Jazz City festivals
produced by the Edmonton Jazz Society
1980
1981
1982
1983
August 17: The first Jazz City concert was scheduled for August 17 and was to feature Oscar
Peterson and Joe Pass. Oscar Peterson cancelled the morning of the show.
August 18: P.J. Perry Allstars
August 18: Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson/Big Miller/Buddy Tate
August 19: Mike Nock
August 19: Gene Bertoncini/Glen Moore Duo
August 19: Tommy Banks Big Band (including Pepper Adams, Sam Noto, P.J. Perry, Bob Tildesley, Bob Stroup)
August 20: Phil Woods Quartet (Mike Mellilo, Steve Gilmore, Bill Goodwin)
August 20: Concord Super Band (Warren Vache, Scott Hamilton, Cal Collins, Dave McKenna,
Ralph Flanagan, Jake Hanna)
August 21: Jack DeJohnette Special Edition
August 21: Toshiko Akiyoshi/Lew Tabackin Big Band
August 22: Kenny Wheeler and Friends with Ralph Towner
August 22: Art Ensemble Of Chicago
August 23: Children's Jazz Time with Big Miller
August 23: Sonny Rollins Quartet (Mark Soskin, Jerry Harris, Al Foster)
August 24: Chick Corea/Gary Burton Quartet
August 24: Al Jarreau
August 16: Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
August 16: John Abercrombie Quartet
August 16: McCoy Tyner
August 17: Lonnie Brooks Blues Band
August 17: Etta James
August 18: Cal Tjader with Mongo Santamaria
August 19: The Great Guitars: Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis, Charlie Gyrd, Tal
Farlow with Red Norvo
August 20: Arthur Blythe Band
August 20: Freddie Hubbard/Joe Farrell
August 21: Art Farmer/Frank Foster
August 21: Chet Baker with The Saxophone Band (Al Cohn, Buddy Tate, Scott
Hamilton with Cal Collins, Bob Maize, Jake Hanna)
August 22: Sonny Rollins Quartet
August 15: John McLaughlin (with Francois Couterier, Jean Paul Celea, Tommy Campbell, Katia LeBeque)
August 15: Katia and Marielle Labeque
August 16: Koko Taylor Blues Band (with Emmet Sanders, Willie Hayes, 'Bay' Williams, Steve Freund)
August 16: Son Seals Blues Band (with Pat Hall, Mike Gibb,
Vince Shapelle, Snapper Mitchum)
August 17: Chick Corea / Gary Burton (with Fred Sherry, Carol Shive, Karen Dreyfuss, Ik-Hwan Bae)
August 18: Phil Woods Quartet (with Steve Gilmore, Hal Galper,
Bill Goodwin)
August 18: Ernestine Anderson (with Eddie Marshall, David Friesen, Barney McClure)
August 19: James Blood Ulmer (with Amin Ali, G. Calvin Weston)
August 19: Alberta Jazz Repertory Orchestra
August 20: Claude Ranger Quartet (with Roland Bourgeois,
Kirk MacDonald , Marty Melanson)
August 20: Vancouver Ensemble For Jazz Improvisation (Hugh Fraser, Bill
Clark, Blaine Dunaway, Mike White, Perry White, Campbell Ryga, Pat Caird,
Rod Borrie, Joe Bjornson, Brad Muirhead, Mike Lent, Rudi Petschauer)
August 20: Max Roach Quartet (with Cecil Bridgewater, Odean Pope, Calvin Hill)
August 21: Carla Bley Band (with Steve Swallow, Arturo O'Farill, D. Sharpe,
Michael mantler, Tony Dagradi, Steve Slagle, Vincent Chancey, Gary Valente,
Earl McIntyre)
August 21: Red Rodney / Ira Sullivan Quintet (with Garry Dial, Jay
Anderson, Jeff Hirschfield)
August 22: Jean-Luc Ponty Band (with Alan Zavod, Rayford Griffin, Jamie Glaser, Keith Jones)
Chet Baker
August 14: Dizzy Gillespie (with Milt Jackson - vibraphone, Ron Eschete, Ray Brown,
Mickey Roker)
August 15: Strangeness Beauty (Ron Allen s, keyboards, David Pitch, Mike Slosky)
August 15: Sackville Allstars (Jay McShann, Buddy Tate, Jim Galloway, Neil Swainson, Archie Alleye)
August 15: Albert Collins and the Icebreakers
August 16: Loek Dikker Quartet
August 16: Betty Carter
August 17: Franco D'Andrea w/Atillio Zanchi
August 17: Alive!
August 17: Saturday Pro band with Bob Brookmeyer
August 18: Dave Holland and Anthony Braxton
August 18: Alberta Jazz Repertory Orchestra (directed by Ian Sadler)
August 19: Time Warp (Bob Brough, Al Henderson, Barry Elmes)
August 19: Dewey Redman Quartet (with Charles Eubanks, Mark Helias, Ed Blackwell
August 19: Woody Shaw Quintet
August 20: United Front (George Sams, Anthony Brown, Lewis Jordan, Mark Izu)
August 20: Bechet Legacy (featuring Bob Wilber, Pug Horton)
August 20: Timeless Allstars (Curtis Fuller, Bobby Hutcherson,
Harold Land , Cedar Walton, Buster Williams, Billy Higgins)
August 21: Art Ensemble Of Chicago