Barlow’s version of Bob Dylan’s "Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright" is a perfect example of how she has made the songs her own. As Emilie-Claire said, “I knew with Dylan, it was go big or go home.”
She stripped the song down to the lyrics and melody, then “shifted it from a major to a minor key, made the chords more complex, and then gave it a Latin beat.” The result is deliciously good.
Barlow will be bringing an eight- piece band to St. Catharines, adding flute, trumpet, and saxophone to her normal guitar, bass, piano, drums and voice.
Barlow told me that “When the lights go down and I walk onstage, if I can just let everything fall away and be present, I hope to draw the audience into that space so they are present as well. When it is working, everything just falls away, and there is just music.”
“She is what we call serious.” (Oscar Peterson)
Brandi Disterheft’s first recording, Debut, garnered a Juno award in 2008 for traditional jazz album of the year. Her career has continued to ascend with the release of her sophomore record Second Side, which features her both singing and playing bass.
Disterheft described her live show as diverse because, “I like to throw in curveballs. So at one point, we’ll be playing the blues and then we’ll be playing a surf pop boogaloo groove and then go into a ballad and then into a dramatic classical piece where I’m featured on the bow.”
This sense of dynamic range and willingness to tackle musical genres has allowed her to establish herself as one of the bass players to watch. Currently based in New York, Disterheft is studying with Ron Carter of Miles Davis’ Second Great Quintet fame.
As a young female bass player, Disterheft had played hard and loud to get heard in a primarily male-dominated field. She sought Carter out as a teacher because “he takes away the iron fist,” developed from playing hard.
“He’s opened up my sound and allowed me to be relaxed.” Disterheft explained that for her, “Jazz is a whole history of people trying to express themselves and initially trying to break out of being repressed.” In the end, she describes herself as having a “fiery personality” and that “when I play, I try to give it my all.”
This double-bill is not one to miss.
Arturo Sandoval is a trumpet master with prodigious talent who can adapt to musical modes ranging from Afro-Cuban to bebop to classical to balladry.
yet he uses his technique with dramatic finesse.” (The New York Times)
“Sandoval's playing is unabashedly spectacular,
Sunday, March 4, 2012 @ 2:30 p.m. A Tribute to My Friend Dizzy Gillespie
Arturo Sandoval
Brandi Disterheft Emilie-Claire Barlow
Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012 special guest to
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