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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=195 BGCOLOR="#663366" TEXT="#080000" background="27fc6172dkcfuy.png"> <div> <A HREF="saturday_schedule.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Saturday Schedule"><B><IMG SRC="083906b0.jpg" border=0 width="144" height="107" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></A></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="12c43320.gif" border=0 width="67" height="50" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="55" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>StraitAhead Jazz</B></div> </td> <td valign="top" width="100%" BGCOLOR="#CC99CC" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#663366" FACE="Arial" >Jazz in the Pass</FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#663399" FACE="Times New Roman" >    </FONT> |    <B> </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#6633CC" FACE="Times New Roman" ><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Jazz in the Pass"><B>home</B></A></FONT></div> <div>                                                   </div> <div> <IMG SRC="285f0030.png" border=0 width="496" height="3" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> MarkGuestJazz</div> <div> <I><B>Mark Guest Jazz Quartet</B></I></div> <div> <B>Band Leader -</B><B> </B><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Market" ><B>Mark Guest at Guitar</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>Sean Worrell: Piano</B></div> <div> <B>Jeb Stuart: Bass</B></div> <div> <B>Ray Zanders: Drums</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="14db3340.jpg" border=0 width="691" height="52" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B> </B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><B>    The Canadian-born Mark Guest was raised on Toronto Island at a time when the Toronto jazz scene was very hot. "The Island has been a hothouse for artists of all sorts for several decades," remembers Mark. "My wife calls it 'Disneyland for hippies and artists', and I have to agree. Toronto Island is only 15 minutes from downtown Toronto via ferryboat, so during the early 1970's I became a teenaged 'jazz snob' and regularly hung out listening to local jazz players like Lenny Breau, Sonny Greenwich, Don Thompson and Terry Clark --- and even, guys like George Benson, McCoy Tyner, Brother Jack MacDuff, and Rashaan Roland Kirk."</B></FONT></div> <div> <B>     "Playing guitar took up quite a bit of my social life. I was usually woodshedding (practicing), or off somewhere playing music with others. I did some rock and blues gigs back then, but most of the guys that I played with had their hearts in jazz. I also was exposed to the avant-garde/free jazz scene that was happening at the time. It was a real privilege to play with guys like Al Greg, who was pretty far out in the free jazz world, and Kieran Overs, who is now a very hot bassist on the Toronto jazz scene."</B></div> <div> <B>     Mark has expressed interest in fostering additional regional jazz venues. "Live jazz is definitely enjoying a bit of a renaissance on the Coast. It makes sense, as the Coast is where people from New Orleans come to play. There are so many great jazz players living in the region." He concludes, "There's no reason that we should have to leave the area to enjoy good jazz."</B></div> <div> <A HREF="saturday_schedule.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Saturday Schedule"><B><IMG SRC="12a964b0.gif" border=0 width="150" height="75" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></A><A HREF="saturday_schedule.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Saturday Schedule"><B><IMG SRC="1484b140.gif" border=0 width="75" height="20" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></A></div> </td> </tr></table></body>