22 - Wetaesday, Yaly 26, 1989 - "Nori Shore Ni News West Vancouverite wins in Nashville COUNTRY: SINGER- ‘ SONGWRITER Marty . Gillan « of West” Vancouver came home a winner from the ninth annual. . Music: City, Song: Féstival Com- petition in Nashville. . Gillan took: sixth place in the . Country category. of. the. profes- sional song. division with Leave ’ Your Memaries at the Door. . In his. varied career, Gillan has seen his highs and fows. When he ‘came to Vancouver in the 1960s from Ontario, he soon. gained recognition as host of CTV’s Ban- jo Parlour and made recordings for CBC Records. ; Giltan’s career reached a ‘peak when figure skating star Karen Magnussen asked him to record his version of My Way for her - European performances. But in the mid ’70s, Gillan’s re- cording career was haited by legal entanglements. During that time Giilan devel- oped his songwriting talents, drawing from such infivences as Johnny Cash, Buddy Holly, and Hank Williams. With his recent achievement i in Nashville, Gillan’s career has come full circle. Book helps young women From page 21 ~ sanitary napkins and tampons; stages of puberty; female physiol- ogy and more. Clearly and simply written, ‘Get- : ting Your Period not only deals. with the mechanics of menstrua- tion but thoughtfully bears i in mind the psychology of young women and the uncertainty they face as their bodies change: This reviewer's female friends and acquaintances were unani- ~ mous in their praise for this book, many commenting that they wish .they had had access to sucha guide when they were younger. ‘Jazz comes natu rally. ; : - From: page 19 -, “pressive, especially S onsidering : they had only been together for " undera year. ~ And Townsend, the talented Grummer and leader of Fifth Avenue, was chosen as the most | ’ promising musician. ‘‘i didn’t: , expect that at all,” he said. : ©. This véas the second time the we - North Vancouver drummer had ~ ‘ * entered the nation-wide competi- tion: Last year, he and trumpe*/ : piano player Al Matheson (a veteran of Vancouver Community College’ 's Soundwave Jazz Choir) made it to the semi-fi inals as part of atrio. Inspired by that success, Town- send approached trumpet player Brad Turner who in turn ap- ‘proached Sean Fawkes (bass) to form'a group. Then he contacted: . _Bill Abbott who was playing sax . “with local band Vegie, -. ? “We talked about | pitting al . ‘Fifth Avenue today, he would still have a bright future ahead of him. At the festival he was offered a scholarship to study at the prestigious Berklee College in . ‘Boston by one of the judges, Gary Burton, dean of Berklee and ; renowned vibés piayer. But for now, he wants to gain ” performance experience, and the Montreal Jazz Festival was just the ticket. “group together and writing original -.- music. After a month of talking, we formed a band and then we thought, “Let's eviter Alcan.’! ‘What was satisfying to the band™ was that they pulled off the coup - on the merits of their own music. — a modern post-bebop sound _with plenty of trading solos be- tween trumpet and saxophone — and their own arrangement of one ' jazz standard, Parker’s Mood. And Townsend has another reason as to what helped them turn the jury's head: “We all wore suits,” he explains, “All the - other bands came casual, but we wanted to go ail out. Someone from the Montreal press said it was snobbish, but i think it paid off.” - The local press lauded the - band’ 's performance, callin Matheson’s arrangement of Parker’s Mood “scholarly.” - For Townsend, jazz came natu- rally: “It was played at home all the time — my parents loved it. They | listened to ali the mainstream stuff like Fraser MacPherson.” in England, his parents ran a series of jazz clubs. “They would rent warehouses and bring in ar- tists until they ran out of money,” he says... Townsend says he was drawn to the drums even though his first in- -Strument was the saxophone. ‘I - always wanted to play the drums. . And jazz really allows you to ex- press yourself.” - - Townsend’s first teacher was North Vancouver's Don Raid, who turned out to be a good friend as well. At VGC he studied under Ken Moore, head of the college’s per- “cussion department, and played in Soundwave's rhythm section for two years. "Even if Townsend were to leave ccording to a recent survey of Canadian Manufacturers offering Co-op programs, } approximately $240 million in Co-op is ‘unused and therefore lost in Canada annually, This presents a great opportunity to increase your advertising by 30% to 50% or more without spending another cent. What is co-op advertising? 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