• MyPE
  • My Nelson Mandela Bay
  • Port Elizabeth Business Directory

Your Ad HERE

Your Ad HERE

My Port Elizabeth

  • Team
    • MyPE
    • Google News
    • NMBT
    • Bing News
    • Uitenhage.org.za
    • NMBBC
    • The Herald
  • Contact
  • Accommodation
  • #PE on Instagram
  • Submit News
  • Weather
  • Directory
  • 20 February 2019
You are here: Home / MyPE / International guest stars headline Mainstream Jazz at Fest

International guest stars headline Mainstream Jazz at Fest

16 May 2013 By MyPortElizabeth

The Standard Bank Jazz Festival, Grahamstown 2013 incorporates a variety of disciplines into their programme. Mainstream is one of the genres that will be highlighted at the festival this year, though it is just one part of the formidable line-up which includes Blues / Funk / World Music, Afro-Jazz, Modern Jazz and Youth.

Trombonist Steve Turre of the Juilliard School of Music, New York, has played and recorded with many artists around the world. These include Dexter Gordon, McCoy Tyner, Roland Kirk, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ray Charles, Max Roach, Horace Silver, Carlos Santana, the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, the Mingus Big Band, JJ Johnson and hundreds of others, but his most iconic performances were probably with Dizzy Gillespie’s United Nation Orchestra where he shot to prominence on both trombone and shells. He has won the Down Beat Readers’ poll five times as Best Trombonist and has enthralled audiences with his performances on different sized conch shells. Turre is an innovative musician and composer who keeps one foot in the past and one in the future. He adds zest to the Awesome Big Band, and his solo show is supported by a strong line-up compromising Marcus Wyatt (Trumpet), Bokani Dyer (piano), Hein van de Geyn (bass) and Kevin Gibson (drums).

One of the sell-out trademarks of the Jazz Festival in Grahamstown is the Awesome Big Band – a unique selection of top international jazz musicians in a standard Big Band format. A band of this nature is also known as a Jazz Orchestra for the dynamic and harmonic depth and contrast that arrangers can produce from 17 instruments, reminiscent of Classical orchestras but with the added power and energy that jazz exudes. This year’s band is conducted by Canadian trumpeter Bruce Cassidy, renowned for his quirky, powerful arrangements.

Regular audiences at the National Arts Festival will recognise Frank Sinatra Friends as a sequel to the series of earlier successes that have been conceptualised and conducted by maestro, Richard Cock. In 2011, Andrew Lloyd Webber Friends sold out within days of opening bookings. In 2012, Louis Armstrong Friends (2012) was presented in a larger venue and once again, the sold out show meant that a number of music enthusiasts had to be turned away. In 2013, Frank Sinatra Friends will have two perfor mances. In this concert, Nic Nicolaidis and Zwai Bala accompanied by the notable KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra will serenade audiences with melodies such as Fly me to the moon, I’ve got you under my skin, Fascinating Rhythm, Unforgettable and of course the singularly popular Sinatra signature song, My way.

AJ Brown is a young singer and saxophonist from Britain who is rapidly gaining a popular reputation around Britain. He has performed at the Wigan International Jazz Festival and Birdland Club in New York amongst others and was guest vocalist for the National Youth Jazz Orchestra in Britain. He has quickly mastered the tunes of the great crooners like Frank Sinatra, Michael Bublé and Nat King Cole and has begun producing his own compositions, which are eagerly received. He performs in Grahamstown with Kingsley Buitendag (piano), Gorm Helfjord (guitar), Romy Brauteseth (bass), and Kevin Gibson (drums).

Justin Binek is the Head of Vocal Jazz Studies at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia and maintains an active jazz and classical performing schedule as a singer, pianist, and clinician/adjudicator. He is a prolific arranger and composer and performs in Europe and the US. Paulien van Schaik studied voice at the jazz department of the Conservatory of Utrecht and Berklee College of Music in Boston, and has performed across Europe and in Japan and China. With their tasteful backing band, comprising Jason Reolon (piano), Ola Bengtsson (guitar), Shaun Johannes(bass), and Lloyd Martin (drums); their Vocal Celebration should prove heavenly!

Van Schaik also presents a show with fellow Dutch performer Hein Van de Geyn. Both musicians are on top of their game – masters of their instruments in a context so subtle the audience is spellbound. The critics agreed: “Hein and Paulien have stripped the music of all its frills. A courageous couple, for there is nothing to disguise them. Their interaction is of an ethereal beauty. This must be how angels sing.” Their second recording won an Edison Prize (Dutch Grammy Award). Cape Town percussionist Ronan Skillen joins them as guest.

This year will also see the establishment of the Standard Bank Jazz Blues Cafe at the Lowlander, St. Andrew’s College, which will end each night with a great jazz show and a late night jazz jam session or blues gig – a place where audiences can catch musicians letting off steam and butting musical heads late into the night, featuring the likes of Nduduzo Makhathini, saxophonist Dan Shout, Lee Thomson, Imbaula, and the Rick van Heerden Quartet.

The 39th edition of the National Arts Festival, Grahamstown will take place from 27 June to 7 July 2013.

For more information check www.standardbankarts.co.za or www.youthjazz.co.za

The Standard Bank Jazz Festival is presented with support funding from: Institut Français, the French Institute of South Africa and the Alliance Française, Paul Bothner Music, ProHelvetia, Royal Netherlands Embassy, Royal Norwegian Embassy, SAMRO, Swedish Arts Council / Swedish Jazz Federation / Mary Lou Meese Youth Jazz Fund and Jamey Aebersold Jazz.

The National Arts Festival is sponsored by Standard Bank, The National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund, Eastern Cape Government, Department of Arts and Culture, National Arts Council, City Press and M Net.

Steve Turre

Author: Fiona Gordon
Website: http://www.nationalartsfestival.co.za/

Article source: http://mype.co.za/new/2013/05/international-guest-stars-headline-mainstream-jazz-at-fest/

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Pinterest
  • More
  • Print
  • Pocket
  • Tumblr
  • LinkedIn
  • Reddit

Previous: Action Report Ward 5 – 29 April to 5 May 2013
Next: Multiple melodies at National Arts Festival


Filed Under: MyPE Tagged With: community, despatch, mype, nelson mandela bay, news, port elizabeth, uitenhage

Find a PE Business



About MyPortElizabeth

About Alan Straton: Passionate about Port Elizabeth and definitely NOT packing for Perth. Alan's ethos is epitomised in the words of Nelson Mandela; "I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the idea of a democratic and free society. If need be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."





Random PE News

Grand opening for Port of Ngqura

SOPA Expectations

Loans from Old Mutual at 5% interest http://fraudalert.co.za/loans-from-old-mutual-at-5-interest/ …

Condolences for E Cape accident victims’ families

Mthatha news: Nomonde Vakalisa’s accuser has been slammed as “liar”

Feeding crocodiles

Uitenhage in the news: Uitenhage residents protest

Faye Gatley in ‘An Intimate Affair’ with Andrew Young

South African mayor bans first class flights for public officials

Specialist detective for Ferguson’s rape probe against Jordaan

Watson unlikely for Port Elizabeth

Tree tells the story of car accident 15 years ago

4 referees dropped from Super Rugby matches

SEZ a trailblazer in the automotive industry

Best Photos near Fort Beaufort, South Africa – Incl. Hogsback – Madonna And Child Falls

Port Elizabeth in the News on 26 July 2012

PE Image – the nandos pair

SA Cultural Observatory cited by the UN

Finance minister Pravin Gordhan needs to put up or shut up on 100% black-owned bank

[LISTEN] DA in Nelson Mandela Bay says its doesn’t need the EFF for coalition

More PE Goodness

  • Accommodation
  • Submit News
  • Tour Port Elizabeth




RSS Cape Town News

  • Cape Town Image: Bunny Chow @ University of Cape Town
  • Cape Town Image: Tabernacle Welsh Baptist Chapel
  • Cape Town Image: Langa
  • Cape Town Image: An Open Sanctuary- Shakespear Park, Whangaparoa
  • Cape Town Image: Vulcan_98-17-4-

RSS Durban News

  • Durban Image: World Economic Forum Solutions Summit Public
  • Top-performing SAPS station ensures visitor safety at the 2019 South Coast Bike Fest™
  • Govt-funded youth centre rocked by abuse, racism allegations, almost 200 children removed
  • Huge Week Beckons – Featured Durban Blog
  • New appointments – Thobile Shange

RSS News from Johannesburg

  • Hello world!

Copyright © MyPE · Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa | Privacy Policy