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Wednesday, July 3, 1991 - North Shore News

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Brash and bittersweet

HIS MORTAL Coil unwinds; Baker gives a last blast:
Glenn Miller goes gold again.

This Mortal Coil —
Blood, AAD 1991

Ivo Watts-Russefl, 4AD record
label head and producer of the
This Mortal Coil project brings to
us something marked by alternate-
ly elegant and endearingly naive
sentiments. Sadly, given the evi-
dent quality, it’s the last of three
instalments.

Among the standout fresh fe-
male voices dominating the 21
tracks are Pixies’ Kim Deal,
Caroline Crawley of Shelieyan
Orphan, Throwing Muses’ Tanya
Donelly and Deidre Rutkowski, a
singer who sounds much like An-
nie Lerinox in her restrained mo-
ments.

The collection as a whole, cover

versions of songs by composers
such as Mary Margaret O'Hara,
Syd Barrett and Rodney Crowell,
yields a meditative atmosphere
wrought by pacing and an in-
strumental array dominated by str-
ings and guitar.
Chet Baker — The Last Great
Concert (My Favourite Songs
Vol. t and Vol. It, Justin Time
Records 1990

Baker's buttery trumpet con-
tinues to resonate three years after

Michael Becker
RECORD REVIEW

his death.

The trumpeter who gave voice
to the cool-blue West Coast jazz
style has much to tell us of quiet
passion.

The 1989 soundtrack from the
excellent Baker documentary Let's
Get Lost served to introduce a
new generation to the musician.
The revelation of Baker as anti-
hero added to the detached charm
of it all.

Recorded just two weeks prior
to his death and in concert in
Hannover Germany with a Nord-
deutschen Rundfunks big band
and orchestra, Baker blows some

Jazz program waiting for

IF WISHES come true, the Van-
couver Jazz Festival will be a fitting
prelude to another great jazz
event in British Columbia.

The event will be the creation of
a bachelor of music in jazz pro-
gram at Capilano College. The col-
lege’s music department is waiting
for the green light from the B.C.
Open Learning University on the
proposed program.

“A jazz degree program has
been wanted and needed for
many years,’’ said Mike Reveley,
coordinator for the degree pro-

gram. “For years peuple have
had to yo to the U.S. or more
recently to McGill in: Montreal to
get jazz degrees, and there’s been
nothing in British Columbia.”

Aron Doyle, a former Capilano
College music student who is play-
ing at the Vancouver Jazz Festival.
said many musicians have lett
Vancouver for that reason.

“The degree program will keep
them here,”’ Doyle said.

The degree program will enlarge
and enhance the jazz community
in Vancouver, he added.

the Guvnor’s
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Jazz with

classics.

Here amoney the bitterse.cer best
are tound My Fanoy Valeatine,
Django and t Fall in Love Too Casi-
ty.

The down side is that the or-
chestration is sacchanne in spots,
Baker is at his best with fewer
musicians, Buta tacky bit of live:
sound engineering keeps his
trumpet to the fore.

The Glenn Miller Orchestra —
tn The Digital Mood, GRP Re-
cords 1991

This lavish “limited gold edi-
tion” comes with a 44-page
booklet, and a (I kid you nov
golden CD.

I's enough to get pops drooling
all over the hi-fi.

The release celebrates the
achievement of being the first big
band CD to go gold (sell half a
million units).

Swing-era standards like In The
Mood, Pennsylvania 6-5000 and
Tuxedo junction are picked up
and polished off by a gathering of
orchestra originals and a group of
musicians including Me! Torme
and Marlene Ver Planck.

Far from hoary chestnuts, this
version of the biggest of big bands
jumps out of the stereo speakers
with a newly-minted, bright and
brash sheen.

green light

“When you study at a school,
your peers are attracted to the
same school. Having the degree
program) here is essential in. that
sense because the students respect
the terrific musicians who will be
teaching.”

Among those teachers will be
Miles Black, piano player for
Skywalk; Torbon Oxbol, bass
player for the Oliver Gannon
Quartet and other bands; and
other nated musicians who are
playing at the festival.

Due to Renovations

North Vancouver City Library
Children’s Department will be closed
Saturday, July 6th & Monday, July &th

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