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<strong>Our</strong> <strong>36th</strong> <strong>Year</strong> - <strong>Issue</strong> 1 <strong>–</strong> <strong>January</strong>/<strong>February</strong> <strong>2008</strong><br />
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• Atomic<br />
• Hutchinson Andrew Trio<br />
• Ralf Buschmeyer Quartet<br />
• Darren Sigesmund Quintet<br />
• Dino Dominelli Quartet<br />
• Fieldtrip with guest Jim Head<br />
• Modo Trio<br />
with guest Wayne Horvitz<br />
• Ralph Bowen<br />
with the Chris Andrew Trio<br />
• Brett Miles Quartet<br />
• Andrew Glover Quartet<br />
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2007•<strong>2008</strong><br />
Jasiek Poznanski • President<br />
Adrian Albert • Vice-President<br />
Shelley Chebry • Secretary<br />
Paul Wilde • Treasurer<br />
Board Members<br />
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YARDBIRDSUITE • EVENTS • YARDBIRDSUITE<br />
Doors at 8pm, Show at 9pm unless otherwise stated<br />
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FRIDAY • JAN 25<br />
Atomic<br />
From Norway/Sweden<br />
SATURDAY • JAN 26<br />
Hutchinson<br />
Andrew<br />
Trio<br />
From Calgary/Edmonton<br />
MEMBERS $16 • GUESTS $20<br />
Magnus Broo - trumpet<br />
Fredrik Ljungkvist - saxophone<br />
Havard Wilk - piano<br />
www.atomicjazz.com<br />
Ingebrigt Haker Flaten - bass<br />
Paal Nilssen-Love - drums<br />
MEMBERS $12 • GUESTS $16<br />
Chris Andrew - piano<br />
Kodi Hutchinson - bass<br />
Sandro Dominelli - drums<br />
www.chrisandrew.ca • www.sandrodominelli.com<br />
FRIDAY • FEB 1<br />
Ralf<br />
Buschmeyer<br />
Quartet<br />
From Calgary/Edmonton<br />
SATURDAY • FEB 2<br />
Darren<br />
Sigesmund<br />
Quintet<br />
From Toronto<br />
MEMBERS $12 • GUESTS $16<br />
Ralf Buschmeyer - guitar<br />
Chris Andrew - piano,<br />
keyboards<br />
www.ralfmusic.com<br />
Richard Erickson - bass<br />
Rob Vulic - drums<br />
MEMBERS $14 • GUESTS $18<br />
Darren Sigesmund - trombone<br />
Quinsin Nachoff - saxophone<br />
Reg Schwager - guitar<br />
Jim Vivian - bass<br />
Anthony Michelli - drums<br />
www.darrensigesmund.com<br />
FRIDAY • FEB 8<br />
Dino<br />
Dominelli<br />
Quartet<br />
From Edmonton<br />
SATURDAY • FEB 9<br />
Fieldtrip<br />
with guest<br />
Jim Head<br />
From Montreal/Edmonton<br />
MEMBERS $10 • GUESTS $14<br />
MEMBERS $12 • GUESTS $16<br />
Dino Dominelli - saxophone<br />
Wayne Feschuk - piano<br />
Rubim de Toledo - bass<br />
www.dinodominelli.com<br />
Sandro Dominelli - drums<br />
Colin Power - alto saxophone<br />
Patrick Reid - bass<br />
Mark Nelson - drums<br />
Jim Head - guitar
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YARDBIRDSUITE • EVENTS • YARDBIRDSUITE<br />
Doors at 8pm, Show at 9pm unless otherwise stated<br />
THURSDAY • FEB 21<br />
Modo Trio<br />
with guest<br />
Wayne Horvitz<br />
From Edmonton/Seattle<br />
ADVANCETICKETS • TICKETMASTER.CA<br />
Doors: 7:30pm<br />
Show: 8pm<br />
MEMBERS $14 • GUESTS $18<br />
451-8000<br />
• for more info •<br />
<strong>Yardbird</strong>suite.com<br />
Wayne Horvitz - piano,<br />
keyboards<br />
Craig Brenan - trombone<br />
Jeff Johnson - bass<br />
Bill George - drums<br />
www.modotrio.com • www.waynehorvitz.com<br />
FRIDAY & SATURDAY • FEB 22 & 23<br />
Ralph Bowen with the<br />
Chris Andrew Trio<br />
From New York/Winnipeg/Edmonton<br />
MEMBERS $18 • GUESTS $22<br />
Ralph Bowen - saxophone<br />
Chris Andrew - piano<br />
Steve Kirby - bass<br />
Sandro Dominelli - drums<br />
www.ralphbowen.com • www.chrisandrew.ca<br />
FRIDAY • FEB 29<br />
Brett Miles<br />
Quartet<br />
From Edmonton<br />
SATURDAY • MARCH 1<br />
Andrew<br />
Glover<br />
Quartet<br />
From Edmonton<br />
MEMBERS $10 • GUESTS $14<br />
MEMBERS $10 • GUESTS $14<br />
Brett Miles - saxophone<br />
James Carson - piano<br />
Thom Golub - bass<br />
Dwayne Hrynkiw <strong>–</strong> drums<br />
Andrew Glover - piano, guitar<br />
Wes Yaciuk - guitar<br />
John Taylor - bass<br />
tba - drums<br />
www.andrewglover.ca
SHOWINFORMATION • PERFORMERBIOS 5<br />
Atomic<br />
Atomic received their second Norwegian<br />
“Grammy” (Spellemannprisen) for Best<br />
Jazz Album for their 2006 CD Happy<br />
New Ears! (Jazzland, 2006) which was a<br />
follow-up to 2005’s release of the triple-<br />
CD live set The Bikini Tapes (Jazzland,<br />
2005).<br />
Recorded at Bugge’s Room Studios in<br />
Oslo, Norway, Happy New Ears! features<br />
material written by Ljungkvist and Wiik,<br />
with Broo contributing the stellar piece<br />
“St. Lureplass”. The very essence of<br />
what makes Atomic’s unique style and<br />
sound wholly recognizable can be found<br />
in the obsessive chewing tobacco tribute<br />
of “Two Boxes Left” or in the hauntingly<br />
beautiful “Closing Stages”. A listening to<br />
Happy New Ears! reveals why the band<br />
garnered its second Best Jazz Album<br />
award after only four album releases!<br />
Even though initially thought of as a<br />
sort of rebellion to the quaintness of<br />
the “Scandinavian Sound” which had<br />
become exemplified by Norwegian<br />
artists on labels such as ECM, Atomic<br />
found themselves developing a unique<br />
sound on their own. After their first two<br />
studio albums Feet Music (Jazzland,<br />
2002) and Boom Boom (Jazzland,<br />
2003), both their growing audience<br />
and music reviewers alike began to<br />
perceive them as an original flavor with<br />
an entirely individual energy that few<br />
Scandinavian jazz groups could match.<br />
An explosive blend of American free-jazz<br />
with European characteristics is how<br />
some reviewers have described them. Or<br />
better yet, “part academic lecture, part<br />
a fun night out on the town”, is how the<br />
band describes themselves, and is what<br />
makes their sound truly Atomic.<br />
“Debut of the year!” wrote John<br />
Fordham in The Guardian (UK), describing<br />
Atomic as “One of the most exhilarating<br />
new groups on the European circuit!”<br />
Formed in the spring of 1999, these five<br />
young musicians from the adventurous<br />
jazz underground of Sweden and Norway<br />
quickly forged a strong group identity<br />
without sacrificing their individual<br />
freedom of expression. Taking their<br />
first album title Feet Music from a<br />
composition by Ornette Coleman, Haker<br />
Flaten says, “The music is groovy. In a<br />
way, it needs people, and it’s searching<br />
for human contact -- it’s not introverted<br />
music. We see our music as being for<br />
extroverted people and hopefully they<br />
see it that way, too”.<br />
Atomic’s second album release Boom<br />
Boom resulted in their first Norwegian<br />
“Grammy” award for Best Jazz Album of<br />
2003.<br />
While they make no secret of their<br />
admiration for leading American jazz<br />
musicians such as Archie Shepp, Charles<br />
Mingus, George Russell and Keith Jarrett,<br />
the music of Atomic is also mixed with<br />
an equal love of European free jazz from<br />
the 1960s. They regard the American and<br />
European jazz traditions as an inspiration<br />
rather than a restriction, as a springboard<br />
to set their own direction and position<br />
within jazz music.<br />
This also shows through their<br />
collaboration with the Chicagoans, Ken<br />
Vandermark and Jeb Bishop, in the band<br />
“Atomic School Days” which released<br />
their first album “nuclear assembly<br />
hall” in 2003. A live recording from the<br />
acclaimed Chicago club “Green Mill”<br />
with the same lineup is expected to be<br />
released in <strong>2008</strong>.<br />
No strangers to the touring circuit,<br />
Atomic were on the road almost as<br />
soon as they were formed, shaping and<br />
refining their sound. They have already<br />
toured Europe, Scandinavia, North<br />
America and Japan several times.<br />
With Happy New Ears!, Atomic<br />
successfully returns yet again with a<br />
resounding successful album, and further
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sets the path for future conquests for<br />
those who like their jazz with both<br />
content and a sense of exhilaration.<br />
Ralph Bowen with the<br />
Chris Andrew Trio<br />
Saxophonist Ralph Bowen has made<br />
his mark on the New York jazz scene<br />
for over two decades while bringing<br />
his “casual perfectionism” to clubs,<br />
concert halls, and festivals worldwide.<br />
He has performed with dozens of the<br />
finest jazz musicians and singers on the<br />
scene <strong>–</strong> Johnny Griffin, Renee Rosnes,<br />
Paquito d’Rivera, Michael Brecker,<br />
Freddie Hubbard, Rob McConnell,<br />
Maria Schneider, Chucho Valdes and<br />
Tony Williams. His discography of over<br />
50 titles includes collaborations with<br />
Orrin Evans, Michel Camilo, and Horace<br />
Silver. As an Associate Professor of Jazz<br />
Studies at Rutgers University, composer/<br />
arranger, and performer, Bowen’s impact<br />
on audiences continues to expand.<br />
Many <strong>Yardbird</strong> <strong>Suite</strong> patrons will<br />
remember his 1994 visit with the Free<br />
Trade group which toured in support of<br />
their Juno award winning recording of<br />
the same name.<br />
Making his first appearance in Edmonton<br />
will be bassist Steve Kirby. His career<br />
of over 25 years includes performances<br />
with many jazz greats including two<br />
years with the Elvin Jones Jazz Machine,<br />
four years with the Cyrus Chestnut<br />
Trio. Steve has also toured, recorded or<br />
performed with Wynton Marsalis and the<br />
Lincoln Jazz Center Orchestra, Abbey<br />
Lincoln, Regina Carter, Jacky Terrason<br />
and James Carter. Since 2003, he has<br />
been the Director of Jazz Studies at the<br />
University of Manitoba. Kirby has been<br />
instrumental in rejuvenating the jazz<br />
scene in Winnipeg.<br />
Ralph Bowen plays Selmer Paris<br />
saxophones exclusively.<br />
Ralph Bowen plays Vandoren<br />
mouthpieces, reeds and ligatures<br />
exclusively.<br />
“I could take that band [the Rutgers<br />
University Jazz Ensemble, Ralph Bowen-<br />
Director] on the road with me starting<br />
tomorrow.”<br />
Ray Charles, War Memorial Hall,<br />
Trenton, December, 2000<br />
“Bowen is an impressive (and<br />
impressively underrated) player with<br />
lyrical as well as technical skills. (He)<br />
extemporizes with harmonic savvy and<br />
rhythmic surefootedness one would<br />
expect of a good post-Coltrane, post-<br />
Brecker tenor - but unlike many of his<br />
peers, he’s rarely trite. So to call him<br />
a post-anything is actually doing him a<br />
disservice.”<br />
Nate Chinen, Jazz Times Magazine,<br />
<strong>January</strong>, 2003<br />
Ralf Buschmeyer Quartet<br />
CD Release Event<br />
Born in Ontario, Ralf was drawn to music<br />
by the Blues and R&B stylings of Ray<br />
Charles, Eric Clapton and Booker T & the<br />
MGs. He picked up his first guitar at the<br />
age of 13 and shortly afterwards got his<br />
first live experience playing hard rock in<br />
Southern Ontario club bands.<br />
Dedicated to becoming a fully-rounded<br />
musician, Ralf took up studies at<br />
Hamilton’s Mohawk College where he<br />
studied weekly for 3 years with Toronto<br />
jazz great Lorne Lofsky. During this<br />
time he served as musical director and<br />
composer for Rogers Cable TV show<br />
‘The Metal Mike Show’. Fate took Ralf<br />
touring the country with country acts for<br />
3 years following college which resulted<br />
in finding a new home in Calgary.<br />
In 1998, Ralf became an alumni of the<br />
Banff Center For The Arts Jazz Workshop<br />
as well as an endorsed artist for Godin
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Guitars. He is currently co-leader of the<br />
contemporary jazz quartet Terrain, coleader<br />
of the bebop jazz ensemble Manic<br />
Thematic Trio, on the faculty of Mount<br />
Royal College’s Jazz Diploma Program,<br />
and a popular choice as a freelance<br />
guitarist for live engagements, recordings<br />
and as a composer-for-hire. In 2004, Ralf<br />
won the TD Canada Trust Jazz Festival<br />
Writers Commission Award and his<br />
collaborative effort with Richie Pollack’s<br />
‘Stew’ earned them a WCMA nomination.<br />
Live performance credits include P.J.<br />
Perry, Ingrid Jensen, Eric Marienthal,<br />
Bobby Shew, Peter Appleyard, Frank<br />
Mantooth, Guido Basso, Ralph Bowen,<br />
Amy Sky, The Platters, The Swinging<br />
Bovines, Johnny Tilotsen, Johanna<br />
Silanpaa, Jack Semple, Hugh Fraser, Phil<br />
Nimmons, Curtis Grambo, TR3, Kevin<br />
Turcotte, Steve Slagle, Mike Tomaro, and<br />
Tim Tamashiro.<br />
Dino Dominelli Quartet<br />
One of Edmonton’s younger generations<br />
of jazz artists, Dino Dominelli has been<br />
immersed in many forms of jazz. He<br />
also has a keen interest in traditional<br />
and ethnic music foundations and has<br />
applied these musical concepts into a<br />
newer style for his jazz arrangements of<br />
standards and original compositions.<br />
Dominelli’s influences have come from a<br />
wide array of musicians and composers<br />
such as Charlie Parker, Warne Marsh,<br />
Lee Konitz, Ornette Coleman, Cannonball<br />
Adderly, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Rollins,<br />
John Coltrane, Joe Henderson, Michael<br />
Brecker, Jerry Bergonzi, Bob Berg, David<br />
Sanborn, Grover Washington, Courtney<br />
Pine, Keith Jarrett, Wayne Shorter, Herbie<br />
Hancock, Chick Corea, Miles Davis, Duke<br />
Ellington, Billy Strayhorn and Chris Potter.<br />
Dino lived in Toronto from 1995 to 1998<br />
and again from 2002 to 2004 where<br />
he spent most of his time performing<br />
around the area and studying with<br />
Canadian jazz legends saxophonist Pat<br />
LaBarbera and multi-instrumentalist Don<br />
Thomspon.<br />
He has shared the stage with<br />
internationally-renowned musicians<br />
such as Piano Seven of Switzerland,<br />
Charles Blenzig Trio of New York City,<br />
Roberto Zayas, Lito Gonzales, Xioa Bai of<br />
Taiwan, Robbin Harris of Hong Kong and<br />
Arturo Sandoval. In Canada, Dominelli<br />
has performed jazz concerts with Don<br />
Thompson, P.J Perry, Bernie Senensky,<br />
Jake Langley, Greg Pilo, Simon Fisk,<br />
Earl Seymour, Bob Mover and Norman<br />
Marshall Villeneuve.<br />
Fieldtrip with guest Jim Head<br />
Fieldtrip is a Montreal-based jazz<br />
trio with an extensive and diverse<br />
repertoire comprised primarily of original<br />
compositions and reinterpretations of<br />
music from a variety of genres including<br />
jazz, folk, hip-hop, rock and popular<br />
music. All of their music serves as a<br />
vehicle for spontaneous self-expression<br />
and interaction through the energetic and<br />
trusting relationship they have fostered<br />
since their formation in September,<br />
2005.<br />
In 2005, Fieldtrip was awarded a<br />
professional development grant by the<br />
Prince Edward Island Council of the<br />
Arts to record an album of their original<br />
works. This album features a diverse<br />
array of compositions by double bassist<br />
Pat Reid written in response to his<br />
experiences volunteering and traveling<br />
in Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania<br />
and Ethiopia in the winter of 2006. This<br />
exciting debut also features celebrated<br />
Canadian saxophonist Chet Doxas as a<br />
special guest.<br />
Most recently, Fieldtrip was selected<br />
and awarded scholarships to attend the<br />
prestigious Winter Career Development<br />
Residency at the Banff Centre for the<br />
Arts in <strong>2008</strong>. There they will be preparing
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for their Canadian tour, scheduled for this<br />
spring, where they will be presenting<br />
their debut album of original works.<br />
Hutchinson Andrew Trio<br />
CD Release Event<br />
The Hutchinson Andrew Trio is a unique<br />
voice on the Canadian Jazz Scene. Over<br />
the past 5 years this acoustic piano<br />
based trio has been bringing their own<br />
Western Canadian flair to the Canadian<br />
jazz landscape. They are excited to<br />
release their new album “Music Box” at<br />
the <strong>Yardbird</strong> <strong>Suite</strong> this <strong>January</strong>. “Music<br />
Box” is a beautiful mosaic of original<br />
compositions written primarily by pianist<br />
Chris Andrew. This album takes the group<br />
in a new direction from their critically<br />
acclaimed debut album “Lost but not<br />
forgotten”. As Tommy Banks commented<br />
upon hearing the new album, there is a<br />
“new maturity in the original tunes”, and<br />
the trio has “become even closer in their<br />
understanding of each other”.<br />
The Hutchinson Andrew Trio’s music<br />
can be categorized as contemporary<br />
acoustic jazz. They mix elements such as<br />
contemporary swing, Latin, and acoustic<br />
groove to help form their own distinct<br />
sound. Kodi and Chris list artists such<br />
as Brad Mehldau, David Kikoski, Robert<br />
Glasper, and Kenny Werner as some of<br />
their influences.<br />
Their debut album “Lost but not<br />
forgotten” (2005), reached CKUA radio’s<br />
top 10 for over a month and reached #3<br />
on Calgary’s CJSW radio for over three<br />
months. In addition, CBC Radio put the<br />
album on their regular rotation as well<br />
as recording them live for air at the 2006<br />
inaugural Canmore International Jazz<br />
Festival. The composition, 3 Corners<br />
of Emotion, was also featured in the<br />
Decidedly Jazz Danceworks production,<br />
¡Bulla!, which toured Canada over the<br />
summer of 2005. The album garnered<br />
a 2006 Western Canadian Music Award<br />
nomination in the Outstanding Jazz<br />
Recording category. More recently, the<br />
trio competed for the Galaxie Rising<br />
Star Award and GM Grand Prix Award<br />
on the mainstage at the 2006 Montreal<br />
International Jazz Festival.<br />
The Hutchinson Andrew Trio has become<br />
a regular fixture on the Western Canadian<br />
jazz scene. They have performed to<br />
enthusiastic crowds at the events such<br />
as the Montreal, Medicine Hat, Calgary,<br />
Canmore and <strong>Yardbird</strong> Jazz Festivals, as<br />
well as headlining for the C-Jazz Festival.<br />
They are very excited to release their<br />
album at the <strong>Yardbird</strong> <strong>Suite</strong> in Edmonton<br />
the <strong>January</strong>.<br />
“...they are a group that is committed to<br />
building on their view of the beautiful<br />
history of this art form called jazz with a<br />
keen sense of contributing, in the most<br />
positive way, to the future of this music<br />
from their highly personal and deeply<br />
committed musical relationship.”<br />
Hugh Fraser, Jazz Trombonist<br />
Professor of Jazz Studies, UVic<br />
“...the trio combines the creativity of<br />
jazz’s heyday and the sensibility of<br />
contemporary pop culture.”<br />
Kenna Burima,<br />
CJSW Radio and FFWD Magazine<br />
“Pianist Chris Andrew proved capable of<br />
seducing phrases as easy to absorb as Bill<br />
Evans...[that]...evolve almost unnoticed<br />
into a more complex buildup...into<br />
something resembling Brad Mehldau’s<br />
more intense live trio dates.”<br />
Mark Sabbatini, Live Concert<br />
Review for AllAboutJazz.com<br />
“...one of the strongest Canadian<br />
recordings of 2005. There is a high level<br />
of technicality displayed that is used in<br />
very imaginative and creative ways that<br />
draw the listener in and takes them on a<br />
most interesting journey.”<br />
Lyle Rebbick, Medicine Hat Jazz Festival
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Brett Miles Quartet<br />
Brett began playing in Edmonton in the<br />
1980’s, before moving to New York in<br />
1984. While there he performed and/<br />
or recorded with Buddy Miles, Taylor<br />
Dayne, Mick Jagger, Sample This, Milo<br />
Z, Jomanda, Sam & Dave, Ivan Neville,<br />
Granddaddy I.U., Kid Capri, and others.<br />
Brett’s saxophone is featured on the<br />
extended EP vinyl version of Mick<br />
Jagger’s “Sweet Thing,” Jomanda’s maxicassette<br />
single, “I Like It,” Granddaddy<br />
I.U.’s “Represent,” and Sample This CD,<br />
“Sample This.”<br />
Besides accompanying many other<br />
artists, multi-instrumentalist Brett Miles<br />
also fronts his own extremely danceable,<br />
funky and energetic band, Magilla Funk<br />
Conduit.<br />
Andrew Glover Quartet<br />
Andrew Glover is an accomplished<br />
pianist and composer. His huge body<br />
of work has been performed in Europe<br />
and the U.S., as well as here in his home<br />
town<br />
of Edmonton.<br />
A talented pianist and composer, Andrew<br />
graduated from the Grant MacEwan<br />
Community College, and studied solo<br />
piano with Adrian Chornowol and Charlie<br />
Austin. Andrew worked with Mike Rud,<br />
Jack Semple, Kennedy Jensen, Dianne<br />
Donovan, the Edmonton Symphony<br />
Orchestra, Scott Hamilton<br />
and Sheena Easton<br />
among others. For over<br />
ten years he toured<br />
extensively with the Big<br />
Miller Band.<br />
In addition, many artists<br />
have performed and<br />
recorded Andrew’s<br />
compositions. Six of the<br />
eleven compositions<br />
on Jack Sample’s “Grey<br />
and Yellow” CD were<br />
written by Andrew, as well as four songs<br />
for Dianne Donovan’s release “Yes<br />
or No”. He was also a principal writer<br />
for Edmonton’s ‘Pazzport’. Andrew’s<br />
compositions and arrangements have<br />
been performed or recorded by John<br />
Abercrombie, Anna Beaumont, Caroline<br />
Mae Johnson, Jacek Kochan, Pat<br />
LaBarbera, Theresa Lightfoot, George<br />
McFetridge, Don Thompson, Jean-Pierre<br />
Zanella, and Alfie Zappacosta.<br />
Modo Trio with guest Wayne Horvitz<br />
Edmonton based Modo Trio was founded<br />
in 1999 by trombonist Craig Brenan and<br />
bassist Jeff Johnson to explore their<br />
mutual interest in African and Spanish<br />
music, as well as the drum’n’bass music<br />
that was reaching Western Canada at<br />
that time.<br />
The group solidified its current lineup<br />
when drummer Bill George joined the<br />
group in 2003, and has continued to<br />
evolve its approach, bringing inspirations<br />
such as dub music into its already<br />
eclectic sound. Defined by Brenan’s<br />
rare use of harmonizers and loops to<br />
augment the sound of his acoustic<br />
trombone, Modo Trio has been called “a<br />
fascinating mix of exotic contemporary<br />
grooves and improvisation” (Roger<br />
Levesque, Edmonton Journal). They have<br />
toured across Canada and appeared on<br />
Canadian television.
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Prior to their latest release The Uninvited,<br />
the group self-released two recordings,<br />
including 2005’s You Are Being Probed,<br />
which received extensive airplay on<br />
Canadian radio.<br />
Modo Trio’s latest recording project<br />
involves collaboration with one of the<br />
most creative musicians of U.S. scene,<br />
Seattle- based Wayne Horvitz. Horvitz<br />
is a composer, pianist and electronic<br />
musician who has performed extensively<br />
throughout Europe, Asia, Australia,<br />
and North America. He is the leader of<br />
Zony Mash, Pigpen, The Four plus One<br />
Ensemble and co-founder of the New<br />
York Composers Orchestra. He has<br />
performed and collaborated with Bill<br />
Frisell, Butch Morris, John Zorn, Robin<br />
Holcomb, Fred Frith, Julian Priester, Philip<br />
Wilson, Michael Shrieve and Carla Bley<br />
among others.<br />
He has received commissions from the<br />
NEA, Meet The Composer, Kronos String<br />
Quartet, Seattle Chamber Players, Mary<br />
Flagler, BAM, Earshot Jazz and others.<br />
Collaborations with choreographers<br />
include work with Paul Taylor with the<br />
White Oak Dance Project, Liz Lerman<br />
Dance Exchange, and Crispin Spaeth.<br />
Film work includes music and sound<br />
design for three PBS specials and Gus<br />
Van Sandt’s Psycho. He was the 2001<br />
recipient of the Artist Trust Fellowship<br />
(Seattle) and the 2002 recipient of the<br />
Rockefeller Foundation MAP Grant.<br />
“The delightful mix of tones and textures<br />
is almost a sufficient reward in itself, but<br />
Horvitz is also a damn fine musician with<br />
an ear for a groove. This disc is way more<br />
happenin’ than most of the techno on the<br />
racks right now.”<br />
Bill Tilland, Alternative Press on<br />
Wayne Horvitz’ solo CD “Monologue”<br />
Darren Sigesmund Quintet<br />
Canadian trombonist and composer<br />
Darren Sigesmund is rapidly becoming<br />
an established voice on the Canadian<br />
and international music scenes. Based in<br />
Toronto, he is gaining extensive touring<br />
experience after having recently led his<br />
quintet on whirlwind tours of Australia,<br />
Asia and Canada. Darren is a versatile<br />
and gifted trombonist who projects a<br />
warm brass sound through imaginative<br />
compositions.<br />
Darren has studied and performed at the<br />
internationally renowned Banff Centre for<br />
the Arts Jazz Workshops with acclaimed<br />
artists such as Dave Holland, Kenny<br />
Wheeler, Julian Priester, Richie Beirach,<br />
Dave Liebman, Steve Coleman, Don<br />
Thompson, Pat LaBarbera, and Hugh<br />
Fraser. He has studied trombone with<br />
many of the great masters including<br />
Michael Davis (New York), Ian McDougall<br />
(University of Victoria), Jerry Johnson<br />
(Stratford Festival) and Gord Sweeny<br />
(Toronto Symphony). Since attending<br />
the University of Toronto for Jazz<br />
Performance, Darren has honed his<br />
composition skills under the tutelage<br />
of Frank Falco, one of Canada’s finest<br />
instructors in composition.<br />
“Incredibly well crafted pieces [and]<br />
fantastic vehicles for improvisational<br />
exploration… I give my highest<br />
recommendation.”<br />
Tim Ries, Rolling Stones Saxophonist<br />
“Sigesmund, with a sound as warm as<br />
the purr of a Rolls Royce, is a thoughtful<br />
player… The beauty of Sigesmund’s tone<br />
and the agility of his technique led to a<br />
subtlety in his improvising, which went<br />
beyond good chops and good schooling<br />
to genuine communication.”<br />
Steve Pedersen, Halifax Chronicle Herald,<br />
Nov. 21, 2005
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“smooth and sophisticated trombone<br />
work and ingenious compositions”<br />
Geoff Chapman, Toronto Star,<br />
July 28 2005<br />
“Chorale and Solemn… resonated with<br />
a subtle, dark beauty. Chorale featured<br />
some gleaming horn voicings and a<br />
series of evocative, song-like changes…<br />
[Solemn] included an alluring trombone<br />
solo from Sigesmund, whose warm,<br />
melancholic vibrato glistened with quiet<br />
intensity.”<br />
Jessica Nicholas, The Age,<br />
Melbourne AU, Aug. 29, 2005<br />
“Darren is a very naturally gifted<br />
musician. He is a fine trombonist and a<br />
composer of some fascinatingly original<br />
music. His working quintet contains<br />
some of the brightest talent in Canadian<br />
Jazz. This is a group that has the potential<br />
to become a major force in Canadian<br />
Jazz.”<br />
Don Thompson,<br />
Canadian Jazz Veteran<br />
“Darren Sigesmund’s first CD, Strands,<br />
demonstrates a composer of real<br />
promise, weaving together jazz, Latin<br />
and impressionist elements with a<br />
strong sense of both colour and drama.<br />
The same thoughtfulness extends to<br />
the sometimes subtle, lyrical approach<br />
he takes to trombone. Best of all,<br />
Sigesmund has assembled an unusually<br />
imaginative group to execute his vision,<br />
including tenor saxophonist Quinsin<br />
Nachoff, guitarist Reg Schwager, bassist<br />
Jim Vivian and drummer Anthony<br />
Michelli.”<br />
Stuart Broomer,<br />
Toronto Life.com, July 2005
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Darren<br />
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Brett Miles<br />
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