Acknowledgements:
The Music Department Staff and students would like to gratefully acknowledge the following people, without whose assistance this district event could not possibly succeed:
Ms Peggy Bochun – District Fine Arts Coordinator
The Point Grey Music Student's Executive
And all of our student volunteers
The Point Grey Music Supporters’ Society
Point Grey’s dedicated Custodial Staff
The hard working Sound Crew
A note of courtesy:
Please do not enter or exit the auditorium during a performance.
Ushers will seat latecomers in the breaks between numbers.
As a courtesy to other audience members, please turn off cell phones and pagers.
Out of respect for our performers, please refrain from talking during the performance. Students are reminded that the foyer area is not soundproof. While waiting to enter the auditorium, please keep your voice low.
Camera and video recorders are welcome, but please restrict the use of your flash during the performance as it can distract the performers while they play.
Vancouver District
Jazz Festival
2015
Thursday, November 19, 2015
6:15-9:15 P.M.
6:15 – Eric Hamber Junior Jazz Band – Nick Francis
Minnie the Moocher – Cab Calloway and Irving Mills/ Arr: Ralph Ford
Solos: Julien Case (trombone);Yashar Tafazoli (drums);Benny Wong (trumpet)
At Long Last – Christian Overton
Solos: Albert Setiapoetra (alto sax); Karina Valcke-Beckett (trombone)
Sunday Drive – Jay Chattaway
Solos: Mark Hayden (alto sax)
6:30 – David Thompson Jazz Band – David Lamb
Softly As In A Morning Sunrise-Sigmund Romberg/ Arr: Mark Taylor
Solos: Tiffany Kuok (alto sax); Michael Lim (drums)
Send In The Clowns – Stephen Sondheim/ Arr: Dave Barduhn
Solos: Christy Lo (piano); Julian Ding (trumpet)
Blues In The Closet – Oscar Pettiford/ Arr: Mark Taylor
Solos: Angelica Lai (alto sax); Victor Chen (trombone)
6:45 – Magee Junior Jazz Band – Christopher Haas
Prime Time - Carl Strommen
Solos: Devon (trumpet); Jeff Naan (tenor sax)
Is That You? - Bryan Kidd
Solos: Jeff Naan (tenor sax); Koji Wong (trumpet)
Tangerine – Victor Schertzinger/ Arr. Peter Blair
Solos: Eddie Reay (trumpet); Jase Mulholland (trumpet); Emir Lin (trombone);
Jotham Villanueva (alto sax); August Zhang (tenor sax); Kayla Charchuck (alto sax)
7:00 –Point Grey Jazz Band B – Brent Taylor
Fancy Pants – Sammy Nestico
Solos: Curtis Cheong (Trumpet)
Mountain Aire – Maria Schneider
Solos: Liron Gertsman (trumpet)
Oh So Fine – Ryan Meeboer
Solos: John Carpenter (tenor sax)
Dennis Esson
Since moving to Vancouver in 1980, Dennis Esson has established himself as a highly respected and sought after trombonist for a wide variety of musical endeavors.
He has recorded music for cartoons, movies, jingles and soundtracks in addition to albums with many pop and rock groups such as Stephen Fearing, The Paperboys, Buddy Miles, The Salteens, Veda Hille and others. He has also been in the pit orchestras for Broadway shows such as “Chorus Line”, “The Full Monty”, and “42nd Street”.
As a jazz musician Dennis has recorded numerous C.B.C. sessions as a featured soloist. He is also the lead trombonist with groups such as the “Vancouver Ensemble of Improvisation (VEJI)”, “Orquesta Goma Dura”, “Jill Townsend Big Band”, “Hard Rubber Orchestra” and the “Fred Stride Jazz Orchestra”. Some of the musicians he has performed with include Kenny Wheeler, Phil Woods, Eddie Daniels, Marvin Stamm, David Foster, Maynard Ferguson, Natalie Cole, Clark Terry, Bud Shank, and Phil Nimmons. He has appeared and performed at all of the major jazz festivals across Canada.
In addition Dennis was the recipient in 1993 of a Canada Council of the Arts “B” grant to study jazz trombone in New York where he studied with Conrad Herwig, Steve Turre, Benny Powell and Slide Hampton. More recently he resumed his studies and completed a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Orchestral Performance from the University of British Columbia.
As a music educator Dennis has been the Jazz Trombone instructor at Capilano College since 1997 and has been the director of the UBC Jazz Ensemble 2 since 2000. In addition he has been on the faculty of the Courtney Youth Music Center since 2000 and prior to that time he was on the faculty of the Okanagan Summer School of the Arts from 1984-1999.
As an adjudicator Dennis has appeared at many festivals throughout B.C. and western Canada including Kelowna, Edmonton, Whistler, Surrey, Burnaby, and Vancouver. He has also performed clinics and master classes at universities, colleges, and secondary schools throughout Canada.
Jared Burrows
Dr. Jared Burrows is a guitarist, composer, and arranger based in Vancouver, BC. He leads his own jazz quartet and sextet, the Vancouver Improvisers Orchestra, and performs with a wide variety of jazz, world music, and new music ensembles in Vancouver, Oregon, and Washington including: Thunder Lizard, The Offering of Curtis Andrews, Michael Vlatkovich Quintet, Dave Robbins Electric Band, and Colin MacDonald's Pocket Orchestra. His musical interests and collaborations frequently extend beyond jazz into the traditional musics of West Africa, China and India.
Jared is the Jazz Studies Department Coordinator at Capilano University where he teaches improvisation, conducting, arranging, and directs large and small ensembles. Before coming to Capilano, Jared taught at Douglas College, SFU, University of Oregon, and the Stanford Jazz Workshop. Burrows is a relentless organizer on the Vancouver scene and has curated the Jazz at Presentation House concert series since 2008 and served as co-director of the annual South Delta Jazz Workshop and Jazz Festival from 2002-2013. He Holds a PhD in Arts Education from Simon Fraser University and a MMus in Jazz Studies from the University of Oregon. His academic research has been widely published and his recent collaborative work with economic historian, Dr. Clyde Reed, appears in the Oxford Handbook of Improvisation.
7:15 – Byng Junior Jazz Band – Lisa Lan
Wizard Wheezes – Nicholas Hooper/ Arr. Victor Lopez
Solos: Emma Best (trumpet)
I Heard It Through the Grapevine – Whitfield and Strong/ Arr. Peter Blair
Solos: Frances Daleon (tenor sax); Charles Zha (alto sax)
7:30 – Hamber Senior Jazz Band – Nick Francis
I Left My Heart In San Francisco - Cory and Cross/ Arr. Quincy Jones
Solos: Kagan Liu (tenor)
Spring Ain't Here – Pat Metheny/ Arr. Bob Curnow
Solos: Erin Mugford and Connor Hayden (alto sax); Ben Mumford (trumpet)
7:45 – Magee Senior Jazz Band – Chris Haas
Honeysuckle Rose – Fats Waller/ Arr. Greg Yasinitsky
Solos: Anastasia Kim (trumpet)
Fish 'N Grits – Jeff Jarvis
Solos: Ivy Lee (alto sax); Angel Tan (tenor sax);
Ivan Cheng (trumpet); Brian Wu (alto sax)
8:00 – Point Grey Jazz Band A. - Brent Taylor
It Had to be You – Gus Kahn and Isham Jones/ Arr. Peter Blair
Solo: Amber Tsang (alto – voice)
Switch In Time – Sammy Nestico
Solo: Jane Ye (trombone)
Arnge Drank (Orange Drink with Attitude) – Paul Baker
Solos: Nikki Yu (tenor sax); Harrison Bartlett (guitar)
8:15 –Templeton Secondary. – Alison Yau
C-Jam Blues – Duke Ellington
Solo: Jeremy Ha (trombone)
Girl fron Ipanema – Antonio Carlos Jobim
All of Me – Seymour Simons
Solo: Arlo Spring (piano)
8:30 – Point Grey Jazz Band C – Stephen Fleming
Maynard and Waynard – Gordon Goodwin/ Arr. Peter Blair
Solo: Do Young Kim (trumpet)
Angel – John L. (Wes) Montgomery/ Arr. Les Sabina
Solos: Mirna Marcetta (tenor sax); Elena Chen (piano)
8:45 Churchill Senior Jazz Band – Lucienne Siedlecki
Straight No Chaser – Thelonious Monk/ Arr. Rick Stitzel
Solos: Emilie Ho (piano); Michael Nakhleh (alto sax)
Flip Flop and Fly – Charles Calhoun and Lou Willie Turner/ Arr. Paul Cook
Solos: Boaz Leung (tenor sax); Bianca Chui (trombone); Ruben Cuesta Avila (drums)
9:00 – Gladstone Senior Jazz – Mike Braverman
Strike Up The Band – George Gershwin/ Arr. Lisa Despain
Solos: Jenny Chen (trumpet); Ivy Kuang; Michael Hong; Bretton Wong; Zoe Tsai
Neiah Montero
La Almeja Pequena – Gordon Goodwin/ Arr. Pail Baker
Solos: Michael Hong (tenor sax); Bretton Wong (piano)
Our Adjudicators
Brad Turner
Trumpeter, pianist, drummer and composer Brad Turner is one of Canada’s most indemand and highly esteemed jazz artists. Brad has performed and/or recorded with Joe Lovano, Bill Frisell, Kenny Wheeler, John Scofield, Reneé Rosnes, Ingrid Jensen, Dave Douglas, Mark Turner, Russell Malone, Ernie Watts, and Terell Stafford, among others, and his groups have opened for McCoy Tyner, Roy Haynes, Wayne Shorter, Diana Krall, Ahmad Jamal and Tony Bennett.
As a leader, Brad has released nine albums (three of them receiving Juno nominations) and was a Juno winner in 1997 and again in 1998 for his work with the electric jazz group Metalwood. Brad has been a jazz faculty member at Capilano University since 1992.