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In conjunction with the 4th LIVE Biennial of
Performance Art, The Al Neil Project presents
four evenings of interdisciplinary work by, and
inspired by, Vancouver innovator Al Neil, a
seminal force in the multi-disciplinary practices
that have flourished on the West Coast over the
past 50 years.
Al Neil's career as a musician, composer, writer,
bricoleur, and performance artist has spanned
60 years. His influence on Vancouver's artistic
communities has been profound and enduring.
This project endeavors to both assess and celebrate
Neil's contribution to the development of avantgarde art practices in Vancouver. LIVE 2005 will
feature four events celebrating Al Neil's legacy in
the community, including concerts, screenings,
readings and performances.

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Tonight, at the Roundhouse Community Centre
we bring together a stellar group of Vancouver
musicians in a tribute to the Al Neil Trio. Gregg
Simpson was an original member of the Al Neil
Trio and the work of Paul Plimley and Clyde
Reed has been an extension of the traditions
Neil worked within. Carole Itter is a longtime
collaborator with Neil and she worked with VJ
Krista Lomax to produce tonight's visuals. The
images are from photographs by Carole Itter of
Al Neil's collages on paper and his assemblages at
his cabin. Krista Lomax has designed the motion
graphics of these images. Giorgio Magnanensi's
use of samples echoes the Al Neil Trio groundbreaking use of them in the 1960's. KedrickJame's
work in performance poetry is a continuation of
Al's early work in this form.
The Al Neil Trio was a seminal force in 1960's
Vancouver artistic history leaving serious influences
tracing through the jazz, writing, performance art
and visual arts communities.
The Al Neil Trio has been documented on the 2001
Blue Minor recording RETROSPECTIVE Al Neil Trio
1965-1968.

•Gregg Simpson

The Al Neil Project attempts an interdisciplinary
look at the work of Al Neil in several media. Part
One includes the four presentations in LIVE and
research into audio, video, film and photographic
archives extent in Public Collections in Vancouver.
Part Two will consist of a publication, exhibitions

Gregg Simpson (born 1947) began playing jazz in
the early 1960's joining the Al Neil Trio in 1965. Later
he helped form groups such as Sunship Ensemble,
New Orchestra Quintet, and Lunar Adventures,
making several recordings and touring Canada and
the US many times. He has played with Frank
Foster, Jack Wilson, Flip Nunez, P.J. Perry, Don
Thompson, Karl Berger, John Tchcai, Vinny Golia,
Marilyn Crispell, Peter Brotzman and opened for
Keith Jarrett, Michael Brecker, Roscoe Mitchell
and Ornette Coleman.

and screenings and will take place in 2007. The
Al Neil Project is a collaboration of the Morris and
Helen Belkin Gallery UBC, New Orchestra Workshop
Society (NOW), Coastal Jazz and Blues Society, and
grunt gallery. It is funded through support from the
Inter Arts Office of the Canada Council for the Arts,
The Spirit of BC and our sponsors Western Front,
Vancouver Public Library, Roundhouse Community
Centre, The Vancouver Art Gallery, The Morris and
Helen Belkin Gallery, Coastal Jazz and Blues, NOW,
and grunt gallery.

BiOS

• Paul Plimley
Since the mid 1970's Paul Plimley has been actively
developing his music out of the continuum of
American and European music traditions. He has
played and toured with many great improvisers
in jazz and new music from around the globe.
Plimley has released over 30 CDs, LPs and TV music
documentaries, which have been well received by
many who show a passion for music beyond disco.
His hundreds of compositions cover all media:
orchestra, jazz bands, solo piano/marimba/guitar,
CD ROM, electronic music, music for modern dance,
and movie soundtracks.

• Clyde Reed
Clyde Reed has enjoyed long-term musical
collaborations with internationally-known artists
such as Rob Blakeslee, Bobby Bradford, Vinny Golia,
Rich Halley, George Lewis, Paul Plimley, and Claude
Ranger. His playing has been featured on a large
number of critically acclaimed recordings.

• Kedrick James
Kedrick James isa poet, musician and educator who
follows in the Al Neil tradition of improvisation and
wild creative acts. He has worked with key players
in the fields of jazz, (Cecil Taylor; Coat Cooke); sound
poetry (Jaap Blonk, Paul Dutton); oral traditions
(Jeanette Armstrong, Jayne Cortez); performance
art (Guillermo Gomez-Pena); Western art music
(R. Murray Schaeffer); and has been a founding
member of ground-breaking poetry ensembles
AWOL Love Vibe and Verbomotorhead.

Tonight's presentation is sponsored by The Morris
and Helen Belkin Gallery, Coastal Jazz and Blues,
New Orchestra Workshop and grunt gallery.
Project Team for the Al Neil Project is Glenn Alteen,
Kate Hammett Vaughan, Eric Metcalfe, Scott
Watson, Keith Wallace, Gregg Simpson, Al Neil,
Carole Itter, Coat Cooke, Ron Samworth, David

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Rimmer, Jordan Strom, Kristin Fung, Julie Smith,

• Carole Itter
Carole Itter is an artist/writer/performer/film
maker who has collaborated for 15 years with Al
Neil by providing the graphics for his performances.
She is a long time resident of Vancouver's historic
Strathcona neighbourhood and in the late 1970%
collected an oral history of the area for the B.C.
Provincial Archives. She has worked with Al Neil on
the assemblages at his cabin on Burrard Inlet.
• KristaLomax

and Michael Turner.

Al Neil photos Carole Itter
Programme Design John endo greenaway

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Krista Lomax is a Vancouver multimedia producer
and live video performance artist who collaborates
and performs with a broad spectrum of local and

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international musicians. Lomax designs and edits
• Giorgio Magnanensi

video pieces which she then manipulates and

Giorgio Magnanensi works with sound and devotes
lots of time to practice intensity and perfect
imagination.

"plays" to live music real-time. Her visual imagery
can be seen in feature films, television and on the
web as well as live performance.

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