Emily Bruce - This Love We Share

Vocalist and final year jazz student at the SA College of Music Emily Bruce has just released her debut CD This Love We Share. A packed Nassau Centre in Newlands recently saw the birth of “her baby” as she affectionately refers to her record.

The cd is a milestone for Bruce, who has plied her trade on the local professional music circuit since the late 1990s just after matriculating. An entirely self-funded project, the album sees Bruce paying homage to influences that have helped shape her talent.

Taking her cues from the great voices of the jazz era, Bruce chose a mixture of all-time great and memorable classics to adorn the album. From timeless ballads like “Beautiful Love” to Carlos Jobim’s “How Insensitive”, she reveals a matured selection of music and brings heightened emotional energy to every song.

Recognised as one of the country’s most promising young jazz voices, Bruce remains a regular on the music circuit and often performs with the city’s top musicians at venues like the Green Dolphin and Kennedy’s Cigar Bar.

This Love We Share is obtainable from Emily.

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Deborah Tanguy - jazz vocalist, performer, teacher & recording artist

DEBORAH TANGUY is one of the leading contemporary jazz and improvising music artists in France. She is an accomplished and award-winning performer of a variety of musical styles, including mainstream and contemporary jazz, funk, big band and popular music. Ms Tanguy is frequently engaged as a performer, bandleader and recording artist in her home country.

Ms Tanguy’s major awards include: Winner of the Young French Jazz Talent (2002); Best jazz singer at the Crest Jazz Vocal competition in 2001; and nominated as one of the 5 international discoveries of the jazz festival of Juan-les-pins in 2004.

In France she has collaborated with numerous renowned names in the French music industry, including composer-leader Glenn Ferris, big band leader-pianist Antoine Herve, pianist-composer Carine Bonnefey and more recently pop producer Shazz with who she recorded the album Beautiful for Universal Records.

Ms Tanguy leads her jazz ensemble the Deborah Tanguy Quintet, which recorded the album Out of the Blues in 2001. In 2005 she recorded the music of Carine Bonnefoy with the renowned Netherlands Metropole Orchestra under maestro Vince Mendoza, released in February 2007 under the title Outre-Terres/Overlands. Her second solo album is currently in production and features a French ensemble and South African great Carlo Mombelli.

Tanguy is in demand as a vocal teacher and coach in a variety of contexts, from schools to conservatories, university and private tutoring. Her focus is vocal ensemble and individual teaching.

Ms Tanguy has been a frequent visitor to Cape Town since February 2003, first as a guest of Jazz at the Nassau for a series of feted public performances, followed by several teaching stints at UCT by special invitation of the head of jazz studies, Professor Mike Campbell.

She has become a regular on the city’s music scene, often performing at renowned city venues like the Green Dolphin, Manenberg’s, Zula Bar, Winchester Mansions, The Table Bay Hotel, with many of SA’s most renowned music performers, including Mike Campbell, Darryl Andrews, Mike Rossi, Shannon Mowday, Andre Petersen, Clement Benny, Wayne Bosch, Mike Perry and Alvin Dyers. Her performance highlights in SA include performances for the Awesome Big Band at the National Jazz Festival (2005-2006) in Grahamstown; vocalist in Shannon Mowday’s Galumphing at the Cape Town International Jazz Festival (2005-2006), The Joy of Jazz Festival, Jhb (2006) and the Baxter Concert Hall; and performing the music of Michel LeGrand with the Darryl Andrews Big Band especially commissioned by Jazz at the Nassau (2006). She is a founding member of SAFRA (South Africa-France Jazz Band), an all-female SA-France music collaboration, performing original work, which made its debut at the famous New Morning jazz club in Paris (Sep. 2006). The group is set to tour South Africa in 2008.

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SACM Jazz Festival 2007

The annual SACM Jazz Festival will take place from Thursday 11 to Saturday 13 October and will feature several of the young generation of jazz musicians studying or teaching at UCT’s SA College of Music. This year’s festival is marked by the presence of several piano and vocal-led groups.

The line-up on the opening night will feature the Chris Engel Quintet (led by saxophonist Chris Engel, recently returned from a year studying in Norway), and bands led by ace French jazz vocalist Deborah Tanguy and pianist Wandile Molefe’s quintet.

The Friday night line-up will see the debut of vocalist Nicky Schrire’s quartet (featuring a rhythm section consisting of Chris Engel, Bokani Macha, Shane Cooper and Andre Swartz), exciting improvising vocalist Zak Moleshe and his band Shape Shifting; the Bokani Macha Trio performing original compositions in the spirit of great South African composers like Bheki Mseleku and Abdullah Ibrahim. Vocalist Emily Bruce who has just released her debut album This Love We Share, will be backed by the Alvin Dyers Trio.

The festival finale on 3 October will see another young vocalist Nomfundo Xaluva making her mark with backing by Jonathan Rubain (bass), Kyle Shepherd (piano) and Andre Swartz (drums), performing a programme of South African songs. The UCT Big Band directed by Darryl Andrews will close the festival with a set of original and standard repertoire.

All performances will take place in the Chisholm Recital Room at UCT’s SA College of Music. Tickets will be on sale at the door at a cost of R40 (general public); R25 for students; Free entry for all UCT students.

Secure parking available.

Enquiries: 021-650 2640/37

SACM Jazz Festival: 11 - 13 October

Thurs 11 Oct 2007 20:00

1.Chris Engel Group - piano, bass, drums, sax, guitar

2.Deborah Tanguy Group: featuring Shane Cooper, Andre Swartz

3.Wandile Molefe Quintet (trp, sax and rhythm)

Fri 12 Oct 2007 20:00

1. Nicky Schrire Quintet - voice - The group will play standard jazz repertoire.

Nicky Schrire is currently a 3rd-Year jazz vocal student at the South African College of Music, University of Cape Town. She has studied saxophone with Bob Mowday and Shannon Mowday and has had vocal training with Anthea Haupt, Amanda Tiffin, Dominique Eade, David Devoe, Kate McGarry, Gretchen Parlato and Natascha Roth. She has attended vocal masterclasses with Sheila Jordan, Madeline Eastman, Dena DeRose, Sara Leib and Deborah Tanguy. Nicky was selected as first tenor saxophonist in the 2004 Standard Bank National Youth Big Band and played baritone saxophone in Dr Abdullah Ibrahim's Cape Town Jazz Orchestra. In 2007 Nicky was accepted into "Jazz in July" at UMass, Amherst and the Stanford Jazz Workshop. Nicky has also performed with Junction 021, James Frank and the Sticky Triggers, Darryl Andrew's DA Band, Vaughn Fransch's KGB Band, Anything Goes, the UCT Big Band, Mike Campbell Big Band, Aviva Pelham, Virginia Davids and Pauline Malefane, Mike McCullagh and Johnny Cooper's Official Glenn Miller Orchestra.

Tonight Nicky will perform with Christopher Engel (saxophone), Bokani Macha (piano), Shane Cooper (bass) and Andre Swartz (drums).

2. Zak (Sakhile Molesh) 'Shape Shifting' (5 piece) Rhythm section, horn and voice

3. Bokani Macha Trio

4. Emily Bruce & the Alvin Dyers Trio

Sat 13 Oct 2007 20:00

1. Nomfundo Xaluva Quartet
Bass, Jonathan Rubain, piano, Kyle Shepherd, Drums, Andre Swartz - a performance of South African songs

2. UCT Big Band featuring students and singers from UCT under direction of maestro Darryl Andrews.

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Alistair Andrews - Bass Player - Profile

Alistair Andrews is a professional bass player and bass clinician.

He specialises in multi-string basses. He plays Warwick custom 6 string fretted and fretless, as well as 12 string fretless basses.Besides his own band he plays for the Alvin Dyers Project among others.

He was born in 1960 and started listening to funk, jazz, African music, classical, rock and fusion already at a young age. His father played jazz guitar and banjo and was a strong influence on him. Jaco Pastorius would later become a major musical influence for him.

As a professional bass player, Alistair played with International greats such as Phil Driscol, Efrain Toro, Alvin Dyers, Winston Mankunku, Richard Schilder and Harold Jephta.

He released his debut album "Your Unconditional Love." in 2000. The next one is on its way.

He also plan to collaborate with various musicians from all over the continent to work on world music projects.

links:

http://www.alistair.co.za/
http://myspace.com/alistairandrews
http://www.activebass.com/teachers/item.asp?i=370
http://www.bassplayers.co.za/interviewalistair-andrews.html

http://www.warwick.de/modules/frame/frame.php
http://www.swrsound.com/

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Mark Fransman - 'Akoustik,not'

Renowned pianist and producer Mark Fransman, winner of the prestigious SAMA awards will be returning to the popular jazz night with ' Akoustik,not' at Armchair Headset on Thursday 27th September 2007 to perform his new compositions.

Mark Fransman's musical career has developed into international status through frequent touring all over the world. This includes Euro De Afrique festival in Italy and North Sea Jazz Festival in The Hague, Holland. Within music, he is a well known for his talents as a pianist, saxophonist and composer. His involvement with projects such as Tribe, Restless Natives, Strait and Narro and Bruce Muirhead Quartet are evidence of his ability and talent within South African music. The reviews he has received from this have been affirmative of his forte as Jazz Rendezvous stated: 'The man has a bright future on the jazz scene in South Africa but it is the world he needs to conquer because his talent is too large for one country'. Within music production Mark has also worked with various record labels and artists such as Moreira Chonguisa and Jimmy Dludlu on their albums, which later led him onto him winning 2 SAMA awards.

His performance at 'Armchair Headset is a unique opportunity to see Mark show his ability as a performer and a composer. All music performed on the night will be his original compositions with elements of jazz and free improvisation using Saxophone, Bass Clarinet and Eastern Gongs. He will be performing with Charles Lazar and Sean Johannes on Double Basses and Heinrich Goosen on Drums.

Armchair Theatre can be found at 135 Lower Main Road, Observatory. Doors open at 9.30pm and costs R30. For more information please
contact: Lee Thomson on 0827756868. To find out more about Mark Fransman please visit: www.myspace.com/markfransman

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Pat Metheny Trio - South Africa

The Pat Metheny Trio featuring Christian McBride on bass and Antonio Sanchez on drums will tour South Africa in November 2007.

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John Russell - Jazz Guitarist - Profile

A full time Guitar Tutor and freelance guitarist in the Jazz genre, John has performed with, among others, Emily Bruce, Denay Willie, Basil Moses, Lionel Beukes, Mike Horne, Andrew Lilly, Alistair Andrews, Kevin Gibson, Wesley Rustin and Heinrich Goosen. He has performed at top venues such as The Mount Nelson, the Arabella Sheraton, Green Dolphin Restaurant, Baxter Theatre, Nassau Centre and the Table Bay Hotel. He is a regular and popular performer at the legendary Monday Night Jazz Jam at Swingers.

John currently resides in the city of Cape Town.

Cell: 072 361 2024

E-mail: jrussell@telkomsa.net

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Jazz Impressions 2007

If you have not attended any of the Jazz Impressions concerts at the Green Dolphin this year, then this Wednesday's (29 August 2007) is one not to be missed.

This week will feature three vibrant young but experienced jazz outfits namely:

• Saxophonist Lendrick Boesak's band


• Trumpeter Lwanda Gogwana's band


• Bassist Jonathan Rubain's band

Be there! Support the new Jazz Generation!
The music starts just after 20:00

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Brothers With Voices

After the huge success of our last music concert, sold out to overflowing, The Kronendal Music Academy of Hout Bay is pleased to announce our next performance on the 30th of August 2007.
Brothers with Voices was started by Mswandile Mtjobile in 2001, in Imizamu Yethu, Hout Bay.

Mswadile has always had a passion for singing, since he started grade 2 at his primary school in Tarkastad, in the Eastern Cape. By 2004 he had a 10-man strong choir and they have performed since for Township Tours, funeral, weddings and general public concerts in Imizamu Yethu. They are well-known in the Hout Bay community and are often called upon to perform at school concert (such as the Diverse Cultures Concert held at Kronendal Primary School in term one of this year). Two of the choir members have had to leave the choir this year but the remaining 8 voices are powerful enough to compensate for the loss at present.

In April 2007 Mswandile approached the Music Academy for vocal training for the choir as well as tuition for the choir members in possibly one or two instruments. He felt certain that this would enhance their performance capabilities and also improve their talents.

We so appreciated this show of initiative that we immediately sought a way to help this acapalla group. As a fledgling NPO we don't have the funds to put these gentlemen through formal training and decided to offer them a benefit concert to be held in August to see to that end.

We believe at the Academy to provide only the highest standard for our pupils and have gratefully secured the services of several professional musicians to provide backing instrumental accompaniment for the group. Further to this we have a children's choir consisting of children from the different communities of Hout Bay who will perform on some of the songs with Brothers. We have also provided the services of highly respected vocal trainer from UCT, Ms Anthea Haupt, to teach the acapella group vocal skills and strength training until the concert.

Please note that the Academy will take no cut from this concert, our costs for the concert will be covered by sponsorship and ticket sales.

We believe that by taking the initiative of approaching the Academy to empower themselves, Brothers with Voices deserves an opportunity to realise their dream. We appeal to you to support this wonderful cause, so spread the word and tell ALL your friends and family!!

WHEN: Thursday 30th August 2007
WHERE: Kronendal Primary School, Andrews Rd, Hout Bay
HOW MUCH: R50 for adults and R25 for students and pensioners

For more info, please contact the Academy on 082 331 4062 or
dwynne@intekom.co.za

Many musical thanks!

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Cape Town Jazz Radio

There are some radio presenters who make out some jazz artists appear to be only "one hit wonders". They know only one or a few songs of a jazz artist and only these songs that they know get played repeatedly.(Maybe they get told what to play).

Trumpeter Don Cherry said "When people believe in boundaries, they become part of them."

I do believe that there are some creative presenters and that they do have a choice to play what they want to play. It is that simple

"Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple"
Charles Mingus

Luckily, there is some relief. Eric Alan has compiled a good summary of radio jazz shows that can be tuned into from Cape Town. Get it here.

If you know of any more, let Eric know.

Happy listening.

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