FRIDAY, JUNE 29 TOMMY SMITH – KARMA JUNE 29 – 8:30PM & 10:00PM YARDBIRD SUITE $20 PER SET
SAXOPHONE: TOMMY SMITH PIANO/SYNTH: PAUL HARRISON ELECTRIC BASS: KEVIN GLASGOW DRUMS: ALYN COSKER An exciting new direction for leading Scottish saxophonist, Tommy Smith’s grooving rhythms mix with atmospheric textures evoking Irish, Scottish, Japanese and Arabic folk influences. The result is a major statement from an internationally renowned master. Tommy Smith is one of Europe’s greatest jazz musicians, a peerless, powerful saxophonist who moves seamlessly between the Northern European jazz of Arild Anderson with whom he plays and the big-band majesty of the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra – recently heard on tour with Kurt Elling and Bill Evans he is a constant innovator and key figure in the development of a powerful jazz scene in his native Scotland. Hailed by critics as the toughest and most creative group of his career.
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L’ORKESTRE DES PAS PERDUS JUNE 29 – 8:30PM & 10:00PM OLD STRATCHONA PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE CABARET SERIES $20 PER SET
TROMBONE: CLAUDE ST-JEAN ALTO SAXOPHONE: MARC VILLIARD TENOR SAXOPHONE: YVES TURGEON BARITONE SAXOPHONE: ROBERTO MURRAY FRENCH HORN: JOEL BROUILLETTE TRUMPET: MAXIME ST-PIERRE TUBA: PHILIPPE LEGAULT PERCUSSION/ELECTRONICS: REMI LECLERC DRUMS: MARTIN AUGUSTE Original compositions, coloured and imaginative arrangements, energetic and tonifying interpretation. An explosive band! Their latest CD opus, L’Âge du Cuivre (The Brass Age) was nominated for Canada’s national JUNO Awards 2012, ‘’Best Instrumental Album’’ of the year. This is a music group that never seems to miss the beat, always looking for that little something to bring us into inventive, stimulating and refreshing territories. Original works freely inspired by jazz, funk, cinematic ambiances, edgy new music and unhinged brass work succeeds through solid, nuanced, arrangements setting out an atmosphere and climate controlled by art.
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