SERVING CENTRAL ONTARIO

ALLISTON - BRADFORD WEST GWILLIMBURY
GEORGINA - INNISFIL - MIDLAND - ORILLIA

"URBINNDIE"

HOSTED BY

ANDREW GAUCI
BROKEN STRING ENTERTAINMENT

PHILLIPE HEELS
53RD & 3RD SHOWS

FEATURING

MEDIA SPONSOR

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A RETROSPECTIVE AND RE-CREATION OF ONE OF THE BEST-SELLING JAZZ ALBUMS IN HISTORY, AND ONE OF THE FIRST JAZZ ALBUMS TO BE A "GOLD RECORD". RELEASED IN 1973, THIS FUNK-JAZZ-ROCK-SOUL-INFLUENCED ALBUM ALLOWED PIANO VIRTUOSO, HERBIE HANCOCK, TO DEFINE A NEW MUSICAL DIRECTION FOR HIMSELF AND, IN SO DOING, PROPELLED THE WORLD OF JAZZ INTO AN EXCITING AND IRRESISTIBLE FUTURE.

DRAWING UPON HIS HARD-BOP PAST - "WATERMELON MAN" -
AND COMPOSING NEW MATERIAL - THE INFECTIOUS FUNK ROMP, "CHAMELEON" - HANCOCK LEGITIMIZED AND POPULARIZED JAZZ-ROCK FUSION IN A MANNER THAT FEW OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES WERE ABLE TO ACHIEVE. "CHAMELEON" AND "VEIN MELTER" WERE EVEN RELEASED ON A "45" RPM SINGLE, SUCH WAS THE
ATTRACTIVENESS OF THIS VERY ACCESSIBLE GENRE OF JAZZ. THE HYPNOTIC RHYTHMS AND INTRIGUING SOLOS ON "HEAD HUNTERS" WERE MOST CERTAINLY INSPIRATION AND ENCOURAGEMENT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIP-HOP MUSIC A DECADE LATER. SELECTIONS FROM HANCOCK'S LATER RECORDINGS, INCLUDING "THRUST", WILL ALSO BE INCLUDED IN THE CONCERT.

JASON RASO'S LATEST ALBUM "MAN OF 40 FACES" FEATURES 11 NEW ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS. EIGHT SOLO PERFORMANCES
AND THREE DUETS WITH LEGENDARY BASSIST ALAIN CARON, TROMBONE PHENOM WYCLIFFE GORDON AND BRILLIANT VIBRAPHONIST FRANCESCO PINETTI.

"BASS PLAYERS WILL ENJOY RASO'S STRONG COMMAND OF THE INSTRUMENT, AS HE FLAWLESSLY DEMONSTRATES A CROSS-SECTION OF TECHNIQUES, INCLUDING CHORDING, TAPPING
AND HAMMERING. MAN OF 40 FACES IS A TRULY MELODIC
COLLECTION OF ORIGINALS, FROM START TO FINISH."
JON LIEBMAN - FOR BASS PLAYERS ONLY

MAUREEN MILLER IS THE INSTRUCTOR, DIRECTOR AND OWNER OF MILLER SCHOOL OF IRISH DANCE. MAUREEN IS A CERTIFIED IRISH DANCE TEACHER AND JUDGE WITH THE IRISH DANCE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION OF CANADA, NORTH AMERICA AND THE IRISH DANCE COMMISSION IN IRELAND.

THE DANCERS HAVE A LOT OF FUN PERFORMING AT THE VARIOUS FESTIVALS, SHOWS, PARADES AND NURSING HOMES IN SIMCOE
COUNTY AND YORK REGION. THEY HAVE A GREAT TIME
TRAVELLING AND EXPERIENCING NEW THINGS WHEN THEY APPEAR IN COMPETITIONS AND SHOWS. MILLER SCHOOL OF IRISH DANCE
WELCOMES ANYONE WHO WOULD LOVE TO COME AND LEARN THIS
EXCITING AND HIGH-ENERGY ACTIVITY, AND WE LOOK FORWARD
TO CONTINUED FUN AND SUCCESS WITH OUR DANCERS.

BRUBECK BEFORE TIME

"AN ABSOLUTELY QUINTESSENTIALLY ESSENTIAL RECORDING. LEST THERE BE A SHRED OF DOUBT THAT IN THE 1950S THERE WERE TWO ALTO SAXOPHONISTS WHO MATTERED ABOVE ALL--FIRST BIRD AND DESMOND; AFTER BIRD'S DEATH, CANNONBALL AND DESMOND--LET THIS RECORDING MAKE THE CASE. PAUL MAY HAVE MOMENTS OF GREATER EXCITEMENT, REACH EVEN GREATER HEIGHTS OF INSPIRATION ON THE EARLIER "BRUBECK AT OBERLIN," BUT ON
NO OTHER RECORDING DOES HE DOMINATE SO COMPLETELY
YET PLAY AS LYRICALLY, THOUGHTFULLY, AND PERSONALLY
AS ON THIS FIRST (AND VERY POSSIBLY BEST) COLUMBIA RECORDING BY THE QUARTET."

" ..... NOTHING CAN MATCH THIS COLUMBIA LP AND HIS EARLIER RECORDINGS ("AT OBERLIN," "AT COLLEGE OF THE PACIFIC") FOR THE SHEER EXCITEMENT OF WITNESSING INSPIRED CREATION IN THE MOMENT BY BRUBECK AND DESMOND, WHO WOULD NEVER SOUND BETTER."

JIM GELCER (DRUMS, VOCALS) HAS BEEN CALLED "A HIDDEN
JEWEL IN THE CANADIAN JAZZ LANDSCAPE." HE IS AT HOME
IN AN ECLECTIC RANGE OF GENRES, FROM JAZZ AND ROCK TO KLEZMER AND KIRTAN. HE HAS WORKED WITH LORNE LOFSKY,
REG SCHWAGER, PAUL HOFFERT, DON THOMPSON, RUSS LITTLE, TERRY CLARKE, PAT LABARBARA, GUIDO BASSO, STEVE WALLACE, DAVE YOUNG, JOHN SHERWOOD, NANCY WALKER, RICHARD UNDERHILL, GEORGE KOLLER, AND HAS TOURED WITH ACTS AS DIVERSE AS LEE AARON AND THE FLYING BULGAR KLEZMER BAND. JIM IS ALSO AN ACCOMPLISHED COMPOSER, WITH NUMEROUS CREDITS IN TELEVISION AND FILM. HIS VOICE HAS BEEN
DESCRIBED AS SOUNDING "LIKE CHET BAKER WITH EDGE".

RECOGNIZED AS "ONE OF THE TOP TEN CANADIAN BLUES
ARTISTS" BY REAL BLUES MAGAZINE, THE AMAZING GRANT
LYLE IS A CONTINUALLY EXCITING GUITAR-VOCALIST,
WHETHERIN HIS TRIO OR AS A SOLO PERFORMER.
HIS HAUNTING VOICE CAPTURES THE BREADTH AND PASSION
INNATETO THE BLUES AND HE ACCOMPANIES HIMSELF
WITH A REMARKABLE COMMAND OF THE GUITAR.

"GRANT LYLE IS A BRILLIANT ARTIST WHO SHOULD
BE ON YOUR RADAR NOW" - PASTE MONTHLY

"HIS STYLE AND PRESENTATION INCLUDES THE EVERGREEN SOUNDS OF TRADITIONAL BLUES WHILE ALL THE WHILE
LENDING AN AIR OF GENIUS TO THE CANVAS WITH A BLEND
OF GENRES LIKE COUNTRY, R&B AND SOUTHERN ROCK."
- NASHVILLE MUSIC GUIDE

"LIKE HENDRIX … HIS REAL VOICE IS IN THE WAIL, THE GRUNT,
THE BEND AND CONVEXITY OF HIS GUITAR PHRASING."
- MICHIGAN CHRONICLE

JAZZ REPORT AWARD RECIPIENT

FACULTY MEMBER

UNDENIABLY ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING AND TECHNICALLY EXTRAORDINARY GUITAR-SLINGERS IN CANADA, THE INIMITABLE TONEY "WILD T" SPRINGER. HE HAS ALSO BEEN AN ACTOR IN THE ROLE OF JIMI HENDRIX IN THE HOLLYWOOD MOVIE, DAY DREAM BELIEVER, IN ADDITION TO HIS PERFORMANCES AND RECORDINGS WITH STARS LIKE DAVID BOWIE,
CAROL POPE & ROUGH TRADE AND MORE. SPRINGER CONTINUES TO
RECORD, AND TOURS THROUGHOUT CANADA AND EUROPE.

SPECIAL GUEST

HAVING MET AND JAMMED WITH JOHNNY WINTER IN THE SEVENTIES,
PAT RUSH WAS HIRED FOR JOHNNY'S BAND DURING 1977 AND 1978, AND
WENT ON TOUR WITH HIM IN THE U.S.A. IN 1977. PAT WAS ON JOHNNY'S WHITE HOT & BLUE ALBUM FROM 1978, AND PLAYED SLIDE ON "WALKIN' BY MYSELF", FROM THAT SAME ALBUM. BESIDES JOHNNY, PAT IS THE ONLY OTHER GUITARIST TO EVER PLAY SLIDE ON A WINTER ALBUM. PAT RUSH PERFORMED PERIODICALLY WITH JOHNNY WINTER UP UNTIL
HIS PASSING ON JULY 16, 2014.

THE LAST TRULY INDISPENSABLE DISC OF THE GREAT GUITAR HERO'S CAREER, AND PERHAPS THE MOST INNATELY
SATISFYING OF ALL, THESE RECORDINGS FROM 1955 TO 1957 BOAST MAGNIFICENT PRESENCE, WITH T-BONE WALKER'S AXE SO CRISP AND CLEAR IT SEEMS AS THOUGH HE'S SITTING
RIGHT NEXT TO YOU AS HE DELIVERS A LUXURIOUS
REMAKE OF "CALL IT STORMY MONDAY."

AARON THIBEAUX ('T-BONE') WALKER WAS ONE OF THE
MAJOR EARLY EXPONENTS OF THE ELECTRIC GUITAR. THIS
COLLECTION CONCENTRATES ON THE PERIOD OF 1940 TO 1947 AND SO ILLUSTRATES WELL THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIS STYLE. HIS STUNNING GUITAR WORK IS REVEALED TOGETHER WITH HIS EXCELLENT VOCALS AND INVENTIVE LYRICS, INCLUDING THE CLASSIC "CALL IT STORMY MONDAY". AS THE FIRST BLUESMAN TO RECORD USING AN ELECTRIC GUITAR, WALKER PREMIERED THE LICKS ON WHICH CHUCK BERRY WAS TO BUILD HIS CAREER, AS CAN BE HEARD ON MANY OF THE TRACKS ASSEMBLED HERE, EVEN AS EARLY AS THE 1942 "MEAN OLD WORLD". OTHER ARTISTS, INCLUDING FELLOW TEXANS ALBERT COLLINS AND JOHNNY COPELAND, AS WELL AS B.B. KING, LEARNED
AN AWFUL LOT FROM WALKER'S GUITAR PLAYING;
HE WAS THE MAJOR INFLUENCE OF THE PERIOD.

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MULTI-AWARD RECIPIENT