WJO 2020/2021 Season Concerts

MPTF Live Jazz Orchestra Concerts

Free Live-Streamed Jazz Orchestra Concert

Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra in concert.

Thank you to the Musicians' Performance Trust Fund for supporting these concerts.
Streamed live from the Seven Oaks Performing Arts Centre. (This is a live concert. There is no recording available later. )

April 26 - Live! WJO original compositions and arrangements

This live stream concert will feature a variety of pieces from past WJO concerts, with an emphasis on our own arrangements and compositions.
We will do a trio of duke Ellington tunes - one that is a famous arrangement from the Count Basie library (In a Mellow Tone), and a couple of our arrangements of Oscar Peterson tunes.
We will also perform two pieces that were composed for Manitoba school big bands (Gone and Sanctuary), and two pieces that were also recorded by the Reykjavik Big Band in 2010 (Rhymes and Mr. G).

Stompin’ at the Savoy Goodman, Webb & Sampson; transc. R. Gillis
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf - Churchill & Ronell; arr. D. Ellington; transc. R. Gillis
Caravan Juan Tizol; arr. Jeff Presslaff
In a Mello Tone Duke Ellington; arr. Frank Foster
Sanctuary Jeff Presslaff
Mr. G Bjorn Thoroddsen; arr. Richard Gillis
Gone Richard Gillis
Rhymes Traditional Icelandic; arr. Richard Gillis
Roundalay Oscar Peterson; arr. Jeff Presslaff
Blues For Smedley Oscar Peterson; arr. Richard Gillis

Director – Richard Gillis
Saxes – Neil Watson, Lauren Teterenko, Paul Balcain, Conner Derraugh, Ken Gold,
Trombones – Joel Green, Jeff Presslaff, Stormy Allen, Isabelle Lavoie
Trumpets – Shane Hicks, Matt Walden, Jeni Taylor, Andrew Littleford, David Lawton
Piano- Will Bonness; Guitar - Jocelyn Gould; Bass – Julian Bradford; Drums – Rob Siwik

The Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra is Generously Funded by:

Funding assistance provided by the Manitoba government. Aide financière accordée par le gouvernement du Manitoba.

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

Education Sponsors:

The Play-Along App project is supported by the Government of Canada’s Healthy Communities Initiative.

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The Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra welcomes and shares its performance and creation of music - a universal language to all people irrespective of culture, race, sexuality, ability, language and gender.

Music is an agent of hope. A dynamic and valuable device that helps us to heal and to bring us together. The First Peoples of Canada understood this and used music to reunite, resolve and reconcile. In the spirit of reconciliation, we acknowledge that WJO activities take place on Treaty Territory – land that was maintained and earnestly cared for by Indigenous peoples before European settlement. Manitoba is the original lands of Anishinaabe, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples, and is the homeland of the Métis Nation. We acknowledge that Winnipeg benefits daily from Treaty 3 water that comes from Shoal Lake 40. It is with sincere sentiment that we recognize the mistakes of our recent and distant past. In working towards a Canada that benefits us all, we commit to seeking a greater understanding of Canada’s diverse cultural relationships through continued work with Indigenous communities; we commit to live in ways that honour and respect the treaties that were made on these territories; and we commit to stewarding the land in harmony for all who will come after us.

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Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra / Box 68114, RPO Osborne Village, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3L 2V9
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