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FRI 3 Tristan Paxton Trio @ West Beach, WR (8pm)

SAT 4 Mike Machado Trio @ West Beach, WR (8PM)

FRI 10 James Sheperd Trio @ West Beach, WR (8PM)

SAT 11 Blind Pigeon @ West Beach, WR (8PM)

FRI 17 eleven09 @ Raven, North Van (8pm)

FRI 17 Benito & Friends @ West Beach, WR (8PM)

SAT 18 Black Rose @ West Beach, WR (8PM)

FRI 24 eleven09 @ Chances Casino, Maple Ridge (930pm)

FRI 24 Hells Gate Blues Band @ West Beach, WR (8PM)

SAT 25 Randy Swallow Trio @ West Beach, WR (8PM)

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Welcome to the FP Newsletter Vol. 22, our monthly publication giving you all our music news and so much more! We are very excited to keep you in the loop of all the great music coming your way, including all the fantastic bands we’re booking at West Beach in White Rock and showcasing at The Raven in North Vancouver! In addition, FUSIONpresents is honoured to partner with the Surrey Board of Trade in an initiative to make Surrey a Music City, helping develop Surrey’s bustling and thriving music scene and community. Stay tuned! We’ll be gauging your feedback as well! If you’re already active in the music industry in BC, please click here and tell us more about what you do. This month, please check out Bruce’s Corner, a featured editorial by D.M. White, this month’s Vancouver Artist Highlight, our upcoming shows and weekly jams, Rock n Roll Facts, FP Food for Thought, and please continue to stay in the loop of all things FP by visiting us on Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube. And don’t forget, FUSIONpresents wants YOU to ROCK, so please come out to our jams and join us on stage!!!

WEEKLY JAMS & SHOWSSami Ghawi’s

Sunday Night Jam@ West Beach,

White Rock

Chris Charlton’s Waymore

Wednesdays @ West Beach,

White Rock

Glen Pearson’sBlues on the Beach

Thursdays @ West Beach,

White Rock

Surrey Board of Trade CEO Anita Huberman with FP’s Pat Ann Or & Sami Ghawi at the Surrey Arts

Centre for the 10th Annual Surrey Civic Treasures Award Presentation.

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This past month I had an opportunity to travel to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands.  Being as I've been to South America a couple of times before, it wasn't a huge culture shock.  But it was different.  I felt embedded in a way because I was basically by myself living with the native people.  It is so cool to see how others live.  And the Galapagos.  Incredible.  Tortoises, iguanas, beaches, sea lions, sea turtles, etc . I also really liked the nightlife in the cities.  In Quito, I was in a restaurant in a club area.  As we were eating, a group of young guys came in, set up their instruments and played these beautiful ballad type songs, and though I have no idea what it was about, I found myself singing along.    Truth is, I didn't understand much that whole week.  I got used to people looking at me with pity because I just kept shrugging and saying "si". 

I found that, in the taxi cabs, they tended to listen to mariachi and what you might expect with a Mexican feel.  I learnt that the music of South America was all one.  Music from Brazil, Peru, Colombia and Ecuador are all played on the radio and the music is played everywhere.  And they love to sing along.  I was in a club in Guayaquil and 2 performers who were very good (again, even if I didn't know what they were singing) and everyone in the place was singing along.  Mind you, they sold beer in miniature old fashioned gas pumps.  The point is, and believe it or not, there is a point:  It's a big world.  I have to admit it really opened my eyes to see how Ecuadorians live their lives.  So different but then again not so different.  Deep, huh.

BRUCE’S CORNERVANCOUVER ARTIST HIGHLIGHT :

Hailing from Thorburn, Nova Scotia and based in Vancouver, British Columbia since 1999, Randy Swallow has earned a reputation for h imsel f as an engaging and dynamic guitarist and frontman.

Swallow categorizes himself as progressive blues. Names like Jeff Healey, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Colin James, and Eric Clapton all bear influence on

Swallow's aggressive but melodic and ultra-confident guitar playing.

Performing in a power trio format while slinging a custom built guitar of his own creation, Swallow has shared stages and traded licks with the likes of Jeff Healey, Dutch Mason, Jerry Doucette, and Mike Smith, better known today as Bubbles from Trailer Park Boys.

Catch the Randy Swallow Trio at West Beach on Sat Nov 25th!

Randy Swallow Trio

Born in North Carolina in 1917 and raised in New York City, Thelonious Sphere Monk called west 63rd street home for much of his life. He moved there with his siblings and mother, and at an early age took up piano to which he showed to be promisingly gifted. He toured with a gospel group in his teens, after school seemed of little interest to him. The San Juan Hill district of Manhattan was a primarily black neighbourhood full of jazz sounds and many musicians. Thelonious got his education from this neighbourhood and a few jazz joints in Harlem, eventually landing himself the house pianist title at the famous Minton's Playhouse. He was surrounded with other talented high-calibre musicians including Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie with whom he helped shape the jazz music style of Bebop. 

Monk had a reputation of being often tardy and somewhat eccentric, a label that stuck with him, making it difficult to find club dates and attract serious consideration by record companies. As time wore on, he lead his own bands and started composing songs that would become classics in the jazz field. His music could sometimes be considered strangely simplistic on first listen but also complex and difficult to play by the other musicians. To add to his peculiar reputation, he

occasionally had the habit of dozing off at the piano and would often dance onstage while he took a break, in a effort to conduct his band. He lost his cabaret performer's licence more than once for unlawful behaviour but regained it once again in 1957 to hold a long residency at the Five Spot Club down in the Bowery district. 

His approach to his instrument was considered unique, if not unorthodox, just like the way he dressed and sometimes acted. One story has it that once while he was staying at hotel, after terrorizing the lobby some, he headed to the pool area where he scared the pool man away, only to pick up his to tool and proceed to clean the pool with it. Monk's behaviours may have gotten quirkier in time but his commitment to his music and family is what he will be remembered for. Along with his wife Nellie and any number of bands he lead, he toured the U.S. and Europe extensively, with stops in Japan and Australia as well. His life could be considered a continual struggle for work and recognition, as a pianist, bandleader and composer, and certainly not all his reviews were favourable all the time. He had his battles with critiques and his own health but his stature in the music world kept growing larger. He mostly ignored other's opinions and demanded originality in technic and living, to reach one's higher limits and true self. 

Monk had played with and led many of the great jazz artists of the 40's to the 70's. John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins were just a couple of his side men. He held Duke Ellington in high esteem, the only other jazz artist to be recorded more than him.

Near the end of his career, his son T.S. Monk, a fine musician in his own right, took over the drummer's chair in his father's band. Thelonious Monk last recorded in 1971 and very rarely performed after the mid-70s. He spent the last years of his life in relative seclusion at the home of his notable friend, the jazz baroness Nica. Thelonious Sphere Monk died in 1982, survived by his wife Nellie and his kids Thelonious and Barbara.

A great source of reading about Monk was Robin D. G. Kelley's biography, "Thelonious Monk, The Life and Times of an American Original". A highly detailed account of Monk's life in music that maybe not for the casual jazz fan. Not only was this publication a definitive book on the artist himself but a detailed read of what the New York City jazz scene was all about during his life. The film “Thelonious Monk, Straight No Chaser" is also a good recommendation and introduction for curious Monk fans. 

The High Priest of Bebop by D.M. White

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