GARRY LEE TRIO - with DENISE DALE

Mon 20 Sep 2010 @ 8:00pm

Admission Members $10 Student Members $8 Non-members $15

THE THEME for this concert will be a Tribute to the Jazz Divas – Billie Holliday, Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan.

The Trio will also present originals in the contemporary Latin and post-bop style highlighting the Hammond organ, vibes/guitar, drums sound. Often performing repertoire of guitar great, Wes Montgomery, the Trio will include his composition O. G. D. Perhaps hard up for a title for this composition originally recorded in September 1966 with Jimmy Smith and Grady Tate he cryptically garnered an acronym - Organ Guitar Drums. O. G. D. is perhaps better known as Road Song and seems to perfectly capture the image of driving around the US in a big American petrol guzzler in the 1960s. Wes Montgomery hated flying so it is no surprise that several of his tunes seem inspired by the highway eg. Bumping on Sunset,and Sun Down.
This group is continuing to strive towards an easily accessible mix of originals and standard pieces played with a high degree of musicianship and includes:

Denise Dale - vocals
Lukasz Slawomirski - Hammond organ
Tim Woolley - drums
Garry Lee - vibraphone and guitar

For the last 12 months the quartet, working under the name of Café Society, has held down a monthly residency at The Loft, Little Creatures, Fremantle.