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This Issue...3 Tuesday Night Sessions

4 Miles Davis Tribute featuring Brad Turner: Birth of the Cool Meets Bitches Brew

6 Cory Weeds with the Harold Mabern Trio

7 Thursday Night Showcase

8 Al Muirhead: Northern Adventure CD Release

10 The Daniel Schnee Quartet: Remembering Ornette

11 Harris Eisenstadt’s Old Growth Forest

12 Jerrold Dubyk The Latin Side Of #AlbertaJazz

14 The Stryker/Slagle Organ Quartet with Jared Gold

15 YARDBIRD SUITE BLUES Diana Braithwaite and Chris Whiteley

16 Doug Organ’s Actual Proof: A Tribute To Herbie Hancock

17 Way North

18 Yardbird Suite Jazz Orchestra Guest Conductor: Dan Davis

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TUESDAYNIGHT

SESSIONS

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January 24 Mallory ChipManMallory Chipman - voiceBrett Hansen - guitarMurray Wood - bassJamie Cooper - drums

January 31 ryan DaviDson TrioRyan Davidson - guitarJosh McHan - bassThom Bennett - drums and cymbals

February 7KiM lesaCa GroupKim Lesaca - electric bassLouise Dawson - vocalsJan Janovsky - keyboardsDean Pierno - drums

February 14Don berner TrioDon Berner - saxophoneRyan Timoffee - pianoGord Graber - drums

February 21hoT Club eDMonTonDaniel Gervais - violinClinton Pelletier - lead guitarThea Neumann - vocals, rhythm guitarKeith Rempel - upright bass

February 28brenDan MCGraTh TrioBrendan McGrath - pianoAretha Tillotson - bassJoel Jeschke - drums

TUESDAYNIGHT

SESSIONS

January - February 2017

TICKeTS - MeMBeRS & GueSTS(including Silver & Gold Memberships): $5

DooRS 7:30 PM - SHoW 8 PM

On Tuesday nights - Edmonton’s best jazz players and up-and-coming musicians arrive to play together. The evening begins with a one hour set from the featured band - followed by a jam session. Our Tuesday Sessions are a weekly event for local jazz musicians to play together and network - and provide an opportunity to mentor the younger musicians wanting to gain experience as they grow their own careers. Join us for our Tuesday Sessions - a terrific opportunity to hear some live jazz in a relaxed concert environment. Buy Tuesday Session season pass for $100. Valid for all Tuesday Sessions for one year from the date of purchase.

4 WINTER 2017

The besT oF alberTa JaZZ series

Miles Davis Tribute featuring brad Turnerbirth of the Cool meets bitches brew

A thrilling cast of 11 local musical stalwarts plus

Canadian jazz icon Brad Turner present a weekend

of music by Miles Davis celebrating what would

have been Miles’ 90th year.

Join the band as they perform the contrasting

music from two of Davis’ seminal recordings, “Birth

of The Cool” and “Bitches Brew”.

“Birth of The Cool” - Recorded in 1949 and 1950

and released in 1957, with this recording, Davis

leaped out of the bebop genre and planted the

seed for the cool jazz sound. Featuring a nonet of

unique instrumentation, lush jazz arrangements,

and a cast of subtle, yet potent soloists, “Birth of the

Cool” introduced a sophisticated jazz sound that

laid the groundwork for modern jazz arranging

and cool jazz improvisation.

“Bitches Brew” – This 1970 release became the

pivotal expression of Davis’ electric jazz era. By

introducing electric piano, guitar, and bass, along

with rock-influenced grooves and experimental

individual and group improvised elements, this

Grammy Award-winning recording paved the way

for the fusion era of jazz.

For this special event, the Yardbird Suite is very

pleased to present Vancouver-based trumpeter,

pianist, drummer and composer Brad Turner in the

“Miles Davis chair”. Brad is one of Canada’s most in-

demand and highly-esteemed jazz musicians. He

has performed and/or recorded with such artists

as Joe Lovano, Bill Frisell, Kenny Wheeler, John

Scofield, Michael Moore, Reneé Rosnes, Jimmy

Greene, Ingrid Jensen, Peggy Lee, Dave Douglas,

Mike Murley, Seamus Blake, Kenny Werner, Russell

Malone and Ernie Watts.

As a leader, Brad has released nine albums, seven

as a trumpeter with the Brad Turner Quartet, and

two as a pianist with his trio. Three of those releases

have been nominated for Juno awards. He has

also won Juno awards for his recordings with the

internationally-acclaimed electric

jazz group Metalwood.

WHEN...From Vancouver, Edmonton

FRIDAY-SATURDAY • JANUARY 20-21MEMBERS $26GUESTS $30DOORS 7 PM - SHOW 8 PM


Birth of the Cool:Brad Turner - trumpetJim Brenan - alto saxophoneDave Babcock - baritone saxophoneCraig Brenan - tromboneMary Fearon - French hornDoug Berner - tubaChris Andrew - pianoRubim de Toledo - bassJamie Cooper - drums

BitChes Brew:Brad Turner - trumpetJim Brenan - soprano saxophone, bass clarinetJim Head - guitarChris Andrew - keyboardsRubim de Toledo - bassMario Allende - percussionJamie Cooper - drums

This quartet was put together by Canadian

jazz impresario Cory Weeds to commemorate

the 13th anniversary of his Cellar Jazz Club in

Vancouver. Weeds is a respected saxophonist

who has released ten critically-acclaimed

albums under his own name including “As Of

Now” with Harold Mabern. His latest release

“This Happy Madness” with the Jeff Hamilton

Trio graced the Jazz Week charts for 17 weeks

including two weeks at #1.

Piano master Harold Mabern is an

unforgettable performer. He turns every

performance into an informal master class

regaling audiences with his first-hand account

of jazz history and some of the best piano

playing you will ever hear. Is there a more

ebullient or convincing advocate for jazz

today? His music is marked by unmistakable

purpose and harmonic authority and he

employs a powerful technique and deep

insight into a wide range of repertoire from the

Great American Songbook to his own soulful

originals.

Mabern’s piano style has been described

as being “aggressive, very positive, crashing

out chords that drop like pile drivers and

warming up and down the keyboard with

huge, whooping bursts of action”, while, at

the same time, he shows “a keen sensitivity”

as “an extremely perceptive accompanist”. He

has played and recorded with a who’s who of

jazz including Lee Morgan, Miles Davis, Jackie

McLean and Wes Montgomery to name a few.

Cross-borDer JaZZ series

Cory Weeds with the harold Mabern Trio

WHEN...From Vancouver, Seattle, New York

FRIDAY • JANUARY 27MEMBERS $24GUESTS $28DOORS 7 PM - SHOW 8 PM

Cory Weeds - saxophoneHarold Mabern - pianoMichael Glynn - bassJulian MacDonough - drums

coryweeds.comharoldmabern.jazzgiants.net

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YEG THURSDAYSHOWCASE


January 26JiM heaD QuarTeTDebuting new music of Jim’s plus their take on songs by Monk, Radiohead and others

Jim Head - guitarChris Andrew - pianoJosh McHan - bassThom Bennett - drums

MeMBeRS $11, GueSTS $15

February 2FusionauTsCD Release of their new album: Mutant

Paul Richey - keyboardsBob Tildesley - trumpetJeremiah McDade - tenor saxophoneMo Lefever - electric guitarShantel Koenig - electric bassBill George - drums

MeMBeRS $16, GueSTS $20

February 23anDreW Glover QuarTeTAll original portrayal of the emotions of people, places and things.

Andrew Glover - keyboardsMarc Beaudin - guitarJohn Taylor - bassSandro Dominelli - drums

MEMBERS $11, GUESTS $15

YEG THURSDAYSHOWCASEfeaturing Edmonton’s Best

January-February 2017

DooRS 7:30 PM - SHoW 8 PM

The YeG Thursday Showcase provides our audiences the opportunity to hear the best jazz artists edmonton has to offer in a 90-minute concert set. For decades edmonton musicians have been counted amongst the finest anywhere, so we created a special night just for them. The music presented on Thursdays will be varied, offering something for every jazz listener and always with a distinct local flavour. Join us at 8pm on selected Thursday evenings to hear the best in edmonton jazz.

8 WINTER 2017

Join 2016 Juno nominated trumpeter Al

Muirhead for the release of his most ambitious

CD project to date - ‘Northern Adventures –

The Canada Sessions Vol. 1’. The album brings

Al together with many of Canada’s jazz greats

performing a collection of his favourite jazz

standards. For the Edmonton CD release, Al will

featuring some of his special guests from the

recording including long-time friend Tommy

Banks on piano, Vancouver jazz giant Campbell

Ryga on sax, and award-winning bassist Kodi

Hutchinson. Watch out for some other special

guests throughout the evening!

A western Canadian jazz icon, who recently came

to wider prominence in North America with the

release of his debut album ‘It’s About Time’ at the

age of 80, Al Muirhead is now making up for lost

time with his third release in two years.

Featuring five different small ensembles of

both old friends and new, Al harkens back to his

youth, calling standards from the Great American

Songbook live in the studio. ‘Northern Adventures’

features jazz performed in the way the artform

began - with spontaneity and joy, and with a

command of the music that only players of the

calibre that Al has assembled can.

‘Northern Adventures – The Canada Sessions Vol.

1’ brings together a veritable who’s who of the

Canadian jazz scene including award-winning

musicians Don Thompson (piano/bass) and

Reg Schwager (guitar), Guido Basso (trumpet/

flugelhorn) and Tommy Banks (piano), Laila

Biali (vocals), Ben Wittman (percussion) and

Kodi Hutchinson (double bass), Mike Murley

(saxophone) and Chris Andrew (piano), and

finally Campbell Ryga (saxophone) and Mike Rud

(guitar).

Al Muirhead has long been an iconic figure on

the Canadian jazz scene. And the trumpeter,

composer, arranger, sideman and recording artist


al Muirhead: northern adventure CD release

has been making listeners take notice for longer

than jazz fans might realize. Born in Regina, by

age 12 he was playing in the Regina Symphony

and dance bands. In his teens, Muirhead began to

take notice of greats such as Dizzy Gillespie, Miles

Davis, Louis Armstrong, Chet Baker, and Charlie

Parker. While Muirhead’s playing is infused with

the indelible influence of jazz giants, his flowing,

melodic sound is his own — and has become

influential in its own right.

Muirhead has worked with legends such as

Guido Basso, Diana Krall, Paul Anka, Rosemary

Clooney, Frank Mills and Dizzy Gillespie. In 2013,

he was honoured with the Western Canadian

Music Awards’ Heritage Award for his mentorship

and industry-building. In 2015, he earned the

Saskatchewan Jazz Festival’s Special Recognition

Award.

Muirhead unleashes melodies that are incredibly

inventive and utterly timeless. Now at 81 years

old, he shows no sign of slowing down with the

release of his third album ‘Northern Adventures –

The Canada Sessions Vol. 1’.


WHEN...From Calgary, Vancouver, Edmonton

SATURDAY • JANUARY 28MEMBERS $24GUESTS $28DOORS 7 PM - SHOW 8 PM

Al Muirhead – trumpet and bass trumpetCampbell Ryga - saxophoneTommy Banks - pianoKodi Hutchinson - bass

almuirhead.com

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The Daniel schnee Quartet: remembering ornette

Saxophonist Daniel Schnee returns to the Yardbird Suite with his quartet after a twelve year absence, bringing a one of a kind evening of music to honor the life and memory of his teacher and friend, jazz icon Ornette Coleman, winner of both a Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Lifetime Achievement award.

Performing original songs and arrangements of Coleman’s work, Daniel will also be drawing

upon First Wave free jazz, the music of King Oliver, traditional Japanese Noh theatre, Frank Zappa, South Indian solkattu, 1970s Miles Davis, and micro-tonal Vietnamese music as sources for a fun evening of rhythm and sound.

As an accompanist on saxophone, drums and percussion Daniel has performed worldwide with many Grammy Award winning artists such as Angelique Kidjo, Colin Hay (Men At Work), Dave Samuels (Frank Zappa), Slide Hampton, Doug Wimbish (Rolling Stones), Rod Stewart, and Wil Calhoun (Living Colour), as well as many Juno award winning artists including P.J. Perry, Tommy Banks, Alfie Zappacosta, Mike Rud, Matt Brubeck, Hugh Fraser, Bobby Curtola, Pat LaBarbera, and others.

He has also worked with an eclectic array of artists such as legendary Japanese avant-garde artists Yamantaka Eye and painter Shozo Shimamoto, accordionist Myron Floren (Lawrence Welk Show), Egyptian sufi singer Mohammed El-Hilbawy, funk legend Bernie Worrell (Parliament/Talking Heads), rock superstars INXS, and many others.

He has been internationally recognized as a graphic score composer, exhibiting, performing, and publishing his work in twenty-two countries. He is also a writer for Canadian Musician magazine.

WHEN...From Edmonton

FRIDAY • FEBRUARY 3MEMBERS $20GUESTS $24DOORS 7 PM - SHOW 8 PM

Daniel Schnee - saxophone, nohkan, percussion, electronicsBob Tildesley - trumpet Pierre-Paul Bugeaud - bassGord Graber - drums

danielpaulschnee.wordpress.com

Formed during Harris Eisenstadt’s September, 2015, twelve set residency at John Zorn’s venue The Stone in New York City, Old Growth Forest soon after released its first recording on the Portuguese label Clean Feed to critical acclaim. Harris Eisenstadt, Jeb Bishop, Tony Malaby, and Jason Roebke are each respected, instantly-recognizable musical voices in the worlds of adventurous, international jazz and improvised music. Eisenstadt pens wide-ranging themes for the group, emphasizing spontaneity and close listening alongside propulsive groove and textural exploration.

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harris eisenstadt’s old Growth Forest


WHEN...From New York, Chicago

SATURDAY • FEBRUARY 4MEMBERS $24GUESTS $28DOORS 7 PM - SHOW 8 PM

Tony Malaby - saxophoneJeb Bishop - tromboneJason Roebke - bassHarris Eisenstadt - drums

harriseisenstadt.com

“Eisenstadt, a magnanimous leader and tasteful drummer, encourages his col-leagues with supple rhythm shifts and colorful textural embellishments.”

- Peter Margasak, Downbeat

“Poised as ever, Eisenstadt generates a rustling understory in which his rhythmic shifts and embellishments subtly prompt and push his colleagues.”

- John Sharpe, NYC Jazz Record

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There’s a lot of music that has been written and performed during the past one hundred years and being a jazz musician today means that there’s an expectation that you know almost all of it. One of the beautiful aspects of this type of music is that it allows cultures, imitations in life and lineage to come together. The ‘language’ of the All-American art form lends itself well to Latin music as both have their roots from overseas. From these points of origin, the music has undergone a gradual process of transformation through thousands of musicians, regardless of where they are from.

The Latin Side of #Alberta Jazz is an occasion to celebrate these riches. This night connects musicians from across the province to perform a style of the music that bridges different worlds as explored by the various artists on stage - music that is full of dedication, camaraderie and community.

Jerrold Dubyk is a Silverstein Works artist.


Jerrold Dubyk:The latin side of #albertaJazz


WHEN...From Calgary, Edmonton


Bob Tildesley - trumpetSergio Rodriguez - trumpetCraig Brenan - tromboneSarah Matheson-Nadeau - baritone saxophoneJerrold Dubyk - tenor saxophoneChris Andrew - pianoRubim deToledo - bassRaul Gomez Tabera - drumsLuis El Pana Tovar - percussion

jerrolddubyk.com

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Guitarist Dave Stryker and alto saxophonist

Steve Slagle have collaborated together since

the 1980’s. Together with Downbeat Rising

Star winner Jared Gold on organ and drummer

Jamie Cooper, they will be bringing their

burning New York sound to the Yardbird Suite

stage.

Dave’s recent CDs “Messin’ with Mister T” (4 ½

stars in Downbeat) and “Eight Track II” (4 stars)

both stayed in the Top 5 of the Jazz Week Radio

Chart for over eight weeks with “Messin’ with

Mister T” reaching #1. Steve’s latest CD is “Alto

Manhattan” and together they released “Routes”

in 2016 to great reviews.

Stryker spent over thirteen years with Stanley

Turrentine and dedicated “Messin’ with Mister T”

CD to him. He also worked with Jack McDuff and

Kevin Mahogany. He has 27 CD’s out as a leader

(many featuring Slagle) and has been a sideman

on over 75 others. Stryker has been voted one of

the Top Jazz Guitarists for the last several years

in the Downbeat Critics and Readers Polls. Gary

Giddins in the Village Voice calls Dave “one of

the most distinctive guitarists to come along in

recent years.”

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The stryker/slagle organ Quartet With Jared Gold

WHEN...From New York, Edmonton


Dave Stryker - guitarSteve Slagle - saxophoneJared Gold - Hammond organJamie Cooper - drums

davestryker.com

Saxophonist Steve Slagle has released 14 CDs

as a leader and has performed as a sideman on

countless others. He has played with Charlie

Haden, Milton Nascimento, and Carla Bley to

name a few. Steve was also musical director of

the Mingus Big Band for many years.

“It’s a rare and good thing when two talented

performers join forces”. Audiences, critics, and

blues lovers all over North America and Europe

seem to agree.

Diana Braithwaite’s career as a solo singer-

songwriter started when she was a teenager, and

her shows have led her into the company of some

of the finest electric and acoustic blues guitarists

including Albert Collins, John Lee Hooker, T Model

Ford, Mel Brown and Jeff Healey.

Diana combines elements from Nina Simone,

Esther Phillips, Lil Green and others to create her

own unique authentic blues style. Recognized as a

forceful presence on the Canadian and American

blues scene, she is an artist with a unique sound

who is keeping the authentic traditional blues

sound alive in the contemporary blues scene

today.

Kansas-born multi-instrumentalist Chris Whiteley

has been playing, writing and singing the blues

for over 30 years. As a teenager he met blues

legend Lonnie Johnson, and has since gone on

to play with many great blues artists including

Sunnyland Slim, Taj Mahal, and John Lee Hooker.

He has performed on over 200 recordings with

the likes of Leon Redbone and Blind John Davis.

In Canada, Whiteley has received the Blues with

a Feeling Award for lifetime achievement in the

blues. In 2014, Chris won the Maple Blues Award

for the top blues horn player in Canada--for the

7th time.

Diana Braithwaite and Chris Whiteley have

recorded six albums together, and they have

released three of them, “Scrap Metal Blues” (2013),

“Blues Stories” (2014) and “Blues Country” (2016),

since they last performed at the Yardbird Suite.

They have toured North America, the United

Kingdom and Europe winning numerous awards

for their songwriting and music.

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Diana braithwaite and Chris Whiteley


WHEN...From Toronto, Edmonton

FRI & SAT • FEBRUARY 17 & 18MEMBERS $24GUESTS $28DOORS 7 PM - SHOW 8 PM

Diana Braithwaite - vocalsChris Whiteley - guitar, harmonica, trumpet, vocalsGraham Guest - pianoChris Brzezicki - bassGrant Stovel - drums

braithwaiteandwhiteley.com

Doug Organ is a pianist, organist and recording

engineer based in Edmonton. Artists he’s had

the pleasure of playing with and/or recording

include P.J. Perry, Tommy Banks, the Edmonton

Folk Festival House Band, Ten Years After, Lionel

Rault, Jim Head, Christian Hansen, Modo Trio,

The Rockin’ Highliners, and his eponymous

organ trio.

Doug won the 2014 Northlands Emerging

Artist award at the Edmonton Mayor’s

Celebration of the Arts and was one of the

recipients of the 2015 Edmonton Artists Trust

Fund award. He has appeared in Rolling Stone

magazine, worked on projects at Abbey Road

Studios, and twice studied analog recording

with Steve Albini (Nirvana, Jimmy Page &

Robert Plant).

Doug is back from a year in Paris and has

assembled an immensely talented band to pay

tribute to the very funky and hugely influential

Herbie Hancock. “Actual Proof” is one of the

tracks from “Thrust”, Hancock’s 1974 follow-up

to his breakthrough “Headhunters” album.

That period of Herbie’s career produced earthy,

funky, yet often harmonically and rhythmically

sophisticated music that ventures beyond

the outer limits of post-bop but still sounds

invigorating forty years later.

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Doug Organ - keyboards Chris Andrew - keyboards Peter Belec - guitar Brett Miles - saxophones & bass clarinet Dan Churchill - bass Jamie Cooper - drums Dwayne Hrynkiw - percussion

dougorgan.com


Doug organ’s actual proof: a Tribute to herbie hancock

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Way North is the best kind of musical

collaboration - one born out of the joy of playing

together. Formed by two Brooklynites, JUNO

nominated saxophonist Petr Cancura (Down

Home) and drummer Richie Barshay (Herbie

Hancock/Chick Corea) and two Torontonians,

bassist Michael Herring (Peripheral Vision) and

trumpeter Rebecca Hennessy (Women’s Blues

Revue bandleader/Hobson’s Choice), the band

brings together four musicians who love to use

jazz and improvisation as a means of exploring

folk and world music.

You can hear the influences of a wide range

of folk genres, including the blues, old-time,

Balkan, Brazilian and Calypso. Their album

“Kings County” has been critically well-received,

including being chosen as one of the top

Canadian albums of the year by Ottawa Citizen’s

Peter Hum.

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WHEN...From Toronto, Ottawa, New York


Rebecca Hennessy - trumpetPetr Cancura - tenor saxophone, clarinet Richie Barshay - drumsMichael Herring - bass

dangerherring.com/way-north/


The Yardbird Suite Jazz Orchestra is the big band in residence at Edmonton’s Yardbird Suite.

The YSJO is dedicated to supporting the creative and professional music development of its

members and the awareness of big band jazz music through performance.

Guest conductor Dan Davis is a jazz saxophonist from Edmonton who earned his Masters in

Jazz Studies from the University of South Florida. While at USF, Dan was a member of three big

bands that rehearsed every week and performed every month. These bands included some

of the jazz scene’s finest players, including seasoned veterans of the Glenn Miller, Harry James,

and Woody Herman Orchestras. They readily shared their passion for big band music but were

quite exacting about how the music they loved should be played.

Dan also had the pleasure of meeting and studying with a plethora of renowned big band

composers, including Jim McNeely, Chuck Owen, Frank Foster and Tommy Goodman, some

of whose music will be featured in this show. The other repertoire will be drawn from exciting

new up and coming Canadian composers. By turns the music will be edgy and innovative,

bluesy and traditional, cerebral, and most importantly, swinging hard.


yarDbirD suiTe JaZZ orChesTra:GuesT ConDuCTor Dan Davis


SUNDAY • FEBRUARY 26MEMBERS $24GUESTS $28DOORS 1:30 PM - SHOW 2 PM

Dan Davis, John Sweenie, Jeremiah McDade, Dave Babcock - saxophonesDoug Berner, Sergio Rodriguez, Matt Michielin, Martin Walters - trumpetsCraig Brenan, Allen Jacobson, Ken Read, Remi Noel - trombonesJim Head - guitarTyson Kerr - pianoPaul Johnston - bassJamie Cooper - drums

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JANUARY...January 20-21Miles Davis Tribute featuring Brad Turner: Birth of the Cool Meets Bitches BrewMEMBERS $26, GUESTS $30

January 27Cory Weeds with the Harold Mabern TrioMEMBERS $24, GUESTS $28

January 28Al Muirhead: Northern Adventure CD ReleaseMEMBERS $24, GUESTS $28

February...February 3The Daniel Schnee Quartet: Remembering OrnetteMEMBERS $20, GUESTS $24

February 4Harris Eisenstadt’s Old Growth ForestMEMBERS $24, GUESTS $28

February 10Jerrold DubykThe Latin Side Of #AlbertaJazzMEMBERS $22, GUESTS $26

February 11The Stryker/Slagle Organ Quartet with Jared Gold MEMBERS $24, GUESTS $28

February 17-18YARDBIRD SUITE BLUESDiana Braithwaite and Chris WhiteleyMEMBERS $24, GUESTS $28

February 24Doug Organ’s Actual Proof: A Tribute To Herbie HancockMEMBERS $22, GUESTS $26

February 25Way NorthMEMBERS $24, GUESTS $28

February 26Yardbird Suite Jazz Orchestra Guest Conductor: Dan Davis MEMBERS $24, GUESTS $28DOORS 1:30 PM, SHOW 2PM

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