The Pearl Company

The Jazz Connection Big Band: Friday, March 22. Doors at 8:00, Jazz at 8:30. $15 /$10 artists/students.  The JCBB is a powerful, well-established 17-piece jazz ensemble comprised of professional and semi-professional musicians from the Hamilton/Toronto area, performing only the best modern big band charts from the books of Goodwin, Martin, Menza, Rich, Basie, and many other great contemporary composers. Jazz Connection delivers high energy, uncompromising, straight ahead jazz performances combining the highest level of musicianship and great charts in an entertaining show that equally engages the jazz enthusiast and the casual listener. The incredible acoustics at The Pearl easily accommodate their very cool (and uh, hot…) surround-sound. Another great evening!  http://www.jazzconnection.ca

Riverrun: Thursday, March 21. 8:00pm. $15 /$10 students/all artists: Riverrun is a quartet made up of some of Toronto’s strongest musical personalities. Their sound has been described as “electro-chamber-jazz” and “minimalist-avant-garde-pop”. Cinematic, delving, and disciplined, Riverrun cuts across stylistic boundaries and goes deep into the moment. In March of 2013, Riverrun takes to the road in celebration of their new release, Unravel. Recorded live and mixed/transformed by the visionary Peter Lutek, Unravel escapes the confines of conventional parameters in a torrent of adventurous and at times heart-breaking sound.
In a break with tradition, Unravel is being released on USB flash-drive, packaged alongside bonus material including video, images, text, and remixed audio prepared by Scott Peterson. Quoting from the band, “Riverrun returns to Hamilton to perform at one of Ontario’s best-sounding venues, The Pearl Company.” If you go to their site, you can hear one of their compositions delivered from the stage at The Pearl:  http://www.insoundmusic.com/weblog/errunriv/