Presented by Guelph Jazz Festival
TICKETS ON SALE Wednesday, July 12, 2023 at 12:00 PM
Cory Smythe (USA)
Pianist Cory Smythe’s music “dissolves the lines between composition and improvisation with rigor” (Chicago Reader). In Guelph, he will animate the jazz standard “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,” or perhaps a ghostly apparition of it: Its swirling and spiralling vocality, its portrayal of deceit and disappearance, its fluidic memorial to acrid, heart-breaking loss. To do so, Smythe will augment the piano’s sound resources with a range of nuanced, mysterious electronic extensions, transforming this most canonical of instruments into something –– like the love affair the Kern/Harbach standard laments –– that isn’t quite what it seems.
For the full schedule of Festival events and programming details, visit guelphjazzfestival.com/2023.
2023 Guelph Jazz Festival Ticketed Events:
Silvervest – Sep 14, 2023 4:00 PM
[Ahmed] – Sep 14, 2023 8:00 PM
Lina Allemano Four – Sep 14, 2023 10:00 PM
Certain Crafts – Sep 15, 2023 1:00 PM
Double-bill: Jorrit Dijkstra/François Houle: Coastlines & Susanna Hood Trio: unPacked – Sep 15, 2023 3:00 PM
Ratchet Orchestra – Sep 15, 2023 8:00 PM
Cory Smythe – Sep 16, 2023 11:00 AM
Josh Zubot Strings – Sep 16, 2023 3:00 PM
François Houle GENERA Sextet – Sep 16, 2023 8:00 PM
New Hermitage – Sep 17, 2023 11:00 AM
Everyone must have a ticket, including children. Infants will not be admitted during this event.
Access 2 Entertainment and CNIB cards are honoured for this event. See our accessibility webpage for more information.