Jazz with wine, cheesecake and tea

From left, Lloyd and Evan Arntzen will be performing at Jazz, Tea and Cheesecake this Sunday with a number of other jazz musicians.

Image Credit: SUBMITTED PHOTO BY EVAN ARNTZEN

• by  Lissa Alexander - Parksville Qualicum Beach News
• posted Jul 17, 2014 at 9:00 AM
• The renowned Arntzen family is back in Parksville playing jazz this Sunday while patrons enjoy a bit of wine, cheesecake and tea at the Morningstar farm.
  Jazz, Tea and Cheesecake, presented by Little Qualicum Cheeseworks, will have Blackstick performing this year, a six-piece band led by Lloyd Arntzen and his grandson Evan, both on clarinets and vocals. The two have played at the event before, two years ago they arrived with a number of other family members known as 3 Generations of Jazz, and blew the audience away with their incredible sound.
  Local jazz legend Phil Dwyer had recommended the group and said at that time that a highlight was seeing Lloyd and Evan perform together and how their musical love for each other and traditional jazz shone through the music.
  Although Evan moved to Brooklyn, New York in January, he is currently staying in Vancouver and The NEWS caught up with him by phone last week.
  Evan said music has always been a mainstay in his life from the time his dad, Tom Arntzen, had him on stage singing with him at the age of three.
  “The question growing up wasn’t whether you were going to play music but what instrument were you going to play,” he said.
  He started on the piano at age five but the instrument he fell for was the clarinet at age seven, he said.
  Evan, his brother and some cousins would head over to Grandpa Lloyd’s every Wednesday after school, which they dubbed “Grandpa day”. Lloyd would give each of the children lessons on their respective instruments and also teach them his favourite jazz songs like Canal Street Blues and Apex Blues. But they also did typical things at Grandpa’s house, like make things out of wood and watch Charlie Chaplin videos, Evan said.
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