At Performance Works on Granville Island
Feb 21 - 25, 2010
10 PM
$10 at the door only
Club 2010
Club 2010
Sunday, February 21, 2010 10:00pm
Monday, February 22, 2010 10:00pm
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 10:00pm
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 10:00pm
Thursday, February 25, 2010 10:00pm
Concert Series
Club 2010 will serve as a hub for music aficionados during select evenings of the Winter Olympics. It’s an opportunity to catch some of the very finest national and international jazz and world music practitioners.
About the Artists
Vancouver-based Brad Turner is one of Canada’s most prominent and prolific jazz artists. An award-winning trumpeter and composer, he is also a very gifted jazz pianist and drummer. Hailed by the noted Canadian jazz writer Mark Miller as “a kind of Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock and Keith Jarrett all rolled into one,” and by famed jazz saxophonist Joe Lovano as “a beautiful musician,” Turner’s modern jazz quartet is simply one of the best units around. With Brad on trumpet, the group also features three of the country’s greatest rhythm-section players—André Lachance bass, Bruno Hubert piano, Dylan van der Schyff drums. They perform original compositions with an interactive, cutting-edge sensibility. Their newest CD, Small Wonder (Maximum Jazz), was nominated for a Juno last year as Traditional Jazz Album of the Year.
Great jazz singers share three qualities—a unique vocal timbre that sets them apart, the songs they choose, and the fresh ideas they bring to those songs. Vancouver singer Laura Crema has all three in spades. Her latest CD is called Spring is Here.
Vancouver-based pianist Chris Gestrin is unquestionably one of the major jazz talents in the country and is in high demand as a musician, composer, and producer. With a delicate touch and an ear for texture and subtlety, Gestrin also swings hard and is equally comfortable playing straight-ahead jazz and free improv. This fantastic new configuration, which features bassist Adam Thomas, drummer Joe Poole, and saxophonist Evan Arntzen, will perform new compositions by Gestrin.
A major force in our city’s creative music community, guitarist/bandleader Tony Wilson is one of the most original guitar stylists on the Canadian scene. His compositions tap into the whole history of jazz and blues, shifting from Leadbelly’s moaning sound to Metheny-like combustion. The sextet features some of Vancouver’s most impressive improvisers. With Peggy Lee cello, David Say saxophone, Kevin Elaschuk trumpet, Paul Blaney bass, Dylan van der Schyff drums.
Vancouver bassist/composer Jodi Proznick is a Canadian jazz star on the rise. Although she plays regularly in a number of groups, the totality of her gifts come to light as a leader. In 2008, the National Jazz Awards named Proznick Bassist of the Year, the quartet as Acoustic Group of the Year, and their CD Foundations (Cellar Live) as Album of the Year. The CD was also nominated for a Juno. Proznick’s quartet is fresh, intense, and highly interactive, featuring some of the finest musicians in the country—Tilden Webb piano, Steve Kaldestad tenor sax, and Jesse Cahill drums. Their repertoire includes originals by all band members and new interpretations of compositions by the likes of Dave Holland, Charles Mingus, and Joni Mitchell.
Named after the Japanese word for fantasy, this Vancouver group began its life as an Art Blakey tribute band and has since become one of the country’s finest original ensembles. Co-led by drummer Bernie Arai and saxophonist Jon Bentley, the group’s repertoire features compositions by all of its members as well as jazz classics. With a hard-bop front line of trumpet, tenor sax, and trombone, this band smokes! With Brad Turner trumpet, Rod Murray trombone, Ross Taggart piano, André Lachance bass.
Well known as one of Canada’s best jazz bassists, André Lachance is also gaining a reputation as a fine jazz guitarist in the tradition of Wes Montgomery and Grant Green. His burning new quartet unites him with longtime musical compatriots Brad Turner Rhodes, Chris Gestrin Moog bass, and Joe Poole drums. This exciting electric project features new compositions by Lachance along with some tasty improvs.
Photo by Isabelle Moisan
Guitarist, composer, and oud player, Vancouver’s Gord Grdina has a concept that blends mainstream jazz, freeform improvisation, and Arabic classical music. A protégé of jazz great Gary Peacock, Grdina is a sought-after contributor to jazz and world music projects that are seeking a fresh sound. Performing compositions written for this concert, Grdina’s trio, which features Vancouver greats Tommy Babin bass and Kenton Loewen drums, boasts a broad range of influences, from punk and rock to Albert Ayler and Jimmy Giuffre.
Guitarist René Lussier is one of the pillars of innovative music in Quebec. A prolific and eclectic composer, he has been charting new music territories since the end of the ’70s, teaming up with a diverse cast of musicians including Fred Frith, Chris Cutler, Robert Lepage, NOW Orchestra, and Jean Derome. Cofounder and member of the label Ambiances Magnétiques, he has engineered and produced most of his albums. His work is often referred to as musiques actuelles as it blurs the distinction between rock, jazz and improvisation, modern composition, and circus music. Lussier will perform with two pairs of Vancouver-based musicians: Peggy Lee cello and Viviane Houle vocals, and François Houle clarinet and Dylan van der Schyff drums.
One of the great new voices on our national music scene, Quebec-based pianist/composer Marianne Trudel draws equally on classical, jazz, and free-improv idioms. Her musical interests are far reaching—she has composed and arranged for jazz ensembles and orchestra and has accompanied the famed French singer Charles Aznavour and the Argentine singer and composer Juan Carlos Cacere. With her keen sense of compositional design and a vocabulary of deft improvisational gestures, Trudel’s music is adventurous, lush, and full of beauty. For this exciting east-west collaboration, Trudel is joined by Vancouver’s André Lachance bass and Dylan van der Schyff drums.
Ticket information
$10 at the door only
