Pianist Cory Smythe’s music “dissolves the lines between composition and improvisation with rigor” (Chicago Reader). In Guelph, he will animate the jazz standard “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,” or perhaps a ghostly apparition of it: Its swirling and spiralling vocality, its portrayal of deceit and disappearance, its fluidic memorial to acrid, heartbreaking loss. To do so, Smythe will augment the piano’s sound resources with a range of nuanced, mysterious electronic extensions, transforming this most canonical of instruments into something –– like the love affair the Kern/Harbach standard laments –– that isn’t quite what it seems.
Event Artists
No InformationGuelph Jazz Festival: Cory Smythe
Date/Time
Saturday, September 16, 2023
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location
River Run Centre
35 Woolwich St
Guelph, ON
Canada, N1H 3V1
Price
$20-25
Phone
519-763-4952
Website
https://guelphjazzfestival.com/2023/2023-schedule/
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