JSF 2018: FRI ft. Lucky Chops, Bobby Bazini + more

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Lucky Chops, Bobby Bazini, Alysha Brilla, Jazzamboka, Luca Ciarla

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LUCKY CHOPS
Headlining the Jazz Sudbury Festival is New York’s brass group, Lucky Chops. They have been unleashing high-energy brassy funk on the world since forming in NYC in 2006. The intensity of the band’s energy is fueled by their desire to share the healing and inspirational power of music with others. Lucky Chops maintains a busy schedule touring across several continents and is also committed to music education, regularly performing clinics and educational outreaches to help train and inspire the next generation of musicians.

BOBBY BAZINI
Born in Mont-Laurier, Quebec, Canada, he grew up in a rural setting in a family with a love for country music. Influenced by Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan as well as Otis Redding and Ray Charles, he is often compared to Paolo Nutini. Bazini made his commercial recording debut in 2009 with the single “I Wonder,” which became a hit on both French- and English-language radio stations in Quebec. For his first two albums, the singer/songwriter wrote alone and dreamed up an earthy breed of guitar-driven soul that earned him multiple Juno Award nominations. But for his third full-length and second for the US, the 27- year-old Quebec native decided to change up his approach and collaborate with esteemed songwriters from Los Angeles, Nashville, and London. His newest album, “Summer is Gone” was released this past year.

ALYSHA BRILLA
2018 Juno Award-nominated Alysha Brilla is a critically acclaimed Indo-Tanzanian Canadian songwriter and producer who just released her fourth album, Rooted. She has performed in Australia, Singapore, Chile, France and across North America. Her new music draws on the influences of her unique background, blending Indian and East African sounds with a contemporary aesthetic. Lyrically, Brilla writes about the value of love, equity and spirituality in times of global and personal turmoil. In 2015 she won the International Songwriting Competition for her song Immigrant, documenting her father’s journey to Canada from Tanzania and commenting on diaspora. She pens songs with timely messages and silver linings. One of the few female producers actively working in the Canadian music industry, she represents for a lot of young women a voice of belonging.

JAZZAMBOKA
Winner of the Stingray prize for best composition at the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal 2017, Jazzamboka is the coming together of ‘jazz’ and ‘yamboka’, meaning village or country in the Congolese language of Lingala. Despite the name, the band, made up of five Quebec residents, two of Congolese origin, does not limit itself to conventional jazz. They prefer instead to draw on their diverse musical backgrounds including hip-hop, soukous, be-bop, funk, rock, electronic and, above all, the music of Central Africa. Incorporating a variety of traditional and the ancestral musical instruments, lokolé and ngoma into the band’s core instrumentation helps creates Jazzamboka’s unique, signature sound.

LUCA CIARLA
One of the most original Italian jazz ensembles in recent years, the Luca Ciarla Quartet has performed everywhere at an international level, from Montreal to Melbourne Jazz Festivals. With Antonino De Luca on accordion, Maurizio Perrone on double bass and Francesco Savoretti on percussions, jazz violinist Luca Ciarla has developed a unique sound, giving birth to charming and irresistible compositions and arrangements, a natural synthesis between contemporary jazz and the familiar sounds of the Italian folk tradition and the Mediterranean area. Their latest album, ViolinAir, mostly recorded in Thailand during a long tour in Asia, presents original works and astonishing arrangements of classics such as A Night in Tunisia and Caravan.

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