Friday, June 12, 2008, 8:30 p.m.
(doors open at 8 p.m.)
le Bistro (Inside Monsigneur de Laval School)
3850 Hillsdale Street
On February 3, 1969, the very day that Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper, and Richie Valens died in the plane crash that changed pop music forever, one of the events that changed jazz forever occurred. Later on that day, the Cannonball Adderly Quintet (actually the Miles Davis sextet without Miles), entered the studio and recorded the Cannonball Adderly Quintet in Chicago. To many jazz fans of the time, “the day the music died” (Don McLean – American Pie) was four years earlier when Charlie “Bird” Parker died.
1959 was an essential year in Jazz. Five phenomenal albums were recorded that year. They included:
- Miles Davis – Kind of Blue
- Charles Mingus – Mingus Ah Um
- Dave Brubeck – Time Out
- Ornette Coleman – The Shape of Jazz to Come
- John Coltrane – Giant Steps
These albums changed jazz forever.
1959 also brought the deaths of Billie “Lady Day” Holiday and Lester “Pres” Young.
The second of the Regina Jazz Society’s “Jazz Masters” series directed by Carlo Petrovitch features music be the following major influences in the jazz of 1959:
The first set will feature the music of John Coltrane, Dave Brubeck, Ornette Coleman, Bill Evans, Charles Mingus, & Horace Silver. The second set will be dedicated to Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue".
Carlo Petrovitch - Musical Director and Bass
Kevin Kasha - Trumpet
Carter Powley - Tenor Sax
Karl Valiaho - Alto Sax
Bryce Wiles - Drums
Jeff McLeod - Piano
Jerry Shen - Multimedia