A Benefit Concert for Hudson Village Theatre

An Evening of Live Jazz with 

Ranee Lee

Saturday, July 22 at 8PM – 1 NIGHT ONLY

Tickets can also be purchased
by contacting the box office directly:
450 458 5361 or hvtbox@villagetheatre.ca.

RANEE LEE has lived in Montreal now for over 50 years, moving from New York in 1970. She has released 13 acclaimed albums on the Justin Time label, the newest of which is 2022’s Because You Loved Me. She’s a Juno Award-winner, a songwriter, an award-winning actress, a celebrated educator, and an author of the children’s book Nana What Do You Say? inspired by her song of the same title.

Ranee’s impressive discography is filled with masterworks: The Musical, Jazz on Broadway, being one of them, was a successful marriage of jazz standards and the music of Broadway. In 1994 and again in 1995, Ranee received the Top Canadian Female Jazz Vocalist Award presented by Jazz Report magazine. She has been nominated for several Juno Awards and in 2010 – won the Juno for Vocal Jazz Album of the year for her recording Ranee Lee Lives Upstairs. Her performance as Billie Holiday in the play Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill won her a Dora Mavor Moore Award.

Pianist TAUREY BUTLER is a native of East Orange, New Jersey and now makes his home in Montreal. Taurey’s self-titled album, Taurey Butler, firmly established his signature artistry in his adopted home base – he is a well-known and favorite performer in Montreal’s preeminent jazz clubs, including Dièse Onze, the Upstairs Jazz Bar & Grill and the illustrious Festival International de Jazz de Montréal. He has toured internationally with stops in Asia, the Middle East, and in the USA including New York City’s Blue Note Jazz Club and The Cotton Club in New Orleans as well as the Detroit and JVC Jazz Festivals

His follow up trio recording is a genuine, creative deepness of effort, and is selflessly shared.  One Of The Others, (October 2022) delivers the real Taurey in a musical representation of who he is, and what he feels, a suite of truly personal and personalized tracks.

Jazz guitarist and composer, CARLOS JIMÉNEZ has shared the stage with some of the most expressive names of Canadian jazz including: Josh Rager, Dave Watts, Fraser Hollins, Joel Miller and Michel Berthiaume, to the established jazz veterans such as Kevin Dean, Andre White, Frank Lozano, Rémi Bolduc, Brian Hurley, Joe Sullivan, Steve Amirault and Don Thompson. Various projects include: the Joe Sullivan Big Band, the Brian Hurley Quartet, the Jacinta Luis Quintet and the Dorothée Berryman Ensemble. He has been featured on various recordings and radio shows such as Jazz Beat and Canada Live (CBC) and the Oscar winning short movie The Danish Poet (NFB). His first recording as a leader entitled Undercurrents was released in March 2011. Carlos Jiménez is currently on faculty at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University and serves as Jazz Area Coordinator at the McGill Conservatory.

Montreal jazz bassist, composer and educator DAVE WATTS is becoming a veteran of the Canadian jazz scene. Dave released his debut album in 2010, entitled “Will it Rain?”, which Peter Hum from the Ottawa Citizen named one of his top ten picks for the Canadian 2010 jazz albums of the year. Since that release, Dave has continued to compose and perform with this group and plans on releasing new material in the upcoming months. Dave can be heard on over 15 albums, two of which won a Quebec Opus Award and two were nominated for a Canadian Juno Award. He has played with international jazz stars such as Donny McCaslin, Sheila Jordan, Houston Pearson, Joel Frahm and Adam Rogers and collaborated with many of Canada’s top jazz musicians, including Ranee Lee, Julie Lamontagne, Matt Dusk, Carlos Jiménez, Aléxandre Côte, Rémi Bolduc, Nicole Martin and Bruno Pelletier.

Drummer JIM DOXAS was born in Montréal, Canada, into an artistically vibrant family and established himself early on in his career as a versatile percussionist.Heavily influenced by rock, jazz, Motown and world music, his credits on various recordings range from drummer, percussionist and composer. In addition, he is also an established recording engineer and a lecturer at McGill University. Doxas is a popular featured artist at jazz festivals worldwide and has worked with John Abercrombie, Joe Lovano, Hank Jones, Edward Simon, Dave Binney and Maria Schneider.
During the last several years, his playing with Oliver Jones has been recognized with Felix and Juno Awards in Canada, and his participation in the song “Belleville Rendez-Vous” from the film The Triplets de Belleville received nominations for Grammy and Academy Awards.

Tickets can also be purchased
by contacting the box office directly:
450 458 5361 or hvtbox@villagetheatre.ca.

Box Office: 450-458-5361

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