2nd Night at the Jazz Fest

2nd night out with my dear companion at the Jazz Fest. No big wins like opening night, but nothing bad either.

Started out at the Roundhouse with In the Country, interesting with very lovely voices and harmonies. Bounced to the Venue on Granville for Jaga Jazzist great band, reminded me a little of Frank Zappa at his brassy best.  

I was not so much impressed by the venue (Venue) small version of the Commodore felt too tight nowhere to sit for a bit and an over packed dance-floor. My dear companion, who loathes the Commodore, declared it quite nice!  :/

Final stop was the Vogue for Blonde Redhead.  Opening for them was the Luyas, cool little band. Jessie Stein, the lead singer/guitarist hits the stage with plenty of energy.  Very "art of noise" with a dose of industrial thrown in.  I liked it.  Blonde Redhead, very interesting stuff, very sensual, got the crowd up and crowding the stage. Not what I normally listen to but very cool.

Today we'll check out Koptor and I have tickets for Steve Earle! 

Talk to you later.

Sunday June 26 - Jazz Vespers at 4 pm

I'm posting this on behalf of my dear friend Tiff: 

Sunday June 26 - Jazz Vespers at 4 pm. This becomes a congregational participation event.

West Vancouver vocalist, Tiffany Hambrook, will lead an old-fashioned gospel sing-along service, fronting a five-piece band with Peter Vanderhorst at the piano.
It is expected that this will become an annual event. 

A $10 donation will be appreciated.

Opening Night of the Jazz Festival

Opening night at the 2011 Jazz Festival!

Brilliant night, started off with Peter Brötzmann FULL BLAST fierce, aggressive and skilled from the initial blast from Brötzmann's saxophone to the encore. My dear companion and I went out of the Roundhouse vibrating.

Jumped on the Canada Line and rode up to the Vogue Theatre, one of my favourite theatres in the world to see THE LOST FINGERS. Interesting gypsy jazz, using old pop tunes as a base, fun but not really our thing.  Great crowd though, a mostly full house that was there to see them. bounced out of there to catch a bus to Performance Works on Granville Island .

We caught the show of the night there, Dan Berglund’s Tonbruket. Just wonderful! Propulsive, driving one minute, lyrical the next and pulling you with the whole way.  Two standing ovations; one, long encore and a strong desire to buy a CD (which we did not see). Cab home and sleep, do it again tomorrow (today).

Go see some Jazz!