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John Geggie / Mark Duggan / Quinsin Nachoff / Ravi Naimpally: May 12, 2007
by John Kelman
John Geggie/Mark Duggan/Quinsin Nachoff/Ravi Naimpally Geggie Concert Series National Arts Centre, Fourth Stage Ottawa, Canada May 12, 2007
Billed as “A Creative Fusion from Toronto, the final show in Ottawa bassist John Geggie's 2006/2007 Geggie Concert Series may not have had the name-recognition cachet of earlier shows this year with guitarist Ben Monder and drummer Billy Hart. But by bringing together an unusual group of multi-disciplinary instrumentalists--saxophonist/clarinetist Quinsin Nachoff, vibraphonist ...
Continue ReadingJohn Geggie / Nancy Walker / Billy Hart: February 24, 2007
by John Kelman
John Geggie/Nancy Walker/Billy Hart Geggie Concert Series National Arts Centre, Fourth Stage Ottawa, Canada February 22, 2007
Probably the only thing that one can count on when attending John Geggie's concert series at Ottawa's National Arts Center is to expect the unexpected. For the fourth show of the 2006-2007 season the veteran local bassist recruited Toronto pianist Nancy Walker and drum legend Billy Hart for a show that may have stayed mainly ...
Continue ReadingJohn Geggie/Craig Taborn, Ottawa, Canada, October 7, 2006
by John Kelman
John Geggie/Craig Taborn Geggie Concert Series 06>07 Fourth Stage, National Arts Centre Ottawa, Canada October 7, 2006
You know you're doing something right when the venue that sponsors your annual series bumps you from five to six concerts. Ottawa-based bassist John Geggie has, over the past few years and a number of different-named series, brought a wealth of stylistic diversity to the city--in many ways, keeping its hit-and-miss jazz scene alive throughout ...
Continue Reading"5 Shades of Geggie" Closes with Bill Carrothers and Nick Fraser
by John Kelman
John Geggie/Bill Carrothers/Nick Fraser 5 Shades of Geggie Fourth Stage, National Arts Centre Ottawa, Canada May 13, 2006
It's been a strong year for Ottawa bassist John Geggie and his 5 Shades of Geggie series of concerts, where he brings in artists from around the world to play in configurations that have rarely--if ever--worked together previously. With little rehearsal, the stylistic purview may be wide but the unifying link is the risk ...
Continue ReadingJohn Geggie & Mark Dresser at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa
by John Kelman
John Geggie/Mark Dresser National Arts Centre Ottawa, Canada May 14, 2005
To close out this year's season of Five Shades of Geggie--five performances that continue to demonstrate local bassist John Geggie's breadth of style and ability to recruit a remarkable variety of collaborators, this year including pianist Myra Melford and saxophonist Donny McCaslin--Geggie brought in master bassist Mark Dresser for an intimate series of bass duets that ranged from pensive to exuberant, from dark ...
Continue ReadingJohn Geggie, Donny McCaslin & Jim Doxas at The Fourth Stage, Ottawa, Canada
by John Kelman
5 Shades of Geggie: John Geggie/Donny McCaslin/Jim Doxas National Arts Centre, Fourth Stage, Ottawa, Canada Saturday, March 12, 2005
The month of March has been an unusually good one for jazz in Ottawa, Canada. Local audiences were already treated to the Milligan-Eagles Project CD Release featuring drummer Adam Nussbaum and an outstanding performance by Tim Berne's Acoustic Hard Cell. So, when local bassist John Geggie took to the National Arts Centre's Fourth Stage on ...
Continue ReadingJohn Geggie/Sunna Gunnlaugs/Justin Haynes Ottawa, Canada May 22, 2004
by John Kelman
With a season has seen everything from duets with pianist Marilyn Crispell to trios with saxophonist Mike Murley and drummer Jim Doxas, bassist John Geggie chose, on May 22, 2004, to close off this year’s “No Boundaries” series in a quiet and intimate chamber jazz setting, featuring Icelandic ex-pat, pianist Sunna Gunnlaugs, and Canadian guitarist Justin Haynes with a programme that was rich and moving without being any less demanding.
Opening with a solo rendition of Sam Jones’ “Bittersweet,” Geggie ...
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