Well I’m still coming down from the high that was the Art of Jazz Celebration, but that doesn’t mean there still isn’t alot of great live jazz to check out this week.
The Hogtown Syncopators are in tonight at The Red Guitar at 7pm, followed by the Chris Gale Trio at 9:30pm. Thursday has the Andrew Downing Trio, followed up by Canadian jazz bass legend Dave Young with Andy Ballantyne on saxophone and Robbie Botos on piano rounding out his trio. They will be focusing on the music of bassist Charles Mingus.
The Dave Young Trio are in again Friday, and then the Tim Posgate Quartet featuring Don Thompson take centre stage Saturday.
The Rex boasts the Terry King Quintet in from New York tonight, and tomorrow the Project Jazz finalists take the stage as they compete for the $15,000 Grand Prize.
The Robert Fekete Quintet hosts it’s CD Release tonight at The Montreal Bistro. Thursday sees Lori Cullen Quintet and special guest Kurt Swinghammer take the stage for a three night stay, which takes us to Monday when Jackie Richardson & Carol McCartney with the Dave Young Quartet for an evening featuring not one but two great vocalists.
Cheers!
A birthday tribute to Miles Davis from Russ Neff over at My Favorite Things This week’s playlist:
Delaware Fox – Papa John DeFrancesco – Walking Uptown
No More Blues – Paquito D’Rivera – Return To Ipanema
Stable Mates – Vincent Herring – Ends & Means
The Touch of Your Lips – Eddie Daniels – Mean What You Say
Twisted Blues – Pat Martino – Remember
Origins – Tim Warfield Sextet – Jazz Is…
Summertime – Miles Davis – Porgy & Bess
On Green Dolphin Street – Miles Davis – 58 Miles
I Thought About You – Miles Davis – Someday My Prince Will Come
Jeri – Gerald Wilson Orchestra – In My Time
listen to it here.
Enjoy!
Well despite the weather I have to say that what I saw of the Art of Jazz Celebration was great. Congratulations to all that were involved in bring us a great new festival to look forward to each year.
Check out a review with highlight photos here.
Check out a review of the Don Thompson Tribute here.
Well it’s Thursday again and this week it a bit of a no brainer. The Art of Jazz Celebration kicked of yesterday and hosts a full schedule or events through May 21.
Tonight offers A Tribute to Barry Harris with special guests: Hank Jones, Jimmy Slyde, Charles McPherson, Earl May and Leroy Williams. Tomorrow follows with a clinic by Hank Jones, and then A Tribute to Don Thompson with special guests: Jim Hall, John Handy, Dave Holland, Terry Clarke and Phil Dwyer. Then Saturday you get a Barry Harris Clinic for piano and guitar players as well as a whole bunch of other events. You get the idea, so go down and show your support for a great new festival.
Tonight the Quinsin Nachoff Trio settles in for a two night stop at The Red Guitar, followed on Saturday by the Laila Biali Trio featuring Bill McBirnie.
The Rex has the William Carn Quintet in tonight and tomorrow.
The Montreal Bistro has the John Sherwood Trio with Terry Clarke & Pat Collins in tonight for the first of a three night stay celebrating the release of a new CD.
Cheers!
Mark this one down on your calendar. Jazz.fm presents a five hour documentary by Ross Porter on Miles Davis. The show starts Sunday May 21, at noon.
