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NEWSLETTER OF THE ® At the Suite • Wayne Horovitz & Volume 21,Volume 2003 4 – September/October Issue Sweeter than the Day Wayne Horovitz & Sweeter than the Day • Trevor Watts & The Celebration Band •Fern • Yardbird Suite Blues: Dawn Tyler Watson • Double Duo – The Unexpected Dawn Tyler Watson • Available Jelly • Melissa Walker Group • Lina Allemano Four • Leszek Zadlo/Jan Jarczyk Quartet • Marty Ehrlich Quartet • Billy Kilson and BK Groove Melissa Walker Leszek Zadlo & Jan Jarczyk EJS 11 TOMMY BANKS WAY (Corner of 102 St & 86 Ave) EDMONTON AB T6E 2M2 Wayne Horvitz and membership Sweeter Than The Day Your Edmonton Jazz Society Membership supports a variety of Zony Mash appeared at the Carla Bley and Bobby Previte activities and ensures that the best of live jazz will continue to have a Yardbird Suite in February, 1998, amongst many others. Edmonton home in our city. performing mainly original music jazz fans will no doubt remember with an avant-rock, jazz, funk and Wayne’s contribution to the San Francisco sound with Wayne exhilarating evening of music Membership Options (check one): Horvitz featured on Hammond B-3 presented last October by Bobby ❒ organ. Previte & Bump. Gold Card $200 tax receipt & free admission for one year ..................$387.25 The group’s personnel - Wayne Guitarist Tim Young has been a ❒ Silver Card free admission for one year ..............................................$187.25 Horvitz, Tim Young, Keith Lowe and major force in jazz and rock music ❒ Regular .................................................................................................$32.00 Andy Roth - remains largely the in the Pacific Northwest for over ten ❒ Student or Senior ..................................................................................$22.00 same but the group has made a years. Keith Lowe is a highly sought complete change in its musical after bassist in and around Seattle. direction. This is an acoustic version Andy Roth is arguably the finest all- Make cheques payable and mail to: of Zony Mash renamed as Wayne around drummer in Seattle. Edmonton Jazz Society, 11 Tommy Banks Way, Edmonton AB T6E 2M2 Horvitz and Sweeter than the Day. Demonstrating their talent and Two discs on the Vancouver- diversity, all three work in many Name _______________________________________________________________ based Songlines label, “American different groups comprising many Bandstand” in 2000 and “Sweeter different styles of music. Address _____________________________________________________________ than the Day” in 2002, exemplify As Jazz Weekly said of Sweeter the new direction and provide a than the Day, “The strength of the City ________________________________________________________________ great showcase for Horvitz’s music lies in Horvitz’ beautifully beautiful material and his angular crafted compositions. Like Monk Postal Code ______________________Phone_______________________________ chord progressions. His piano style is and Herbie Nichols, Horvitz is able economical yet lyrical, never to create memorable and distinctive venturing far from the strong melody lines from seemingly Email Address ________________________________________________________ melodic hooks which characterize disparate ... motifs and phrases.” his compositions, but constantly Purchase Date ________________________________________________________ working small surprises. Wayne Horvitz is an Amount paid for membership________$ ___________________________________ accomplished composer, pianist and producer who has performed Amount of tax deductible donation ___$ ___________________________________ extensively throughout the world in a wide variety of his own groups of Total amount enclosed _____________$ ___________________________________ which the original Zony Mash is only one. Others include The (acoustic Zony Mash) Bringing the best in live jazz to Edmonton since 1973 President and Pigpen. In addition, Wayne Horvitz - piano he has collaborated with John Zorn Tim Young - guitar in Naked City, Briggan Krauss, Keith Lowe - bass Butch Morris, Bill Frisell, Billy Bang, Andy Roth - drums Yardbird Suite 11 Tommy Banks Way Edmonton Jazz Society (1973) (corner of 102 Street & 86 Avenue) 11 Tommy Banks Way Edmonton, Alberta T6E 2M2 (corner of 102 Street & 86 Avenue) Phone: (780) 432-0428 Fax: (780) 433-3773 Edmonton, Alberta T6E 2M2 Programming: Adrian Albert, Craig Magill, Phone: (780) 432-0428 Frank Peterson, Jasiek Poznanski, Bruce Stovel Fax: (780) 433-3773 Production: Jasiek Poznanski House Managers and Volunteer Co-ordinators: Board of Directors for 2002-2003: Tara Benoit, Leah Wilson President: Tara Benoit Office: Fred Elgert Vice-President: Adrian Albert Transportation: Dwayne Hrynkiw Treasurer: Murray Walford Press Releases: Paul Wilde Secretary: Leah Wilson Jam Sessions: Blake Kinley, Marcus Taylor Shelley Chebry, Norma Davis, Dwayne Hrynkiw, Craig Magill, Yardbird Suite Newsletter is published five times Jasiek Poznanski, Kent Sangster, per year by the Edmonton Jazz Society (1973) David Trump, Doug Zimmerman Memberships: Ken Knight Newsletter Editor: Jasiek Poznanski Littlebirds Directors: Contributing Writers: Adrian Albert, Craig Brenan, Randy Witte Frank Peterson, 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 Yardbird Suite on the Net: # 1516698 FRI & SAT 4 SEPT 19 & 20 www.yardbirdsuite.com DOORS 8PM 4 SHOW 9PM 4 MEMBERS $16/GUESTS $20 Trevor Watts and The Celebration Band Trevor Watts has spent more than however, the bright harmonies and on the drum kit - but this group tilts Watts has also been associated twenty years melding jazz and world melodies are punched out by the four heavily toward composition with with the British improvised music music in the various incarnations of saxophone front line as opposed to structures that can provoke dance and scene since the 1960s. He initially his Moire Music Ensembles. A strong the more percussive sound of the induce trance in nearly equal measure. made a name for himself as a member thread in the Moire weave is Watts’ Moire Music groups. That is not to say The music is joyously upbeat. of John Stevens’ Spontaneous Music particular love of African musics, from the Celebration Band doesn’t This group is a fusion of African Ensemble, one of the renowned the township jazz of South Africa to emphasize rhythm - there is drum rhythms, jazz sensibilities and English free jazz units. One of his other the rhythms of Morocco. With the percussion galore with Jamie Harris on free improvisation with an emphasis memorable groups from that time was Celebration Band, the African various unusual percussion on tightly structured arrangements in Amalgam with bassist Barry Guy. connection is strong and sustained; instruments and Giampaolo Scatozza complex interweaving strata. The The 1980s and 1990s saw him repeating assimilating many of the sounds heard interlocking on his world travels under the Moire sequences build Music moniker, a precursor of the methodically and Celebration Band. Formed in the late hypnotically while 1990s, the Celebration Band is Watts’ being underpinned way of marrying the African and by infectious, Middle Eastern pulse to a free- trance-like blowing spirit. It also allows him to drumming patterns pass on his wisdom and and synchronous understanding to a new generation of guitar and bass riffs. musicians, several of whom make up The horns create a the members of the Celebration Band. rich depth of sound, spinning out Trevor Watts - seemingly endless composer/arranger/ variations of alto & soprano sax melodies. The Rob Leake - tenor & compositions are soprano sax truly ingenious, Amy Leake - tenor sax making the octet Marcus Cummins - alto & seem like a much soprano sax larger band. Fluid Geoff Sapsford - guitar and fiery solos are Jamie Harris - djembe, provided by Trevor djarbouka & Indonesian drum Watts and the other Roger Carey - bass saxophonists. Giampaolo Scatozza - drums FRIDAY 4 SEPT 26 DOORS 8PM 4 SHOW 9PM 4 MEMBERS $20/GUESTS $24 Fern Based on the post-modern Resonator guitar (aka Dobro). "This extremes through his use of been embraced by the many local musical notion of 'instrumentation as trio is an intense collaboration of electronics and samples to mutate the musicians and listeners who want to composition' Fern is a group that music and musicians but it is not just natural acoustic properties of the see the creative process in action embraces glorious contrasts and feisty that," Lane Arndt said recently "it also trumpet into something it would during the performance. As well, they complements. Formed within the explores the contrast between normally take a symphony to create." play together in the chill-out electro mind of local improvising musician elements of sound production from Or a car crash, or an arc of improv of PROxyBOY and the newly Eric Weiden, Fern brings the sound of the 'earth' of Woody's Dobro - a lightning snaking across the sky on a formed Lane Arndt Trio. John Eric's trumpet and trumpet-based heavenly pure-tuned sound most quiet summer's eve, or a tribe of Woroschuk is Edmonton's number electronics into an emphatically often associated with country and wandering vibraslapists sending out a one call on the Dobro, playing with original trio setting with multi-