Jane Bunnett

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Jane Bunnett

Jane Bunnett Spirits of Havana TD Jazz 2016: https://t.co/ghyjyJUVH4 via @YouTube

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Jane Bunnett review: All smiles as Women's Jazz Festival lights up a Cuban

Jane Bunnett and five of Cuba's most outstanding young female players joined musical forces for Maqueque. Photo: Supplied

November 5, 2015
John Shan
Cuba produces brilliant musicians at almost the same rate it does cigars, and it stands out among those countries – including Turkey, Brazil, Ethiopia and South Africa – to enrich jazz as well as borrow from it.

The Canadian soprano saxophonist/flautist Jane Bunnett has enjoyed a long and fruitful fascination with Cuba's music, and for Maqueque she has assembled five of the country's outstanding young female players.

This made the project the perfect headliner and opening act for this year's Sydney International Women's Jazz Festival, which consists of 17 performances across 12 days and four stages.

The most compelling aspect of Bunnett and her colleagues' take on Afro-Cuban jazz was its sheer vibrancy. With the compositions memorised and no sheet music to distract, smiling interaction defined a concert that was clearly as much fun to play as to hear.

Bunnett's saxophone solos were generally more compelling than those on flute. Unlike most soprano players, her sound was neither sweet nor nasally, but rather sand-blasted and tinder-dry, with a piquancy that could border on the ferocious.

Something of that ferocity slipped into the grooves occasionally, too, notably from Yissy Garcia, who proved a potent and inventive drummer, if slightly too loud at times.

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Jane Bunnett ....

Jane Bunnett, born in Toronto, Ontario, on October 22, 1956, began her early musical training as a classical pianist, clarinetist and flutist at Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music and transitioned into woodwinds studies exclusively following her achievement of Grade 10 piano credentials and the concurrent development of acute tendonitis.

Inspired by her first exposure to jazz through live performances by jazz luminaries Charles Mingus and Rahsaan Roland Kirk in San Francisco's "Keystone Korner" in 1975, the prodigious 19-year-old multi-instrumentalist hopped genres and concentrated her academic efforts on jazz applications of the flute and soprano saxophone at York University in Toronto in 1979.

Originally attracted by the unrestrained options offered by artists such as John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders, Jane embraced the invaluable legacy of Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, and Bud Powell.

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From: http://www.justin-time.com/artists.php?lang=en&aid=397

Jane Bunnett And Maqueque

Jane Bunnett, born in Toronto, Ontario, on October 22, 1956, began her early musical training as a classical pianist, clarinetist and flutist at Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music and transitioned into woodwinds studies exclusively following her achievement of Grade 10 piano credentials and the concurrent development of acute tendonitis.

Inspired by her first exposure to jazz through live performances by jazz luminaries Charles Mingus and Rahsaan Roland Kirk in San Francisco's "Keystone Korner" in 1975, the prodigious 19-year-old multi-instrumentalist hopped genres and concentrated her academic efforts on jazz applications of the flute and soprano saxophone at York University in Toronto in 1979. Originally attracted by the unrestrained options offered by artists such as John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders, Jane embraced the invaluable legacy of Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, and Bud Powell. 

Jane Bunnett: http://www.janebunnett.com

Jane Bunnett And Maqueque

Jane Bunnett, born in Toronto, Ontario, on October 22, 1956, began her early musical training as a classical pianist, clarinetist and flutist at Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music and transitioned into woodwinds studies exclusively following her achievement of Grade 10 piano credentials and the concurrent development of acute tendonitis.

Inspired by her first exposure to jazz through live performances by jazz luminaries Charles Mingus and Rahsaan Roland Kirk in San Francisco's "Keystone Korner" in 1975, the prodigious 19-year-old multi-instrumentalist hopped genres and concentrated her academic efforts on jazz applications of the flute and soprano saxophone at York University in Toronto in 1979.

Originally attracted by the unrestrained options offered by artists such as John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders, Jane embraced the invaluable legacy of Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, and Bud Powell. 
Jane Bunnett: http://www.janebunnett.com

Jane Bunnett has become one of the foremost jazz musicians in Canada...

Jane Bunnett has become one of the foremost jazz musicians in Canada, and has gained recognition around the world for her improvising talents, technical proficiency, and writing and band leading abilities. Born and educated in Toronto, she trained as a classical pianist from 1975-78 (attaining Grade 10 Piano Honors), until tendentious forced a switch to woodwinds at the Royal Conservatory.

In 1979 she began concurrent studies in jazz at York University, Toronto, inspired by her first exposure to jazz great Charles Mingus and Rahsaan Roland Kirk in San Francisco. This led to studies with pianist Barry Harris, flautists James Newton, Frank Wess and James Moody; then, having heard soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy’s music, she began to focus on that instrument also. A 1991 Canada Council grant enabled her to travel to Paris to begin studies with Lacy.

Her first recording was an ambitious mix of Canadian and American players (the late pianist Don Pullen, tenor player and Ornette Coleman veteran Dewey Redman and Vincent Chancy, French horn) . This debut, In Dew Time, earned a Juno nomination in 1988. She toured Canada with Redman in 1991, and Australia with Pullen in 1992. A year later, Jane recorded New York Duets with Pullen, following it up with Live at Sweet Basil, then 1994's The Water is Wide which was chosen by The Village Voice as best record of the year.

A mid-‘80's trip to Cuba with new husband Larry Cramer turned Jane’s musical world upside down, into a passion for the island’s wildly fertile musical culture and its people. Since then, Jane has explored the music in every corner of Cuba, and has absorbed the lessons and traditions with the same devotion she has given to her other work, seeking out musicians all over the island. Her tourism has now given ...

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Jane Bunnett and The Spirits of Havana perform in Hungary.