Peripheral Vision Quartet at Café Paradiso
Friday, October 23 - 8:30 to 11:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 24 - 7:30 to 10:30 p.m.
$5 entertainment fee for non-diners.
- Don Scott – guitar
- Michael Herring – bass
- Trevor Hogg – sax
- Nick Fraser - drums
Michael Herring’s Vertigo and Don Scott’s Out of Line have joined forces to form Peripheral Vision, a quartet showcasing their recent discography and both leaders’ modern jazz compositions. Toronto-based Herring and Scott have spent time living in New York in recent years and now continue to bring the energy and fire of New York's innovative jazz scene back to a Canadian audience.
They are joined by Toronto saxophone greatTrevor Hogg. On drums, from both Vertigo and Out of Line, is Nick Fraser. "Fraser not so much plays the drums as hurls himself whole body and soul against skin and metal... truly talented." (Bill Stunt, CBC Radio). This amalgamated Canadian super-group is promoting their new CD (release date: fall 2009).
Herring and Scott have been long-time collaborators. This project is a synergy between their strong musical personalities and their complimentary writing styles. “Unusual instrumental colours, carefully composed rhythmic structures and catchy-but-offbeat melodies” (J.D. Considine, The Globe & Mail) characterize the music they are each bringing to this ambitious new project.
Herring’s album Coniferous Revenge was named one of All About Jazz New York’s Top 5 debut albums of 2006. Scott’s debut album, Out Of Line, was praised by John Kelman in All About Jazz: “Balancing the cerebral with the visceral... Out Of Line speaks with a voice distinctive enough to make it a recommended debut from a guitarist from whom more, no doubt, will be heard.”
Café Paradiso
199 Bank Street
613-565-0657
www.cafeparadiso.ca