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502014 Media Marketing Report │ TD Ottawa Jazz Festival

51 2014 Media Marketing Report │ TD Ottawa Jazz Festival

522014 Media Marketing Report │ TD Ottawa Jazz Festival

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Singing in Ella Fitzgerald’s shoes

Israeli trumpeter Itamar Borochov lives in New York and combines sounds of his homeland with the jazz tradition. F R O M E1 ‘What?’” She remembers that she
literally tried on a pair of Fitzger-
ISRAELIS BRING Most notably, her uncle played ald’s shoes for the concert.
FLAIR TO FEST bass in the Denver Symphony Or-
chestra and her cousin was George Reeves studied music at the
Duke, the famed keyboardist and University of Colorado before she
producer. moved to Los Angeles in 1977.

From an early age, singing There, she found work in the
brought Reeves joy. “I hadn’t city’s studios, and broadened her
thought about singing for a living. musical horizons with the Latin-
I loved how it made me feel and I funk-fusion group Caldera and
loved how it made people react. In Brazilian maestro Sergio Mendes.
a lot of ways, it empowered me.”
When she wasn’t singing, she was
At 16, while singing with her high learning vital lessons by watching
school’s jazz band, Reeves came to her heroes perform.
the attention of the trumpeter and
jazz elder Clark Terry, who encour- The great singer Carmen McRae,
aged her to sing professionally and to name one, blew her away. “She
invited her to sit in with his band. was like this incredible musician
who could stand on the stage and
Also, when Reeves was in high tell a story and transform you.”
school, she was so proficient at
jazz singing that she was called “It doesn’t have to be the same
on to substitute for a visiting Ella thing every night,” Reeves says.
Fitzgerald when her idol was un- “That’s the jazz aspect of things.
well and unable to continue at a That’s the part I love.”
concert.
For a review of the Ottawa Jazz
“They sent a message for me
to take over her show. I was like, Festival concert by the Joey

DeFrancesco Trio, go to:

ottawacitizen.com/jazzblog

Six young musicians in the lineup this year “GRAND INDEED!
An absolute treat. Hilarious,
PETER HUM ISRAELI JAZZ duo with pianist Omri Mor; pianist Check out the heartfelt and not to be missed.”
AT T H E F E S T I VA L Anat Fort, 44; and the strikingly Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA CITIZEN eclectic Michael Greilsammer, who tablet edition. PETE HAMMOND, MOVIELINE
Itamar Borochov; Jonathan Green- calls himself a Jewish reggae violin-
Itamar Borochov says that moving stein: June 21, 9 p.m., NAC Fourth ist, sings in French and plays music “A CHARMING COMEDY IN A
to New York was his lifelong dream. Stage influenced by Bob Marley as well JAW-DROPPING SETTING.”
Dida Pelled: June 22, 5 p.m., NAC as the sounds of Irish pubs, Gypsy
The 30-year-old Israeli trum- Fourth Stage camps and even the Arab street. JOHN DEFORE, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
peter says he wasn’t even 20 when Shai Maestro Trio: June 22, 9 p.m.,
he had his first taste of playing jazz NAC Fourth Stage Of them, pianist Fort makes for “YOU CAN’T HELP BUT
in the Big Apple, sitting in at a jam Daniel Zamir; Omri Mor: June 25, 6 an interesting contrast to Boro- FALL IN LOVE.”
session at the famous hole-in-the- p.m., NAC Fourth Stage chov.
wall Smalls. Anat Fort: June 26, 6 p.m., NAC JORDAN HOFFMAN, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Fourth Stage She, too, moved to New York in
“I fell in love immediately. I knew Michael Greilsammer: June 29, her 20s to study and plant the seeds SEDUCTIONTHE GRANDBRENDAN GLEESON TAYLOR KITSCH
this is where the music is and that’s 10:30 p.m., OLG After Dark Series for her career. But she moved back
what I wanted to do.” to Tel Aviv in 2009, after 17 years IT’S GOING TO TAKE A BIG LIE TO SAVE A LITTLE TOWN
“Jazz, which by its nature is away. By then, she had recorded
But while he’s called New York eclectic, has flourished in Israel two acclaimed albums for ECM Re- The Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit © FILMS MAX (TGS) INC., MORAG LOVES SEDUCTION INC., 2013
home for the last seven years, his with influences from traditional cords including one with the late, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
roots in his homeland remain Yiddish music to Middle Eastern legendary drummer Paul Motian.
strong. His compositions frequent- chants and from Latin American TOBACCO USE, THEGRANDSEDUCTIONFILM.CA
ly meld the spontaneous sparks of beats to African rhythms,” says “It was time,” she says of her re- LANGUAGE MAY OFFEND FACEBOOK.COM/EONEFILMS YOUTUBE.COM/EONEFILMS
jazz with the melodic and harmon- Rafael Barak, Israel’s ambassador turn to her homeland. “I love New
ic materials of Israel. to Canada. York, but I started to get tired of it. PLNAOYWING CINEPLEX ENTERTAINMENT CINEPLEX ENTERTAINMENT LANDMARK CINEMAS
I was getting a lot of work. I wanted SILVERCITY GLOUCESTER SOUTH KEYS KANATA 24
“The spirit is similar. It’s im- A partnership between the Vered to be closer to my family. It just
provisational music, with a rhyth- Israel Culture and Education Pro- made a lot of sense.” Check Theatre Directory for Showtimes.
mic/energetic trance. Something gram and the Embassy of Israel
about the blues is almost universal. pays for travel and accommodation [email protected]
Something in me finds the connec- and the festival is covering the per-
tion, and I’m continuing to explore formance fees. twitter.com/peterhum
it. Maybe it’s a fantasy, but at this
point it’s my reality.” The embassy and festival have OTTSAF74746_1_1
collaborated before, but this year’s
Borochov will share that reality is their most extensive, and it coin-
from the stage during his TD Otta- cides with 65 years of bilateral rela-
wa Jazz Festival concert Saturday. tions between Israel and Canada,
His is one of six featuring vibrant Barak notes.
young Israeli musicians, adding
cosmopolitan breadth and flair to In addition to trumpeter Boro-
the festival. chov, who performs with young
saxophonist Jonathan Greenstein,
Their appearances are a result of the festival’s Israeli contingent in-
a scouting trip last year by Cath- cludes: the 26-year-old singer/ gui-
erine O’Grady, the festival’s ex- tarist Dida Pelled, whose debut disc
ecutive producer. In November, is straight-ahead and traditional;
she attended Yellow Submarine, 28-year-old pianist Shai Maestro,
Israel’s annual exposition for Jazz who makes dazzling cross-cultur-
and World Music. al music with his trio; 31-year-old
saxophonist Daniel Zamir, Israel’s
“I was overwhelmed by the depth top-selling jazz artist, playing in
and breadth of musicianship. We
are very proud and fortunate to
have several of these consummate
artists perform in Ottawa this sum-
mer.”

So, too, is the Embassy of Israel.

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