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Picture a grinning alien riding a great white shark with a belly full of stop signs and instruction manuals.  Cool like that.

After their 2011 Vancouver International Jazz Festival performance, the band hit the road on an extensive Canadian touring adventure that included playing the mainstage in front of thousands of fans and competing for 2 major awards at the world renowned Montreal Jazz Festival.  The band also devoured the Halifax and Ottawa International Jazz Festivals, and rattled some cages in Toronto, Fredericton and Moncton.  Their limited edition tour cd Elevator was enthusiastically received and the band is back in Vancouver, scheming on the details of their next musical frenzy…

Quotes from the tour:

The Montreal Jazz Festival:  “This modern Canadian jazz predator is always ravenous for musical adventure – and fans will feast on it!”

The Ottawa Jazz Festival: “Their 2011 performance was outstanding… their skills and talent rise above.”

The Halifax Jazz Festival:  “At the heart of The Unsupervised sits the incredible compositional voice of guitarist Jeff Younger.  Melding the tropes of all kinds of bop, modal jazz and rock, this quintet offers incredibly complex, considered music in a highly excitable fashion.”

 

Formed in 2005 by guitarist/composer Jeff Younger, The Unsupervised is roundly regarded as one of the most adventuresome and distinct groups in Canada’s contemporary jazz scene.  The musical beast is recognized for a highly developed and original compositional voice, a seriously ferocious and playful approach to their instruments and ensemble playing, and a fearlessness and rare spirit in improvisation and performance.  Inspired by the power of Scandinavian trailblazers Atomic, the sonic expressionism of improv legends like Evan Parker, and the modern rhythmic, melodic and harmonic sense of the leading edge of New York’s jazz and new music scenes, the band has gleefully forged these qualities into a rare blend that sounds unapologetically fresh, original, and insatiable.

The shark is hungry and the alien is looking for trouble…  Cool like that.

The Unsupervised is:
Jeff Younger – guitar/composition
Kristian Naso – trumpet
Colin Maskell – tenor saxophone
Russell Sholberg – upright bass
Ben Brown – drums

Contact Us   info@theunsupervised.ca

More Musical Adventure   jeffyounger.net

 



BRIEF HIATUS/SCHEMING MODE!!

Hey folks!  Sorry for the info lag – I’ve been buried in writing a double string quartet for a new ballet.  So, what’s been up in Unsupervised Land?  Well, due to members of the band not being in the same place for more than a few days at a time, we’ve been forced to take a break from performing, but we’re working on hooking up some shows in January, 2012, before I head up to the Banff Centre for the Arts for all of Feb/Mar.  When I get back we’ll be looking to hit it hard and often, and will begin working on a new cd to release in 2012.  And yes, all the video and pics from our awesome summer festival tour?  I’ll get it posted when I’m done with this ballet!!!!  Cheers and best to everyone!  JEff

GOLDIES PIZZA and VIDEO VIDEO VIDEO

Howdy people!  We’re gonna be playing 2 sets at Goldie’s Pizza, 605 Pender @ Seymour on Wed Sept 14.  9-11, no cover, come on down for some slice and new tunes!  Also, I just got word of the existence of some video footage of our Vancouver Jazzfest performance, so that means we’ve got video of every show from our summer tour – Montreal Jazz Festival main stage, Ottawa, Halifax and Vancouver Jazz Festivals, Toronto, Fredericton and Moncton.  Can you say Youtube channel on its way???  Cheers and thanks!  JEff

AMAZING!

Hey folks.  The tour could not have gone much better than it did.  We had some amazing shows, my personal highlight being playing the mainstage at the Montreal Jazz Festival, complete with giant video screens and a sea of audience members grinning in the sunshine… such good times.  And the hang with the boys and all of the people we met… so, so cool.  There is a huge pile of video and photos to be sifted through and posted, so I’ll get to that soon, but for now….

New News!

We still have a few (not many, but a few) copies left of our limited run of the tour cd Elevator… The cd has hit a nerve, so you might wanna pick one up before they’re all gone.  It’s likely a once only pressing, as we’ll be conjuring up a new one in 2012, so click on the “contact” button if you would like to grab one.

Next up:  we’re gonna dig into the book of tunes I wrote up at The Banff Centre for the Arts and present some of the large scale piece 29, 28 @ 1067 on September 2nd.  You might wanna write that in your calendar because we’re all in and out of town for the rest of the summer and it’ll be our first show in Vancouver since the Vancouver Jazz Festival in July.  Feels like a long time ago!  I’m scheming about getting the band up to Banff and touring Western Canada in March, and seeing if we can’t make our way to Europe in the summer of 2012.  Fun to scheme, isn’t it??

All for now, but stay tuned and drop us a note to say “hi”!  Cheers and thanks.  JEff

Upcoming/Recent Gigs


September 4 – The Unsupervised @ Goldies
September 2 – The Unsupervised @ 1067
July 10 – The Unsupervised @ The Halifax Jazz Festival – Halifax, NS
July 7 – The Unsupervised @ Plan B Lounge – Moncton, NB
July 6 – The Unsupervised @ Gallerie Connexion – Fredericton, NB
July 1 – The Unsupervised @ The Montreal Jazz Festival – Montreal, QC
June 29 – The Unsupervised @ The Ottawa Jazz Festival – Ottawa, ON
June 28 – The Unsupervised @ The Tranzac – Toronto, ON.  clinic and concert
June 27 – The Unsupervised @ The Tranzac – Toronto, ON.  improv show with locals
June 26 – The Unsupervised @ The Vancouver International Jazz Festival – Gastown                          Maple Tree  Square Stage, 1:45-3pm
June 18, 2011 - The Unsupervised @ 1067 w/ Pugs and Crows
May 6, 2011 - The Unsupervised @ 1067



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