Miles Black records live at the Cellar this weekend
Vancouver pianist Miles Black appears at The Cellar August 3rd & 4th with his trio featuring bassist Miles Hill and drummer Dave Robbins, where they will be recording the two nights live for an upcoming release on Cellar Live. Among his many credits, Miles Black is known for his work with the Oliver Gannon Quartet, [...]
Vancouver Vintage: Chris Gage Trio
Chris Gage is almost the Buddy Bolden of Canadian jazz – a jazz musician who lived on in memory, with fewer and fewer of his contemporaries around to verify his greatness. Until the release in May of Our Blues by the Fraser MacPherson Quintet from 1962-63 on the Just A Memory label, Gage hadn’t ever [...]
Eli Bennett wins Oscar Peterson Grant
Congratulations to young Vancouver tenor saxophonist Eli Bennett who has won the Oscar Peterson Grant for Jazz Performance, awarded by The Hnatyshyn Foundation, a private charity established by the late Right Honourable Ramon John Hnatyshyn, Canada’s twenty-fourth Governor General. Each year their Developing Artists Grants program provides eight $10,000 scholarships to exceptional young Canadians in [...]
Jewels & Binoculars tonight at Western Front
With Bob Dylan’s reputation as the poet of a generation, it’s often taken for granted that his tunes are just the scaffolding that presents his thoughts and phrases. But that overlooks the sumptious melodies at the heart of so many of his songs. Dylan has a reputation as a bit of a thieving magpie but [...]
Vancouver composer Fred Stride named the 2007 SOCAN/IAJE Phil Nimmons Jazz Established Composer Recipient
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2007 SOCAN/IAJE Phil Nimmons Jazz Composer Award Recipients Announced IAJE is pleased to enter into the third year of a unique partnership with the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN). This partnership’s objective is to honour the compositional talents of both established and emerging Canadian composers. The awards [...]
Amanda Tosoff Quartet wins Galaxie Award
The Vancouver International Jazz Festival and CBC’s Galaxie have announced the winner of the fifth annual Rising Stars Award, a $2000 cash prize awarded to an emerging young group performing at this year’s festival, just ended. Congratulations to the Amanda Tosoff Quartet (Tosoff, piano; Evan Arntzen, saxes; Sean Cronin, bass; and Morgan Childs, drums.). Although [...]
