Heillig Manoeuvre

Past Shows
When:
January 6, 2024 @ 8:00 pm – 10:30 pm

This show took place on January 6, 2024. See what’s coming up at The Jazz Room.

 

Heillig Manoeuvre

Photo credit: Linda Marie Stella

“Heillig Manoeuver brought down the house… We were treated to a dynamic performance with beautiful arrangements performed by extremely talented musicians.” -Peter Shea & Juliet Dunn Twilight Jazz Festival- St. Catherines, ON

In 1979, Bassist Henry Heillig and  Matt Zimbel formed the legendary nine piece latin-funk-salza-jazz band Manteca and went on to record 10 albums, win Juno awards, and tour the world’s major festivals from Stockholm to the Hollywood Bowl. Henry describes the Heillig Manoeuvre  as “A vehicle for sharing music that is both challenging and satisfying without intimidating the audience…contemporary jazz from a songbook, not a doctoral thesis”  This is contemporary jazz that honours tradition  and manages to straddle a fine line: harmonically and rhythmically rich enough to intrigue the more serious jazz listener, it also maintains a level of melodic accessibility and groove to appeal to a more casual listener….smooth jazz with bite

The rhythm section features drummer Charlie Cooley who was Heillig’s  rhythm-mate in Manteca for over 20 years. He’s toured with the Guess Who, Prairie Oyster, and Kellylee Evans and he and Heillig have been described as the rhythm section that “plays as one”.  Saxophonist Allison Young (Tara Hazelton Swing Band, Big Rude Jake) was included in a CBC.ca feature called “35 Best Canadian Jazz Artists Under 35” Pianist Stacie McGregor was music director for the late Archie Alleyne’s hard- bop band Kollage  and has toured with bassist Brandi Disterheft.

 

Personnel:

Henry Heillig-bass

Charlie Cooley-drums

Stacey McGregor-piano

Allison Young-saxophone

 

Check out:      “Musical Tour”     “House Concert”    the website

Tickets: https://www.showpass.com/heillig-manoeuvre.