| Schedule
March
2010
*New
Dinner and Show Times for Fall Effective September 2009*
The
Trane Studio Opens at 6:00pm for Dinner
Performance/show
time: Monday to Thursday – 7:30pm
Performance/Show
time: Friday to Sunday – 8:00pm
*Times
and performances subject to chang - see schedule below for specific start-times
The Trane Studio is a cool
arts and jazz lounge nestled in the heart of the Annex in Toronto, a few
danceable steps from Bathurst subway station (Bloor line). Doors open @
6 pm nightly for dinner, with selections from a menu of succulent Southern
(Louisiana/Georgia) and Caribbean cuisine. The Trane offers seating for
up to 60 people (100 standing) in a warm and intimate space with high ceilings,
hardwood floors and exposed brick walls featuring contemporary art, rounding
out its décor.
Mon. March 1:
Closed
Tues. March 2:
Closed
Wed. March 3:
06:00pm:
Terry
Logan (solo piano)
Playing
choice standards on solo piano, Terry provides the perfect ambience for
dinner.
08:30pm: Folk Alarm
feat. Kevin Breit
Successfully bridging the
disparate genres of folk and jazz, Folkalarm has
performed at the Toronto,
PEI and Rochester Jazz festivals as well as many
folk festivals across the
country and numerous concerts and clubs in and
around Ontario. Formed 10
years ago, the band Jorn Anderson, Kevin
Breit,
and Russ
Boswell has recorded five CDs on Poverty Playlist and enjoys a
very solid following. Their
music is improvisational, fun, often spontaneous
and always grooves hard.
Audiences have always found themselves engaged
and engrossed in Folkalarm's
melodic instrumental interplay.
http://www.myspace.com/folkalarm
Cover: $10
Thurs. March 4:
06:00pm:
Terry
Logan (solo piano)
Playing
choice standards on solo piano, Terry provides the perfect ambience for
dinner.
08:30pm: Taylor
Cook Quartet
Vancouver
20 year old alto saxophonist Taylor Cooks - now in Toronto for jazz
studies
at University of Toronto - brings his young quartet to the Trane.
TaylorCook.com
Cover: $10
Fri. March 5:
08:00pm: Julia
Cleveland Quintet
Drummer,
composer, Julia Cleveland is an emerging Toronto jazz musician with
a
breadth of musical experience that makes her drumming and composing unique.
Currently,
Julia leads a very talented sextet featuring many of her original
compositions.
Julia has performed with numerous community orchestras and
symphonies
as well as jazz ensembles
JuliaCleveland.com
Cover: $10
Sat. March 6:
08:00pm: Santerias
Toronto
Sun's Errol Nazareth writes:
"If
Santerias were just another flamenco group, I wouldn't be profiling them
here today.
Toronto
band Santerias plays flamenco, yes, but their brand is so much more vital
and
alive.
Hot Salsa, and more...a potpourri of styles to create their own unique
sound.
There's
a hunger for a sound and a band that puts a nice twist to flamenco"
Santerias.ca
| MySpace.com/Santerias
Cover: $10
Sun. March 7:
7:30pm: TBA
Cover: $TBA
Mon. March 8:
08:00pm: Danjam
Orchestra
JazzFM's
Moreen Murray writes:
Danjam
Orchestra is the brainchild of young Daniel Jamieson, alto sax player,
composer
and now student at the Manhattan School of Music in New York...
An
international ensemble with some members hailing from as far away as
Australia...
DanJam.ca
Cover: $20, $15
students
Tues. March 9:
07:30pm: Acoustic
Soul open mic
hosted
by Black Lotus,
this is an evening for all to explore their soulful side.
MySpace.com/BlackLotusMedia
Cover: $10
Wed. March 10:
06:00pm:
Terry
Logan (solo piano)
Playing
choice standards on solo piano, Terry provides the perfect ambience for
dinner.
08:30pm: Jonathan
Bright and the Nuclear Bees
Influenced
in many ways by the pianist-songwriter tradition as well as the classic
American
songbooks,
Jonathan’s piano and vocal creations come to musical fruition in collaboration
with
his many counterparts. In a varied selection of musical endeavours, Jonathan
has been
featured
on CBC’s The Vinyl Cafe, and on CityTV's Breakfast Television - his charm
and
presence
on the stage, combined with his natural flair for swing, continue to wow
audiences
from
coast to coast.
JonathanBright.ca
Cover: $10
Thurs. March 11:
06:00pm:
Terry
Logan (solo piano)
Playing
choice standards on solo piano, Terry provides the perfect ambience for
dinner.
08:30pm: Lord
Bubba's Nu-Jazz Project
MySpace.com/LordBubbaNuJazzProject
Cover: $10
Fri. March 12:
Live
from NYC!
08:30pm: Tisziji
Munoz Quartet
Guitar
Player Magazine writes:
A
warmly sustained and lightly distorted guitar dances fluidly over a modally-inflected,
jazzy,
piano-bass-drums
rhythm section. On the surface, for a few moments, it seems a familiar
sound, c
ommon
to the last 3 decades of electric jazz. Something is truly different here,
though. The notes
and
intervals are somehow different - flying by in patterns that don't seem
to equate with any of the
normal
guitar fingering patterns and the rhythm breathes in some different way
that is beyond s
winging.
Clouds and torrents of lightening-fast notes are just slightly slurred
or bent to odd,
microtonal
intervals that are both different and somehow exactly right for the heavenly
musical
continuum
that they inhabit. The longer you listen - the more you realize that this
is something
unique;
both so familiar and so different at the same time, that you know you had
better take '
some
time to figure out what's going on.
--
::
Tisziji
Munoz - guitar www.Tisziji.com
::
Greg
Pilo - drums
::
Robi
Botos - piano MySpace.com/RobiBotos
::
George
Koller - bass MySpace.com/GeorgeKoller
--
Cover: $15
Sat. March 13:
Serious
People: A Black History Event
08:00pm: Shi
Wisdom, Ayo Lelani
& Amai Kuda
PLUS special guests!
"Turn
the Spotlight on Purpose and Reason" Produced by Toyin of TOVACO
TOVACO
Tribe is tapping into the Elders Circle and we will hear readings from
our Elders on
Purpose
and reason. Speaking to the strengths, images, conflicts and realities
of the "Black" citizen.
A
TOVACO Productions event.
www.TovacoProductions.com
| MySpace.com/idesouza
MySpace.com/AyoLeilani
| MySpace.com/Imaaji
Cover: $7 before
10pm, $10 after
Sun. March 14:
08:00pm: Kathleen
Gorman Group feat. Brownman
Accomplished
and innovative vocalist/pianist/composer Kathleen Gorman teams
up
with Trinidadian-born multi-award winning trumpet player Brownman for an
evening
of
jazz reinvention. Performing her own imaginative arrangements of reworked
pop
tunes,
hard-swinging original compositions and a selection of cool standards,
Kathleen
enlists
Brownman - one of the nation's most creative improvisers as her quintet's
featured
soloist.
Backed by an all-star cast of supporting musicians, this will be an evening
of highly
original
and dynamic genre-spanning music you won't want to miss.
The
Calgary Herald writes:
"A
brilliant composer and lyricist, the talented Kathleen Gorman invites us
on a journey
of
the heart, exposing universal intimacies which resonate from the opening
note"
The
NewYork Village Voice writes:
"Brownman...
Canada's preemient jazz trumpet player... one of the most energized &
unique
improvising voices on trumpet out there today"
--
::
Kathleen
Gorman - voice, piano, compositions KathleenGorman.com
::
Brownman
- trumpet Brownman.com
::
Jarek
Dabrowski - guitar MySpace.com/JarekDabrowski
::
Brendan
Davis - bass MySpace.com/bDavisMusic
::
Ernesto
Cervini - drums ErnestoCervini.com
--
Cover: $10
Mon. March 15:
07:30pm: Toronto
Jazz 15th Anniversary party
A
Toast to TORONTO JAZZ - well known T.O. jazz publication's founder and
editor: David Milbourne
TorontoJazz.ca
Cover: $10
Tues. March 16:
Humber College World Music Night
07:30pm: Waleed
Abdulhamid's Ensemble
10:00pm: Ravi
Naimpally's Ensemble
Featuring
two Humber World Music Student Ensembles: Ravi Naimpally's Indian Ensemble
and
Waleed
Abdulhamid's African Ensemble. These exciting ensembles are led by renowned
musicians
from
the Humber Collage faculty - Ravi Naimpally and Waleed Abdulhamid. The
ensembles will be
performing
original compositions by Ravi and Waleed, respectively.
Cover: $10, $5 students
w/ I.D.
Wed. March 17:
06:00pm:
Terry
Logan (solo piano)
Playing
choice standards on solo piano, Terry provides the perfect ambience for
dinner.
08:30pm: Julie
Crochetiere Quartet
Audiences
in North America and Europe rave about how moved they are after hearing
Julie’s
music. Whether they discover her songs live, on the radio or in a café
in Paris,
people
are taking notice of this talented up-and-coming, Montreal born singer-songwriter.
With
over 25,000 copies of her 1st album sold independently around the world,
a top 20
radio
hit song and countless award nominations, Julie’s star is on the rise.
JulieC.com
Cover: $10
Thurs. March 18:
06:00pm:
Terry
Logan (solo piano)
Playing
choice standards on solo piano, Terry provides the perfect ambience for
dinner.
08:30pm: Mac
Graham
Mac
Graham, formerly of the Canadian Pop/Vocal group the McAuley Boys, is the
third of four
brothers:
Gary, George, Mark (Mac) and Randy. His recording and performance career
spans
two
decades in the music industry. Credits include live appearances in
the United States,
the
UK, Australia (representing Toronto in the 2008 Olympic bid), and all across
his native
country
of Canada. His voice is featured on the chart-topping songs “Down Down
Down”,
“Without
Your Love” and the Andy Gibb re-make “I Just Want To Be Your Everything”,
all of
which
were released on the Juno Award nominated album, “In Another Lifetime.”
Mac has
enjoyed
sharing the stage with some of music’s greats including The Godfather of
Soul,
James
Brown, The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, The Temptations and Gladys Knight.
Mac’s
debut
release, “7 Grahams”, was a limited edition EP that spawned the smooth
lead-off
single
“You’ll Never Know”. In addition to garnering high global rotation on BET
Jazz, the
video
for the single was nominated for an MTV/HBO Urbanworld short film award
in 2006. His
sophomore
release, “Midnight”, co-written and produced with his brother Gary, features
a
cover
of the 1980’s smash hit “Bette Davis Eyes” that is already hitting the
airwaves and
ten
hot more electro-funk and soul cuts. Look for the new single “Push” to
draw attention
to
this hot Canadian gem in 2010.
http://MySpace.com/macgraham
| http://NickeOnline.com
| http://Parkdalefunk.com
Cover: $10
Fri. March 19:
08:00pm: The
Impressions Quartet
feat.
Waleed
Kush and
Neil
Brathwaite
Cover: $10 before
8pm.
Sat. March 20:
SUNar
New Year's Celebration (a.k.a. The Real Sun's B-day Bash)
07:30pm: The
Real Sun feat. Saidah
Baba Talibah, OBIE, Najla Edwards, Imaaji
A
night filled with beautiful music, inspiring people, and delicious food.
sun
a.k.a The Real Sun along with a stellar line-up of special guest performers
(Saidah Baba Talibah,
OBIE,
Najla Edwards, Imaaji) will be sharing soul stories
to take you on a journey of self-discovery,
love,
pain, healing, and growth. Through Spoken Word, Rap & Soul, these talented
singer/songwriters
and
poets will light up the evening with songs about the beauty of struggles
and triumphs.
The
event will feature new material from all of the artists, with never before
heard collaborative
pieces
and songs. Come celebrate the beginnings of new cycles with dinner
with the featured
artists
and then enjoy the show!
::
Saidah
Baba Talibah - voice www.sbtmusic.com
::
OBIE
-
voice www.Obie.ca
::
Imaaji
- voice MySpace.com/imaaji
::
Najla
Edwards - voice
::
Jef
Kearns - flute www.jefkearns.com
::
Beny
Esguerra - percussion MySpace.com/NewTraditionMusic
::
Sun
a.k.a The Real Sun - keyboard & guitar
www.TheRealSun.com
Facebook
Event
Cover: $10 advance,
15 door (email reservations@tranestudio.com for adv tix info)
Sun. March 21:
08:00pm: Ori
Dagan Trio's "Spring-a-ding-ding" event
feat.
Mark
Kieswetter (p) and Ross
MacIntyre (b)
Review
from the L.A. Scene Paper:
This
very impressive debut is a major step forward for Ori Dagan, who in a few
years will
probably
be very well known in the jazz world. His debut CD S'cat Got My Tongue
is
highly
recommended.
http://www.OriDagan.com
Cover: $10
Mon. March 22:
Closed
Tues. March 23:
07:30pm: Acoustic
Soul open mic
hosted
by Black Lotus,
this is an evening for all to explore their soulful side.
MySpace.com/BlackLotusMedia
Cover: $10
Wed. March 24:
06:00pm:
Terry
Logan (solo piano)
Playing
choice standards on solo piano, Terry provides the perfect ambience for
dinner.
08:30pm: Abracadabaret
Toronto
magician James Alan brings
his upclose magic show to the Trane
JamesAlan.ca
| www.AbraCadabaret.com
Cover: $10
Thurs. March 25:
06:00pm:
Terry
Logan (solo piano)
Playing
choice standards on solo piano, Terry provides the perfect ambience for
dinner.
08:30pm: TBA
Cover: $10
Fri. March 26:
08:30pm: Multifunktion
feat. Robi Botos
http://www.myspace.com/robibotos
Cover: $10
Sat. March 27:
08:30pm: Upendo
2010 - Part 1
The
Upendo is a five part series which is kicking off with something for our
Zouk lovers.
Following
afro fusion music from around the world, Dj Kyabu of Bunda Sounds will
be serving
up
the heat with seductive and infectious Zouk Kizomba house Kuduro and Kompa
rhythms.
Along
with hot Dj sets we will have live performances from: Nicola "NIX" Moore,
Ariza Muzik,
and
Rhythmplus.
MySpace.com/NicolaaMoore
| MySpace.com/AriaMuzik
| RhythmPlus.ca
Cover: $10
Sun. March 28:
08:00pm: Strange
Attractors
Acclaimed
tenor saxophonist Ryan Oliver,
recently back in Toronto after years in New York City,
joins
forces with one of Canada's top-shelf jazz trumpet players - Brownman
Ali, rarely in Toronto
amidst
global touring - to form the front line of this exciting new quintet dedicated
to exploring
the
sonic soundscapes of modern jazz with New York City intensity. The group
also features
Dave
Restivo - 5-time National Jazz Award winner
for 'piano player of the year'; Ernesto Cervini
on
drums - also recently returning to Toronto from NYC; and much in demand
upright bassist
Mark
Cashion.
Strange.Brownman.com
MySpace.com/RyanOliverJazz
| Brownman.com
MySpace.com/DaveRestivo
| ErnestoCervini.com
Cover: $10
Mon. March 29:
Closed
Tues. March 30:
07:30pm: Lifelines
Ensemble
The
Lifelines Ensemble is comprised of three core members: Dave
Restivo (piano),
Christine
Jensen (saxophones) and Sienna
Dahlen (voice). Bassist, Jim
Vivian and
New
York City-based drummer, Alyssa Falk
fill out the rhythm section. This collective
performs
original music that falls nicely into the contemporary jazz category but
stretches
further into folk and pop territories at times as well. Their sound
can be
explosive
yet tender and is both highly creative and accessible for all ears.
A show
not
to be missed!
MySpace.com/SiennaBand
| MySpace.com/DaveRestivo
| SiennaDahlen.com
Cover: $10
Wed. March 31:
07:30pm: T.B.A.
Cover: $10 |