EJS I I TOMMY BANKS WAY - Yardbird Suite

P.I. PTRRY P1AYS INIBUTT T||GHANff PARIfiRChanie "Yadbird"Pa*er was ore of the mostjnfluentiatjazz musicians of the 1940! and 50!.Bo'n and raised jn Kansas ciw llissoud, Pa erbegan ptaying atto sa( jn with a variety of btuesandjaz grcups. Lil(e mostjaz musician, ofhjstime, Park€r devetop€d his craft taryeLy throushpradicat upedence, And known as a supemetycreative improviser, the force and oriqifatjty ofhis styte evotved so much that many tistenercr€jected hk musjc as notbeins dNsjcatjazz. lsour nam€ eke we pay trjbute to him rear theannjv€rsary of hjs deaih, |larch 12, 1955.To c€lebEt€ our tourth tribute to ChadieParke/s musjc the Sujte eagedy wetcomes PJ.tory, Canada's and Edmontonl own premie€atto exophonkt. Just when you think the accolrdeshave peaked, such as'Juno award winner,'Jaz Report Magazine's' Critics choice "award fofHltltiltcililtAtlfi@Sljde-guiladst ertraordjfaire Ettentlcltwajne wil( be performjng soto and acousiic,and ptaying both quitar and piano, when sheplays the Yardbjrd Suiie on Fnday, Ilarch 24.Ner soto and acoustic shows have been abig success etsewhere jn Atberta; she rccenttype offied to sotd-out houses jn the CamaUnptuqged Seri€s at the Engjneered AirTheatre of the tatqary Arts Certre and at theBanff Arts Centie. These shows give her achance to djrplay her tittle-known prowess onpiano as $/ett as herfamous guitar chops; theyEtten's 1987 atbum'Lookinq for Troubte,recoded if Toronto (where she then tived),cane out on Edmonton! Stofy PLain Label,and in 1996 Stony Ptain rcteased two ofheratbums together on on€ CD,'The Reat EttenI4cltwaine,' ofiqjnaLLy rccorded for UnitedArtists in 1975, and'Everybody Needs It,'an atbum that originalty came out on theBIind Pis tabetin 1982 and featuresJackBruce (ronnedy of crcam) oi bass and back-bdng her vocats frcrt and centre.A lonstjme rcsjdent of Catgary, Ettenl4cltwaine has pefomed rctatjvety rarety jnEdmonton clubs, and jt js twetve years sinceshe played atthe Yardbnd suite. She has beena frequent performer and audjence favourite,how€ver, atihe Edmoiton FoLk Music Festivat.ELLei MclLwajne has been a pro'njnent figureon the btues scene since she tanded a spotopenifg for bLuestars at the Cafe au co Goin Greenwich vittage jn 1966, a position thatted to herjoininq forces for some m0nths withthen-unkrown Jimi Hendrix. She fomed herown band, with the apt titLe Fear Itsetf and,the nexi year'in 1969, moved to Woodstock,New York, where she reteased her first atbum,Since then, she has recorded eightatbums, jn both soto aid bafd settjngs, andbest atto sax for the list six years, CJ. reachesa neu/ t€vet of excettence as wjtnessed byhn few C.D. recorded tive at the WinspearCenter wjth th€ Edmonton Symphony.Joined by Canadian master EobbyCairns on guitaL Vancouve/s busiestdrumnrer Etajne Wykjord, as wett asCanada s prcnrier bassist llike Lent, this Ishow is sure to be an event ever Parler t IhimseLf would rcgret mksinql \Eobby Cairns - guitarshe has toufed constantly and has peFformed tive wiih a who! who of the musicatscene of the past thjty-ptus yea6: figur€ssuch as Howtin' Wotf, Son House, Royguchaian, Johnny Winter, Laura Nyrc, TajMahat, John Nammond, 6eoge Thoroqood,Koko Taytor, Iom Wajts, Eruce Sprjngsteen,Her most recentatbum is the poweduttiverecording,'Etten Mcltwaine: Women in(E)motion,'r€corded jn 1997 atthe Women in(E)motion F€shvatin Bremen, Germany. There,accompanied onty by bass and drums and h€rown stide guitar she fays down some toughbtues-tunes tike "CGwtjns Kjrgsnake" and"I'nr a Woman -and closes with the BiLtWitherstandard "Lean on I1e."ELLen is alsofeatured perfomins tive in theone-houry documentary broadcast jr 1997by Canada's Bravo channeL,'A Stide thrcughTimer Etler llcltwaine Live!"Come and find out why 'Le Joumat deli'lontrcaL' says of Etten t"lclt$/aine, IL faut taMARCH.APRIL 2OOO poge 3