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Years20 CELEBRATING 20 YEARS AT 11 TOMMY BANKS WAY ® Volume 23, Issue 3 – May/June 2005 Volume • The On-Cord Ensemble featuring Lane Arndt • nuSteps • Ernie Watts • Ken Hoffman • Eyvind Kang/Mark Dresser/Dylan van der Schyff • Mo Lefever Lesstant • Bob Tildesley’s Indigenous Aliens • Bernie Senensky Trio • Cornell Dupree EDMONTON JAZZ SOCIETY 11 TOMMY BANKS WAY (Corner of 102 St & 86 Ave) EDMONTON AB T6E 2M2 Publication Mail # 40047729 Membership rate increase for 2005-2006 season For many years, the Edmonton Jazz Society has maintained our membership current membership rates. Due to significantly higher costs of Your Edmonton Jazz Society Membership supports a variety of producing events and operating the Yardbird Suite, effective activities and ensures that the best of live jazz will continue to September 1, 2005, the following new rates will be in effect: have a home in our city. Student or Senior membership.........................................$25.00 Membership Options (check one): Regular membership ........................................................$40.00 r Gold Card $200 tax receipt & free admission for one year ........$387.25 Silver Card (free admission for one year)........................$250.00 r Silver Card free admission for one year ....................................$187.25 r Regular ..........................................................................................$32.00 Gold Card ($200 tax receipt and free admission for one year)...........................................$450.00 r Student or Senior ..........................................................................$22.00 Make cheques payable and mail to: Edmonton Jazz Society, 11 Tommy Banks Way, Edmonton AB T6E 2M2 Name ______________________________________________________________ Address ____________________________________________________________ City ________________________________________________________________ Postal Code_____________________Phone ______________________________ Email Address _______________________________________________________ Purchase Date_______________________________________________________ 9 p.m. - Midnight Amount paid for membership _____$___________________________________ EVERY TUESDAY! Amount of tax deductible donation $___________________________________ Tuesday May 10 - Ken Hoffman Total amount enclosed ___________$___________________________________ Tuesday May 17 - Lane Arndt Tuesday May 24 - Dino Dominelli Bringing the best in live jazz to Edmonton since 1973 Tuesday May 31 - Joel Gray Tuesday June 7 - Charlie Austin Tuesday June 14 - Dave Babcock Tuesday June 21 - Guillermo Valle Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: EDMONTON JAZZ SOCIETY 11 TOMMY BANKS WAY Edmonton Jazz Society (1973) EDMONTON AB T6E 2M2 Hosted by a different professional band every week. 11 Tommy Banks Way (corner of 102 Street & 86 Avenue) Programming: Adrian Albert, Julie King, Host set from 9-10 p.m. with amateurs & professionals Edmonton, Alberta T6E 2M2 Craig Magill, Frank Peterson, Jasiek Poznanski, sitting in after 10 p.m. Only $3 admission (applies to all Phone: (780) 432-0428 Bruce Stovel members, guests and musicians) Fax: (780) 433-3773 Production: Jasiek Poznanski House Managers and Volunteer Co-ordinators: Board of Directors for 2004-2005: Pam Josey President: Jasiek Poznanski Office: Fred Elgert COME LISTEN OR SIT IN! Vice-President: Adrian Albert Transportation: Dwayne Hrynkiw Doors: 8pm • Show: 9pm Treasurer: Norma Davis Press Releases: Paul Wilde Secretary: Shelley Chebry Jam Sessions: Blake Kinley, Colette Slevinsky Directors: Dave Babcock, Dino Dominelli, Dwayne Hrynkiw, Yardbird Suite Newsletter is published five Pam Josey, Craig Magill, Allan times per year by the Edmonton Jazz Stoski, David Ward Society (1973) Memberships: Pam Josey, Colette Slevinsky Newsletter Editor: Allan Stoski Littlebirds Music Director: Joel Gray Contributing Writers: Adrian Albert, Julie King, Craig Magill, Jasiek Poznanski, Bruce Stovel Yardbird Suite Jazz is a registered Advertising: Shelley Chebry trademark of the Edmonton Jazz Graphic Design: Kim Deley, Critical Path Society (1973). Marketing Communications Distribution: Monique Bielech, Shelley Chebry, Bill Harper Canadian Publication Mail Printed by: Nisku Printers (1980) Ltd. Product Sales Agreement www.yardbirdsuite.com # 40047729 the on-cord ensemble featuring Lane Arndt “It is my feeling,” says local uber-popsters Faunts on keys and from Lane Arndt, “that the richest samples. “With their first release [2004's Edmonton reservoir for creative sonic “high expectations/low results”] Faunts exploration is in the have made what I think is probably the combination of the electronic best sounding album that has ever come with the analog. I have been pursuing out of Edmonton, period. Tim has great this approach for a few years now with ears and amazing tone, the only two 'proxyboy' then 'monolith' and my own qualities that really matter to me.” solo electronics projects.” Add to this Mark Templeton has been forging his the electro-acoustic improvisation of own scene for the last few years in a FERN and his endeavours with singer- tireless effort to release the sounds in his songwriters Wendy McNeill, Shuyler head. Frail as Breath is Mark’s first Jansen, and Dustin Cole and it becomes release as a laptop artist and his apparent that electronics mean more to upcoming release, Fields Awake, is a Lane Arndt than mere gimmickry or trend multi-media extravaganza that will hit the spotting. “But at the end of the day I am shelves soon. Mark will be tweaking out still a guitar player, and I am itching to his laptop for this project and may even remind people that it this is where I am pop the hipster bubble with some most at home.” For this venture at the ‘crooked-teeth’ banjo licks. Lane Arndt - guitar, laptop Yardbird Suite, Lane will be teaming up Mario Laquintana was heard playing in Mark Templeton - laptop, banjo with a few friends from outside of the the now-defunct band u.s. republique Tim Batke - keyboards, electronics local jazz community to create a sound earlier this year. As a relative newcomer Mario Laquintana - drums with no easy comparisons. “All of my to the local scene it is a treat to offer him favourite experimental/electro/pop/folk the opportunity to explore his huge tone music is coming out of Scandinavia these and chops in this setting. Expect a rich days. Finland is intense and Norway tonal palette with moments of ambient produces sounds like I didn't even think space giving way to group interaction and were possible.” a very dynamic approach to colour, sound Along for the ride will be Tim Batke of and mood. FRIDAY • MAY 6 DOORS 8PM • SHOW 9PM • MEMBERS $7/GUESTS $11 nuSteps nuSteps is the trio John Taylor is one of the most from resulting from the long talented jazz bassists in Canada as Edmonton friendships and musical well as being assistant principal history of John Taylor, bassist for the Edmonton Mike Gillespie, and Stuart Symphony Orchestra. John has Crosley forged by years of playing played with some of the finest together in bands led Mike and jazz musicians on the planet. Stuart as well as by PJ Perry, Bill Mike Gillespie is a jazz drummer Emes, Bob Tildesley, Kevin known for his hard-swinging Elvin Elaschuk, Dianne Donovan, and Jones-like style. Mike has played Lina Allemano. This longstanding with many legends of jazz and has trio with a new name - nuSteps - been an important part of the exhibits a depth of compositional Edmonton jazz scene for the past and improvisational skill. Their two-and-a-half decades. Stuart debut CD features original Crosley is a jazz guitarist with a material and the guest talents of style deeply rooted in the tradition the hard-swinging New York of the great jazz guitarists, but saxophonist, Steve Slagle. who explores the unconventional Celebrate the release of the first and modern styles of today's nuSteps CD, Get the Groove. players. SATURDAY • MAY 7 John Taylor - bass Mike Gillespie - drums Stuart Crosley - guitar DOORS 8PM • SHOW 9PM • MEMBERS $7/GUESTS $11 MAY• JUNE 2005 • www.yardbirdsuite.com • 3 ernie•watts Ernie Watts’ main hero has always been John from Coltrane. Watts’ later work reveals him to be an Los Angeles intense and masterful jazz improviser who has developed his own sheets-of-sound approach along with a distinctive and soulful sound. After attending Berklee, he had an important stint with Buddy Rich’s big band (1966-1968) before moving to Los Angeles. Watts worked in the big bands of Oliver Nelson and Gerald Wilson, recorded with Jean-Luc Ponty in 1969, and became a staff musician for NBC, performing with the Tonight Show Band on a regular basis. His own records of the 1970s and early ‘80s were generally pop-ish (1982’s Chariots of Fire was a big seller), and Watts played frequently with Lee Ritenour and Stanley Clarke, in addition to recording with Cannonball Adderley, one of his idols, in 1972. Ernie Watts’ work became much more interesting from a jazz standpoint, however, beginning in the mid-1980s when he joined Charlie Haden’s Quartet West and started recording no-nonsense quartet dates for JVC. Ernie Watts has developed into one of the most powerful of tenormen, with complete control over his horn and the ability to bring intensity, passion and taste to any musical situation. Ernie Watts - saxophone Mike Lent - bass FRI & SAT • MAY 13 & 14 Chris Andrew - piano Sandro Dominelli - drums DOORS 8PM • SHOW 9PM • MEMBERS $20/GUESTS $24 ken•hoffman Ken's first headline performance at the Yardbird
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