This year's JGHJAZZ will take place from June 28 - July 9.The eleventh edition is entitled
NOTES d'ESPOIR/HOPE NOTES
Hope is a prevalent sentiment at the hospital. Without it neither the staff not the patients would be able to survive.
This year, to honor the important role that women play in the hospital, especially in their beside encouragement of hope, the leaders of the musical groups are women. We are very fortunate in having many of the leading female musicians of Montreal. JGHJAZZ 11 is a meditation on Hope and how it fuels Care.
Schedule
All concerts start at 12:00 p.m.
The stage will be located outside Côtes-des-Neiges entrance (Main Lobby in case of rain)
Nicolas Caloia (July 7) http://www.nicolascaloia.net/ and www.myspace.com/nicolascaloia
Nicolas Caloia-double bass, Jean Derome-sax, Guillaume Dostaler-keyboard, Isiah Ceccarelli-drum
Nicolas Caloia was a student of Lisle Ellis and Fred Hopkins, like them he is interested in many different types of music. A long time member of Montréal’s avant-garde community, Nicolas Caloia has performed with local artists such as Malcolm Goldstein, Rainer Wiens, Sam Shalabi and Michel F Côté, as well as internationally renowned artists like Joe McPhee, Joe Giardullo, Steve Lacy, Hassan Hakmoun and Tristan Honsinger, with whom he has a soon to be released recording.
For many years he led, and recorded with his own group, the Ratchet Orchestra, a group dedicated to performing original music, as well as the music of Sun Ra. Since 1999 Nicolas has enjoyed performing and recording with Bansuri player Catherine Potter’s Dunya Project.
Helene Engel (July 2) http://www.helene-engel.com/
Une maîtrise en musicologie de l'Université de Strasbourg et un diplôme du Conservatoire de Cergy Pontoise confirment son talent. Parallèlement à ses études, elle débute dans les choeurs et des seconds rôles d'opéras classiques : Les Noces de Figaro; Carmen; La Flûte Enchantée; La Traviata.
Elle entraîne les auditoires les plus variés à travers les âges et les contrées, mais aussi à travers les genres et les rythmes, de la mélodie classique au chant traditionnel, de la chanson réaliste à la chanson enfantine, de la ballade au tango, du klezmer à la mélopée orientale.
Wired On Words and Music
Lori Freedman (June 28) http://www.lorifreedman.com/
Lori Freedman -clarinet with Nicolas Caloia-double bass, Joshua Zubot (violin).
“Conspicuously described as “a musical revolutionary in the front ranks of the avant-garde”, and with full throttle in both contemporary and improvised music streams she is known internationally for her provocative and creative performances and compositions. Over thirty composers have written solo bass clarinet music for her and her work has been recorded on 40 CDs, most recently Bridge (solo), Plumb (Freedman/Thomson duo), 3 (Montreal trios), À un moment donné (solo), Huskless! (solo), See Saw and Thin Air (Queen Mab Trio). She is a recipient of the Freddie Stone Award for “demonstrating outstanding leadership, integrity and excellence in the area of contemporary music and jazz.” Highlight collaborations have included Maurizio Kagel, Helmut Lachenmann, Rohan de Saram, Steve Lacy, Mark Dresser, Joëlle Léandre, Joe McPhee, Fred Frith and George Lewis. “… buck naked… relentlessly calling for attention… there is a swing and a tenderness in her playing… ” — François Couture, All music guide.
Kathy Kennedy (June 28 ) http://www.kathykennedy.ca/
Kathy Kennedy is a sound artist with a background in classical singing. Her art practise generally involves the voice and issues of interface with technology, often using telephony or radio. She is also involved in community art, and is a founder of the digital media center for women in Canada, Studio XX, as well as the innovative choral group for women Choeur Maha. Her large scale sonic installation/performances for up to 100 singers and radio, called "sonic choreographies," have been performed internationally including the inauguration of the Vancouver New Public Library and at the Lincoln Center's Out of Doors Series.
Her solo performances include a high level of improvisation over lush soundtracks of painstakingly mixed vocals and other sounds to create an immersive world of different voices.
Kim Zombik (June 28) http://www.kimzombik.com
Silvio Clauser Blues Band(June 29)
Silvio Clauser-voice, guitar, Raymond Monette-bass Jocelyn-drums
Damian Nisenson-Nozen (July 2) www.myspace.com / damiannisenson
Damian Nisenson, saxophones, composition, direction,Bernard Falaise, guitar,Jean Félix Mailloux, bass ,Pierre Tanguay, drums
Nozen's music is at the crossroads of contemporary jazz, musique actuelle and the Jewish musical traditions of eastern Europe, and this meeting of contrasting styles gives birth to a music at once spontaneous and profound.
Tanguay, Falaise and Mailloux, three of the busiest musicians on the jazz and contemporary music scene in Montreal, joined the multi-saxophonist and composer from Argentina Damian Nisenson to offer original melodies inspired by the klezmer and Hasidic traditions, processed in a decidedly contemporary context.
The result is a rich blend of sounds that leads us into a world where tradition and modernity meet, and suggests one of the ways in which Yiddish culture and its music in particular, could have evolved if 6 million of its performers, singers and dancers had not been annihilated during the Second World War. .” "What these Montreal artists, not just musicians, propose us, offer you, is absolutely extraordinary." Le Devoir (Montreal)
Catherine Potter-Duniya Project (June 30) http://www.catherinepotter.net/
Catherine Potter bansuri and composition with Nicolas Caloia-bass and Thom Gossage (drums)Zal Idrissa Sissokho (kora) Jean-Marc Hébert (guitare).
Catherine Potter is an accomplished bansuri player and composer and a longtime disciple of the legendary Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia with whom she learnt North Indian classical music in India. Based in Montreal, Catherine Potter has performed across Canada and inter-nationally and collaborates regularly with musicians of diverse cultures and styles.
As a composer, she uses her knowledge of North Indian classical music as her foundation in creating new and innovative original music. Her world music ensemble, Catherine Potter - Duniya Project, has garnered acclaim in Canada, Europe, and India and has been featured on CBC and Radio Canada. Catherine Potter has released two albums and is currently working on a third. 