“Jazz
in January”
Saturday, January 1, 2005 - Söl
(Saskatoon)
Soulful Funk and Jazz
Saturday,
January 8 - Don Griffith and Nathan Renner (Saskatoon/Toronto)
Two of the city’s finest and best-known jazz musicians,
Nathan Renner and Don Griffith are featured in the intimate
evening of piano and guitar. Nathan is currently studying jazz
at Humber College in Toronto, and will join forces with Don,
who remains active in the local music scene. Nathan and Don
began playing together at the Bassment’s Tuesday night
jam sessions when Nathan was still in elementary school. Their
musical friendship has grown over the years, culminating in
a CD entitled “The Bridge Between Us”. The CD features
seven original tunes as well as the standards “Spring
is Here” and “Some Other Time”.
Saturday,
January 15 - Don Berner Sextet (Edmonton)
Don Berner-Alto Sax
Kent Sangster-Tenor sax
JohnnySummers-Trumpet
Doug Organ-piano
Dan Churchill-bass
Gord Graber-drums
Juno Award winner P.J. Perry has called Don Berner "one
of Canada's fastest rising saxophone stars. Reads, doubles,
solos, he does it all." In addition to appearing alongside
such notable jazz luminaries as P.J. Perry, Bobby Shew, Hugh
Fraser, Slide Hampton, and Tommy Banks, he has performed at
Edmonton's Jazz City Festival and Yardbird Suite, Calgary's
"Beatniq", Saskatoon's "The Bassment", and
numerous other jazz clubs throughout Canada and the U.S. He
has appeared in the orchestra's of Tommy Banks, Gary Guthman,
and Bob Stroup, and performs occasionally with the Edmonton
Symphony Orchestra. Berner can be heard on numerous CD's including
Dianne Donovan's first CD "Yes or No", Hot Cottage's
CD "Better Late Than Never", and his own debut CD,
"Sextet". He has performed at numerous embassies as
well as leading his sextet to Mexico's "Internacional Festival
de Cervantino" and returning there to perform for the Canadian
embassies "Canada week". In addition, Berner has performed
on numerous radio and TV specials and he maintains a very busy
performing, workshop leading, and teaching schedule.
Saturday,
January 22 - Maurice Drouin Band (Saskatoon) Great
entertainment with jazz standards.
His skillful playing and entertaining presentation have made
him an audience favourite.
Thursday,
January 27 - Graham Pritchard, Carissa Klopoushak
& Skip Kutz "Django Time" (Saskatoon) Jazz with
Django stylings.
Friday,
January 28 - Glennis Houston (Calgary)
Vocal jazz standards
Saturday,
January 29 - Birth of Cool:
Dean McNeill -Trumpet, Mark DeJong-Alto Sax, Richard Raum -Trombone
(Regina), John Griffiths -Tuba (Regina), Erin McVittie - Horn,
Roy Sydiaha-Drums, Steven Scharfstein - Piano, Doug Gilmoure -
Bari Sax, Peter Dyksman - Bass (Regina)
Salute to the landmark Miles Davis album.
In 1959 Miles Davis and Gil Evans collaborated on a series of
unique projects which used non-traditional instrument arrangements
within the jazz context which resulted in a number of wonderful
albums.
Through
a project headed up by some friends in Edmonton last year, a book
containing all the music from the Miles Davis/Gil Evans "Birth
of the Cool" album was re-transcribed.
The resultant "Birth of the Cool" show we played was
a bit hit and these guys were kind enough to loan me all the music
for our use here in Saskatchewan.
Sunday,
January 30 - “Jazz in the Afternoon”
SJS Big Band (Saskatoon) Respected cool jazz veterans |
