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Monik Nordine Jazz Trio @Charslanding
Fri, Oct 20th, 8-10pm, Concert Monik Nordine Jazz Trio CD Release Tour
Monik (alto saxophone, vocals) Tony Genge (piano) Bruce Meikle (acoustic bass)
The Monik Nordine Trio announces the release of their CD The Old-New Town in October and Novemeber, 2017. The album features Monik Nordine on alto saxophone and vocals as well as band mates Brent Jarvis and Bruce Meikle for a jazz trio of exceptional artistry. The album is dedicated to the memory of Canadian composer and pianist Jan Jarczyk whos composition The Old-New Town is the title track, as well as featuring new compositions by Nordine.
Nordine's compositions on The Old New Town highlight a writing approach that is thoughtful and lyrical. There is a nod to the American Songbook with songs based on standards such as All the Things You Are by Jerome Kern and I Fall In Love Too Easily by Jule Styne. The track Yin and Yang, is a suite in the style of John Coltrane based simultaneously on a Hindu hymn and the Gil Evans composition La Nevada. As one of BCs top soprano and alto jazz saxophonists, Nordine has a powerful, lyrical, and impressive command of the saxophone. She has received several prestigious arts awards and she performed on the JUNO-nominated Cruel Yet Fair, with the Hard Rubber Orchestra.
Born in Karlstad, Sweden in 1966, saxophonist and composer Monik Nordine has lived on the West Coast of Canada for most of her life and spent her formative years on Salt Spring Island. Her first gigs at age 16 were at the Vesuvius Pub backing a local vocalist.
In 1984 she moved to Vancouver to attend Vancouver Community College where she studied saxophone with David Branter and met Alan Matheson. Working with Alans big band Monik met many of the important jazz players in and around Vancouver. During that time she was also introduced to Campbell Ryga, who became her main influence on the alto saxophone and who was a great mentor to her. Her projects there included her own bands and others, such as Fred Stride, Gary Guthman, Ian MacDougall, Jan Stirling, Mother of Pearl, Entropy, John Korsrud and The Hard Rubber Orchestra. Monik worked as a free-lance musician and went to school in Vancouver until 1993 when she finished her Bachelor of Music degree at the University of British Columbia and decided to move to Montreal.
Montreal offered a broad range of artistic opportunities. There she worked with Holly Arsenault, Dinah Vero and the Diamonds, Mathieu Leger, Hassan Elhadi, Lilys Tigers, various latin bands such as A Comer and Barbara Barbara and the Amazons as well as her own groups which she presented at local Montreal jazz venues. In Montreal she became a composer through the mentorship of Jan Jarczyk, who was also her professor at McGill University and where she eventually completed a Masters Degree in Music in 1997. During those years she studied saxophone with Mike Allen and Remi Bolduc and recorded on three albums: Suite No.3: The Cycle of Life with the pianist Alex Clements, Twisted with Mathieu Leger and her own album not just to but over the moon, featuring her own compositions. On a Vancouver visit she also made an appearance on Cruel Yet Fair with The Hard Rubber Orchestra, which was later nominated for a West Coast Music Award.
Before returning to her hometown on Salt Spring Island to raise her child in 2000, Monik traveled to London to study with Evan Parker, Stan Sulzmann and Kenny Wheeler. She also made a brief stopover in New York with Jane Ira-Bloom. Since then she has become a grass-roots organizer and Artistic Director of the Salt Spring Jazz Festival. She also performed with Michael Bublé, Rob McConnell, P.J. Perry, Paul Horn, Mike Allen, Chase Sanborn, Hugh Fraser and VEJI, Tommy Banks, Brad Turner and Phil Nimmons and recorded four more albums: Blue Comedy with Pat Coleman, This Blue with Smilin' Jack Smith, Departure with the band Departure and Three Days in Winter with The Jon Miller Quartet. She now lives and works in Victoria, BC where she leads her jazz trio The Monik Nordine Trio, runs the Victoria Jazz Orchestra and teaches at The Victoria Conservatory of Music.
facile in her execution and fluid in the spinning out of her melodic ideas. - Rick Helzer, Jazz Improv Magazine (Vol. 2, No. 1)
www.moniknordine.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTZWn6_gnt8
https://moniknordine.bandcamp.com/album/the-old-new-town
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Chars 19+ Lounge open 5:30-12midnight 365+ days a year www.charslanding.com Chars Landing, 4815 Argyle @5th. Port Alberni V9Y 1V9
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LocationChar's Landing (View)
4815 Argyle St.
Port Alberni, BC V9Y 1V9
Canada
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