Kingston Jazz Society

The Kingston Jazz Society is excited to announce our full Live @ Your Library 2012 line-up. The theme for the Series, “Jazz Around the Corner and Around The World” features a diverse mix of styles and artists, combining jazz fusion, traditional, and avant garde styles, and highlighting artists of both regional, national, and international acclaim.

Tickets are available at Brian’s Record Option and will of course be available at the door. Tickets for each concert will be $20. In an effort to expose the series to new audiences, $5 student tickets will be available at the door at each concert, space permitting.

Live @ Your Library: Jazz Around the Corner and Around the World

Concerts held Sundays at 2pm in The Wilson Room of the Kingston Public Library, 130 Johnson Street.

February 19: Phil Dwyer, John Geggie, Chet and Jim Doxas

• Phil Dwyer – piano and sax
• John Geggie – bass
• Chet Doxas – sax
• Jim Doxas – drums

As a saxophonist, composer, arranger, pianist, and educator, Canadian musician Phil Dwyer is recognized as a master of his craft. Amongst over 100 recordings, he has appeared on Juno Award winning releases with Guido Basso, Joe Sealy, Terry Clarke, Don Thompson, Molly Johnson, Hugh Fraser, and the Phil Dwyer/Dave Young Quartet.

Phil Dwyer, John Geggie, Jim and Chet Doxas

A resident of his native Vancouver Island since 2004, Phil remains busy as a performer and as a composer and arranger for concert and recording projects. This includes orchestral projects with Sarah Slean and the CBC Orchestra, big band work with Hard Rubber Orchestra, and several projects with the Art Of Time Ensemble, of which he is a founding member. Phil was twice named “arranger of the year” at the National Jazz Awards.

Ottawa’s John Geggie is a versatile musician and creative composer who has toured extensively with Chelsea Bridge and the Juno-nominated DD Jackson Trio. He has also performed or recorded with a who’s who of improvised music including Jon Christensen, Andy Milne, Sheila Jordan, Andrew Cyrille, Donny McCaslin, Matt Brubeck, Ted Nash, Billy Hart, Marilyn Crispell, Myra Melford, Cuong Vu, Peter Lutek, Marilyn Lerner, Peggy Lee, Justin Haynes, Jean Martin and double bassist Mark Dresser.

Juno-nominated saxophonist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Chet Doxas has brought together some of Montreal’s brightest musical voices on the indie-rock and jazz and folk scene to create his new project, Muse Hill. Chet is joined by brother Jim Doxas on drums. Jim has appeared on more than twenty albums and has played along side such musicians as Dave Douglas and Joe Lovano.

Concert sponsored by Concert sponsored by Shoalts and Zaback Architects Ltd.

March 11: Autorickshaw

• Suba Sankaran – Vocals
• Ed Hanley – Tabla
• Rich Brown – Bass
• Patrick Graham – Multi-percussionist

March 18: New York Jazz Fender Rhodes Project

• Quincin Nachoff – Sax
• Andy Milne – Rhodes Keyboard
• Dan Weiss – Drums
• Russ Johnson – Trumpet

March 25: Peripheral Vision

• Don Scott – Guitar
• Michael Herring – Bass
• Nick Fraser – Drums
• Trevor Hogg – Sax

Our full five-concert line-up is made possible by the support of The City of Kingston, The Kingston Arts Council, Carolyn Thornburrow of Sun Life Financial, GoSaBe Development and Design, Shoalts and Zaback Architects Ltd., Chez Piggy, Novel Idea, and Old Farm Fine Foods.

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The Kingston Jazz Society is excited to announce our full Live @ Your Library 2012 line-up. The theme for the Series, “Jazz Around the Corner and Around The World” features a diverse mix of styles and artists, combining jazz fusion, traditional, and avant garde styles, and highlighting artists of both regional, national, and international acclaim.

Tickets are available at Brian’s Record Option and will of course be available at the door. Tickets for each concert will be $20. In an effort to expose the series to new audiences, $5 student tickets will be available at the door at each concert, space permitting.

Live @ Your Library: Jazz Around the Corner and Around the World

Concerts held Sundays at 2pm in The Wilson Room of the Kingston Public Library, 130 Johnson Street.

February 5: Adi Braun

• Adi Braun – vocals
• Jordan Klapman – piano
• George Koller – bass

With a long list of cabaret, concert, and theatre successes to her credit, Adi Braun has toured extensively across North America and Europe. Adi released her fourth CD in 2010, “Canadian Scenes I”, which followed “Delishious” (2003), short-listed for a 2004 Juno Award nomination, “The Rules of the Game” (2006), and “Live at the Metropolitan Room” (2007), recorded off-the-floor in New York City.

Adi Braun, Jordan Klapman, George Koller

Adi trained classically at the Royal Conservatory of Music and the U of T before returning to the music she loved in the late 90s, which she calls “cabarazz”, drawing on aspects from both cabaret and jazz. In 2007, Adi was nominated as “Best Major Jazz Vocalist of the Year” by the Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs.

Her sophisticated style and subtle delivery evokes such vocal greats as Sarah Vaughan, Lotte Lenya, and Judy Garland. Elizabeth Ahlfors of New York’s Cabaret Scenes describes Adi as “A tad Dinah Washington, a hint of Lena Horne, the enveloping warmth of Doris Day, all gift-wrapped up in a unique sound that is singular Adi Braun!” Adi’s repertoire includes originals, favourites from the Great American songbook, European cabaret, and contemporary songs by Canadian icons Shirley Eikhard and Gordon Lightfoot.

For this concert, Adi Braun is joined on stage by pianist Jordan Klapman and bassist George Koller, who has hundreds of diverse performing and recording credits in his career working with The Shuffle Demons, Phil Woods, Peter Gabriel, Loreena McKennitt, Bruce Cockburn, Holly Cole, and Ian Tyson.

Concert sponsored by Carolyn Thornburrow of Sun Life Financial

February 19: Phil Dwyer, John Geggie, Chet and Jim Doxas

• Phil Dwyer – piano and sax
• John Geggie – bass
• Chet Doxas – sax
• Jim Doxas – drums

Concert sponsored by Concert sponsored by Shoalts and Zaback Architects Ltd.

March 11: Autorickshaw

• Suba Sankaran – Vocals
• Ed Hanley – Tabla
• Rich Brown – Bass
• Patrick Graham – Multi-percussionist

March 25: Peripheral Vision

• Don Scott – Guitar
• Michael Herring – Bass
• Nick Fraser – Drums
• Trevor Hogg – Sax

Our full five-concert line-up is made possible by the support of The City of Kingston, The Kingston Arts Council, Carolyn Thornburrow of Sun Life Financial, GoSaBe Development and Design, Shoalts and Zaback Architects Ltd., Chez Piggy, Novel Idea, and Old Farm Fine Foods.

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The Kingston Jazz Society is excited to announce our full Live @ Your Library 2012 line-up. The theme for the Series, “Jazz Around the Corner and Around The World” features a diverse mix of styles and artists, combining jazz fusion, traditional, and avant garde styles, and highlighting artists of both regional, national, and international acclaim.

Tickets are available at Brian’s Record Option and will of course be available at the door. Series passes will be available for $75 for all 5 shows. Tickets for each concert will be $20. In an effort to expose the series to new audiences, $5 student tickets will be available at the door at each concert, space permitting.

Live @ Your Library: Jazz Around the Corner and Around the World

Concerts held Sundays at 2pm in The Wilson Room of the Kingston Public Library, 130 Johnson Street.

January 15: Ewa Heiwa

• Njack Backo, Val Wooloshyn – kalimba (thumb piano), ngoni, zaa koua (harps), djembe and ashikos (drums)
• Kyoko Ogoda- Marimba and Percussion
• Paul Clifford – Bass

Kingstonian Paul Clifford attended the University of Toronto (U of T) jazz program where he studied under Dave Young, Jim Vivian, and Phil Nimmons. Upon his return from Japan in 2011, he has been performing locally with David Barton, Greg Runions, Taylor Donaldson, and The Gertrudes.

Ewa Heiwa: Cameroon, Japan, Kingston

Originally from Japan, Kyoko Ogoda has studied marimba since the age of nine. While attending the U of T she studied percussion and marimba with Robin Engelman and Beverly Johnston, and toured Canada, the US, and Italy with the Japanese taiko drumming group Nagata Shachu.

Born in rural Cameroon, Njacko has spent his life writing and performing music in Africa, Europe, and North America. He began playing percussion and making instruments at the age of three. Njacko’s music is rooted in traditional Cameroon 6/8 rhythms that appeal to both jazz and world music connoisseurs. He has performed throughout Europe and North America, appearing at major festivals including the Hillside Festival, Sunfest, the Montréal Jazz Festival, and the Houston Jazz Festival.

Njacko met Kingstonian Valery Woloshyn at the Muhtadi International Drumming Festival in 2001 and they have been partners in life and music ever since. Valery has studied African and Cameroonian music with Njacko for the past ten years, performing with the Marni Levitt trio for the past year. Together, Valery and Njacko perform original compositions on a host of traditional African instruments and are working together on a new album planned for release in 2012.

Concert sponsored by GoSaBe Development and Design

February 5: Adi Braun

• Adi Braun – vocals
• Jordan Klapman – piano
• George Koller – bass

Concert sponsored by Carolyn Thornburrow of Sun Life Financial

February 19: Phil Dwyer, John Geggie, Chet and Jim Doxas

• Phil Dwyer – piano and sax
• John Geggie – bass
• Chet Doxas – sax
• Jim Doxas – drums

Concert sponsored by Concert sponsored by Shoalts and Zaback Architects Ltd.

March 11: Autorickshaw

• Suba Sankaran – Vocals
• Ed Hanley – Tabla
• Rich Brown – Bass
• Patrick Graham – Multi-percussionist

March 25: Peripheral Vision

• Don Scott – Guitar
• Michael Herring – Bass
• Nick Fraser – Drums
• Trevor Hogg – Sax

Our full five-concert line-up is made possible by the support of The City of Kingston, The Kingston Arts Council, Carolyn Thornburrow of Sun Life Financial, GoSaBe Development and Design, Shoalts and Zaback Architects Ltd., Chez Piggy, Novel Idea, and Old Farm Fine Foods.

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The Kingston Jazz Society is excited to announce our full Live @ Your Library 2012 line-up.  The theme for the Series, “Jazz Around the Corner and Around The World” features a diverse mix of styles and artists, combining jazz fusion, traditional, and avant garde styles, and highlighting artists of both regional, national, and international acclaim.

Tickets are available at Brian’s Record Option and will of course be available at the door.  Series passes will be available for $75 for all 5 shows.  Tickets for each concert will be $20.  In an effort to expose the series to new audiences, $5 student tickets will be available at the door at each concert, space permitting.

2012 Live @ Your Library: Jazz Around the Corner and Around the World

Concerts held Sundays at 2pm  in The Wilson Room of the Kingston Public Library, 130 Johnson Street.

January 15: Ewa Heiwa

• “Come Together” featuring Njacko Backo, Valery Woloshyn – kalimba (African thumb piano), ngoni & zaa koua (African harps), djembe and ashikos (African drums), Paul Clifford – bass,  Kyoko Ogoda – Marimba, Japanese taiko drums.

A fusion of sounds from Cameroon, Japan, and Kingston

February 5: Adi Braun

• Adi Braun – vocals, Jordan Klapman – piano, George Koller – bass

A traditional jazz trio of vocals, piano and bass.  Adi has a long list of cabaret, concert and theatre successes to her credit. She has performed in every major jazz and concert venue in Toronto, has toured Canada, the United States, and Europe.

February 19: Phil Dwyer, John Geggie, Chet and Jim Doxas

• Phil Dwyer – piano and sax, John Geggie – bass Chet Doxas – sax, Jim Doxas – drums

Multi-instrumentalist and composer/arranger Phil Dwyer burst on the jazz scene in Canada, and internationally in his late teens and by his early 20s was, to quote Globe & Mail journalist Mark Miller, “startling jazz audiences with his unprecedented command of both tenor saxophone and piano” and with his “extraordinarily authoritative playing….set the country on it’s ear”.  Phil is joined by Ottawa bassist John Geggie and Chet and Jim Doxas (Sax and drums.)

March 11: Autorickshaw

• Autorickshaw features: Suba Sankaran – vocals, Ed Hanley – Tabla, Rich Brown – Bass, Patrick Graham – Multi-percussionist

Autorickshaw’s music lies on the cultural cutting edge, as contemporary jazz and funk easily rub shoulders with the classical and popular music of India. Formed in 2003, Autorickshaw has become one of the most intriguing acts on the world music and jazz landscapes, garnering 2004 and 2007 JUNO nominations for World Music Album of the Year, winning a Canadian Independent Music Award in 2005 and a John Lennon Songwriting Competition Grand Prize in World Music in 2008.

March 25: Peripheral Vision

• Peripheral Vision features Don Scott – guitar, Michael Herring – bass, Nick Fraser – drums, Trevor Hogg – sax

Peripheral Vision is an exciting and innovative Toronto-based jazz quartet.  The creative leaders of the group are long time musical collaborators, guitarist Don Scott and bassist Michael Herring. They have assembled a synergistic musical unit designed to push the boundaries of jazz while engaging the listener with a grooving, toe-tapping immediacy. You can hear the influences of the classic 1960′s era of jazz – Wayne Shorter, Booker Little, Charles Mingus – mixed with the modern New York scene with hints of Radiohead, reggae and electronica.

Peripheral Vision has just released their second album, Spectacle: Live! Scott and Herring are joined by saxophonist Trevor Hogg and drummer Nick Fraser. While the compositions are Herring and Scott’s, Peripheral Vision is defined by its group rapport. Bringing back the anything-is-possible democratic approach of both 1960′s jazz and garage bands, the music takes shape as a collective process.

Our full five-concert line-up is made possible by the support of The City of Kingston, The Kingston Arts Council, Carolyn Thornburrow of Sun Life Financial, GoSaBe Development and Design, Shoalts and Zaback Architects Ltd., Chez Piggy, Novel Idea, and Old Farm Fine Foods.

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We’re happy to report that the YouTube videos of the March 13th Kingston Jazz Composers Collective concert have been posted on our 2011 Live @ Your Library Past Performances page.  You can find videos from all of our past shows on our YouTube page.

Thanks again to Dave Dove for recording and producing these fantastic videos.

The Kingston Jazz Society is pleased to announce the return of its long-standing “Live @ Your Library” concert series. This series of four intimate Sunday afternoon concerts offers Kingston jazz fans a chance to experience some of the best in Canadian music and meet the artists in the intimate and beautiful confines of The Wilson Room of the Central branch of the Kingston and Frontenac Public Library, 130 Johnson Street.

Tickets are available at Brian’s Record Option, through the Grand Theatre box office (613-530-2050) or at the door on the day of the performance.  Tickets are $20, $15 with student ID.

Closing Concert:
Arlene Smith and Mark Eisenman Sunday April 10, 2pm

The series wraps up on Sunday April 10, with a duet performance by a pair of Canadian jazz icons. Vocalist Arlene Smith and Pianist Mark Eisenman will swing their way through a captivating and very personal repertoire of jazz favourites.

Arlene Smith and Mark Eisenman - April 10

The Kingston Jazz Society gratefully acknowledges the generous support of The City of Kingston, The Kingston Arts Council, Sun Life Financial and Chez Piggy Restaurant, which help to make this series possible.