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 [...]
Jazz Journalists Association honours Bill Smith at jazz fest opening gala
On behalf of the Jazz Journalists Association, the Vancouver Jazz Festival’s artistic director, Ken Pickering, presented Bill Smith with the JJA’s “A Team” Award for lifetime achievement at the jazz fest’s opening gala at the Vancouver Art Gallery last night. Almost from the day he arrived in Toronto in 1963 from his birthplace in Bristol, [...]
“Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense” screening at VanCity Theatre June 19
There will be a special screening this Saturday of the theatrical feature version of the acclaimed, four-part TV documentary series. Looking at jazz as a modern art form that continues to evolve and expand, the film highlights what Terence Blanchard calls “the quiet revolution” going on today, including big names like Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, [...]
Dave Schnitter, final appearance at the Cellar tonight
Tenor saxophonist Dave Schnitter is one of those undeservedly under-recognized major talents of jazz. It wasn’t always so. When he joined Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers in 1974 he, along with Wynton Marsalis who joined the band some time after, contributed to the revitalization of that illustrious organization. He stayed with Blakey till 1979, followed by a couple [...]
Corey Christiansen celebrates the release of his new CD this weekend
This weekend at The Cellar, guitarist COREY CHRISTIANSEN celebrates the release of his latest Orgin Records album, Outlaw Tractor. From the first note, Christiansen lights a rhythmic fire that never flickers, punctuating chords with precision and soloing with zeal… ” – Downbeat Magazine Following up on 2008′s Roll With It, Corey Christiansen’s critically acclaimed Origin [...]
“Inhabitants” CD Release, May 27
Inhabitants launch their new CD, A Vacant Lot, at the Cobalt, 917 Main Street, Thursday, May 27, 2010 at 8:00pm. The Gordon Grdina Trio will also be performing. Inhabitants continue to push forward into new sonic territory with “A Vacant Lot”, their third full-length on Drip Audio. Spacious and expressive, the new album explores the [...]
Percussive Compassion
An international consortium of percussive-oriented musicians will be performing for a worthy cause on June 13th at the Cultch. Themba Tana will be my guest on an special extended edition of the A-Trane on CFRO 102.7 FM, Friday June 4th from 2:30 to 6:30 to play some music, remember the late South African Jazz musician [...]
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