JazzErie notes The Monthly Newsletter of JazzErie August 2010 Vol. 16, Issue. 6 16 Years Serving the Jazz Community 18TH ERIE ART MUSEUM BLUES & JAZZ FESTIVAL Frontier Park, Erie, Saturday, August 7 and Sunday, August 8, Noon to 10PM This year’s intriguingly personal composer…Sonny Blues and Jazz never lets himself or his listener down.” TIME TO Festival 8PM Sonny has collaborated with greats like Saturday night Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Elvin Jones, JOIN/RENEW headliner McCoy Tyner, and Nat Adderly. He has Pam Tellers, Membership Chair is Grammy appeared on many recordings, his most Award winner, recent, his 19th, is “Last Night at Sweet Membership renewal is due by harmonica Rhythm.” August 31st, and we really need your financial support to continue with virtuoso, The rest of the Festival will offer many our sponsorship of performances, Sugar Blue. local bands. Noon, Saturday, Hal Walker, educational activities and other Jazz Not a typical the “pied happenings in and around the Erie bluesman, piper” of area. he offers an Northeastern ultra modern blues style. His numerous Ohio puts Mailings will be sent out shortly recordings include “Some Girls” and ‘musical to our members. If you are not yet “Emotional Rescue” both with The Rolling skills into a member please consider joining! Stones. He has played with legends the pockets Our membership fees are modest and like Willie Dixon, Brownie McGhee, of children.” the rewards are great! You will be Roosevelt Sykes and Bob Dylan. Sugar He is the master of guitar, piano, and sent a bi-monthly newsletter listing Blue has been called “one of the foremost harmonica…plus khaen, ocarina, Jew’s all the venues in and around Erie harmonica players of our times” by harp, and concertina with the African (many of them FREE), plus in-depth Rolling Stone Magazine. banakula. (Look them up!) He works articles about local musicians, clubs, The 8PM with arts councils in Ohio and is resident workshops etc. Sunday night musician at Kent State. You will be welcome to hang out headliner is the 4PM, Saturday, One World Tribe and listen to records with our JazzErie Sonny Fortune presents reggae and soul with the rhythms Discussion Group led by Master Quartet. Jazz of hip hop and funk. They are a multi reedman, artist, and educator, Charles writer, Nat Hentoff, cultural ensemble with members from Ventrello every month at the Erie Art says “Sonny is Africa, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and Erie. Museum Annex - 20 East 5th St. the embodiment One World Tribe has been involved with Fill out the Membership of the sound of the Performing Artists on Tour of the surprise…and as an Application on the back of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. JazzErie News Notes. continued on pg. 2... For More Information: www.jazzerie.com Jazz & Blues Festival from pg 1... Children activities are included in 6PM, Saturday, Ron Yarosz and the the Festival. Hal Walker’s opening Jazz EriE performance on Saturday, Noon, is JazzErie is a com- Vehicle, a self proclaimed blues, funk, and rock band. Ron sings, plays the family oriented. Hal will also host a munity of music lovers and kazoo workshop, Saturday, at 2:30 in the musicians and, a member- Hammond B3 Organ, and harmonica. Jason Lewis is on bass, Ron Sutton, gazebo. WQLN will have a kids craft ship organization dedicated tent. to sharing with children, drums, and Eric Brewer on guitar. Ron adults and one another says, “(we) will play different styles if Festival merchandise will be available an awareness and love of asked.” and local vendors will serve up music, particularly jazz. JazzErie brings Noon, Sunday, Red Hot Rugcutters, sandwiches, hoagies, lemonade, and ice together people who want to listen to jazz, another Erie based band, will offer up cream. learn about it, play it and just live it. jump blues artists from the 30’s through Once again, the Art Museum is the 50’s. Larry Kownacki plays sax, enforcing its tent policy of last year. No Check out our website at Dan Reese provides vocals and plays the tents to be set up before 9AM Saturday. www.jazzerie.com for complete piano. Shawn Phelps, guitar, and John Plus it is against City of Erie ordinance to information on current and Musatto on drums. Rounding out their sleep overnight in Frontier Park. Check upcoming events. style are some jazz standards and some the Arts Museum website for additional rockabilly songs. information at www.erieartmuseum.org/ 2010-2011 Board of Directors 2PM, Sunday, Dave Callaghan performances. President.........................Dick Thompson and Hardbop is unique in that it has The fun begins Saturday, August 7, and Vice President ............................. Ted Ely a trumpet player, Dale Zimmerman. Sunday, August 8, at high Noon! Treasurer ........................... Rich Giardina Callaghan is on tenor sax, Mark DeWalt plays piano, and Dick Thompson, JAZZ AND BLUES FESTIVAL Directors bass, with Tim Driscoll on drums. Paul Bates Charles Lute They feature music from the hardbop POSTER AND CONTEST Shamus Flynn John Marzalek jazz period of the 50’s and early 60’s, The creator of this Ed Goebel Scott Meier continuing the tradition started by Art year’s Festival poster, Rob Hoff Liz Scarpelli Blakely and the Jazz Messengers. Bryan Toy, says “The Charles Joy Pat Tellers 4PM, Sunday, Ahimsa Beat, which Al Lubiejewski Mary E. Watson scene depicted is labels itself, “original avant funk” was Michael Leal Allen Zurcher the site of the Blues formed by and is led by Erie’s Steve and Jazz Festival: Past Presidents Trohoski, bass. The group includes Frontier Park. The David F. Van Amburg 1994-1995 Frank Singer, guitar, Eric Brewer,electric Park is one of Erie’s (Founding President) guitar, Tony Grey,bass, Brad Amidon, under appreciated Atty. Al Lubiejewski 1995-1997 drums, and Joel Polacci , congas. resources. Frontier Park has over 225 Virginia M. Pelkowski 1997-1999 Saxaphonist Chelsea Baratz will join the species of trees, so the poster emphasizes group with hip hop and be bop with a R. Patrick Rodgers 1999-2002 this amazing variety by surrounding the Pittsburgh flavor. The band is influenced festival with foliage. The crowd which Steve Eidell 2002-2003 by Mahavishnu Orchestra, Ethnic is depicted represents Erie’s diverse fan Tom McLaren 2003-2005 Heritage Ensemble, The Stranglers, base for great music: Young and old, Carl Hultman 2005-2008 Generic Beat and others. black and Asian, white and Hispanic. The Ed Goebel 2008-2010 6PM Sunday, Pucho and His Latin people on the poster are not just a generic Soul Brothers bring together straight crowd . There are ten of Erie’s better JazzEriE NotEs is published in jazz modern jazz and Harlem style Latin performance months by JazzErie which is known musicians hiding in the crowd, music. His group covers classics from some of whom are great jazz or blues a subsidiary organization of the Erie Art Herbie Hancock to the Beatles and Duke Museum, a nonprofit organization. artists, but there are some folk and rock Ellington. They are credited with sixteen musicians in there too.” JazzErie Notes albums and have played around the Editor - Tom McLaren world. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to find a life size version of the published by Green is again the color of this The Erie Art Museum for JazzErie summer’s festival, that is, environmental poster and identify the ten “better known printed by green. Partnering with Waste musicians hiding in the crowd.” Submit PIP Printing West Management, the festival encourages your answer with your name, address, 2827 West 26th St. • Erie, PA 16506 attendees to recycle what they bring. phone number and e mail at the JazzErie Deadline is the 15th of each month. There will be containers for recyclables. tent (where there will be a poster on Send articles to: Walk or ride your bike to the grounds. display) or e-mail to rwtqveta12191@ [email protected] A bike corral is available. If you hotmail.com. In case of tie, winner will or Box 8833, Erie, PA 16505 drive, consider donating $2 to the Lake be chosen by drawing. Prize is a pair Erie Arboretum to offset your carbon of jazz CDs. Contest ends Sunday at footprint. Last year’s festival recycled Midnight. nearly one ton of materials!!! Page 2 JazzErie Notes GRAMMY NOMINEE Jonathan Butler, Nancy Wilson, Al old on this 1955 session at The Café Jarreau, Nat Adderley Jr., Luther Bohemia. KIRK WHALUM Vandross, George Duke, Quincy Jones Speaking about age, Benny Golson and Barbra Streisand. AT FIRST ASSEMBLY OF is now eighty one years old and still Born in Memphis July 11, 1958, he wailing, composing and recording. Don GOD IN ERIE was a pastor’s kid, and his warm, melodic Swift plays Golson playing his popular sax sound was born in the Baptist By Bob Protzman church. As a youngster at Texas Southern and often recorded jazz standard “Killer University, he fell under the spell of the Joe.” When late jazz saxophonist Arnett Cobb, one Here is a splendid contemporary they talk about of the fathers of the big, so-called “Texas album led by masterful bassist, composer, the soulful Tenor’’ sound. leader, Dave Holland. From the album saxophonist Whalum’s group at First Assembly “Pathways” Denny Kitchen chooses Kirk Whalum, of God is composed of brother Kevin, “Wind Dance.” The horns of this octet they’re speaking vocals; son Kyle, bass; Marcus Finney, of more than his include Chris Potter, Robin Eubanks, drums; Kevin Turner, guitar; Arlington Antonio Hart, Gary Smulyan and Alex sax sound and Jones, keyboards. style. Sipiagin. Erieite Jonathan Baker, a Christian Speaking of horns, this sextet Besides rapper/keyboardist known as Jehovah’s being an eight- Boy, will open the concert with a band features three of the finest: a sweet time Grammy comprising Corey Cook, drums; Patrick combination of tenor, trumpet and nominee and Lyons, bass; Matt Stewart, sax, vocals, trombone performed by Eric Alexander, one of the first and biggest stars of guitar; Brandon Chapman, guitar; Joe Rotondi, and Steve Davis.