The three Cs of jazz
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This article was published 17/05/2010 (5622 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Sunday night’s Collaborate… Create… Compose! was a jazz show with a dual purpose.
It was a concert of creative, collaborative music performed by a sextet playing a host of instruments, and a tutorial on the creative process of the four composers: Janice Finlay, Michelle Grégoire, Lianne Fournier and Danielle Baert.
If the detailed descriptions of the musical process went over some heads, the music itself was entertaining, mostly engaging and required listeners to pay attention.
The show was the last of Jazz Winnipeg’s Nu Sounds series at the Park Theatre and an apt way to close out series designed to promote and present, well, new sounds.
And it’s not every day you’ll hear instruments such as the alto flute, bass clarinet and bassoon on a jazz stage in Winnipeg. They don’t fit into the usual mix of trumpet, trombone and saxophones (although there were soprano, alto, tenor and bari saxes in the mix Sunday).
The music — two new compositions each by saxophonist Finlay, pianist Grégoire, vocalist Fournier and saxophonist Baert — ran the gamut from Fournier’s bebop-based Educology (based on the changes in Charlie Parker’s Confirmation, and a crowd-pleaser) to Baert’s New Intermezzo, a piece punctuated by Fournier’s wordless vocals and Julie Husband’s bassoon.
The composers (Baert didn’t perform) were joined onstage by Husband on a variety of woodwinds, bassist John Ervin and drummer Rob Siwik. The mix of instruments and their unusual sounds helped take the show above the ordinary, as did Fournier’s wordless vocals. Grégoire’s piano solos, such as on her Looking, and Finlay’s work on bass clarinet and tenor sax, especially on her composition Wheelin’ and Dealin’, were highlights of writing and performance.
There was a sense of the great arrangers Gil Evans or Maria Schneider in the use of instrumentation and colours, but underpinning it all was a crack band whose members live with new ideas and improvisation just about every time they go onstage. Granted, they expanded that Sunday night.