ANNOUNCEMENT

www.banffcentre.ca/music

Jazz Clubs (May 21-24, May 28-31, June 4-7)
8 pm, The Club, Theatre Complex - Pay-what-you-can
Join us Tuesday-Friday for jazz club sessions in the intimate cabaret-style setting of The Club. Whether you drop in for one set or stay until the last note is played (often times around midnight), order a drink, pull up a chair, and enjoy the atmosphere of our Late Night Jazz clubs.

May 25 - Saturday Night Jazz Concert
8 pm, Rolston Recital Hall
Adult $15 Student/Senior $12 ● Arts Lover Passholders FREE
Tonight, we introduce many of the jazz musicians in The Banff Centre’s 2002 International Jazz Workshop. Don’t miss this chance to meet them all! A stimulating array of styles and sounds, straight from the soul.

June 1 - Saturday Night Jazz Concert
8 pm, Margaret Greenham Theatre
Adult $15 Student/Senior $12 ● Arts Lover Passholders FREE
Pianist Kenny Werner (BIO) headlines tonight’s concert with UK composer/instrumentalist Django Bates (BIO). A familiar face to Banff, Kenny Werner has been head of The Banff Centre’s Jazz Workshop since 1999. A newcomer to Banff, Django Bates is known for collaborating with a diverse range of artists from the classical, jazz, Indian and pop worlds.

June 3 - Wild Bill's Legendary Saloon
201 Banff Avenue, Downtown Banff
Doors open at 9:00, music starts at 9:30 ($3 cover charge at the door)
Join The Banff Centre jazzers as they move the music downtown to Wild Bill's.

June 8 - Saturday Night Jazz Concert
8 pm, Margaret Greenham Theatre at 8 pm
Adult $15 Student/Senior $12 ● Arts Lover Passholders FREE
Tonight, Dave Douglas (BIO), on trumpet, and Jim Black (BIO), on drums, take to the stage. These two acclaimed musicians always put on a lively show, and take the music to a whole new level!

Performances start at 8 p.m, and take place at The Banff Centre. 
Tickets are $15 adults, $12 seniors/students, and Arts Lover Passholders FREE. To reserve tickets, or for information on the Arts Lover Pass (see 60 events for $60!), call the Box Office at 762-6301.

Biographies:

Kenny Werner, piano
Kenny Werner attended the Manhattan School of Music as a concert piano major, and transferred to the Berklee School of Music in 1970. In 1977, he recorded his first LP that featured of the music of Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson and George Gershwin and later that year with Charles Mingus on Something Like A Bird. In 1981, Werner recorded his own solo album of original compositions entitled Beyond the Forest of Mirkwood-. The following year, Werner recorded the sounds heard coming from his Brooklyn-based studio - a hotbed of late-night jam sessions -- and titled the record after his address, 298 Bridge Street. In the early 80s he toured extensively and recorded with Archie Shepp. In 1984 he joined the Mel Lewis Orchestra. He was beginning to perform more and more in Europe and New York City as a leader and in duos with such notables as Rufus Reid, Ray Drummond and Jaki Byard. In 1981, he formed his first trio with bassist Ratzo Harris and drummer Tom Rainey. Their first trio CD for Sunnyside records was entitled, Ken Werner - Introducing The Trio. He would do another trio album for Sunnyside called Press Enter and a beautiful quintet album featuring Randy Brecker , Joe Lovano, and Eddie Gomez entitled, Uncovered Heart. The trio with Harris and Rainey was an association that would last 14 years and record two more albums, Guru (TCB) and Live at Visiones (Concorde) That trio was generally acknowledged as being the most creative, intense and innovative heard in a long time.
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Django Bates, composer/instrumentalist
Django performs world wide with his quartet Human Chain and nineteen-piece musical-juggernaut Delightful Precipice. He collaborates with a diverse range of artists from the classical, jazz, Indian and pop worlds. He recently composed My Dream Kitchen for Evelyn Glennie and a piano concerto What it's like to be alive for Joanna MacGregor. Future projects include his own circus project, Circus Umbilicus, and a keyboard concerto for the millennium 2000 years beyond UNDO. In 1997 he won The Danish Jazzpar prize, dubbed 'the Nobel prize of Jazz'. The fruit of which is quiet nights (Screwgun 70007) his sixth album in five years. 'It's more mellow than usual' says the madcap keyboardist and Eb horn player. It features the beguiling voice of young Swedish singer, Josefine Cronholm, together with the subtle textures of an exotic canvas and ambient electronica in the presentation of well-known pieces like Speak Low, Over the Rainbow and Duke Ellington's Solitude.
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Jim Black, drums
Jim Black has been playing drums for nearly 20 years. Born in 1967, Black grew up in Seattle, WA, playing music ranging from garage band rock to big band jazz. In 1985, Black went to Boston, MA to attend the Berklee College of Music and studied privately with Joe Hunt, Jeff Hamilton and Jeff Watts. During this time he recorded numerous albums, performed in Europe, and taught summer classes at Berklee. Since that time Black has toured with many diverse groups, including Tim Berne's bloodcount, Dave Douglas's Tiny Bell Trio, Ellery Eskelin, Ben Monder, Hiroshi Minami, and the groups Human Feel and Pachora as a co-leader and composer. Black appears on upcoming releases with Dewey Redman, Billy Drewes and Lee Konitz, and has recently worked with Fred Hersch, Herb Robertson, Jane Ira Bloom, Jerome Harris, Django Bates, Hank Roberts, Mark Dresser, Kenny Wheeler, Ray Anderson and Ed Schuller. Along with performing regularly in the U.S., Canada, Japan and Europe, he has been composing music for new recordings with Human Feel, Pachora, Hiroshi Minami and Carlos Blea.
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Dave Douglas, trumpet/composition
Dave Douglas has released fifteen CDs with eight different working ensembles. He has been named trumpeter, composer, and jazz artist of the year by such organizations as the New York Jazz Awards, Down Beat, Jazz Times, Jazziz and the Italian Jazz Critics' Society. Douglas' ensembles have toured worldwide since 1994, performing at major jazz and new music festivals in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Germany, Austria, France, Holland, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Poland, Slovenia, Switzerland, Finland and Estonia. Multi-day overviews of his music have been presented at Groningen Jazz Marathon, Koeln Musik Triennale, Vancouver International Jazz Festival and the New York Jazz Festival. In early 2000, Douglas released his most recent CDs: one entitled Leap of Faith as his last record on Arabesque Recordings and Soul on Soul: celebrating Mary Lou Williams, as his first record on RCA Victor. A Thousand Evenings, the second recording with his group Charms of the Night Sky, was released on RCA Victor in October 2000. His next recording was released on RCA in September 2001 with his ensemble Witness.
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