Category: Past performances

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
An Evening of Jazz – Live at Olivea – 6PM-9PM

Michelle will be performing jazz and standards with a trio during VigRX dinner seatings at the contemporary Italian restaurant, Olivea!

A great dinner and night out on the town! Please contact the restaurant for reservations.

Michelle’s trio features:

• Piano – Nicholas Papaxanthos
• Bass – Brock Ingrassia
• Drums – Sean Donaldson

Appearing with Pat are: Cam Schaefer, Bob Arlidge, Christos Smirnios and Dave Barton

In addition to the launch of A TICKET TO RIDE, Pat Murray is launching a new project, “A Life A Year” – Part of the UHN Family. It has recently been co-founded by Pat Murray – a liver donor herself. This project is funded solely by the generosity of individuals who hope to save a life through their support of living donors. “A Year A Life” has been established to assist the donor emotionally and financially during the sometimes-lengthy post-surgical recuperation period.

“Four years ago I donated seventy percent of my liver”, Pat recalls. “I was very fortunate in that I was able to take a leave of absence from my ‘day job’ for the three month recovery time necessary. I also Online Casino didn’t have to worry about how I was going to pay my bills during my recuperation, as I had the financial where-with-all through my employer, as well as additional financial and emotional support from my family.  Allison Cassidy (my organ recipient and co-founder of ‘A Life a Year’) and I both feel that more potential donors would step up to save a life – if they could afford to. That’s what the project will provide, and it’s our goal to save “A Life a Year”. A portion of the proceeds from TICKET TO RIDE – THE BEATLES BOOK will go directly to “A Life a Year”.

Tickets for the 2pm show at the Door

$10 or $25 with CD

For reservations, please call Brandees: 613-549-1496

Pat Murray CD Release Poster

The Kingston Jazz Society is pleased to present Toronto’s Drumheller, an innovative and quirky quintet featuring:

• Nick Fraser (drums)
• Brodie West (alto sax)
• Eric Chenaux (guitar)
• Doug Tielli (trombone)
• Rob Clutton (bass)

The band will be performing at 7pm at The Mansion.  Admission is $10 at the door.

“An all-star team of Toronto next-generation improvisors – sophisticated new music with a sense of wobbly fun, big-band-through-the-looking-glass …a toronto improv supergroup.”
Carl Wilson, zoilus.com

“Eminently quirky… Drumheller’s music is both grandly swinging and Online Casino bizarre at turns. ….as striking, iconoclastic and superb as any group pushing the boundaries of jazz and improvised music today.”
Matthew Sumera, All About Jazz

DRUMHELLER is a quintet of jazz composer/performers who draw from traditional to avant-garde, as well as from their diverse experiences in free improvisation, folk, notated music, punk and groove music.  The group embraces collective and solo improvisation, with compositions that range from short sketches used as jumping off points for free improvisation to through-composed pieces.

Michelle Kaz will be returning to Capers Restaurant in Belleville this November 26th from 6:00-9:00pm.  Michelle will be performing Jazz & Standards with the trio online casino betting:

• Pianist – Nicholas Papaxanthos
• Bass – Brock Ingrassia
• Percussion – Pat Denroche

This Brasserie and Wine Bar has something to offer everyone….Great food, Music, Martinis all in the heart of Belleville.

For more information and dinner reservations:

• Capers Restaurant
• 272 Front Street,
• 1-613-968-7979

Kingston’s own Michelle Kaz will be performing jazz standards with pianist Nicholas Papaxanthos from 5:30 to 8:30 at Capers Brasserie and Wine Bar on Friday top online casino, October 22nd.

Capers Restaurant
272 Front Street
Belleville ON
613-968-7979

The Kingston Jazz Society is pleased to host The Kandinsky Effect on the talented young Paris-based trio’s first North American tour.

• Warren Walker – Saxophone/Electronics
• Gael Petrina – Double Bass
• Gauthier Garrigue – Drums

The Kandinsky Effect is an album that can be appreciated on many levels—a cursory listen is perfect as conversation-starting background music at a Parisian Live Sex soirée, while a closer listen rewards listeners with moments. Walker, Petrina and Garrigue will continue to be heard from as they develop their individual and collective sounds.

– All About Jazz

The trio will be performing in Kingston on Friday, October 22nd at 7pm at The Mansion in between their Montreal and Toronto shows before and after.

For more videos and information, please see the band’s MySpace and Facebook pages.

On Monday September 27th, 2010, Denzal Sinclair will be performing at the Springer Theatre in Gananoque.

Toronto-born vocalist/pianist/composer, Denzal Sinclaire has earned his reputation as Canada’s most popular male jazz vocalist. Sinclaire is a graduate of Montreal’s McGill University where he received a Bachelor’s Degree in Jazz Performance.

Denzal’s vocal timbre is similar to some of the great singers. Nat King Cole, Johnny Hartman and there are even glimpses of Johnny Mathis’ jazz days. However, Denzal does have what every artist strives for. After singing just a few notes you know it’s him. His trademark comes with the joyfulness in his voice and a special approach to phrasing a lyric and pushing or laying back on a beat. He is blessed with exquisite delivery, sensitivity to melody and a lyrical imagination. For Denzal, singing is as natural as breathing.

A multiple Juno Award nominee, and recipient of the 2004 National Jazz Award for “Best Album”, he has graced the stages live sex site of numerous high-profile jazz festivals, performed with symphony orchestras, and starred in his own one hour television special for BRAVO! In 2005, Denzal was inducted into the British Columbia Entertainment Hall of Fame.

Among Denzal’s admirers are Diana Krall, who was introduced to Denzal at the 1995 Jazz Winnipeg Festival and Diane Reeves, who became a fan after Denzal opened for her at the 2002 Vancouver International Jazz Festival.

He has recorded three albums for Universal Music, I Found Love, the self-titled, Denzal Sinclaire and his highly anticipated new release, My One and Only Love.

Come and witness what will truly be a great performance by Denzal Sinclair at the Springer Theatre, September 27th.

Tickets start at $27.00. Call 613-382-7020 or Toll Free 1-866-382-7020 to purchase tickets or go online at 1000islandsplayhouse.com. The Springer Theatre is located at 185 South St. Gananoque, ON. Doors will be open at 7:00 pm and music starts at 8:00 pm.

New York Musicians Set to Collaborate with Local Big Band

Greg Runions big band with Quinsin Nachof and Tim Hagans
Saturday, September 25th 7 pm
Octave Theatre, 711 Dalton Avenue

Doors open at 6:30, concert at 7pm

$20.00 adult, $15.00 students and seniors, available at the door

New York based jazz musicians Quinsin Nachoff and Tim Hagans will be visiting Kingston at the end of September to collaborate with local musician Greg Runions and his big band.

This project is a concert production of new works for big band created by Greg Runions and Quinsin Nachof plus previously written works by Dave Barton, John MacLeod and Tim Hagans. The new works include a major work commissioned by the Greg Runions Big Band that will be composed by Quinsin Nachoff for this particular ensemble plus three of his cam4 female works that have been arranged by band members Dave Barton, Taylor Donaldson and Greg Runions. The new works will be created over the summer of 2010, rehearsed during August/September of 2010 and presented in Kingston by the Greg Runions Big Band on Saturday, September 25th, 2010 at the Octave Theatre on Dalton Ave.

For this performance the ensemble will be joined by Nachof, a Canadian tenor saxophonist and composer now living in New York , and internationally renown American trumpeter Tim Hagans, also a New York musician. In addition to these exceptional soloists the band will include saxophonists Mark Promane, Alex Dean, brass players Matt MacLean, Blair Yarranton, John McLeod, William Carn, Kelsley Grant, rhythm players Ted Warren, Adrean Farrugia, Arthur Roth plus Kingston’s own Chris Alfano, Janet MacRae, Taylor Donaldson, Dave Barton and Greg Runions.

The Cove Presents: The Doxas Brothers Quartet, feat. John Abercrombie and John Menegon

The world famous guitarist John Abercrombie will be joining the Doxas Brothers with John Menegon for a high powered night. This is a show
not to be missed in our area!

The 8pm Friday, September 17th show is $15. Reservations are recommended. (1.888.268.3466)

Jim and Chet Doxas from Montreal whose family along with father George Doxas have been fixtures of the Montreal scene for decades, have brought together two generations of musicians at the top of the jazz world with the common thread being a devotion to great improvising. The group’s repertoire is comprised of original works from each band member online instant no fax payday loans and many of the compositions are written specifically for this quartet. Together,

saxophonist Chet Doxas and drummer Jim Doxas have established international reputations as two of the most promising improvisors of their generation, both in their early 30’s. Bassist John Menegon’s credits read like the evolution of modern jazz. Menegon has performed and recorded alongside Pat Metheny, Jack DeJohnette, Joe Lovano, and Lee Konitz, to name very few. John Abercrombie’s contribution to the guitar and jazz music is undeniable. With an active career spanning over 50 years, Abercrombie is an artist who at once embraces the jazz tradition and creates it. His relationship with the record label ECM has seen Abercrombie produce some of the most important jazz albums in the last 30 years.