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Let's talk about tomorrow

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Will Chernoff

Will Chernoff

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Let's talk about tomorrow

When putting together October's gig list, tomorrow – this Saturday, October 15th – jumped out at me.

Let's walk through four of the 13 gigs on the list for this day coming up, and make the case for why you might want to check out each one.

Saturday, October 15 gigs

I've chosen these four personally, like curation of the curation that's already happening through the list's production. Take it with a grain of salt!

It's not Pat's Pub but it's working

  • 3:00 PM - La Fabrique St. George, Oliver Gannon, Sharon Minemoto, Darren Radtke

Sharon has brought Jazz at the Pat to Mount Pleasant, at the winery called La Fabrique St. George. The management there seems engaged with our music scene, and we're already over a month into the new location's weekend gigs. Just reading the names on this veteran trio, and thinking about the music I've witnessed from them over the years, puts me at ease. I'm sure they'll play lovely standards.

A guitarist on the rise

  • 11:00 PM - Frankie's, Ejazzbra Trio w/ Patrick Kao, Conrad Good, & Nicholas Bracewell

Patrick last appeared on the gig list in May at the Tangent, then in June at 2nd Floor Gastown.

I asked Patrick what he'll play. He said, "Maybe modern Brazilian guitar? The music is from people like Toninho Horta, Milton Nascimento, Daniel Santiago, contemporary musicians."

He also described the repertoire as "the music I’ve worked on ever since I graduated from Cap almost two years ago," so now's an interesting time to catch him.

Continuing on...

Two big tickets

Gordon Grdina is playing tonight at Tyrant, but his even bigger gig is the opening spot with Makaya McCraven at the Chan Centre. As Gord said in my interview with him, it's pretty special to have his larger ensemble Haram next to an also large, international touring ensemble.

But then there's the big show at the Bloosh. Which one do you hit? Fortunately, the two gigs are marketed quite distinctly. You've got one of the highest-profile improvisers in town at the Chan Centre, opposite a variety lineup led by Colin James – and Dee Daniels with the Sister Jazz Orchestra – at CapU.

Don't you know which one you'd prefer just based on that? Plus, who knows how many tickets will be left once this Update publishes.

Joe Coughlin flipped the naming

I reviewed Joe's album for you last month. In that review of his album, as emailed to you, he was "Coughlin". Normally Rhythm Changes uses first-name basis, but when writing about established people whom I haven't met yet, I retreat into surnames.

I wrote about how the album draws from John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman:

Within his album's 12 tracks, Coughlin has cut five of the six songs from that record. Oddly enough, the only one he's left out is my personal favourite, the one my high school friends and I used to cover, "You Are Too Beautiful".

And after he read it, the artist wrote back to me:

"Hi Will. Just wanted to say thank you for the nice write up in your newsletter. We did in fact record a version of “You Are Too Beautiful”, but we were concerned that the record was too ballad heavy. I promise to release it as part of a best of collection, when the time comes. Keep up the great work you do. Cheers, Joe"

So I flipped it to "Joe".

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