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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2013
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BOB SHIVJI
ARTS & LIFE
GUILDFORD DENTURE CLINIC Welcoming our new associate Malad Salasi to our clinic
Oliver Gannon ‹ from page 15
with residency in the early 1970s. He knew not a soul when he moved here, but Vancouver would welcome him warmly with gigs aplenty, including at the legendary Cave supper club and with the fusion band Pacific Salt. He performed at major jazz festivals in Europe and North America, did multiple tours of the former Soviet Union and earned national accolades for his musicianship. Along the way, Gannon met and married a singer of note named Pat Hervey, who once sang on The Tommy Hunter Show and just celebrated a 40th wedding anniversary with Gannon, on Valentine’s Day. “I’m feeling good – I play golf a lot, usually on Pender Island on the nice little nine-hole course they have there,” Gannon said. “I’m enjoying life now, kind of taking it easy.… I’m a big fan of semi-retirement.” With music, Gannon laments the lack of gigs for professionals on the scene.
“There are not that many gigs, but of those available, I’m still getting my fair share, and I’m really happy about that,” he said. “The gig situation for us jazz musicians in the Lower Mainland and, in fact, all around the world, is dismal right now, for a number of reasons. Here, we have one place, basically, at the Cellar (in Vancouver), and I’m lucky to play there quite often. We could use more jazz clubs, for sure.” Gannon typically keeps himself busy as a for-hire player, and less often as a bandleader; he hasn’t released a CD of music in his own name since the 2006 effort Too Much Guitar. “Historically, I was very much a side man in demand, I’m glad to say, but that kind of makes you lazy because you don’t pick up the phone and try to get your own gigs – everyone else is hiring you! I think deep down, I’m kind of lazy. To have your own group, it takes some get-up-and-go.” This Saturday night (Feb. 23), Gannon brings his quartet to Blue Frog studio in White Rock for a public
concert recording (tickets $35 via www. bluefrogstudios.ca and 604-542-3055). Featured will be Miles Black (“one of the best piano players in the world, really,” Gannon raved), South Surrey-raised Jodi Proznick on bass (“an absolute monster on bass”) and Blaine Wikjord on drums (“he just swings like crazy, a beautiful drummer”). The concert will be recorded “on spec,” Gannon said,“so if everyone feels good about the results, we’ll go to the next step with it.… Jazz is mainly about spontaneity, so maybe at soundcheck that afternoon I’ll give them a list of songs – jazz standards – and those players are so good, you get their creativity. The less you give a person, the more you get out of them, I believe. I’m like the policeman up there calling the tune and counting them off,” he added with a laugh.“We have a great time playing together, and jazz is really about having faith in the other members of the group because we never know what we’re going to do for an ending – or an intro, for that matter.” tzillich@thenownewspaper.com
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