15th Annual Great Jazz Gala

Kings of Swing Grand Finale
March 2013
KEN PAGE (1928 - 1998)
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Ann d Looking Ahea
Not long before he passed
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an
away, Ken Page took out
a full-page ad in the show
business bible, ‘Variety’
Magazine, to say his
Marking its 14th anniversary, the KPMT Annual Fundraising Gala returned last
October to the historic charm of The Old Mill Inn to salute the jazz tradition with
the Kings of Swing ... and what a memorable night it was! Presented by JAZZ.
FM91 and supported by the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto, the
evening opened with a complimentary Cocktail Reception sponsored by Charton
Hobbs and an impressive performance by the Ben Hognestad Trio, featuring
Matt Woroshyl, setting the scene for the main event. Then under the direction of
Jim Galloway and hosted by Master of Ceremonies, Ted O’Reilly, KPMT patrons
were treated to yet another musical masterpiece showcasing
visiting royalty Harry Allen, Warren Vaché, Ken
Peplowski, Rossano Sportiello and Russ Phillips,
together with local heroes Don Thompson, Alastair
Kay, Kevin Turcotte, Neil Swainson, Reg Schwager
and Terry Clarke.
personal goodbye:
presented by JAZZ.FM91
Thursday October 17, 2013
At the historic Old Mill Inn, Toronto
Reception with complimentary cocktail
3 course Dinner and unforgettable jazz
Notes on Passing:
In the words of Berthold Auerback: “Music washes
away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
Two Bass Hit with
Neil Swainson and Don Thompson
Tromfoolery with
Russ Phillips and
Alastair Kay
We lost some close friends
and long-time jazz supporters
in 2012 among whom we
would especially like to
remember Al Keyworth,
Mark Dworkin, Bob Langmuir,
Laiko Matsubayashi, Doug
Cole and Geoff Chapman.
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Ann
If you have read this far, dear friends, it means you
have a sincere appreciation of both the music and the
Trust’s mission to support jazz and the many talented professionals who create
lasting memories for all of us. We are equally dedicated to promoting jazz
education and to fostering emerging young artists in our community, but the
ongoing achievement of these objectives takes constant nourishment.
To those of you who are already contributing members of our KPMT family,
we cannot thank you enough for your loyalty – you are our lifeline and we
earnestly ask you to renew your pledge.
If you are not yet part of our group, please take a giant step and join us now
by filling in the attached donor form. We are a registered charity, so your
contribution will be fully tax deductible and you will know you have been
instrumental in helping us reach our goal to further the music.
and Looking Ahead
Gala Photos by Ted
O’Reilly
Your cheque should be made payable to the Ken Page Memorial Trust
and mailed to the address shown. You may also reach me by telephone at
416-515-0200 or email [email protected].
Thank you again for your support and here’s to more great
jazz in the months ahead!
“When we recognise that a better word for
Fundraising is ‘friend raising’, we open limitless
doors to creativity in support of our causes.”
- Sue Vineyard
Charitable Registration No. 87276 8106 RR0001
There is an old Chinese proverb...
If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day, go fishing.
If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.
15th Annual Great Jazz Gala
“I have been blessed with
many friends. More than I ever knew, more
than I ever deserved.
I love them all. I wish my legacy were tangibly
the reflection of that friendship. Thank you
everyone. You will never know what you
have meant to me.”
Ken Page, Toronto
Ken Peplowski, reeds –
Rossano Sportiello,
He’ll blow your bluesMarch
away 2013 piano – He never fails to
and put a smile on your face
hit his stride.
Warren Vaché – One
of our favourites, a
kind heart with cornet.
Alastair Kay, trombone
– He’ll turn you into an
Al-Kay-holic.
Neil Swainson, bass
– It takes pluck to be
such a great bass player
Reg Schwager, guitar
– Don’t fret, just string
along with Reg
Jim Galloway,
saxophone – He can even
make his kilt swing
Terry Clarke, drums
– Rhythm is his business and
he certainly knows his business
More great names to be added • Tickets $170 – substantially tax-deductible
Trustees: Anne Page, Jim Galloway, Patti Marshall,
David Stimpson, Patrick Taylor
Honorary Trustees: Frank Agrama, Jack Long, S Page,
Kendall Stanley, Pip Wedge
MAKE YOUR RESERVATION NOW!
416-515-0200 [email protected]
55 Charles Street West, Suite 3104, Toronto ON M5S 2W9
Gretchen Parlato
with Artistic Director
Josh Grossman
Our popular LEGENDS OF JAZZ workshops,
clinics, master classes and associated educational
outreach programmes continued to exceed expectations throughout the year and once again offered a
variety of stimulating and significant initiatives:
KPMT Inside Track host Jim Galloway
with Roberta Gamberini and with
William Carn
The Ken Page Memorial Trust is proud to grant
support for projects and performances which exemplify
one or more of the KPMT’s aims which are:
• to
encourage emerging jazz talent and foster an understanding
of the origins and evolution of the music through such activities as
workshops and master classes given by professionals in their fields;
• to
provide limited financial aid to jazz musicians on an emergency
basis as a result of illness, accident, or loss of employment;
• to
support selected live and recorded jazz performances in Canada.
The opening class was conducted by jazz trumpeter, author, teacher and team leader Chase Sanborn sharing a
subject close to his heart, Music Business Tactics. Thereafter, clinicians featured between September and
March included Fado singer Ana Moura, the David Braid Sextet, U.S. trumpeter Wayne Bergeron, Nova Scotia
saxophonist Don Palmer interviewed by Mike Murley, East Gipsy Band from Hungary with Tim Ries, tenor
saxophonist Joel Frahm visiting from New York, saxophonist Kirk MacDonald, New York drummer Victor Lewis ,
Dutch/Australian trumpeter and composer Nadje Noordhuis, bassist and U of T alumnus Matt Roberts, New York
based saxophonist-composer Jacam Manricks, Montreal pianist-composer Yves Leveille, The October Trio,
guitarist Avi Granite, double-base player Andrew Downing, saxophonist and U of T alumnus
Dan Jamieson, Touring Tips with Canadian drummer Karl Schwonik, and Jobbing Jazz Showcase
with John Jasavala who runs U of T’s in-house booking office. A final concert performed by
the U of T Orchestras featured guest saxophonist Donny McCaslin.
Attendance of this extremely well-received series remains mandatory and continues to promote
a high level of interaction between the students and the guest clinicians. Remember the master
classes are free and open to the public who are most welcome to attend on Friday afternoons
between 3:15 and 4:30 pm. Please check for details at www.uoftjazz/events/kpmc.
KPMT Master Class Series at
U of T Faculty of Music Clinicians
Ana Moura with Tim Ries,
Donny McCaslin; Wayne Bergeron
with Ben McConchie
Photos by Chase Sanborn
Faculty member, pianist
Brian Dickinson, teaching
young students
Photo by Cathy Mitro
Closing concert at
Chalkers Pub
Early in 2011 the KPMT established a
new relationship with the Humber College
Community Music School, assisting Youth
Jazz in the City through a scholarship grant
to attend a Summer Jazz Workshop initiative.
This community event is a an intensive
pre-professional training programme for
talented youths aged 14 to 18 who are interested in pursuing careers in jazz performance.
Applicants submit on-line auditions and the
successful candidates are invited to participate
in a two-week workshop, giving them access to
quality instruction in jazz and the opportunity
to perform and record with their peers and
professionals who share similar interests and
passions. The Trust was pleased to renew its
support for a second year, providing bursaries
for three of the 28 students accepted into
the 2012 programme, which took place July
16th - 28th. Recipients of the KPMT grant
were saxophonist Matt Lagan (aged 16), and
guitarists Anoop Isac (aged 15) and Adam
Filaber (aged 17). In addition to attending
daily classes and ensemble rehearsals that
incorporated aural and theoretical training,
jazz history, instrumental master classes,
improvisation clinics, combo performance
classes and professional concerts, these
impressive young players also performed at
the Beaches Festival, recorded at Humber’s
state of the art recording studio and played a
closing profile concert at Chalkers Pub.
In our ongoing commitment to the
Ron Collier Memorial Scholarship
Fund at Humber College we again
provided support for a bursary to be
awarded to a second or third year
student showing exceptional promise
as a composer or arranger, carrying
on the high standards established by
Ron Collier during Humber Music’s
early years. The 2012 recipient was
fiddle/violin player, Julie Fitzgerald
who had just completed her third year
of studies at Humber. When she first
started playing the fiddle, Julie learned
traditional Canadian styles including
Old-Time Swing, French Canadian
and East Coast Celtic, but the desire to
expand her playing styles and develop
other aspects of the music aside from
performance, led her to enrol in the
Humber jazz programme. Julie tells us
she has derived great interest from the
school’s arranging and theory classes
and realising the potential to create
a new sound for traditional fiddle
music, now plans to apply what she has
learned at Humber to the music she
played as a child. She feels confident in
her choice to pursue music as a career
and we wish her every success.
The KPMT Grants Programme celebrated its 13th year at the TD Toronto Jazz Festival
In June we were pleased renew our partnership with the TD Toronto Jazz Festival and to present a series
of sessions in which artists performing at the festival chat with a host about their music making. Ringing
a change for 2012, the KPMT’s newly-styled “Inside Track” interviews took place daily at 12:30 p.m.
on the outdoor stage at Nathan Phillips Square, where hosting duties were shared for a second year in
sucession by our own KPMT Trustee and former founding Artistic Director of the Festival, Jim Galloway
and the Festival’s resident Artistic Director, Josh Grossman. As in past years, these sessions continue to
be free and open to the public and provide a great opportunity to get up close and personal with some of
the artists appearing on official festival stages. The guest line-up featured nine distinguished musicians
who shared some of their career experiences and in a few instances delighted the audience by demonstrating their expertise: from the U.S., tenor saxophonist Houston Person, vocalists Roberta Gamberini and
Gretchen Parlato, guitarist Bill Frisell, keyboard master John Medeski – and from Canada, pianists David
Braid and Gord Sheard, trombonist William Carn and drummer Norman Marshall Villeneuve.
During the same period the KPMT also supported two jazz tuition projects held at the Rex Jazz & Blues
Bar: Big Band Slam featuring Al Kay and Youth Jazz Showcase.
LIFETIME
ACHIEVEMENT
AWARD
On Thursday 18th October
we were proud to honour our
2012 recipient, Phil Nimmons,
in recognition of his exceptional
contributions to the development
and growth of jazz in Canada.
Phil received a personalised
rendering of the Ken Page
Lifetime Achievement Award
as a lasting keepsake.
Julie Fitzgerald 2012 recipient of the
Ron Collier Memorial Scholarship award
Previous honorees are:
Until 2009 honorees of this special KPMT award had been recognised
each year at the Canadian National Jazz Awards, then following a two
year hiatus, the trustees elected to showcase future presentations within
the more intimate setting of the Trust’s Annual Fundraising Gala at the
Old Mill Inn. This also provided the opportunity to display for our guests
the permanent memento originally commissioned by the KPMT for design
by Rita So of Creative Art Glass in Toronto. The medium is etched glass
on an engraved base which commemorates the names of all previous
recipients from the time these honours were first bestowed – and the
stylised music staff in the design depicts the final four bars of “Why Did I
Choose You?” from the 1965 Broadway production of ‘The Yearling’
(music by Michael Leonard; lyrics by Herbert Martin) “...if I had to choose
again, I would still choose you...”
2002 Phil Sheridan
recording engineer, producer,
record label principal
2003 Ted O’Reilly
broadcaster, writer, producer
2004 John Norris
co-founder of Sackville
Records; founding editor of
Coda Magazine
Photo by Ted O’Reilly
The Ken Page Memorial Trust Master Class Series entered its twelfth
season at the University of Toronto with a loud drum roll as the Faculty of
Music proudly moved into its new jazz-dedicated home at 90 Wellesley Street
several months ahead of schedule and just in time to commence the 2011/1012
school year, providing classrooms, performance space and plenty of room down
the line for expansion. Terry Promane returned to the driver’s seat from his
sabbatical and the faculty manpower was augmented by the arrival of Jim Lewis
and Mike Murley who joined Chase Sanborn and Terry on a full time basis. With
fresh premises and a powerful team leading the way, the winter and spring
terms presented another healthy mix of both group and individual artist clinics,
along with one or two devoted to the music business. These weekly in-depth
sessions took many interesting and enlightening paths and always opened up to
questions about anything and everything relating to jazz and the music business
in general. Ongoing collaboration with The Rex also set up a second performing
opportunity for visiting musicians, allowing them to benefit from some
additional exposure while in town.
Youth Jazz Showcase at the Rex
2005 Doug Cole
founding owner and
operator of Canada’s
longest-running jazz club,
George’s Spaghetti House
2006 Lothar & Brigitte Lang
owners and operators of the
Montreal Bistro & Jazz Club
2007 Jack Long
founding Chairman of Long &
McQuade Musical Instruments
2008 Geoff Chapman
award-winning journalist
(Toronto Star), music critic
Anne Page presents Lifetime Achievment Award
to Phil Nimmons
2009 Fay Olson
PR professional,
event manager, strategic
communications specialist
Gretchen Parlato
with Artistic Director
Josh Grossman
Our popular LEGENDS OF JAZZ workshops,
clinics, master classes and associated educational
outreach programmes continued to exceed expectations throughout the year and once again offered a
variety of stimulating and significant initiatives:
KPMT Inside Track host Jim Galloway
with Roberta Gamberini and with
William Carn
The Ken Page Memorial Trust is proud to grant
support for projects and performances which exemplify
one or more of the KPMT’s aims which are:
• to
encourage emerging jazz talent and foster an understanding
of the origins and evolution of the music through such activities as
workshops and master classes given by professionals in their fields;
• to
provide limited financial aid to jazz musicians on an emergency
basis as a result of illness, accident, or loss of employment;
• to
support selected live and recorded jazz performances in Canada.
The opening class was conducted by jazz trumpeter, author, teacher and team leader Chase Sanborn sharing a
subject close to his heart, Music Business Tactics. Thereafter, clinicians featured between September and
March included Fado singer Ana Moura, the David Braid Sextet, U.S. trumpeter Wayne Bergeron, Nova Scotia
saxophonist Don Palmer interviewed by Mike Murley, East Gipsy Band from Hungary with Tim Ries, tenor
saxophonist Joel Frahm visiting from New York, saxophonist Kirk MacDonald, New York drummer Victor Lewis ,
Dutch/Australian trumpeter and composer Nadje Noordhuis, bassist and U of T alumnus Matt Roberts, New York
based saxophonist-composer Jacam Manricks, Montreal pianist-composer Yves Leveille, The October Trio,
guitarist Avi Granite, double-base player Andrew Downing, saxophonist and U of T alumnus
Dan Jamieson, Touring Tips with Canadian drummer Karl Schwonik, and Jobbing Jazz Showcase
with John Jasavala who runs U of T’s in-house booking office. A final concert performed by
the U of T Orchestras featured guest saxophonist Donny McCaslin.
Attendance of this extremely well-received series remains mandatory and continues to promote
a high level of interaction between the students and the guest clinicians. Remember the master
classes are free and open to the public who are most welcome to attend on Friday afternoons
between 3:15 and 4:30 pm. Please check for details at www.uoftjazz/events/kpmc.
KPMT Master Class Series at
U of T Faculty of Music Clinicians
Ana Moura with Tim Ries,
Donny McCaslin; Wayne Bergeron
with Ben McConchie
Photos by Chase Sanborn
Faculty member, pianist
Brian Dickinson, teaching
young students
Photo by Cathy Mitro
Closing concert at
Chalkers Pub
Early in 2011 the KPMT established a
new relationship with the Humber College
Community Music School, assisting Youth
Jazz in the City through a scholarship grant
to attend a Summer Jazz Workshop initiative.
This community event is a an intensive
pre-professional training programme for
talented youths aged 14 to 18 who are interested in pursuing careers in jazz performance.
Applicants submit on-line auditions and the
successful candidates are invited to participate
in a two-week workshop, giving them access to
quality instruction in jazz and the opportunity
to perform and record with their peers and
professionals who share similar interests and
passions. The Trust was pleased to renew its
support for a second year, providing bursaries
for three of the 28 students accepted into
the 2012 programme, which took place July
16th - 28th. Recipients of the KPMT grant
were saxophonist Matt Lagan (aged 16), and
guitarists Anoop Isac (aged 15) and Adam
Filaber (aged 17). In addition to attending
daily classes and ensemble rehearsals that
incorporated aural and theoretical training,
jazz history, instrumental master classes,
improvisation clinics, combo performance
classes and professional concerts, these
impressive young players also performed at
the Beaches Festival, recorded at Humber’s
state of the art recording studio and played a
closing profile concert at Chalkers Pub.
In our ongoing commitment to the
Ron Collier Memorial Scholarship
Fund at Humber College we again
provided support for a bursary to be
awarded to a second or third year
student showing exceptional promise
as a composer or arranger, carrying
on the high standards established by
Ron Collier during Humber Music’s
early years. The 2012 recipient was
fiddle/violin player, Julie Fitzgerald
who had just completed her third year
of studies at Humber. When she first
started playing the fiddle, Julie learned
traditional Canadian styles including
Old-Time Swing, French Canadian
and East Coast Celtic, but the desire to
expand her playing styles and develop
other aspects of the music aside from
performance, led her to enrol in the
Humber jazz programme. Julie tells us
she has derived great interest from the
school’s arranging and theory classes
and realising the potential to create
a new sound for traditional fiddle
music, now plans to apply what she has
learned at Humber to the music she
played as a child. She feels confident in
her choice to pursue music as a career
and we wish her every success.
The KPMT Grants Programme celebrated its 13th year at the TD Toronto Jazz Festival
In June we were pleased renew our partnership with the TD Toronto Jazz Festival and to present a series
of sessions in which artists performing at the festival chat with a host about their music making. Ringing
a change for 2012, the KPMT’s newly-styled “Inside Track” interviews took place daily at 12:30 p.m.
on the outdoor stage at Nathan Phillips Square, where hosting duties were shared for a second year in
sucession by our own KPMT Trustee and former founding Artistic Director of the Festival, Jim Galloway
and the Festival’s resident Artistic Director, Josh Grossman. As in past years, these sessions continue to
be free and open to the public and provide a great opportunity to get up close and personal with some of
the artists appearing on official festival stages. The guest line-up featured nine distinguished musicians
who shared some of their career experiences and in a few instances delighted the audience by demonstrating their expertise: from the U.S., tenor saxophonist Houston Person, vocalists Roberta Gamberini and
Gretchen Parlato, guitarist Bill Frisell, keyboard master John Medeski – and from Canada, pianists David
Braid and Gord Sheard, trombonist William Carn and drummer Norman Marshall Villeneuve.
During the same period the KPMT also supported two jazz tuition projects held at the Rex Jazz & Blues
Bar: Big Band Slam featuring Al Kay and Youth Jazz Showcase.
LIFETIME
ACHIEVEMENT
AWARD
On Thursday 18th October
we were proud to honour our
2012 recipient, Phil Nimmons,
in recognition of his exceptional
contributions to the development
and growth of jazz in Canada.
Phil received a personalised
rendering of the Ken Page
Lifetime Achievement Award
as a lasting keepsake.
Julie Fitzgerald 2012 recipient of the
Ron Collier Memorial Scholarship award
Previous honorees are:
Until 2009 honorees of this special KPMT award had been recognised
each year at the Canadian National Jazz Awards, then following a two
year hiatus, the trustees elected to showcase future presentations within
the more intimate setting of the Trust’s Annual Fundraising Gala at the
Old Mill Inn. This also provided the opportunity to display for our guests
the permanent memento originally commissioned by the KPMT for design
by Rita So of Creative Art Glass in Toronto. The medium is etched glass
on an engraved base which commemorates the names of all previous
recipients from the time these honours were first bestowed – and the
stylised music staff in the design depicts the final four bars of “Why Did I
Choose You?” from the 1965 Broadway production of ‘The Yearling’
(music by Michael Leonard; lyrics by Herbert Martin) “...if I had to choose
again, I would still choose you...”
2002 Phil Sheridan
recording engineer, producer,
record label principal
2003 Ted O’Reilly
broadcaster, writer, producer
2004 John Norris
co-founder of Sackville
Records; founding editor of
Coda Magazine
Photo by Ted O’Reilly
The Ken Page Memorial Trust Master Class Series entered its twelfth
season at the University of Toronto with a loud drum roll as the Faculty of
Music proudly moved into its new jazz-dedicated home at 90 Wellesley Street
several months ahead of schedule and just in time to commence the 2011/1012
school year, providing classrooms, performance space and plenty of room down
the line for expansion. Terry Promane returned to the driver’s seat from his
sabbatical and the faculty manpower was augmented by the arrival of Jim Lewis
and Mike Murley who joined Chase Sanborn and Terry on a full time basis. With
fresh premises and a powerful team leading the way, the winter and spring
terms presented another healthy mix of both group and individual artist clinics,
along with one or two devoted to the music business. These weekly in-depth
sessions took many interesting and enlightening paths and always opened up to
questions about anything and everything relating to jazz and the music business
in general. Ongoing collaboration with The Rex also set up a second performing
opportunity for visiting musicians, allowing them to benefit from some
additional exposure while in town.
Youth Jazz Showcase at the Rex
2005 Doug Cole
founding owner and
operator of Canada’s
longest-running jazz club,
George’s Spaghetti House
2006 Lothar & Brigitte Lang
owners and operators of the
Montreal Bistro & Jazz Club
2007 Jack Long
founding Chairman of Long &
McQuade Musical Instruments
2008 Geoff Chapman
award-winning journalist
(Toronto Star), music critic
Anne Page presents Lifetime Achievment Award
to Phil Nimmons
2009 Fay Olson
PR professional,
event manager, strategic
communications specialist
Kings of Swing Grand Finale
March 2013
KEN PAGE (1928 - 1998)
w
e
i
v
e
R
l
a
u
Ann d Looking Ahea
Not long before he passed
d
an
away, Ken Page took out
a full-page ad in the show
business bible, ‘Variety’
Magazine, to say his
Marking its 14th anniversary, the KPMT Annual Fundraising Gala returned last
October to the historic charm of The Old Mill Inn to salute the jazz tradition with
the Kings of Swing ... and what a memorable night it was! Presented by JAZZ.
FM91 and supported by the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto, the
evening opened with a complimentary Cocktail Reception sponsored by Charton
Hobbs and an impressive performance by the Ben Hognestad Trio, featuring
Matt Woroshyl, setting the scene for the main event. Then under the direction of
Jim Galloway and hosted by Master of Ceremonies, Ted O’Reilly, KPMT patrons
were treated to yet another musical masterpiece showcasing
visiting royalty Harry Allen, Warren Vaché, Ken
Peplowski, Rossano Sportiello and Russ Phillips,
together with local heroes Don Thompson, Alastair
Kay, Kevin Turcotte, Neil Swainson, Reg Schwager
and Terry Clarke.
personal goodbye:
presented by JAZZ.FM91
Thursday October 17, 2013
At the historic Old Mill Inn, Toronto
Reception with complimentary cocktail
3 course Dinner and unforgettable jazz
Notes on Passing:
In the words of Berthold Auerback: “Music washes
away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
Two Bass Hit with
Neil Swainson and Don Thompson
Tromfoolery with
Russ Phillips and
Alastair Kay
We lost some close friends
and long-time jazz supporters
in 2012 among whom we
would especially like to
remember Al Keyworth,
Mark Dworkin, Bob Langmuir,
Laiko Matsubayashi, Doug
Cole and Geoff Chapman.
w
e
i
v
e
R
l
a
u
Ann
If you have read this far, dear friends, it means you
have a sincere appreciation of both the music and the
Trust’s mission to support jazz and the many talented professionals who create
lasting memories for all of us. We are equally dedicated to promoting jazz
education and to fostering emerging young artists in our community, but the
ongoing achievement of these objectives takes constant nourishment.
To those of you who are already contributing members of our KPMT family,
we cannot thank you enough for your loyalty – you are our lifeline and we
earnestly ask you to renew your pledge.
If you are not yet part of our group, please take a giant step and join us now
by filling in the attached donor form. We are a registered charity, so your
contribution will be fully tax deductible and you will know you have been
instrumental in helping us reach our goal to further the music.
and Looking Ahead
Gala Photos by Ted
O’Reilly
Your cheque should be made payable to the Ken Page Memorial Trust
and mailed to the address shown. You may also reach me by telephone at
416-515-0200 or email [email protected].
Thank you again for your support and here’s to more great
jazz in the months ahead!
“When we recognise that a better word for
Fundraising is ‘friend raising’, we open limitless
doors to creativity in support of our causes.”
- Sue Vineyard
Charitable Registration No. 87276 8106 RR0001
There is an old Chinese proverb...
If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day, go fishing.
If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.
15th Annual Great Jazz Gala
“I have been blessed with
many friends. More than I ever knew, more
than I ever deserved.
I love them all. I wish my legacy were tangibly
the reflection of that friendship. Thank you
everyone. You will never know what you
have meant to me.”
Ken Page, Toronto
Ken Peplowski, reeds –
Rossano Sportiello,
He’ll blow your bluesMarch
away 2013 piano – He never fails to
and put a smile on your face
hit his stride.
Warren Vaché – One
of our favourites, a
kind heart with cornet.
Alastair Kay, trombone
– He’ll turn you into an
Al-Kay-holic.
Neil Swainson, bass
– It takes pluck to be
such a great bass player
Reg Schwager, guitar
– Don’t fret, just string
along with Reg
Jim Galloway,
saxophone – He can even
make his kilt swing
Terry Clarke, drums
– Rhythm is his business and
he certainly knows his business
More great names to be added • Tickets $170 – substantially tax-deductible
Trustees: Anne Page, Jim Galloway, Patti Marshall,
David Stimpson, Patrick Taylor
Honorary Trustees: Frank Agrama, Jack Long, S Page,
Kendall Stanley, Pip Wedge
MAKE YOUR RESERVATION NOW!
416-515-0200 [email protected]
55 Charles Street West, Suite 3104, Toronto ON M5S 2W9