YOW Jazz, October 1: Ally Fiola and The Next Quest
Halifax-based sax player Ally Fiola and The Next Quest play in Ottawa on October 3 - I interviewed her about her music and what you can expect to hear, plus new releases
Ally Fiola, a Halifax-based alto sax player and composer, will be coming to the Montgomery Scotch Lounge on Thursday with her band The Next Quest. I interviewed her prior to her Ontario-Alberta tour and we will hear her talk about what to expect and her influences. Here’s a clip of her and The Next Quest playing live in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
We will also hear two tracks from her album of last year, Interblaze.
Ally named Maceo Parker as one of her influences, and we will hear from him on a track from Rodney Jones’ 2001 release - Soul Manifesto. Ally also mentioned the Soul Rebels, and we’ll hear a track from their 2019 release, Poetry in Motion, featuring harpist Brandee Younger and Branford Marsalis. Here are some members of the Soul Rebels playing When the Saints Go Marching In.
Tenor sax player, Jeff Coffin, plays on Interblaze and we will also hear a track from his new release, Only the Horizon.
Keeping with the New Orleans and funk sound, we will hear new releases from Fredericton-based Capital 6, Edmonton-based Brasstactics, the Brass Queens and Delfeayo Marsalis and the Uptown Jazz Orchestra. We will also hear The Afrodiziac’s Jazz, a New Orleans group that plays Ethiopian jazz with a New Orleans twist. Here’s a clip of a live performance.
Last week, a jazz great died - Benny Golson. He was 95. We will end the show with one of his standards, “Out of the Past” - from a recent reissue that gathers together some of his compositions that have become standards - Gold Standards, vol. 1. There have been many tributes to Benny Golson, but this one was particularly good.
Here is the Benny Golson Quintet (with Freddy Hubbard, Mulgrew Miller, Ron Carter, and Marvin Smitty Smith) playing another Golson composition that has become a jazz standard.
You can listen to the show live in Ottawa at 93.1 on the FM dial or online at CKCUFM.com. The show will also be available for on demand streaming.