Gypsy Co-Op presents: Gypsy Jazz

[SmoothedShredder]

The Gypsy Co-op Jazz Groove Series Delivers the FUNK

INTRODUCING THE HEINKEN GYPSY CO-OOP GROOVE JAZZ SERIES

The Gypsy Co-Op and Heinekin are proud to present the Gypsy Co-op Groove Jazz series. The series runs every Friday night starting May 6th with sensational act LAL launching the series. Come see great live music at a warm and intimate venue in the heart of Queen St. W

The Gypsy Co-op’s Jazz Groove series is a 10-week series start every Friday in May – July. Each successive Friday night The Gypsy Co-op will host the top Canadian and American jazz funk, electro jazz and urban groove artists.

May’s Schedule:

May 6th – LAL w/ guests Platypi

May 12 – Mr. Something Something w/ DJ Medicine Man

May 20 – Chameleon Project, The Void plus DJs Rolin’ Cash and Jamie Kidd

May 27 – Montreal’s Kobayashi w/ DJ Goldfinger

The Gypsy Co-Op is located at 817 Queen St. West, two blocks west of Bathurst in the heard of the Queen West Arts District. A full service restaurant and lounge by day, The Gypsy will transform in a matter of minutes into a bumping live venue with stage and world class sound system. With a full service bar and in-house candy store the Gypsy’s bohemian ambiance and soulful music will delight all of your senses.

LAL:

There's no doubt there is a strange chemistry between the two founders of the down-tempo crew LAL. It is a mix of hip hop beats, jazz excursions, electro worldbeat and sweet vocal melodies that have had wide critical exclaim. Eclectic and adventurous, and mixing everything they know, LAL is at the forefront of the nu jazz and world music fusion scene in Canada.

More to come!....

Edited April 27, 2005 by Guest

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This will be a great series no doubt!

I saw LAL on Friday night in Toronto and they were great... Super powerful and concious singing, great percussionist, and two guys on laptops doing beats, one who switches back and forth on an upright bass. He can really play.

Highly recommended.

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[Mike Daley]

pardon my ignorance - where is the "jazz"?

md

[shainhouse]

Interesting comment Mike... I guess 'jazz' is more an ideology within the music than howq it is expressed... All there bands have jazz influences, but may not play standard jazz. Still, does that make them any less 'jazz'?

[SmoothedShredder]

"The meaning of a word is its use" L.Wittgenstien. I'm trying to convey the use of the word jazz as conversationalist music, either scripted, or adlibed, but certainly with signiffacant amounts of both. Perhaps an adjective would of provided you with a direction to the jazz in the series, though I found it hard to pick only one with this line up, and it started to look silly on the flyer, so I regressed to the broadest definition I thought could contain it. Sure this isn't the 'traditional' jazz that fits so nicely with-in the realm of d'jango to be-bop to headhunting to crooning... but it certainly posseses the same spirit that each of the prior-mentioned was born from. Hope that clears it up.

~W

[Dr_Evil_Mouse]

I'd like to think of jazz as an attitude to the creation of music which is ultimately ineffable (in the Louis Armstrong "If you have to ask what jazz is you'll never know" sort of way) - which is probably exactly why nobody can agree on what it is. I don't know what any of these bands sound like, but I'm guessing they have that attitude - guess then I'll have to check them out when I can (good hook, W!).

These bands will be downstairs, not upstairs?

[SmoothedShredder]

Ah, Louis... is there anyone closer to a 30's or 40's Delta Buddah? I don't think so. Gone Fishin' with Bing comes to mind. Thanks Doctor. I'll tell you what it's not... it's not Alt-rock-country. So don't be expecting no Wilco covers... but if they come up, don't be upset.

And yes, the bands will be downstairs. Behold the wonderful new stage, and sound system the Gypsy will have created for this great series.

~W

[Dr_Evil_Mouse]

... but if they come up, don't be upset

Of course - that would be good jazz, as far as I reckon!

[i say this as someone who teaches "religion", always having to keep asking just what "religion" is anyway]

Looking forward to further unveiling of the Gypsy sound system....

[SmoothedShredder]

Me too!

[The Chameleon]

pardon my ignorance - where is the "jazz"?

md

I can tell you exactly where the jazz is. Right here. I play in the Chameleon Project and have a honors degree in Jazz Guitar performance and musicology and every other member of the band is either in school for Jazz or has attended. Jazz improvisation and harmony is at the heart of the Chameleon Project, and in fact we do play standards. Green Dolphin St. and Song for my Father, to name a couple.

I think that you are perhaps just not aware of the musical scope of the bands involved in this hip new concert series and thier repitoire. Not all Jam-bands are rooted in rock.

Jazz comes in many forms and from many players.

Please listen to samples of our album to see what I mean.. www.cdbaby.com/cd/chameleonproject

or better yet see it live.

[Jay Funk Dawg]

that's the money shot JChameleon!!

[SmoothedShredder]

Hey Hey kids,

Hey... I wanna give anyone a chance that doens't want to pay the $8 cover to email me and I'll get them a free ticket. Get to me by Monday and I'll get you a ticket!!! Yeah promo give away extravagana, Til the day after (boost echo) Sunday, Sunday, Sunday! schiestel@gmail.com will work. Happy Weekend!

~W

[Dynamo]

Get on this!!

A wicked series! Good job on puttin' this together!!

[The Chameleon]

Hey we should get this huy playing the Gypsy Jazz series....I hear he's good and sounds really authentic...

[SmoothedShredder]

Get on this!!

A wicked series! Good job on puttin' this together!!

Hey Thanks, I do it cause I love the music But really I'm just a middle man... Both the talent and the venue are top shelf, so it really makes my job easy!

Remember to e-mail me for tix! There are still some left!

Peace ~W

[SmoothedShredder]

Alright now... This ones comming up this Friday now. Lets get some chatter. Swing batta, batta, batta, swing.

~W

[The Chameleon]

Our Hamilton show was booty shakin' and electro fantastic and now we are ready to rock the Tdot once again. Can't wait to play the Gypsy. Big Up LAL go see them this friday. I hear the can twist your mind with thier laptop fury.

[Jay Funk Dawg]

Check out www.duaneandrews.ca ... I'm going to bring this guy up soon, he's the real deal Django-style guitarist.. I played with him at Evolve...

[SmoothedShredder]

Who wears short shorts?... dun dun dun na.. dun dun na! Can't wait for E-6!

~W

[SmoothedShredder]

Cough Cough, bump.... well excuse me.

[funch]

Now if only lived in Toronto... hmmm.. start one of these puppies in Mtl, I could find you bands.. Dibondoko, Free Oxygen, Azuris Aurum, Tala, Sneekers, Project X, Kobayashi etc... All the bands are getting tired of Le swimming, we need some new (good) venues. nudge, nudge, , .

and I'm too shitty with business to do it meself.

[The Chameleon]

Looks like everyone wants more tastefully funky improv. beats!

[SmoothedShredder]

If only "everyone" did JC, but if Goat Horn has their way, everyone would be at the Kathedrial Friday for some Death Metal.

Well, if it's good enough for Montreal it's good enough for me, thx Funch. Looks like I've found a new friend from a far away! I'll look into these bands when I get a chance... we've got a date (or two) in June, and then the schedule gets wide open.

~W

[The Chameleon]

Pump, Pump, Pump it up.

You can't have no shame, if you work yo' game, palyer.

[The Chameleon]

I hope there are lots of hot hippie chicks like this at the Gypsy on Friday.......Oh wait I forgot we're in Canada they don't let these chicks leave the US tour scene. They're like a protected natural resource or something..