Coastal Jazz and Blues with Western Front New Music spotlight the newest shakers and movers in the Jazz world with the Bright Moments Series.
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CONCERT
October 14, 8pm
Samuel Blaser Quartet
Tickets: $25 (all in)
Info and tickets visit: www.coastaljazz.ca
Swiss-born trombonist Samuel Blaser enlivens the music of under-sung jazz innovator Jimmy Giuffre with a stellar band: keyboardist Russ Lossing, bassist Masatoshi Kamaguchi and legendary drummer Gerry Hemingway. Spurred by spontaneous interaction within musical conversations, this group pays homage to this jazz eccentric in style.
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CONCERT
October 22, 8pm
Lucian Ban & Mat Maneri | Transylvanian Concert
TICKETS $25/20 at Door; Advance tickets are now closed.
Transylvanian born, NYC based pianist/composer Lucian Ban teams up with American violist and Grammy nominee Mat Maneri to re-imagine Sun Ra, Butch Morris, Transylvanian doinas, Enesco and Bartok pieces amongst original compositions (including microtonal songs and more). Hear for yourself why Jazz Weekly calls it, “a modern collection of sonatas that erase the lines between jazz and classical, a melding of sounds similar to modern liturgy.”
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CONCERT
November 13, 8pm
Quinsin Nachoff Flux
Tickets: $25 (all in)
Info and tickets visit: www.coastaljazz.ca
“A world that spans jazz and pop inflection to create something at once familiar and ‘wondrous strange’” –Wholenote Magazine.
Hard-hitting, cliché-free music from the mind and bell of Quinsin Nachoff’s tenor saxophone implores listeners to dive into the Flux. This bass-less ensemble features David Binney on alto sax, Matt Mitchell on piano/keys and Nate Wood on drums.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
In a relatively short time, Swiss-born trombonist Samuel Blaser has established himself as one of the most interesting and innovative low brass players to emerge from the international avant-jazz scene at the beginning of the 21st Century. He’s also becoming quite prolific, releasing four CDs under his own name over the previous 12 months.Boundless, Blaser’s debut recording for the preeminent Swiss jazz label Hat Hut, virtually cements the notion that Blaser is more than just another technically adept youngster. Barely into his thirties, Blaser balances sheer technical brilliance with razor-sharp musical instincts and an profound historical understanding of jazz and improvised music. Blending the pinpoint control of Julian Priester and a growing fondness for the expressive side of the instrument, with an uncanny ability to throw in multiphonic chordal sounds pretty much anywhere he wants, Blaser constantly engages with his fascinating, multi-faceted improvisations. One of an increasing number of low brass players to fall under the influence of the greatAlbert Mangelsdorff—who’s as much a reference point for trombonists asJohn Coltrane is for saxophonists—Blaser is a pioneer, already looking around the corner for the next idea. -Biography by David Wayne.
Raised in the tiny farming village of Teaca, (Transylvania Romania), Lucian Ban grew up listening to folk songs performed at weddings, birthdays, holidays and other celebrations. At the age of seven, he moved to Cluj, where he started classical piano and composition training. He studied composition at Bucharest Music Academy from 1992 to 1995. He establishes the group Jazz Unit in 1995 and releases two albums as a leader for the Green Records label in Romania. In 1999 he moved to New York, where he studied for two years at New School University. His American debut recording Somethin’ Holy in duet with baritone sax Alex Harding, was awarded 4 stars by Allmusic, and was followed by the critically praised quintet album Premonition (2003), Tuba Project (featuring Bob Stewart, 2006) andPlayground (featuring Jorge Sylvester, 2006). The Lumination Ensemble co-led with Alex Harding and featuring drum legend Barry Altschul was nominated “One of the 10 best shows of 2003” by All About Jazz. Since then he has played/recorded with: Alex Harding, Reggie Nicholson, Art Baron, Sam Newsome, Barry Altschul, Jorge Sylvester, Brad Jones, Bruce Williams, Damion Reid, Chris Dahlgren, Pheeroan AkLaff, J. D. Allen, Bruce Cox, Hill Greene, Carlo DeRosa, Curtis Fowlkes, Mark Helias, Gene Jackson, Ron Horton, Nasheet Waits, Bob Stewart, Gerald Cleaver, Derrek Phillips, and many more.
NYC-based Canadian saxophonist, clarinetist and composer Quinsin Nachoff is “one of the truly bright younger jazz minds hereabouts” (GLOBE&MAIL) His most recent project, Flux, is with the saxophonist David Binney, keyboardist Matt Mitchell and drummer Kenny Wollesen. Ottawa Citizen critic Peter Hum described Flux’s debut concert at the Ottawa International Jazz Festival’s Winterlude as “a pure, bracing, thought-provoking music…cliche-and convention-free” and “advanced and viscerally hard-hitting original music”. His release FoMo (2011) was described as “Funky, passionate and intellectually probing, Nachoff is the total package.” (EXCLAIM MAGAZINE) Nachoff’s disc Magic Numbers(Songlines) was in the Top 10 New Releases of 2006 (PHILADELPHIA CITY PAPER). Heralded as “one of the most innovative chamber jazz recordings in recent years” (ALLABOUTJAZZ.COM), it features drummer Jim Black, bassist Mark Helias and a string quartet led by violinist Nathalie Bonin. Horizons Ensemble (Musictronic) features the talents of British pianist John Taylor and Dutch cellist Ernst Reijseger. It has garnered praise for being “bold, diverse and filled with compelling counterpoint.” (DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE) “Horizons Ensemble marks Nachoff as a major young jazz composer. **** (of 4)” (GLOBE&MAIL) and “one of today’s most promising young composers” (ALLABOUTJAZZ.COM). A co-led project with French drummer Bruno Tocanne, 5 New Dreams (Cristal Records), has also garnered critical praise: Nachoff is “one of the revelations of the year” (JAZZMAN MAGAZINE – FRANCE) and “Virtuosic and brilliant as an instrumentalist” (JAZZMAGAZINE – FRANCE)
