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Jodi Proznick with P J Perry
The Georgia Straight Jazz Society is proud to host P.J. Perry with Jodi Proznick Trio on Sunday April 1st, 2007 at the Elks Home on 6th Street.
The GSJS hosted their inaugural concert at the Elks on March 4th when they had the incredible Phil Dwyer Quartet play to a packed house of local jazz enthusiasts.
P.J Perry and Jodi Proznick Trio are sure to create even a greater stir amongst hibernating jazzers. This GSJS presentation consists of the fabulous PJ Perry on Sax, Jodi on stand-up bass, Tilden Webb on Piano and Jesse Cahill on drums.
P.J. Perry has become recognized by critics, colleagues and listeners as being one of North America's premier saxophonists. P.J. has shared the stage with countless jazz greats such as Dizzy Gillespie, Woody Shaw, Michel LeGrand, Kenny Wheeler, Tom Harrell, and The Boss Brass among others. P.J. won the 1993 Juno Award Best Jazz Recording for his album "My Ideal". P.J. has received Jazz Report magazine's Critic's Choice Award for Best Alto Sax for, a record, of seven years from 1993 to 1999.While in the autumn of 1999, Justin Time Records released a Juno nominated recording of P.J. and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.
Jodi Proznick is a rich melodic player who always entertains her audiences. Jodi has become a top call bassist on the West Coast having played with international stars including Ed Thigpen, Mark Murphy and Ingrid Jensen as well as Canadian greats Denzal Sinclaire, Oliver Gannon, Hugh Fraser, Dee Daniels, Karin Plato and Kate Hammett-Vaughan. She has been featured on over a dozen recordings including a recent recording with the legendary David “Fathead” Newman.
The combo will be rounded out with Tilden Webb one of the finest, and swingingest, pianists in the country and Jesse Cahill a “kaleidoscopic drummer who uses his full trap set in very melodic and resourceful fashion.”