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JAZZYYC SUMMER FESTIVAL JAZZYYC.COM 2019 JUNE 12 - 16 SUMMER JAZZYYC FESTIVAL JazzYYC Summer Festival PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Team Welcome to the 5th edition of the TD JazzYYC Summer Artistic Producer Festival! JazzYYC is pleased to present our most diverse Kodi Hutchinson program yet, made possible by our growing base of Operations Manager sponsors, donors and members, and supported by our Jason Valleau wonderful JazzYYC volunteers. Special thanks go to our Marketing Director brand new title sponsor; the TD Bank Group. Thank Scott Morin you to the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Calgary Arts Marketing & Publicity Development, Canada Council for the Arts, Inglewood BIA Stephanie Hutchinson and more than 200 JazzYYC members for their support. Social Media JazzYYC strives to bring Calgary audiences the best of jazz in all of its forms so that we Angela Wrigley, Mandy Morris can build a vibrant scene in this city. Likewise, it’s our pleasure to provide a stage for Website & Newsletter Management the next generation of jazz artists honing their skills in the JazzYYC Youth Lab Band. As Ty Bohnet always, the festival brings Music Mile alive on Sunday afternoon when JazzWalk brings Creative Director live jazz to the shops, restaurants and galleries of Inglewood. Sharie Hunter Your support as audience, members, donors, sponsors and volunteers keeps the spirit Graphic Design and sound of jazz alive and growing in Calgary! Kodi Hutchinson Gerry Hebert JazzYYC Board President, JazzYYC of Directors Gerry Hebert - President ARTISTIC PRODUCER’S MESSAGE Ken Hanley - Vice President Welcome to our annual TD JazzYYC Summer Festival! Malcolm McKay - Treasurer Starting out as a small group of community events back in Shannon Matthyssen - Secretary 2012, it has been wonderful being a part of the evolution Debra Rasmussen - Past President of this Festival. This year we are excited to present our largest festival to date featuring top Canadian talent and Directors at Large our two largest headliner shows of the year with jazz Wendy Birdsey icons Benny Green and the Brubeck Brothers. Mira Black This summer highlights music covering a wide tapestry Paul Chave of jazz genres ranging from Latin, Soul, Pop, Traditional, Swing and everything in Klara Dueck between. We are so excited to feature a strong lineup of music that will appeal to Mike Fitzpatrick jazz fans ranging from new listeners to veteran jazz fans with prices that will fit any Nancy Hong budget. Scott Morin Thanks to all the jazz fans, musicians, volunteers, and our partners for helping Mandy Morris make this our best festival yet! Carmyn Prefontaine Kodi Hutchinson Greg Snider Artistic Producer, JazzYYC David Steele About JazzYYC April 30th, and co-presents concerts totaling a remarkable 250+ shows each year. Our website encourages jazz JazzYYC is Calgary’s jazz collaborative, supporting jazz year- musicians to get a gig, post a gig and then we support round. Whether you’re a jazz musician, a die-hard jazz fan and promote them through our weekly newsletter and or a jazz dabbler, we have something for you. Calgary’s social media channels. JazzYYC encourages community jazz scene is exciting and plentiful where you can find jazz partnership and education programs for young jazz in clubs, restaurants, coffee shops and theatres. If you’re musicians throughout the city with our Youth Lab Band. looking for the ultimate music education, jazz is your best bet. Jazz combines the best of book smarts and street Vision smarts and is one of the most requested music choices for To serve and nourish the growing and vibrant jazz Calgary’s corporate and special events. Jazz has many colors community in Calgary and beyond. ranging from elegant to energized to entertaining. Mission JazzYYC offers an annual concert series (Illuminate), two jazz A sustainable society creating and facilitating accessible, festivals, International Jazz Day(s) concerts culminating on memorable jazz experiences. June 2019 A MESSAGE FROM MAYOR NENSHI June 2019 June 201 9 A MESSAGE FROM MAYOR NENSHI On behalf of the citizens of Calgary and my City Council colleagues, I would like to welcome you to the TD JazzYYC Summer festival 2019! Since 2012, this event has grown Afrom MESSAGE a total FROM audience MAYOR of 350 NENSHI paid tickets to an exciting year-round program that engages 20,000+ Calgarians - it enhances the city’s music scene and contributes to the On behalf of the citizens of Calgary and my City Council colleagues, I would like to welcome you to the social and cultural atmosphereA MESSAGE making Calgary FROM a MAYOR vibrant NENSHIcity. 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I’mtime especially at this year’s proud festiva that JazzYYC’sl! Naheed K. Nenshi programming makes the arts available to all Calgarians of every background. Congratulations!MAYOR I extend a warm welcome to all of the performers and artists who lend themselves to this celebration of the very best of jazz from acrossSincerely, the country. Of course, hosting a festival such as this takes an incredible amount of hard work on theNaheed part of K.the Nenshi organizers and volunteers. I commend all those involved in making the JazzYYC Summer 2019MAYOR Festival such a huge success. I hope you all have a wonderful time at this year’s festival! Congratulations! Naheed K. Nenshi MAYOR Sincerely, ABOUT The JazzYYC Youth Lab Band Comprised of local youth aged 14 to 20, the JazzYYC Youth Lab builds on the strength of the Calgary music and educational community through expert instruction and participation in an advanced jazz ensemble. Led by Director Sean Craig, veteran Naheed K. Nenshi guest musicians work with the band to expand their musical horizons. With a focus on ensemble skills, improvisation, medium/advanced repertoire and musicianship, the JazzYYC Youth Lab Band benefits students with a desire to enrich MAYOR their musical experience. The band rehearses once a week at the TransAlta Performing Arts Studios. for more info visit www.jazzyyc.com Festival Mainstage “For a quarter-century, Benny Green has been deemed one of the most technically superb jazz pianists of his generation.” New York Daily News Since emerging under the tutelage of Betty Carter, Art Blakey, Freddie Hubbard and Ray Brown in the early 1980s, pianist Benny Green truly possesses the history of jazz at his fingertips. Hailed as perhaps the most exciting hard-swinging, hard-bop pianist to ever emerge from Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, Benny Green has become a highly regarded bandleader whose efforts to expand upon the language of the classic jazz canon have placed him not only among the best interpreters, but also among the vanguard of musicians keeping jazz’s evolution going. Born in New York in 1963, Benny Green grew up in Berkeley, California, and began classical piano studies at the age of seven. Influenced by his father, a tenor saxophonist, his attention soon turned to jazz: “I began trying to improvise on the piano, imitating the records I’d been hearing from my father’s collection, which included a lot of Monk and Bird… it was a gradual process of teaching myself”.
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