This Issue... 3 Roy Assaf Trio 4 Metalwood 5 Tuesday Jam Sessions 6 Stanley Cowell Trio 8 90th Birthday Of John Coltrane featuring D. D. Jackson and Jim Brenan 10 Albert Vila Quartet Featuring Jaclyn Guillou 11 Grant Stewart Trio 12 The Worst Pop Band Ever 13 Tarana 14 Tommy Banks and Tim Tamashiro 15 Samuel Blaser Quartet - Tribute to Jimmy Giuffre 16 Conference Call 17 Parker Abbott Trio 18 Laila Biali Trio 19 Alon Nechushtan Trio 20 Willie Jones III Quintet 22 YARDBIRD SUITE BLUES: Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne CD Release 23 Mallory Chipman CD Release 24 Rotem Sivan Trio 25 Hal Galper Trio 26 Yardbird Suite Jazz Orchestra: Guest Conductor – Allen Jacobson – Journeys: The Roads Taken 27 Brandi Disterheft Trio CD Release 28 Turboprop 29 Walt Weiskopf/Peter Zak Quartet Featuring Quincy Davis 30 A Perfectly Frank Christmas: fall2016 Tommy Banks And Johnny Summers with the Don Berner Big Band 31 YEG Thursday Showcase fall2016 Photo: Stanley Cowell fall2016 Edmonton Jazz Society’s our Volunteer House Managers Board of Directors Sue Cameron • Jan Doll • Julie Janczyn 2015 • 2016 Pam Josey • Gail Kelly • Tracy Kolenchuk Len Penner • Marilyn Rude • Collette Slevinsky Francis Remedios • President Rhonda Smith • Karen Voller Dominique Roy • Vice President Stuart Crosley • Treasurer Yardbird Suite Newsletter David MacFarlane • Secretary The Yardbird Newsletter is published four Adrian Albert • Past President times per year by the edmonton Jazz Society. fall2016 Board Members EDitoR • Adrian Albert • Jasiek Poznanski Monique Bielech • Craig Brenan GRAPHIC DESIGN • Kim Deley, Critical Path Marketing Pam Josey • Jasiek Poznanski • Sergio Rodriguez Communications Dave Babcock • Reg Wilkes DISTRIBUTION • Monique Bielech, Bill Harper Yardbird Suite PRINTING • IoN Print Solutions Inc. Programming • Adrian Albert, Nico Arnáez, Tickets Dave Babcock, Dan Davis, Julie King, Jasiek Poznanski Tickets for Yardbird Suite shows are available PRODUCTION • Lisi Sommer at Tix on the Square and at the door on the night TUESDAY NIGHT SESSIONS • Dan Davis of the performance. Littlebirds Director • Joel Gray JAZZ FOR KIDS Director: Sandro Dominelli & Brandy Dominelli FINANCE • Suzanne Morter PRESS RELEASES • Reg Wilkes Transportation • Alan Spence HouSe ManageR & VoLuNTeeR Coordinator • Pam Josey www.yardbirdsuite.com Yardbird Suite Jazz is a registered trademark of the Edmonton Jazz Society (1973). Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: EDMONTON JAZZ SOCIETY 11 TOMMY BANKS WAY EDMONTON AB T6E 2M2 780.432.0428 CANADIAN PUBLICATION MAIL PRODUCT SALES AGREEMENT #40047729 INTERNATIONAL JAZZ SERIES Roy Assaf Trio Since their last visit to Yardbird Suite, the Roy Assaf Trio has been moving forward with their magical musical conversation. Their original WHEN... From New York, Israel vision of making every concert different by completely improvising on the spot and FRIDAY • SEPTEMBER 16 alternating their repertoire every night has MEMBERS $24 become an integral part of their musical sound. GUESTS $28 They have also been adapting their love for jazz, DOORS 7 PM - SHOW 8 PM world music, pop and Afro-Cuban into their Roy Assaf - piano group sound and making it their own. Raviv Markovitz - bass Jake Goldbas - drums Every time they take the stage, it is a very unique and fresh experience both for them and for royassaf.com the audience. Over the past two years, the trio has been touring across Europe, Japan, South America and the U.S., sharing their music with audiences from different cultures, background and ages. All of this activity will culminate in the recording of a new album in the fall of 2016. www. yardbirdsuite.com 3 CROSS-BORDER JAZZ SERIES Metalwood With two Juno awards, five Juno nominations, and TUESDAY a host of other international awards, Metalwood WHEN... is arguably Canada’s most decorated jazz group. From Toronto, Vancouver, New York Between 1997 and 2003, the name Metalwood SATURDAY • SEPTEMBER 17 NIGHT became synonymous with groove-oriented MEMBERS $24 electric jazz, winning the band devoted fans GUESTS $28 around the world. Taking their cue from the likes DOORS 7 PM - SHOW 8 PM of Weather Report, Miles Davis, and Return to Mike Murley - saxophones SESSIONS Forever, the band developed a sound and style all Brad Turner - trumpet and keyboards Chris Tarry - electric bass their own and, in the process, the four members Ian Froman - drums (Mike Murley, Brad Turner, Chris Tarry, and Ian cellarlive.com Froman) cemented their reputations as world- class improvisers and composers. Many wondered if Metalwood would ever return. Cellar Live (the band’s new label) is proud to say... the wait is finally over. Twenty years after their Juno award-winning debut, fourteen years since their last release, Metalwood’s album “Twenty” takes the band’s genre-defining sound to new heights, while paying homage to the cohesive energy that made the group an international success. “Twenty” is more than a comeback. It is arguably Metalwood’s best album to date. 4 FALL 2016 TUESDAY September-December 2016 TICKETS - MEMBERS & GUESTS: $5 NIGHT DOORS 7:30 PM - SHOW 8 PM SESSIONS On Tuesday nights - Edmonton’s best jazz players and up-and-coming musicians arrive to play together. The evening begins with a one hour set from the featured band - followed by a jam session. Our Tuesday Sessions are a weekly event for local jazz musicians to play together and network - and provide an opportunity to mentor the younger musicians wanting to gain experience as they grow their own careers. Join us for our Tuesday Sessions - a terrific opportunity to hear some live jazz in a relaxed concert environment. SEPTEMBER 20 OCTOBER 25 NOVEMBER 22 CELCIUS GRUMPY DAN AND THE JAZZ LEONARD PATTERSON GROUP CURMUDGEONS SEPTEMBER 27 NOVEMBER 29 JIM HEAD QUARTET NOVEMBER 1 JEFF HENDRICK QUARTET REMI NOEL QUARTET OCTOBER 4 DECEMBER 6 MARK SEGGER QUACKTET NOVEMBER 8 THE WORKING STIFFS THOM Bennett Quartet OCTOBER 11 DINO DOMINELLI QUINTET NOVEMBER 15 ToM VAN SeTeRS QuINTeT OCTOBER 18 BRETT HANSEN GROUP www. yardbirdsuite.com 5 INTERNATIONAL JAZZ SERIES Nasheet Waits, Roy Haynes, Art Pepper, Clifford Jordan, Jimmy Heath, and many more. Stanley Cowell Trio His formal training in music includes a bachelor’s degree and an honorary doctorate in music from Stanley Cowell is Professor Emeritus of Jazz Oberlin Conservatory, a Masters of Music from Piano at Rutgers-Mason Gross School of the University of Michigan, study at the Mozarteum Arts and a Steinway Artist. He performs and Akademie in Salzburg, Austria, and graduate records as a solo pianist in jazz venues and work at Wichita State and University of Southern concert halls using African thumb piano, California. electroacoustic processes, and in diverse ensemble formations from duos to orchestras. He has an impressive list of recordings as a composer and pianist, having performed with Max Roach, Miles Davis, Charles Tolliver, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, WHEN... From New York SUNDAY • SEPTEMBER 18 MEMBERS $26 GUESTS $30 DOORS 7 PM - SHOW 8 PM Stanley Cowell - piano Jay Anderson - bass Billy Drummond - drums 6 FALL 2016 An excellent modern, mainstream pianist who is adaptable to many acoustic jazz settings, Cowell has long been underrated except among knowing musicians. This will be Stanley’s first visit to Edmonton in over thirty-five years when he performed here with the Heath Brothers. He brings a stellar rhythm section of Jay Anderson on bass and Billy Drummond on drums. www. yardbirdsuite.com 7 CROSS-BORDER JAZZ SERIES 90th Birthday Of John Coltrane featuring D.D. Jackson and Jim Brenan September 23, 2016, would have been the legendary John Coltrane’s 90th birthday. There probably isn’t a saxophonist in the last fifty years who hasn’t been influenced and inspired by Trane. To celebrate this event, the Yardbird Suite has assembled four musicians who will present two evenings of music written by or associated with Coltrane. D.D. Jackson is a Canadian-born, Emmy Award- winning composer and jazz pianist based in the New York City area whose work spans 12 CD’s, featuring almost entirely original material, ranging from his Juno Award-winning solo Pets” (Nickelodeon) (which won Emmys for piano CD “...so far” (BMG) to his larger-scale Outstanding Music each year of its run). As an meditation on the events of 9/11, “Suite for New educator, Jackson is a Visiting Lecturer at Hunter York” (Justin Time). Jackson has performed all College where he was just awarded the 2016 over the world and recorded with some of the Hunter College Presidential Award for Teaching most distinguished names in jazz and beyond, Excellence (part-time). including Jack DeJohnette, James Carter, David Murray and (most recently) Questlove and The Jim Brenan will be assuming the mantle of John Roots - including on their Grammy-nominated CD Coltrane for this weekend. If there is anyone in “Undun” and on “And Then You Shoot Your Cousin” Alberta who can handle this daunting task, it is (for which he also wrote/produced/performed). Brenan. He, bassist Rubim de Toledo and drummer Jon McCaslin have been performing Trane-related Jackson is also a composer for such hit television music for some time so their melding with D.D. shows as “Peg+Cat” (PBS) (which has won a Jackson should produce stellar music. total of 7 Emmy Awards), and “The Wonder WHEN... From New York, Edmonton, Calgary FRI & sat • SEPTEMBER 23-24 MEMBERS $24 GUESTS $28 DOORS 7 PM - SHOW 8 PM D.D. Jackson - piano Jim Brenan - saxophones Rubim de Toledo - bass Jon McCaslin - drum ddjackson.com 8 FALL 2016 www. yardbirdsuite.com 9 CROSS-BORDER JAZZ SERIES Albert Vila Quartet Featuring Jaclyn Guillou Winner of the Dutch Jazz Competition in 2004 for best composition, winner of Spain 2006 Debajazz Contest for best band, and winner of Belgium 2012 Jazz Hoileaart for best composition, Albert Vila is one of the best guitarists of the new generation coming out of Spain.