Rabble Without A Cause
Wednesday November 23rd, 2011 with Bernard Stepien
the Craig Pedersen quartet CD

Craig Pedersen is one of the busiest Jazz musicians in Ottawa. No surprise! His art extends in almost any direction. As a trumpet player, he doesn't hesitate to incorporate Duke Ellington's early works in his Jungle style, extensively composes complex pieces with a Bach fugue feeling and finally explores new areas with computer music or computer driven music and electronics. More important is that the analog and electronic sides of his art are fully intertwined, thus a natural guarantee against boredom. The problem with local geniuses is that they sooner or later get attracted to bigger cities like New York. For now Pedersen is only commuting there once a month for the next six months thanks to a Canada Council grant to further study trumpet there, however sooner or later someone will hook him there... Tonight, Pedersen will be in the studio to talk about his new CD to be released this coming Tuesday, November 29th at the Club Saw.