March 2008
Welcome to the Georgia Straight Jazz Society Newsletter, keeping you up to date on the local and Vancouver Island jazz scene and informed about your Society.
SPECIAL EVENTS
John Burgess
Sunday March 5, Elks Hall, Courtenay
Tickets on sale at Bop City and the Thursday Jazz Club
John Burgess, Scotland’s finest sax man, will perform at the Jazz Club with Juno-nominated guitarist Bill Coon and bassist Ken Lidster
This is one stop on John's 2008 tour covering England, Germany, Canada and Sweden as well as appearances at the "Loch Shiel Chamber Music Festival" playing a new work specially written by the great Norwegian saxophonist Bendik Hofseth, a concert in NYC with George Lewis and GIO and a month of gigs in Australia with the wonderful Irish singer "Camille". More about the concert >>
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Latin Night at Casa Nova
Friday February 29, 8:00 pm and
Saturday March 30,
8:00 pm
Casa Nova, Port Augusta Inn,
2082 Comox Ave.
Phone 339-1006
Join Georgia Straight House Band featuring vocalist Dale Graham as they fill the evening with rich Latin and Brazilian melodies in a unique fund raiser for a music school in Havana, Cuba. Cuba's Alejandro Garcia Caturla School will receive all donated funds. The choral conducting and choir program at Caturla is currently not able to present programming in the community at large because they lack a piano which they can transport to venues by bus or on foot. The proceeds from this event will go directly to Escuela De Musica Alejandro Garcia Caturla to help raise funds for an electric piano. More
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Ladies Of Jazz
Thursday March 6, Elks Hall, Courtenay
The area's best jazz vocalists and a stellar backing band come together in a concert to raise funds for the Comox Valley Transistions Society and Lilli House. Join Charlotte, Nina, Rebecca, Dale, Wendy, Jenn and Michelle as they bring put their stamps on jazz tunes made famous by those other fine jazz singers - Ella, Sarah, Lena . . .
AT THE JAZZ CLUB
Every Thursday 7:30 pm, at Courtenay's Elk's Hall. No cover.
Schedule subject to change. Check the web site for updates.
- March 6 - Ladies of Jazz (see above)
- March 13 - Jazztet
- March 20 - Dan Craven Octet
- March 27 - Jenn Forsland Combo
Every Wednesday, 7:30 pm, it's the Jazztet at Joe's Garage
GSJS NEWS
Thanks to all who have renewed their GSJS memberships for 2008! Membership cards will be sent out soon.
If you haven't renewed yet, you can send you dues to:
GSJS Membership
1448 Jackson Drive
Comox, B.C, V9M 4E5
or give them to any member of the Society Executive at the Thursday Jazz Club.
Indiviual $15; Family $25; Student $5; Group/Corporate $100
Want to join? Use the membership form available here >>
JAZZ STUFF
2008 Jazz Grammys
Here is a partial list of the Jazz artist winners at this year's Grammy awards. The big one of course was Herbie Hancock, winning Album of the Year and Best Contemporary Jazz Album for RIVER: The Joni Letters, a tribute to Canada's own Joni Mitchell. Others you might want to add to your CD collection:
- Best Jazz Vocal Album - Avant Gershwin, Patti Austin
- Best Jazz Instrumental Solo - Anagram, Michael Brecker, from the album Pilgrimage
- Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group - Pilgrimage,Michael Brecker
- Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album - A Tale Of God's Will (A Requiem For Katrina), Terence Blanchard
- Best Latin Jazz Album - Funk Tango, Paquito D'Rivera Quintet
- Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) - I'm Gonna Live Till I Die, arranged by John Clayton, from Queen Latifah's album Trav'lin' Light
- Best Classical Crossover Album - A Love Supreme: The Legacy Of John Coltrane, Turtle Island Quartet
- Best Instrumental Composition - Cerulean Skies, composed by Maria Schneider, from the Maria Schneider Orchestra album Sky Blue
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