Event Info
ALAIN BÉDARD AUGUSTE QUINTET
Montreal bassist Alain Bédard has been a force on Quebec’s music scene since ...
7:30pm
$10 General Admission‡
Artists
ALAIN BÉDARD AUGUSTE QUINTET
Event Description
Montreal bassist Alain Bédard has been a force on Quebec’s music scene since the ’80s. The president and founder of the important jazz label Effendi, he formed his acclaimed Auguste Quintet in 1994 and since then has performed numerous times throughout Quebec as well as abroad. Alain recently performed at the Jazz Festival in Vancouver with Jazzlab and Chinese jazz vocalist/instrumentalist Coco Zhao. Auguste Quintet’s current CD, Sphere Reflexion, is inspired by the music of Thelonious Monk. While paying homage to the great jazz pianist/composer, Bédard and company add their own contemporary twist to the tradition. This hip ensemble plays contemporary acoustic jazz informed by rich and modern, soaring and dynamic compositions. With Frank Lozano saxophones, Jean-Christophe Béney sax, Alexandre Grogg piano, Pierre Tanguay drums.
Venue
The Cellar Restaurant/Jazz Club
3611 West Broadway
Open / Operational
Sun. November 16th 2008
The Cellar Restaurant/Jazz Club
In-Person Event
