Friday 12 JULY 2013 (Intimate venue) –
with TIMELESS featuring POPS MOHAMMED
Saturday 13 JULY 2013 (Main venue) – with BRUCE CASSIDY'S HOTFOOT ORCHESTRA, 10
piece jazz orchestra.
The Bassline is proud
to announce the return of Bruce Cassidy and his two music projects TIMELESS
featuring POPS MOHAMMED and his 10 piece jazz orchestra HOTFOOT ORCHESTRA to
the Bassline stages.
The Bassline Jazz Club
in Melville had the honor of its stage being graced by Bruce and his music
projects performing almost on a weekly basis for 9 years during the period of
1994 and 2003. “Unforgettable!” says Brad Holmes – originator and owner of Bassline.
For those patrons who
experienced any of those memorable gigs now is your time to witness Bruce at
his best live at the Bassline after a 13-year return to his home country from Canada.
About Bruce Cassidy:
Born
in Fredericton, New Brunswick he left his university studies and moved to
Montreal to study trumpet. After a period of study at Berklee College of Music
in Boston he moved to Toronto. He was soon performing at Toronto’s main jazz
venues and in studios, including the first seven albums released by Rob
McConnell’s Boss Brass.
He
started out with trumpet as his first performance instrument and is today also
one of the world’s foremost performers on the EVI (Electronic Valve Instrument),
a wind synthesizer invented by Nyle Steiner. He wrote and recorded the first
orchestral concerto for this instrument and with it has performed the Ondes
Martenot solo part in Olivier Messiaen’s Turangulila Symphony with the Cape
Town Symphony Orchestra.
His
love of variety led to extended playing, recording and touring with Doug
Riley’s Dr. Music, Lighthouse and, the fusion band Blood, Sweat and Tears for
which he contributed compositions and arrangements for their last two albums.
Artists with whom he has appeared in concert include Duke Ellington, Quincy
Jones, Dionne Warwick, Anne Murray, Marvin Gaye, Chucho Valdez, and the Toronto
Symphony Orchestra.
After
a world tour in 1980 Bruce moved to South Africa and immersed himself in the
African music scene. He wrote and produced music for orchestral concerts, film,
television and international dance competitions. Under the auspices of the
South African Department of Arts and Culture he composed and produced an opera
based on African Xhosa folklore, The Clay Flute, and produced a number of
concerts for European artists and the SA internationally renowned opera singer
Sibongile Khumalo.
His
latest album production in South Africa was Our World, a modern orchestral/jazz
outing for the renowned Soweto String Quartet. In 1995 he was contracted to
return to South Africa to lead an international big band at the National Arts
Festival here.
His
own projects in South Africa include:
TIMELESS,
an award winning duo which combined the EVI, with the ancient instrument specialist
Pops Mohamed which performed extensively in South Africa and toured Scandanavia
and central European countries
A
10 piece band, BRUCE CASSIDY’S HOTFOOT
ORCHESTRA which has also taken root in Toronto with the finest local
musicians.
Since
Bruce’s return to Toronto in 2003, he has produced, with his Los Angeles
partner Ken Wiley, the first jazz play-along book for French horn. He has also
arranged Joe Zawinul’s classic “Birdland” for 16 french horns, and has written
arrangements for Rick Morrison’s band The Carnival of Souls and the Andrew
Burashko’s Art Of Time
Ensemble.
From
2004 to 2009 Bruce was musical director for the great Blood Sweat and Tears
vocalist David Clayton-Thomas and re-wrote the BS&T book for a larger
ensemble to bring fresh sounds to that music.
He currently performs regularly in Toronto
with Bruce Cassidy’s Mbaqanga, A quartet playing South African Township
style music
One
World Trio, a collaborative world music group
featuring Anwar Khurshid, sitar, Waleed Abdulhamid bass and percussion and
Bruce Cassidy EVI.
Bruce
Cassidy’s Hotfoot Orchestra, a wide format six-horn band with
which he recorded his latest release My African Heart.
Musician lineup:
TIMELESS
12
July 2013
-
Pops Mohammed
-
Bruce Cassidy
BRUCE
CASSIDY’S HOTFOOT ORCHESTRA
13
July 2013
Tickets:
R110
available through webtickets and at the door
More
info on the event:
+2711 –
838-9145/6/2
More
info on Bruce Cassidy:
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