ROSARY SPENCE
CREE
FORT ALBANY FIRST NATION

NADJIWAN
OJIBWAY
CHIPPEWAS OF NAWASH FIRST NATION
Featuring
MARC MERILAINEN - JEAN-PAUL DeROOVER
ADAM GOMON - ALEX MINE

"JAZZ WAR" C.D. RELEASE CONCERT

"JAZZ WAR" IS THE LATEST PROJECT FROM ONE OF
THE MOST INNOVATIVE SPIRITS TO EMERGE IN CANADIAN MUSIC. THE SOON-TO-BE-RELEASED RECORDING CONSISTS OF COMPOSITIONS BASED
ON MARC MERILAINEN'S ASSOCIATION WITH HIS INDIGENOUS SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN A CONTEMPORARY WORLD.

A RETROSPECTIVE ON THE MUSIC OF MILES DAVIS PRIOR TO, AND FOLLOWING, A FIVE-YEAR SELF-IMPOSED HIATUS IN WHICH DAVIS PRODUCED NO MUSIC.

HISTORY SHOWS THAT JAZZ, IN IT'S PREVIOUS FORMS, EVENTUALLY FELL OUT OF POPULARITY AROUND 1975. OLDER, FAMOUS JAZZ MUSICIANS IN A DESPERATE FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL, TURNED TO SIMPLIFIED STUDIO-PRODUCED SOUL AND FUNK, WHILE OTHERS, LIKE MILES DAVIS, WENT SILENT. FROM 1969 TO 1974, DAVIS HAD EXPLORED THE TONALITIES OF ELECTRIFIED, ALMOST PSYCHELIC JAZZ-FUSION AS CAPTURED ON "IN A SILENT WAY", "BITCHES BREW" AND THE NOW LEGENDARY "ISLE OF WHITE" CONCERT. EMERGING FROM HIS SELF-IMPOSED CAREER EXILE IN THE 1980'S - AFTER HIS FATEFUL MEETING WITH MARCUS MILLER - DAVIS RE-JOINED THE JAZZ-FUSION MOVEMENT, BUT THIS TIME WITH MORE ELECTRONIC, SYNTH-DRIVEN SOUNDS. HIS COLLABORATION WITH
MILLER RESULTED IN RECORDS SUCH AS "TUTU",
"DECOY", "YOU'RE UNDER ARREST" AND "AMANDALA".
THIS CONCERT WILL EXPLORE BOTH OF THESE ECLECTIC ELECTRIC-JAZZ ERAS OF MILES DAVIS' MUSIC --
BEFORE AND AFTER THE SILENCE.

THIS CONCERT IS PRODUCED IN CO-OPERATION WITH THE BARRIE FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTATION OF THE HIT MOVIE, "MILES AHEAD" AT THE UPTOWN THEATRE ON JUNE 12, 2016 AT 7:00 P.M. BROWNMAN WILL BE THE GUEST SPEAKER.

A RETROSPECTIVE ON THE CAREER OFAN
EXTRAORDINARY MUSIC SENSATION OF WHOM IT IS SAID .....
"THERE ARE FEW MUSICIANS WHO FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGE THEIR INSTRUMENT, AND EVEN FEWER STILL
WHO TRANSCEND THEIR INSTRUMENT ALTOGETHER.
JACO PASTORIUS DID BOTH."

JOHN FRANCIS ANTHONY PASTORIUS III WAS AN INFLUENTIAL AMERICAN JAZZ MUSICIAN, COMPOSER, BIG BAND LEADER AND ELECTRIC BASS PLAYER. HE IS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS WORK WITH WEATHER REPORT FROM 1976 TO 1981, AS WELL AS WORK WITH ARTISTS
INCLUDING JONI MITCHELL, PAT METHENY, AND HIS OWN SOLO PROJECTS. IN 1976, JACO'S MELODIC "SINGING" BASS STYLE REDEFINED THE ROLE OF THE BASS IN MODERN MUSIC. ALMOST OVERNIGHT, CRITICS HAILED JACO PASTORIUS AS "THE FUTURE OF MODERN MUSIC,"
AS A MUSICIAN, HE DEVELOPED A HIGHLY INFLUENTIAL APPROACH TO BASS PLAYING THAT COMBINED A DEEP UNDERSTANDING OF ADVANCED HARMONY WITH FEROCIOUS TECHNICAL PROWESS. HIS SIGNATURE APPROACH INFUSED LATIN-INFLUENCED 16TH-NOTE FUNK, LYRICAL SOLOING ON FRETLESS BASS, BASS CHORDS AND THE INNOVATIVE USE OF HARMONICS. JACO LED HIS FANS TOWARDS THE MUSIC INSIDE HIM. DEFIANTLY JUMPING
OFF AMPLIFIERS, HEAVING HIS BASS THROUGH THE AIR, AND REFUSING TO BE JUST A "SIDEMAN". HE BROKE
DOWN THE BARRIERS BETWEEN AUDIENCES AND GENRES.
JACO WAS INDUCTED INTO THE DOWN BEAT JAZZ HALL
OF FAME IN 1988, ONE OF ONLY SEVEN BASSISTS SO
HONOURED (AND THE ONLY ELECTRIC BASS GUITARIST).

A RETROSPECTIVE ON THE DEFINING SISTER ACT OF ALL TIME, BY WHICH THE SWINGING BIG-BAND ERA COULD NOT BE BETTER REPRESENTED - THE FABULOUS ANDREWS SISTERS: PATTY, MAXENE, AND LAVERNE.

THE ANDREWS SISTERS WERE THE MOST IMITATED OF ALL FEMALE SINGING GROUPS AND INFLUENCED MANY ARTISTS, INCLUDING MEL TORMÉ, LES PAUL AND MARY FORD, THE FOUR FRESHMEN, THE MCGUIRE SISTERS, THE MANHATTAN DOLLS, THE LENNON SISTERS, THE POINTER SISTERS, THE MANHATTAN TRANSFER, BARRY MANILOW, AND BETTE MIDLER. THEIR HARMONIES AND SONGS ARE STILL INFLUENTIAL TODAY, AND HAVE BEEN COVERED BY ENTERTAINERS SUCH AS BETTE MIDLER, CHRISTINA AGUILERA, AND OTHERS. WHILE THE SISTERS SPECIALIZED IN SWING, BOOGIE-WOOGIE, AND NOVELTY HITS WITH THEIR TRADEMARK LIGHTNING-QUICK VOCAL SYNCOPATIONS, THEY ALSO PRODUCED MAJOR HITS IN JAZZ. THE GROUP WAS INDUCTED INTO THE VOCAL GROUP HALL OF FAME IN 1998. WRITING FOR BLOOMBERG, MARK SCHOIFET SAID THE SISTERS BECAME THE MOST POPULAR FEMALE VOCAL GROUP OF THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY. THE TRIO WAS AWARDED 19 GOLD RECORDS REPRESENTING SALES OF ALMOST 100 MILLION RECORDINGS. THE ANDREWS SISTERS HAD 46 "TOP 10" HITS ON THE BILLBOARD CHARTS. THEY ARE STILL WIDELY ACCLAIMED TODAY FOR THEIR FAMOUS CLOSE HARMONIES.

THE TED QUINLAN TRIO
Featuring
KIERAN OVERS - TED WARREN

TED QUINLAN IS A GUITARIST, WRITER AND EDUCATOR WHO IS VERY RESPECTED AS ONE OF CANADA'S MOST MULTI-FACETED JAZZ MUSICIANS. HIGHLY SKILLED AS A SOLO JAZZ GUITARIST AND SESSION PLAYER, HE IS A SOUGHT-AFTER SIDEMAN, FREQUENTLY APPEARING WITH THE "WHO'S WHO" OF CANADIAN JAZZ ARTISTS ON CONCERT STAGES, IN CLUBS, AND IN JAZZ FESTIVALS FROM COAST-TO-COAST. THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER, HE HAS PERFORMED WITH SOME OF THE BIGGEST INTERNATIONAL JAZZ STARS INCLUDING FREDDIE BAKER, CHET BAKER, EDDIE HARRIS, JIMMY SMITH, AND JOEY DEFRANCESCO. TED QUINLAN IS THE HEAD OF THE GUITAR DEPARTMENT AT HUMBER COLLEGE, ONE OF NORTH AMERICA 'S MOST RESPECTED JAZZ STUDIES INSTITUTIONS.

JAZZ REPORT AWARD RECIPIENT

A RETROSPECTIVE AND RE-CREATION OF THE LEGENDARY CONCERT IN THE LEGENDARY FESTIVAL ..... WOODSTOCK!

HAVING DISSOLVED "THE EXPERIENCE" MONTHS EARLIER, JIMI HENDRIX WOULD USE THE NOW ICONIC WOODSTOCK MUSIC FESTIVAL OF AUGUST 1969 TO DEBUT A NEW BAND, "GYPSY SUN AND RAINBOWS" - AN AUGMENTED UNIT THAT WOULD ONLY PLAY FOUR CONCERTS BEFORE DISSOLVING AS WELL. CLOSING THE FESTIVAL ON AN EARLY MONDAY MORNING, HENDRIX PLAYED THE LONGEST SET OF HIS CAREER; A SOMETIMES RAMBLING PERFORMANCE THAT NONETHELESS FEATURED SOME OF HIS MOST INVENTIVE GUITAR WORK. OF SPECIAL INTEREST IS THE "STAR SPANGLED BANNER"/"PURPLE HAZE" "VILLANOVA JUNCTION" FINALE, WHICH IS SIMPLY INCREDIBLE!