The TIE Collective pays tribute to Jacques Emond, who passed away last Sunday evening. Next Sunday will be the official trinute to Jacques here at the station. The studios will be opened up for coffee and refreshments. Please drop by the 5th floor of the unicentre building. The program next week will feature a number of special guests to celebrate his life.
| Jana Arild Andersen - Green Shading Not Blue - ECM |
| Los Angeles Brad Meldhau - Places |
| Jazz Scene Voyeur Ben Allison & Medicine Wheel - Riding The Nuclear TIger |
| She's Funny That Way Erroll Garner - Music Played in Woody Allen Movies Vol 2 |
| Sweet and Lovely Thelonious monk with John Coltrane - At Carnegie Hall - Blue Note |
| Mood Indigo Duke Ellington and COleman Hawkins - Ellington Meets Hawkins |
| Favela Ike Quebec - Bossa Nova Soul Samba |
| Jump Monk Charles Mingus - The Progressives - Columbia |
| Moon Man Resurrection Quartet - Resurrection Quartet |
| Skokiaan Louis Armstrong - All-Time Greatest Hits |
| One O'clock Jump Jimmy Smith - Midnight Special |
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During the late 1970's, I was a young Visual Art student at Ottawa U. and I would listen to Jacques' late Sunday-night French Jazz radio show on the Hull FM station CIMF. I would be at home, making drawings while listening to his show. I once called the station and he answered the phone himself. I thanked him for the great music, which became a soundtrack to my artistic homework and also thanked him again for introducing me to many new jazz performers. At the end of our conversation(which was interrupted every time that he had to change an LP and make an announcement), he remarked that I seemed to be knowledgeable and wondered if I would like to be a guest on his show sometime. I could choose a subject and even produce the show by selecting the music. He then asked if I could speak French. After a pregnant pause, he chimed in "That's OK, I'll do the talking." Back then, he played LP records and could even play 78rpm records...I brought the best of my Benny Goodman 78rpm record collection. Although he had two turntables at his disposal, he didn't have a plan should one of these collector's items get stuck onto the turntable spindle...which happened! It was the rarest of all my 78rpms: The "Hollywood Hucksters" playing "Them There Eyes". When the disc ended its 3-minute duration and we tried to pry it off the turntable, to queue-up the next short record, it wouldn't budge. We wiggled, pried and cajoled when Jacques said that we'd have to break the record off the turntable while giving it one more try (while the radio listeners are now listening to "dead air") and off popped the record in one piece...we continued the show as if nothing had ever happened. Jacques loved to tease me about this incident often, even in recent years when he'd have me as a guest on his CKCU show. He warned me:"Don't bring any 78's!!". He was a dear friend and music-mentor,he was at my bachelor party, and he even dedicated a piece, on Swing is in the Air, to my first son on the day of his arrival....he was always there. My family will miss
4:43 PM, January 13th, 2013