The Empire Life Kingston Jazz Festival 2012: June 21-23

• Cam Schaefer (electric piano/organ)
• Dan Charbonneau (guitar)
• Bob Arlidge (bass)
• Jak Thrasher (percussion)

…for the launch of their first CD “No Mere Ken Dolls”

8:00 p.m. on Saturday May 26 @ Studio22, 320 King Street East, 2nd floor

“Kingston’s hardest-working band of underachievers”

The band plays great jazz classics and features:

• Brant Peppley – guitar, vocals
• Val Hamilton – alto sax, vocals
• James McClellen – flute
• Doug Rooks – bass

Tickets are $10 at the door or $7 in advance at Brian’s Record Option.

The trio features:

• Jack Bodkin – Piano
• Mark Godfrey – Bass
• Rich Piasetski – Drums

PRAM trio – Saturday May 19, 7pm @ The Mansion

Tuesday: Paul Clifford Trio at Olivea 6-9

Paul Clifford Trio. Every Tuesday from 6-9 @ Olivea

Each Tuesday evening, The Paul Clifford Trio performs live at Olivea restaurant (39 Brock Street) in downtown Kingston. There is no cover charge and food is top class. Feel free to come for drinks or dessert as well.

• Friday: Rubbaboo at the RCHA 5:30-8:00
  Featuring:
  • Cameron Schaefer: Rhodes piano
  • Jak Thrasher: Percussion
  • Bobv Arlidge: Bass
  • Dan Charbonneau: Guitar

  On Sundays from 3-6pm you can catch The Downtown Trio at The Mansion.The group performs a mix of instrumental jazz standards and original compositions by:

  

  Rubbaboo - Fridays at the RCHA

• Sunday: Downtown Trio at The Mansion 3-6
  • James Wannamaker – saxes
  • Noah St. Amand – bass
  • Sean Jensen – drums

2 Flutes at the RCHA, May 4 at 9pm

2 Flutes combines the talents of flutists Doug Wicken and Glenn Tooth.

Let Glenn Tooth and Doug Wicken, and their swinging virtual rhythm section, Bytes, entertain you and your guests with jazz standards and popular selections from the Beatles to Bach.

See http://www.2flutes.ca for samples of their work.

2 Flutes will also be performing May 12^th at the Sandbanks Estate Winery May 12^th 1:00 – 4:00

17598 Loyalist Parkway Wellingston, Ontario

The Kingston Jazz Society is proud to be lending a hand to the Homegrown Live Music Festival once again.  As with last year, there will be a full afternoon and evening if live jazz.  We will again be on the 3rd floor of the RCHA Club.  (193 Ontario.)  This year, food will be available through The Pasta Shelf.

Be sure to check out their full schedule.  The jazz portion will be as follows:

The RCHA Club (193 Ontario Street) is Homegrown Live’s venue for Jazz. This year’s Jazz lineup is:

This is the fourth year of the Homegrown Live Music Festival, which celebrates area talent for a jam-packed day of music.  All musicians graciously donate their time to the event.

As with last year, bracelets are $10, $5 with a donation of food.  All proceeds from the day go to Joe’s M.I.L.L. and the Partners in Mission Foodbank.  You can read more about the festival here.

Kingston Symphony presents SIMPLY SINATRA

Friday, April 13 2012, 8pm

The Battle of Santiago: Live at The Mansion Apr 21

The Battle of Santiago is a performance battle between strong Latin rhythms and deeply cultured Canadian influences, pushed into an improvisational post-Afro-Cuban-rock theatre. The members of The Battle of Santiago have backed up a diverse array of artists – from Oscar Peterson and Tito Puente to I Mother Earth – and have schooled at the top jazz schools in Canada along with being in-demand producers. These guys know music.

This fantastic seven-piece band will be in Kingston performing at The Mansion on Saturday, April 21 at 7pm. Tickets are $5 at the door.

The Battle of Santiago began in Spring 2010, and it was apparent from the start that this was not going to be your usual band. By combining bass, saxophone, flute and percussion, the band’s philosophy is to capture each musicians own personal sound and style; with complete freedom to express themselves through individual and improvisational creativity allowing an organic growth and natural arrangement of each composition.

The seeds of The Battle of Santiago were planted in the early 2000’s, when Michael Owen (bass), Michael Butler (saxophone) and Daniel Mansilla (lead percussion), performed, in different combinations with Avenue One and All I See Is Red. A move to rural Ontario led Owen and Butler into a reggae/dub direction before being drawn into the lush Afro-Cuban rhythms.

“In 2009, we started to make a record in the ‘Mongo Santa Maria’ vein (traditional Afro-Cuban Music from New York Circa 1954),” explains Owen. “Just for fun, I recorded some bass and guitar on two rhythms and Michael tried out some horns and flutes. We ended up loving this path we had stumbled onto – taking Afro-Cuban rhythms into a very non-traditional directions.”

The group’s post-rock sound was further infused with the addition of Lyle Crilly (guitar), still without a working band name, they began to record and produce their debut release “Full Colour”. With the desire to present this music live Jason Hay (flute & sax), and Joel Perez (percussion) were invited to join the group completing the band as a 7 piece.

As the groups’ sound and direction became more clearly defined no one name could truly describe what they were trying to achieve. With such a diverse cultural history and coming from very different musical backgrounds like hip hop, jazz, rock, country, latin, experimental and dub finding a suitable name was very difficult. Understanding this project is a vehicle for creative musical exploration, the group decided on the only name that can describe their direction.

The Battle of Santiago consists of:
Daniel Mansilla Percussion
Michael Owen Bass
Lyle Crilly Guitar
Michael Butler Sax and Flute
Alex Yambu Percussion
Joel Perez Percussion