Volume 27 Issue 8 | July 1 - September 20, 2022
Final print issue of Volume 27 (259th, count 'em!). You'll see us in print again mid-September. Inside: A seat at one table at April's "Mayors Lunch" TAF Awards; RCM's 6th edition "Celebration Series" of piano music -- more than ODWGs; Classical and beyond at two festivals; two lakeshore venues reborn; our summer "Green Pages" festival directory; record reviews, listening room and more. On stands Tuesday July 5 2022.
Final print issue of Volume 27 (259th, count 'em!). You'll see us in print again mid-September. Inside: A seat at one table at April's "Mayors Lunch" TAF Awards; RCM's 6th edition "Celebration Series" of piano music -- more than ODWGs; Classical and beyond at two festivals; two lakeshore venues reborn; our summer "Green Pages" festival directory; record reviews, listening room and more. On stands Tuesday July 5 2022.
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JOHN COOK MANUEL MIETHE<br />
Lina Allemano<br />
along with a screening of Part Four of the late guitarist Derek Bailey’s<br />
1992 documentary On the Edge: Improvisation in Music. (Parts One<br />
through Three screened on earlier dates throughout the festival.)<br />
Ohrenschmaus features Allemano on trumpet, the Norwegian<br />
bassist Dan Peter Sundland and the German drummer Michael<br />
Griener, playing Allemano’s compositions. The group’s debut album,<br />
Rats and Mice, was released to great critical acclaim on Lumo<br />
Records, and was included in the NPR Jazz Critics Poll of Best Music of<br />
<strong>20</strong><strong>20</strong>, Citizen Jazz France’s Best New Albums of <strong>20</strong><strong>20</strong>, and reviewed in<br />
this very magazine. Ohrenschmaus blends open improvisation with<br />
strong, specific elements, making the most of its bandmembers’ individual<br />
voices as well as the group’s capacity to listen deeply and create<br />
together.<br />
Numinosity Trio is David Mott on baritone saxophone, Jesse Stewart<br />
on drums, and Justin Gray on upright bass and bass veena. (The<br />
latter is a hybrid fretless bass that Gray and luthier Les Godfrey first<br />
put together in <strong>20</strong>10, with four main bass strings, two drone strings<br />
and a ten-string short-scale harp.) Nominally a chordless group, in<br />
the tradition of baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan’s 1950s pianoless<br />
quartet with Chet Baker, Numinosity Trio’s sound is as equally<br />
informed by Mott’s melodicism and Stewart’s percussive stewardship<br />
Numinosity Trio<br />
as it is by the lush textural imagination of Gray, both on bass veena<br />
and on upright bass.<br />
Those familiar with the kind of music presented at Something<br />
Else! will also, almost certainly, be familiar with Derek Bailey’s<br />
musical legacy. A third-generation musician born in Sheffield in 1930,<br />
Bailey was an early English proponent of free improvisation, and,<br />
throughout his storied career, would play with a wide variety of musicians,<br />
including Dave Holland, Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton, Pat<br />
Metheny, William Parker and John Zorn. On the Edge begins with<br />
the assertion that improvisation is the “most widely practiced of all<br />
musical activities, but probably the least recognized or understood.”<br />
Part Four features appearances from Jerry Garcia, George Lewis and<br />
Douglas Ewart, Buddy Guy and more.<br />
Meanwhile, festivals aside, the club scene carries on, indoors and<br />
out, taking advantage of Toronto’s pandemic-inspired CaféTO initiative<br />
while they can, and then taking the music back indoors again.<br />
Check out the Mainly Clubs list that follows, for venues that stay the<br />
course year round!<br />
Colin Story is a jazz guitarist, writer and teacher based in Toronto.<br />
He can be reached at colinstory.com, on Instagram and on Twitter.<br />
9th ANNUAL JAZZ & BLUES FESTIVAL<br />
Sept 16-17-18, <strong>20</strong>22<br />
Simcoe Recreation Center<br />
Jully Black<br />
Laila Biali<br />
The Pat Collins Trio<br />
Hosted by<br />
Heather<br />
Bambrick<br />
Ohrenschmaus<br />
southcoastjazz.com<br />
for Tickets and Show info<br />
JAMIE CROFT<br />
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