Steve Rice Trio & Bud Shank Earshot J Seattle, July 1989 A Mirror and Focus for the Jazz Community I ^ Local Jazz Lives at Bellevue and Roots of Jazz: Gig Harbor Festivals Bob Russell Despite budget cuts and wavering sup­ Trumpeter Bob Russell started playing profession­ port from the Bellevue City Parks Depart­ ally in Kansas City in the 1920s, and moved to Seattle in 1944. Before coming to Seattle, he ment, it appears the Bellevue Jazz Festival, worked with drummer Vernon Brown in Milwau­ slated for July 10 - 16, will prevail as one of kee and recorded with Grant Moore's New Or­ the most important showcases for top local leans Black Devils. Brown sent for Russell in 1944 and throughout the '40s Russell was a member of jazz talent. Set in a beautiful downtown loca­ the popular Al Pierre band, which held down a tion against a backdrop of glass skyscrapers, steady job at Seattle s Marine (later Union) Club. the festival will spread out on a grass lawn so Laudatory mentions of Russell by other subjects ofthe "Roots of Jazz" project led us to draw out green, "it's like the lawn in your wildest his recollections. The following excerpts are from dreams," says organizer Jim Wilke. an interview taken by Ted Dzielak at Russell's This year's festival will feature a free home, March 7, 1989. This interview was made possible in part with support from the King County concert Friday evening, July 14; an evening Centennial Commission and the King County concert on Saturday, July 15 (admission S3); Landmarks Heritage Division. and a Sunday afternoon concert on the 16th (admission S5). All shows will be held at Bob Russell: I was born August 28, Downtown Park, next to Bellevue Square. A Mel Brown 1907, in Zion, Wyoming and raised in series of noontime concerts will also be held group appeared in June as the opening act at Denver. When I was 16,1 moved to Kansas Monday the 10th through Friday the 14th at the Playboy Jazz Festival, as a result of win­ City. I was on my own, had no one but various locations in downtown Bellevue. (Free ning the 5th Annual Hermessy Jazz Search myself. When I came back to Denver, that's parking for the weekend concerts is available competition. Proceeds from the Gig Harbor when I really got started. Sergeant Lee, an off 100th Ave NE, near the park.) gig go to Interaction/Transition, a non-profit old army master, started me in the old The 4th Annual Gig Harbor Jazz agency. The price of ad- mission is tax- Angus Highlander Band, on trumpet. I stayed Festival, with Dee Daniels as festival host­ deductible. Call Ticketmaster, 628-0888, for there a year and a half and got so I could ess, again promises a fine line-up of local and tickets. read music. That was about all—I could fill national talent. Included is a performance by See calendar listings on pages 4 and 5 the hom and could read. Then I went back to one of the hottest, up-and-coming bands for more information on both the Bellevue Kansas City and I stayed there about two around, Portland's Mel Brown Sextet. The and Gig Harbor Festivals. months, and got a job playing in the Plantation Night Club. I worked there about seven months, and went from there to the Lincoln Theater. We had just a small band, about six or seven pieces. Then, when they decided they were going to put in Vitaphone, Nearly 600 listeners that's when I got out. enjoyed the sun and music at Earshot's Ted Dzielak: Vitaphone? concert/picnic at the Russell: Isn't that what they call it? The Good Shepherd machine they use now that makes it talking Center, Sunday, June pictures. 25. The concert was TD: So at the Lincoln Theatre, were part of Earshot's there movies being shown and you were Summer Festival that playing in the band? winds up July 1. Russell: Uh huh, that's it. TD: That must have been quite some (photo by Georgia Steele) time, being in Kansas City. Russell: Well, not as much as you think. There was a lot of jazz playing there, but a lot of them wasn't working. Bennie Moten continued on page 3 1 Best New Don Lanphere's Go Again § Jazz Entertainers album was named album 5:00 - 9:00 p.m. at the of the month by Crescendo Interna­ tional magazine in London... 323 Second Avenue Roosevelt High School (Second & Jackson) musicians Mark 628-8964/328-1140 Taylor and Dave Acosta won All-Star awards from Downbeat magazine ... Drummer Dave Coleman, well-known and loved in the 5:00 - 9:00 p.m. at Seattle jazz community, died in May Tihtg ©sd©M at the age of 66. A native of Pasadena, where he worked with 1918 First Avenue Freddy Slack, T-Bone Walker, and Mark Henderson - (Between Stewart & Virginia) Red Nichols' 5 Pennies, Coleman Reggie Goings Quintet 441-7171/328-1140 moved to Seattle in 1955 and played with Elmer Gill, Floyd Standifer, Chuck Metcalf, and others ... Earshot members Pat and Bill Waddington of Olympia ask if anyone knows of clubs where you can still get up and THE 4TH ANNUAL jitterbug or otherwise dance to the music. Write or call us at the GIG HARBOR JAZZ FESTIVAL magazine and we'll pass the infor­ mation along ... Former Seattelite Frank Clayton, who now calls New York his home, sat in on a few gigs at the Oxford and the Latona while in town last month ... Jerry Granelli was recently caught on the drums at Hollywood's on Broadway with his son, bassist J. Earshot Jazz Vol. 5 No. 6 ©1989 Earshot Jazz Dee Daniels, Festival Hostess Editor: Brian McWilliams with Assistant Editor: Charles Smyth Art Director: Seiko Sato • HANK CRAWFORD & JIMMY McGRIFFD BOBBY HUTCH­ Calendar Editor: Bob Mariano, 364-9357 ERSON QUARTET D JEANNIE & JIMMY CHEATHAM & THE Advertising Manager: Jeff Ferguson, 328-6199 BABYBLUESBANDDMEL BROWN SEXTETDEDDIE HARRIS Staff Writers: Sandra Burlingame, Todd • DON LANPHERE QUARTET • NATE BREEDLOVE & Campbell and Joseph Murphy. HADLEY CALIMAN • JAZZ POLICE WITH GRETA GOEHLE D Contributors: Herb Levy, Ted Dzielak, Paul de Barros, Ken Wiley, Susan Golden, BILL WATROUS QUARTET • STEVE MUNGER QUARTET • Gary Bannister, and Roberta Penn. ROADSIDE ATTRACTION • LONNIE WILLIAMS • THE Mailing: LolaPedrini Computer assistance: Rich Minor AIRFORCE BIG BAND • AND MORE! Distribution: Jim Knodle Earshot Board of Directors: Cherrie Adams, Gary Bannister, Don Brown, Sandra Burlingame, Judy de Barros, Vince AUGUST 12 & 13, 1989 Gonzales, Anthony Greenwald, Lola Ped- CELEBRATIONS MEADOW rini, Mark Solomon & Peter Davenport. General Information, (206) 547-6763. GIG HARBOR Address all correspondence to: P.O. Box 85851, Seattle, WA 98145-2858. 628-0888 Tickets at Ticketmaster or BON MARCHE & TOWER The monthly magazine Earshot Jazz is printed by Murray Publishing Company of (tax deductible: The Gig Harbor Jazz Festival is a benefit for Interaction/Transition) Seattle, 2312 Third Ave. Roots of Jazz: Bob Russell , continued from page 1 talked to me about joining his band and I ald trumpet, regular trumpet and then an­ do it but he just didn't like to do it. decided, "No," that I'd stay right where I other— what the heck was that little thing.. .it TD: Did you and Al Pierre's band play was at, playing in theatres and nightclubs. wasn't as small as that little bitty trumpet, mostly in the legitimate clubs, or did they do TD: What kind of music did you play? not that little. I had a heck of a time learning after-hours clubs too? Russell: Some jazz, but mostly Russell: After-hours clubs mostly. That heavy stuff, overtures and all that stuff. was the only way to make money. All Harry Dillard, he had charge of the band those others you go down there and make and he had cut all that stuff down. [From a little piddling salary, maybe twenty- arrangements for large orchestra to five dollars a week. And we were small band.] They had it for trumpet, 111 doing better than that. At least a trombone, saxophone, clarinet, piano, hundred to a hundred and a half, any­ bass and drums. That's what we had where in there. So that's one reason why and we played all that stuff. Any way we stayed with those after-hours clubs. you wanted it, we played it. That's what almost everything that TD: Was everyone a good reader? you see pictures of there. They're just Russell: Yes, everybody was read­ about all after-hours clubs. ing. There was no goof in' there. You couldn't get by with that goofy busi­ At the Marine Club, as at other after- ness. Everybody had to read and read M hours places, the best tips came from what was there. Wasn't no sliding over "table singing," in which a singer would Pictured, l-r, Bob Russell, Roscoe Weathers, Vernon Brown, wander the club, taking requests from and saying 'Let's play this.' You played Jabo Ward, (bassist and conductor unidentified). what was on that sheet. At the theater, individuals. at the intermission, we played some jazz and to play it. Then after I learned to play it I we played vaudeville, too....When I left didn't want to get rid of it. It got mashed Russell: When we had Dee Dee there—well I don't know, things got messed somewhere; in Vancouver, I think. Hackett singing with us, why she could sing up there 'cause some guy got picked up for all them nasty songs.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Discography of the Mainstream Label
    Discography of the Mainstream Label Mainstream was founded in 1964 by Bob Shad, and in its early history reissued material from Commodore Records and Time Records in addition to some new jazz material. The label released Big Brother & the Holding Company's first material in 1967, as well as The Amboy Dukes' first albums, whose guitarist, Ted Nugent, would become a successful solo artist in the 1970s. Shad died in 1985, and his daughter, Tamara Shad, licensed its back catalogue for reissues. In 1991 it was resurrected in order to reissue much of its holdings on compact disc, and in 1993, it was purchased by Sony subsidiary Legacy Records. 56000/6000 Series 56000 mono, S 6000 stereo - The Commodore Recordings 1939, 1944 - Billy Holiday [1964] Strange Fruit/She’s Funny That Way/Fine and Mellow/Embraceable You/I’ll Get By//Lover Come Back to Me/I Cover the Waterfront/Yesterdays/I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues/I’ll Be Seeing You 56001 mono, S 6001 stereo - Begin the Beguine - Eddie Heywood [1964] Begin the Beguine/Downtown Cafe Boogie/I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me/Carry Me Back to Old Virginny/Uptown Cafe Boogie/Love Me Or Leave Me/Lover Man/Save Your Sorrow 56002 mono, S 6002 stereo - Influence of Five - Hawkins, Young & Others [1964] Smack/My Ideal/Indiana/These Foolish Things/Memories Of You/I Got Rhythm/Way Down Yonder In New Orleans/Stardust/Sittin' In/Just A Riff 56003 mono, S 6003 stereo - Dixieland-New Orleans - Teagarden, Davison & Others [1964] That’s A- Plenty/Panama/Ugly Chile/Riverboat Shuffle/Royal Garden Blues/Clarinet
    [Show full text]
  • Aug 31, 1973, Vol. 02 No. 16
    ■f t ia.'i;;-:;;!.--;'«':' /v.-^ ■ii'’'a. “ ■V - ■"‘‘X. • ■ . > (> .- , ■ DANNY / NEXT ISSUE Friday 9 "14 DEADLINE Monday Q - j O V olum e n Issue B16 August 31, 1973 626-0656 MBCCA PUBUCATTONS, P. O. b o x 627 S. F. CA. 94101 News Caps In San Francisco at the comer of Church and 17th, sprayed in black paint across a building, are these words. ALL POWER TO THOSE WHO DARE TO STRUGGLE, ♦ ♦lie**!*!********* For the first time scientists have predicted an EARTHQUAKE. This one in the Aderondack Moun­ tains of New Yoilr State. The prediction was two days in ad­ vance and occurred exactly as predicted at 2. 5 on the Richter S cale. In New York City the Jews are upset about the opening of the film version of JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, charging that it is anti-semetic, and the Catholics are in an outrage over two remn episodes on t, v. of MAUDE whic react sympathetically to Maude's decision to have an abortion. RUDOIP NUREYEV of Ritch Street fame has been learning to sail in the ancient harbor of Tel Aviv. Learning, he collided with another boat and once with the harbor wall. NDCON still says he's innocent and the polls indicate some Amer­ icans still believe him. Among those is California's own Ronald Reagan. According to Nixon, John Dean is the man who'led him astray. He pledges now "a new level of political decency and integrity. Meanwhile the "legmen"—those little guys who carry out the orders like Howard Hunt Jr. --brood it out in jail and the reality of the American Dream continues.
    [Show full text]
  • A Benny Goodman Story
    & jazzworld music Pierre Génisson A Benny Goodman Story harmonia mundi gmbh Zimmerstraße 68 · 10117 Berlin Tel. 030/2062162-0 · Fax 030/2062162-10 [email protected] Foto: © Emma Picq I/2020 www.harmoniamundi.com Die aktuellen Bestseller Tony Christie Stephan Eicher Pop Nonsense Homeless Songs WRASS 127675 (G02) WRA 0803069 (T01) 1 2 »Eicher scheint mit dem Alter noch mehr Tiefe zu erhalten, so Gianmaria Testa dass gewisse Songs ziemlich sicher bald eine Strahlkraft wie Prezioso seine Evergreens aufweisen werden.« QULTOUR Tony Christie 50 Golden Greats INC 267 (T01) 3 WRASS 344 (R01) The Cat Empire Stolen Diamonds 4 The Rough Guide to A World of Guitar WRACD 013 (P01) Debashish Bhattacharya Samba Touré, Bob Brozman 5 John Renbourn u. a. WMN RG 1379 (M01) The Guess Who American Woman 6 & Share the Land Gianmaria Testa Live & altro 7 SACD: CDEA 8564 (G02) 4 CDs: LDX 5742657- (R01) Yes! Trio Groove du jour 8 Nahuel Di Pierro Anclao en París JPCD 819008 (T01) Tango, Milonga, Vals 9 »Das Yes! Trio ist der sichere Beweis für die Synthese im Jazz: Drei ungleiche Musiker, die für ihren individuellen Stil bekannt sind, ADX 13723 (T01) erschaffen durch ihr gemeinsames Spiel, verschmolzen und ge- 10 stählt in der ›Schmiede des Jazz‹, etwas völlig Neues.« JAZZTIMES 2 Pierre Génisson SWING q c i P a m m E © Pierre Génisson BBC Concert Orchestra • Keith Lockhart SWING: A Benny Goodman Story Pierre Génisson ehrt den »King of Swing«, den für seine weltweiten Erfolge berühmten amerikanischen Klarinettisten, Komponisten Artikelnummer: AP 218 und Bandleader Benny Goodman. Preiscode: T01 Der in Chicago geborene Goodman teilte sein musikalisches Leben Kategorie: Jazz, Klassik zwischen Jazz und Klassik: 1938 war er der erste, der mit schwarzen Inhalt: 1 CD Musikern in der New Yorker Carnegie Hall Jazz-Musik aufführte.
    [Show full text]
  • KW Short BIO2-13
    KEN WALKER BIO : Our “first-call” jazz bassist for the Rocky Mountain region, Ken Walker has played with a veritable Who’s Who of jazz artists including: Eddie Harris, Joe Pass, Marlena Shaw, Kenny Barron, Eric Alexander, Houston Person, Pharaoh Sanders, Phil Woods, Hal Galper, Jimmy Heath,Tom Harrell, John Abercrombie, Randy Brecker, Nat Adderley, Slide Hampton, Clark Terry, Herb Ellis, Freddie Hubbard, Henry Butler, Warren Vache, Larry Coryell, Lew Soloff, James Moody, Roy Hargrove, Peter Erskine, Ed Soph, Butch Miles, Art Lande, Barry Harris, Billy Hart, Bob Berg, Eddie Daniels, Benny Golson, Ravi Coltrane, Emily Remler, Jimmy Heath, Bobby Shew, Charles McPherson, Roseanna Vitro, Sheila Jordan, Mose Allison, Fred Wesley and Bob Dorough. He has toured in Canada, Italy and Australia and also performed at the Telluride, Jazz Aspen Snowmass and other festivals and venues throughout the US. Terra Firma, his recording debut as a leader, stayed on the Jazz Week Radio charts for 17 weeks, reaching #13, and finished #56 on the top 100 Jazz CD releases for 2005. Walker’s discography includes, Phil Woods and Carl Saunders Play Henry Mancini, Two releases on Capri with Curtis Fuller. I Will Tell Her and Down Home, which was the #1 Cd on Jazz Week Radio charts for 4 weeks, and finish at #5 for year 2012. Walker moved to Denver in late 1985 and in 1987 began a 12-year tenure as the house bassist at Denver's legendary jazz club El Chapultepec that ended in 1998. Ken has been on the faculty of the Lamont School of Music since 1991, where he teaches jazz bass to all jazz and commercial bass majors, and coaches the Modal, Standards and Latin Combos in addition to his studio.
    [Show full text]
  • Ithaca College Alumni Big Band
    Ithaca College Digital Commons @ IC All Concert & Recital Programs Concert & Recital Programs 4-26-2008 Concert: Ithaca College Alumni Big Band Ithaca College Alumni Big Band Steve Brown Ray Brown Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/music_programs Part of the Music Commons Recommended Citation Ithaca College Alumni Big Band; Brown, Steve; and Brown, Ray, "Concert: Ithaca College Alumni Big Band" (2008). All Concert & Recital Programs. 6670. https://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/music_programs/6670 This Program is brought to you for free and open access by the Concert & Recital Programs at Digital Commons @ IC. It has been accepted for inclusion in All Concert & Recital Programs by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ IC. ITHACA COLLEGE ALUMNI BIG BAND Steve Brown and Ray Brown, musical directors Ford Hall Saturday, April 26, 2008 8:15 p.m. PROGRAM Straightahead City Ray Brow Bossa Barbara Steve Brown Arr. Ray Brown Sweet Angel Steve Brown Lyrics: Tish Rabe Two Birds, On~ Stone Steve Brown Embraceable You/Quasimodo Gershwin/Parker Arr. Ray Brown The Telephone Song Menescal/Boscoli/Gimbel .. Arr. Ray BrowU Bittersweet Willie Maiden Trans. Ray Brown The Best of Everything Tony Bennett Arr. Steve Brown Our Love Is Here To Stay George Gershwin Air. Ray Brown INTERMISSION Del Sasser Sam Jones Arr. Ray Brown PickYours·elf Up Fields/Kem Arr. Neal Hefti Trans. Tony DeSare Kayak Kenny Wheeler Arr. Ray Brown Barbara Horace Silver Arr. Ray Brown I Could Write A Book Rodgers/Hart Arr. Ray Brown The Thumb Wes Montgomery Arr. Ray Brown The Ballad of Thelonious Monk Jimmy Rowles Arr.
    [Show full text]
  • Ladyslipper Catalog
    Ladyslipper Catalog -i. "•:>;;;-•, •iy. ?_.*.-• :':.-:xv«> -»W ' | 1 \ aw/ Resource Guide • Recordings WfiMEl by OCT . 8 1991 Women ll__y_i_iU U L_ . • 1992 Table of Contents Ordering Information 2 Native American 44 Order Blank 3 Jewish 46 About Ladyslipper 4 Calypso 47 Musical Month Club 5 Country 48 Donor Discount Club 5 Folk * Traditional 49 Gift Order Blank 6 Rock 55 Gift Certificates 6 R&B * Rap * Dance 59 Free Gifts 7 Gospel 60 Be A Slipper Supporter 7 Blues 61 Ladyslipper Mailing List 8 Jazz 62 Ladyslippers Top 40 8 Classical 63 Especially Recommended New Titles 9 Spoken 65 Womens Spirituality * New Age 10 Babyslipper Catalog 66 Recovery 22 "Mehn's Music" 70 Women's Music * Feminist Music 23 Videos 72 Comedy 35 Kids'Videos 76 Holiday 35 Songbooks, Posters, Grab-Bag 77 International: African 38 Jewelry, Books 78 Arabic * Middle Eastern 39 Resources 80 Asian 39 Calendars, T-Shirts, Cards 8J Celtic * British Isles 40 Extra Order Blank 85 European 43 Readers' Comments 86 Latin American 43 Artist Index 86 MAIL: Ladyslipper, PO Box 3124-R, Durham, NC 27715 ORDERS: 800-634-6044 M-F 9-6 Ordering Info CUSTOMER SERVICE: 919-683-1570 M-F 9-6 FAX: 919-682-5601 Anytime! . PAYMENT: Orders can be prepaid or charged (we BACK-ORDERS AND ALTERNATIVES: If we are CHARGE CARD ORDERS: are processed as prepaid don't bill or ship C.O.D. except to stores, libraries and temporarily out of stock on a title, we will automati­ orders, just like checks with your entire order billed schools). Make check or money order payable to cally back-order it unless you include alternatives up front.
    [Show full text]
  • Jeff Johnson Photo by Daniel Sheehan NOTES
    A Mirror and Focus for the Jazz Community June 2012 Vol. 28, No. 6 EARSHOT JAZZSeattle, Washington Jeff Johnson Photo by Daniel Sheehan NOTES Eddie Creed Memorial Concert Submissions should include a recorded Roosevelt High Takes Second Join in a memorial get together for sample of a project that can be per- Place at Ellington Competition pianist Eddie Creed at the New Or- formed in a concert setting. Selected Taking place at New York City’s leans Creole Restaurant, Sunday June artists are scheduled for performances famed Avery Fisher Hall on May 6, the 10, 4pm-8pm. A veteran and lifelong on July 12, 19, 26. Artists are paid a final concert at the 17th Annual Essen- jazz pianist, Creed was born in 1935 competitive fee for the performance. tially Ellington High School Jazz Band and died from complications due to Please send questions and submissions Competition & Festival, presented by throat cancer. electronically to [email protected]; or Jazz at Lincoln Center, featured the by mail to Earshot Jazz, 3429 Fremont Call for Artists, Deadline June 4 three top-placing bands performing Place N., #309, Seattle, WA 98103. Call with a member of the Jazz at Lincoln The submissions deadline for the Jazz: (206) 547-6763 with questions. Center Orchestra as a soloist. At an The Second Century series is June 4. awards ceremony after the performanc- es, Wynton Marsalis presented prizes and cash awards to each of the 15 final- ist bands. Christopher Dorsey, Direc- tor of the Dillard Center for the Arts, accepted the 1st place trophy and an THE SECOND CENTURY award of $5,000.
    [Show full text]
  • Earshot Jazz October 2001 (Festival Issue)
    Welcome to the 13th ANNUAL Earshot Jazz Festival This year we come to our celebration of jazz, the remarkable A aron Parks, a sure sign tha t the fu ­ land. typically regarded as a uniquely American manifes­ ture o f jazz is in good hands, at Tula’s. Seattle’s excit­ The production of the Earshot Jazz festival is tation of the creative spirit, with a tenacious grief ing Living Daylights headlines at the Rainbow that the collective effort o f many hard working staff, vol­ over the atrocities o f September 11th and a dark, un­ n igh t. unteers, and audience members. We are grateful to settled sense o f ou r future. T h e fu ll im pa ct o f these The big news in our festival this year concerns the many community members who provide input still-evolving events seems limitless — so large that two landmark concerts in two o f Seattle’s finest halls. and w o rk on the Earshot Jazz festival, and the in ­ they appear to be ushering in an entire new “age.” We are honored to present Keith Jarrett with Gary creasing numbers of audience members who look A n age tha t no one seems qu ite ready to name. Peacock and Jack DeJohnette at Benaroya H all, and forward to each year’s offerings. Like jazz itself, our grief and uncertainty seem, the legendary Dave Brubeck Quartet at the Para­ This year we bring more artists to the region for at first glance, to be about America.
    [Show full text]
  • Jared Sims, Saxophone Jared Sims Performs on All of the Saxophones
    Joe Parillo, Piano Joe Parillo has performed in Brazil, Italy, Germany, New Zealand and Taiwan and has played nationally and internationally with the Glenn Miller Orchestra and vibraphonist Jay Hoggard. He was featured artist for the Steinway Artists Celebration at Boston Symphony Hall in honor of the 150th anniversary of Steinway and Sons. Parillo has been commissioned to write three jazz ballets and has arranged and recorded more than 25 full-length children's productions. He has also produced SongBook, Clouds and the CDs “Almost Carefree” and “Block Island Summer” for his ensemble as well as the gospel CD “Meditations of the Heart.” Parillo has been director of jazz studies at the University of Rhode Island for the past 30 years and is the current chairman of the music department. In 2003, he brought to fruition the jazz studies specialization under the B.A. degree as well as the jazz studies minor at the university. He holds a master's degree in composition from the New England Conservatory and has written and arranged music for theater and film. His most recent works have aired on WSBE-TV and the SciFi Channel's "First Wave." Jared Sims, saxophone Jared Sims performs on all of the saxophones as well as clarinet and flute. He has toured throughout the United States and in Europe, South America, and Asia. Sims has performed live with an array of artists that include Han Bennink, Cecil McBee, Bob Brookmeyer, Stefon Harris, Landau Eugene Murphy, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Melvin Sparks, Soulive, Oteil Burbridge (Allman Brothers), DJ Logic, Kiddus I, Matisyahu, the 10,000 Maniacs, and Noel Gallagher (Oasis).
    [Show full text]
  • September/October 2008 Publication Mail # 40047729
    ® Our 36th Year - Issue 4 – September/October 2008 • The Hadley Caliman Quintet featuring Thomas Marriott • Don Berner and the Brass Knuckles • Dino Dominelli Group • Audrey Ochoa Presents: The J-Team • Rachelle van Zanten • John Stetch Trio • Lina Allemano Four • Billy Bang Quartet • Don Thompson Quartet • Sheila Jordan 80th Birthday Celebration • goo! • Morgan Childs Quintet • Gravitas Quartet 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 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 • Dave Babcock • Rosalynn Ruptash • Suzanne Slade Raymond Baril • Collette Slevinsky • Karen Voller LITTLEBIRDS DIRECTOR • Joel Gray • Gail Wozny FINANCE • Suzanne Morter PRESS RELEASES • Paul Wilde TRANSPORTATION • Alan Spence 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.
    [Show full text]
  • The Best of the Past Wasn't Good Enough
    The best of the past wasn't good enough for Bang & Olufsen Most top quality amplifiers and re- range of woofer response, this dis- ceivers offer you less than 1% tortion is eliminated. harmonic distortion, but when the ABR System Provides signal reaches your speakers, there Bass Fidelity, Compactness HADLEY CALIMAN. Hadley Caliman (ten- is trouble. Many speakers produceThe 5700 contains one active 10" or sax and flute); Larry Vuckovich (piano); up to 5% distortion. Some popular John White, Jr. (guitar); Clarence Becton models run as high as 15%! At woofer and a passive 10" Auxiliary (drums); Bill Douglas (bass).Cigar Eddie; Bass Radiator that amplify each Bang & Olufsen, we don't stand for other for very low distortion and Comencio; Little One; Blues for L.L.; and two that type of performance. So, the others. MAINSTREAM MRL318 $4.98. improved transient response. The B & 0 Beovox Mode, 5700 now passive ABR permits tuning of the Performance: Coltrane revisited available in the United States offers Recording: Very good cabinet to a lower natural reso- you performance as distortion - nance in a small space. Caliman has respectable credentials as a mid- free as the rest of your system The passive unit will continue dle -period Coltrane -style tenor player and flut- . less than 1%. Here's how this ist. He's been around for a while, mostly on to oscillate further down the fre- remarkable accomplishment wasquency spectrum than the woofer the West Coast big -band scene, has spent some achieved. time at Synanon, and seems to have gotten his itself.
    [Show full text]
  • Ladyslipper Tenth Anniversary
    Ladyslipper Tenth Anniversary Resource Guide apes by Women T 1986 About Ladyslipper Ladyslipper is a North Carolina non-profit, tax- 1982 brought the first release on the Ladys­ exempt organization which has been involved lipper label: Marie Rhines/Tartans & Sagebrush, in many facets of women's music since 1976. originally released on the Biscuit City label. In Our basic purpose has consistently been to 1984 we produced our first album, Kay Gard­ heighten public awareness of the achievements ner/A Rainbow Path. In 1985 we released the of women artists and musicians and to expand first new wave/techno-pop women's music al­ the scope and availability of musical and liter­ bum, Sue Fink/Big Promise; put the new age ary recordings by women. album Beth York/Transformations onto vinyl; and released another new age instrumental al­ One of the unique aspects of our work has bum, Debbie Tier/Firelight Our purpose as a been the annual publication of the world's most label is to further new musical and artistic direc­ comprehensive Catalog and Resource Guide of tions for women artists. Records and Tapes by Women—the one you now hold in your hands. This grows yearly as Our name comes from an exquisite flower the number of recordings by women continues which is one of the few wild orchids native to to develop in geometric proportions. This anno­ North America and is currently an endangered tated catalog has given thousands of people in­ species. formation about and access to recordings by an expansive variety of female musicians, writers, Donations are tax-deductible, and we do need comics, and composers.
    [Show full text]