Canada.com / Vancouver — June 28, 2004.
Saxophonist Remi Bolduc and pianist Kenny Werner perform with The Marois Vocal Project at Capilano College Friday, July 2, as part of this year’s TD Canada Trust Vancouver International Jazz Festival.
Werner has played with many great musicians over the past two decades (Joe Lovano, Joe Henderson, Jack DeJohnette) and is a mentor to many others as a teacher. He first met Bolduc while teaching courses at the Banff School of Fine Arts’ summer jazz program. Bolduc enrolled as a student one year and then came by the next as a teacher working under the pianist’s direction. “I enjoyed teaching very much,” says Werner. “It was loose enough to remain a creative environment without getting bogged down in academia. Dave Holland’s original vision of it is still alive. He once said, ’We’re not really teachers, they’re not really students — we’ve got to learn from each other and share whatever we have.’ That was still happening the four years that I was involved with the program. The idea was just to mix and lead by example.”