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International Jazz Series<br />
<strong>Lew</strong> <strong>Tabackin</strong> Trio<br />
With a musical career spanning more than four<br />
decades, <strong>Lew</strong> <strong>Tabackin</strong> shows no signs of stopping.<br />
He continues to tour the world as a soloist, playing<br />
clubs and jazz festivals with his own groups and<br />
as featured soloist with the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz<br />
Orchestra.<br />
<strong>Lew</strong> is an artist of astonishing vision. His electrifying<br />
flute playing is at once virtuosic, primordial, crosscultural,<br />
and passionate. His distinctive tenor sax<br />
style includes the use of wide intervals, abrupt<br />
changes of mood and tempo, and purposeful<br />
fervor, all in the service of showing the full range<br />
of possibilities of his instrument - melodically,<br />
rhythmically, and dynamically.<br />
In the 1960s, among other musical highlights, <strong>Lew</strong><br />
played with Tal Farlow and Don Friedman, and<br />
in big bands led by Cab Calloway, Les and Larry<br />
Elgart, Maynard Ferguson, Joe Henderson, Chuck<br />
Israels, Thad Jones and Mel <strong>Lew</strong>is, Clark Terry, and<br />
Duke Pearson. In 1968, he met Toshiko Akiyoshi<br />
when the two played together in a quartet. They<br />
eventually married and moved to Los Angeles,<br />
where they formed the award-winning big band<br />
known as the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra.<br />
During the 1980s he began to get some long<br />
overdue recognition as a flutist, winning many<br />
Down Beat critic’s and reader’s polls.<br />
In 1990, Mr. <strong>Tabackin</strong> released his first disc of<br />
several discs for Concord, “Desert Lady,” featuring<br />
Hank Jones, Dave Holland, and Victor <strong>Lew</strong>is,<br />
followed by the acclaimed “I’ll Be Seeing You” with<br />
Benny Green, Peter Washington, and <strong>Lew</strong>is Nash,<br />
and finally, “Tenority” in 1996. Since then, he has<br />
released several albums on a variety of labels.<br />
A long time favourite of Edmonton jazz audiences,<br />
this event will celebrate <strong>Lew</strong>’s 70th birthday<br />
featuring his outstanding New York trio.<br />
when...<br />
<strong>Lew</strong> <strong>Tabackin</strong> Trio<br />
From New York<br />
FRIDAY-SATURDAY, MARCH 26-27, 2010<br />
TICKETS - MEMBERS $22, GUESTS $26<br />
DOORS 8 PM - SHOW 9 PM<br />
<strong>Lew</strong> <strong>Tabackin</strong> - tenor saxophone, flute<br />
Boris Kozlov - bass<br />
Mark Taylor - drum<br />
Artist website:<br />
www.lewtabackin.com<br />
8 March/April 2010
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