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TRIO • EVOLUTION with MIKE RUD • RIVER CITY BIG BAND • VOLUNTEER PARTY • JUNCTION • JIMMY “T99” NELSON • JOE LOVANO/JUDI SILVANO QUARTET • DAVE RESTIVO QUINTET CHRIS POTTER QUINTET • MICHEL OCCHIPINTI QUINTET • SEX MOB • CHRIS POTTER QUINTET ROBIN EUBANKS • JESSICA WILLIAMS EJS 11 TOMMY BANKS WAY (Corner of 102 St & 86 Ave) EDMONTON AB T6E 2M2 Edmonton Jazz Society (1973) 11 TOMMY BANKS WAY (CORNER OF 102 STREET & 86 AVENUE) EDMONTON, ALBERTA T6E 2M2 PHONE: (780) 432-0428 FAX: (780) 433-3773 BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR 2000-2001: PRESIDENT: TARA BENOIT MON - WED 11:30 - 10:00 PM VICE-PRESIDENT: ADRIAN ALBERT THURS - SAT 11:30 - 11:00 PM TREASURER: DREW SHAW SUN 5:30 - 1O:00 PM SECRETARY: TED CROLL MONIQUE BIELECH, SHELLEY CHEBRY, ERIC FILPULA, DWAYNE HRYNKIW, CRAIG MAGILL, FRANK PETERSON, JASIEK POZNANSKI, KENT SANGSTER MEMBERSHIPS: KEN KNIGHT LITTLEBIRDS DIRECTORS: CRAIG BRENAN, MIKE YUZWENKO YARDBIRD SUITE 10736 - 82 AVENUE 11 TOMMY BANKS WAY (CORNER OF 102 STREET & 86 AVENUE) EDMONTON, ALBERTA T6E 2M2 Edmonton Jazz Society members receive 10% off (sushi only) and 15% off any other kitchen food. 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Canadian Publication Mail Product Sales Agreement Yardbird Suite Jazz is a registered trademark of the Edmonton Jazz Society (1973). # 1516698 Eddie C. Campbell ardbird Suite BLUES Eddie C. Campbell with Chicago guitarist Eddie C. Campbell will song, "Santa's Messin' with the Kid" (in which Graham Guest, piano and vocals be bringing his warm and engaging brand of sitting on Santa's lap is given a whole new Jim Guiboche, guitar blues to the Yardbird Suite when he meaning). Crawdad (Dave Cantera), harmonica performs with the Suite's house blues band Eddie moved to Europe in the early Dave Bridges, bass on April 27 and 28. 1980s, and then back to Chicago in the early Grant Stovel, drums Eddie C. has the solidest of blues credentials. 1990s. He has now recorded seven blues He was born in the Clarksdale area of Mississippi albums, and he'll be bringing with him to in 1939, and after moving to Chicago with his Edmonton his latest CD, Hopes & Dreams, family as a boy he taught himself Muddy Waters' which came out on the Rooster label last song "Still a Fool" and sat in with Muddy's band summer and promptly received glowing when he was twelve. reviews from all four major U.S. blues By his late teens, he had become one of a magazines and from England's Blues & group of flamboyant guitarists and blues wailers Rhythm. who created the West Side sound in Chicago Eddie C. Campbell's live shows are blues during the late '50s and early '60salong extremely enjoyable and extremely strange. with his good friends Magic Sam, Otis Rush, Eddie is a tall man who wears a wide, toothy Luther Allison, and Buddy Guy. In 1995, Otis, grin; these days his platter-sized Afro has been Luther, and Eddie were reunited in a fiery two- replaced by a long, Euro-style pony-tail. He whimsy: for instance, his signature tune, "King vocals, Jim Guiboche on guitar, Crawdad (aka hour show before hundreds of thousands of blues plays guitar with a reverb-laden, warm tone of the Jungle," is a standard don't-mess-with- Dave Cantera) on harmonica, Dave Bridges on fans on the Chicago Blues Festival main stage (a that is as instantly recognizable as the guitar me boast--except that in this song Eddie forces bass, and Grant Stovel on drums. show preserved on Luther's Live in Chicago 2-CD stylings of T-Bone Walker or B.B. King. Eddie a lion to lie down and go to sleep and an These shows will be Edmonton’s first release on Alligator last year). sings in a rich baritone that suddenly becomes elephant to break and run. chance to experience the music of someone By 1963, Eddie had toured and recorded an eerie falsetto (in his early days he was In his Yardbird shows Eddie will be who was described last year by Living Blues with Little Walter and Howlin' Wolf, among known as Two-Voice Campbell). He plays the performing with The Graham Guest Band, the Magazine as "not just a legend, but one of the others, and in that year he found steady work guitar behind his back, over his head, with his unit that has backed up a series of exciting blues' most unquenchable free spirits and an as the guitarist and bandleader in Jimmy teeth, and if the mood is right, with his toes. blues artists at the Suite in recent months: American resource to treasure." Reed's touring band. After Jimmy's death in He throws the guitar into the air and catches it Larry Garner, Lazy Lester, Big Clara McDaniel, 1976 he became lead guitarist in Koko Taylor's in mid-solo. He'll invite audience members Joe Beard, and Rockin' Johnny. The band band, and then on her recommendation joined onstage and let them pluck his guitar strings. consists of Graham Guest on keyboards and Willie Dixon's Chicago Blues All-Stars, the His songlist is mainly meat-and-potatoes crème-de-la-crème of Chicago bluesmen at the blues, but with sudden shifts to the time. Eddie put out his first LP in 1977, King of unexpected--James Brown's "I Feel Good," a FRI & SAT • APRIL 27 & 28 the Jungle, backed up by his All-Stars surfer instrumental, a Motown ballad. DOORS 8PM • SHOW 9PM MEMBERS $9/GUESTS $13 bandmates pianist Lafayette Leake, harp-player Eddie's own compositions are also Carey Bell, and drummer Clifton James, along distinctive. Many are autobiographical;