Vancouver Island Jazz Combo Festival featuring Brad Turner

Buff Allen - great musician: happy man. Makes his home on a west coast island but warmly appreciated right across the land for work with Kenny Wheeler, Chuck Israels, guitarists Ed Bickert, Lenny Breau, and Pat Coleman, pianists Hank Jones, Teddy Wilson, Joanne Brackeen and Bob Murphy, singers Johnny Hartman and Maxine Sullivan…, oh, we could go on adding to the list – but you get the point: the guy can play.

Liquid fluency and positive attitude make him the drummer of choice for numerous pacific north-west projects – talents heard at their keenest in small groups with Pat Coleman, with Bob Murphy, or with B3.

Island Jazz Combo Festival
March 11 & 12 at Kwalikum Secondary School 266 Village Way Qualicum Beach, BC
Brad Turner of Metalwood Adjudicator and Clinician with the Pat Coleman Trio Concert March 11, 7:00 pm at Kwalikum Secondary School	Registration Schedule Concert Tickets


Juno award winning artist Brad Turner is one of Canada's most prominent and prolific jazz artists. Based in Vancouver, Brad is known mainly for his trumpet playing, but is actually proficient on three instruments (trumpet, piano and drums). Brad has performed and/or recorded with such artists as Joe Lovano, Renee Rosnes, Kenny Werner, Gary Bartz, Ingrid Jensen, Mike Murley, P.J. Perry, Pat LaBarbara, Marvin Stamm, Phil Nimmons, and recently recorded with John Scofienld and percussionist Mino Cinelu on the new Metalwood release for Universal Records, "The Recline". Winner of Jazz Report Magazine's Trumpeter of the year Award for 1999 and Jazz Composer of the year 1998, Brad was nominated for two Juno Awards for the year 2000 (for the recordings Brad Turner Quartet - Live at the Cellar, featuring Seamus Blake as well as for Metalwood) Brad can be heard leading a number of different groups including the Brad Turner Trio. The Brad Turner Quartet, nominated for the Georgia Straight's National Jazz Act of the Year for 1999, co-leading Metalwood, Juno-winners for Contemporary Jazz Album of the year in both 1998 and 1999, winners of the West Coast Music Award for jazz Album of the year for 1998, 1999, 2000, and Jazz Report magazine's winner for Electric Jazz Group of the Year for 1998 and 1999. Brad was nominated for the 1999's Musician of the Year by the Pacific Coast Music Industry Association.	Pat Coleman -Through around thirty years playing with the like of John Gross, Paul Horn, PJ Perry, Pat LaBarbara, Don Thompson, Mel Tormé, Pete Christlieb and Kenny Wheeler, composition and sound production for movies and other media, Pat’s taste and musicality make an indelible impression on everyone who enters his orbit.	Ken Lister has been playing jazz bass professionally since 1984. He is currently based in the Vancouver and Vancouver Island area, and has extensively toured Canada and elsewhere; including the British Isles, Cuba and South America. Ken is a member of the Hugh Fraser Quintet and VEJI (the Vancouver Ensemble of Jazz Improvisation). As a member of the Hugh Fraser Quintet, Ken won a Juno Award for the Best Mainstream Jazz Album of 1997. Ken also performs with the legendary jazz guitarist Pat Coleman in his trio, with Juno Award winner Buff Allen on drums. He has performed with many great musicians including Joshua Redman, Slide Hampton, Bob McLaren, Kenny Wheeler, P.J. Perry, Sam Noto, Don Thompson, Herb Ellis, Charlie Byrd, Kirk MacDonald, Jerry Fuller, Lorne Lofsky and many others.	Buff Allen - great musician: happy man. Makes his home on a west coast island but warmly appreciated right across the land for work with Kenny Wheeler, Chuck Israels, guitarists Ed Bickert, Lenny Breau, and Pat Coleman, pianists Hank Jones, Teddy Wilson, Joanne Brackeen and Bob Murphy, singers Johnny Hartman and Maxine Sullivan…, oh, we could go on adding to the list – but you get the point: the guy can play. Liquid fluency and positive attitude make him the drummer of choice for numerous pacific north-west projects – talents heard at their keenest in small groups with Pat Coleman, with Bob Murphy, or with B3.