Changing Seasons – Phil Dwyer In Conversation
On hearing Changing Seasons, Phil Dwyer’s sister paid him a (funny) back-handed compliment: “It sounded great, I had a hard time believing you wrote it!” Since its release last month, accolades for the Phil Dwyer Orchestra‘s release Changing Seasons have been seemingly unanimous. Writing for a large ensemble, especially incorporating strings is notoriously tough to [...]
HARD RUBBER ORCHESTRA: Tribute to Legends of Canadian Jazz
November 26 – 8:00pm SFU WOODWARDS 149 West Hastings Street, Studio D, 2nd Floor The 18-piece Hard Rubber Orchestra will pay tribute to the greatest jazz legends this country has produced: Oscar Peterson, Kenny Wheeler, Maynard Ferguson, as well as premiering “Floorshow”, a commissioned work by Canadian composer/trombonist Ian McDougall. Guest soloists: Toronto’s Mike Herriott [...]
Duke Ellington’s Sacred Music Concert
A fundraising Performance of DUKE ELLINGTON’S SACRED MUSIC Benefitting the Work of First United Church Friday, November 18th, 8 PM at St. Andrew’s-Wesley United Church, Vancouver FEATURING: Dee Daniels • Marcus Mosely • Fred Stride Orchestra • the Sacred Music Gospel Choir • Sojourners • Tap Dancer: Alex Dugdale Duke Ellington considered the Sacred Concert to be amongst his most significant [...]
Saxophone Workshop and Performance
Yamaha Saxophone artists Ross Taggart and Campbell Ryga will present a saxophone workshop and performance in conjunction with the Vancouver release of the new Custom Z Soprano Saxophones. Sax players should bring their mouthpieces – there will be instruments available to try! Plus Yamaha Saxophone Technician Ken Fornetran will be on hand for consultations. For [...]
Darren Sigesmund – Strands, Friday at The Cellar
2010 JUNO-nominee and Galaxie Rising Star winner Toronto trombonist Darren Sigesmund presents his Strands sextet, featuring vocalist Eliana Cuevas. Since 2003, Sigesmund has established his Strands project as one of Canada’s most active touring ensembles on the international and national jazz scene with over 160 performances across Europe, Asia Australia and Canada. The Cellar concert [...]
Laura Crema to sing classic Disney songs at Pinocchio screening
As part of their Cinema Sunday series, the Pacific Cinémathèque, Vancouver’s premiere film society for essential cinema, is presenting a rare screening of Walt Disney’s 1940 animated feature film, Pinocchio, preceded by a very special live musical performance celebrating some of the great tunes from the classic Walt Disney Song Book, on Sunday, February 20 at [...]
THE CELLAR celebrates 10 Years!
The Cellar Restaurant / Jazz Club turned 10 on August 8th, 2010. In keeping with tradition the club is celebrating the milestone in September. September 9th to 12th to be exact with New York City Super Group ONE FOR ALL! This fabulous sextet features some of the top musicians on the New York scene today [...]
MusicFest Vancouver begins this Friday (Aug 6)
MusicFest Vancouver is back for its tenth year presenting classical, jazz and world music artists in Vancouver. Its diverse 2010 program showcases the festival’s core mission to celebrate and promote live music in many styles and forms. This year’s lineup will include hundreds of international and local artists in nine Vancouver venues from August 6 – 15. [...]
Debashish Bhattacharya at CBC Studio 700 on Thursday
The world of Indian classical music is filled with many remarkable performers but even among these masters Debashish Bhattacharya stands out for having adapted the Hawaiian slide guitar to the Indian raga and becoming its master, since he started performing professionally at age 4. Henry Kaiser has written, “Using the centuries-old raga tradition, Bhattacharya takes the [...]
South Delta Jazz Festival and Jazz Workshop finishes seventh year
I’m finally cooling down, both literally and figuratively, after a very intense week of making music and teaching at the South Delta Jazz Workshop and Jazz Festival. The Workshop is a summer jazz camp with thirty-five students, six full-time faculty members, and two TAs. The Festival comprises seven concerts during the week of the workshop [...]
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