Fred Stride’s Birthday
Jared Burrows talks about band leader, composer, and educator Fred Stride.
Canadian jazz essentials: Juno winner Phil Dwyer’s picks
“Making decisions can be tough. I was mindful of this fact recently when I asked one of Canada’s leading jazz performers to produce a short list of definitive Canadian jazz recordings.Phil Dwyer, as you may already know, is a highly respected performer, composer and bandleader, who just won the 2012 Juno award for contemporary jazz album [...]
2012 Juno Awards Winners
Congratulations to the winners of the 2012 Juno Awards, handed out earlier today in Ottawa. Winners in the Jazz categories: Contemporary Jazz Album Of The Year Changing Seasons, Phil Dwyer Orchestra feat. Mark Fewer (Alma/Universal) See Changing Seasons – Phil Dwyer In Conversation with Nou Dadoun Traditional Jazz Album Of The Year Verge, David Braid (Independent) [...]
Musical Openness: Jazz & Classical Musics
This week Karin Plato, well-known Vancouver jazz performer and educator, was moved to share some thoughts on Musical Openness for both Jazz and Classical Musics on her blog (available at http://karinplato.wordpress.com). Here are her comments reproduced with permission: There is something that I have been thinking about on the “surface” level for the past several [...]
Petition to save the CBC music archives
The CBC is getting rid of its physical music collections in Vancouver and other sites across the country, a treasure trove of over 100,000 artifacts amassed over decades. Valuable, rare and historic recordings on vinyl and tape will be destroyed or dispersed, lost to all of us forever. The stated plan is to digitalize some [...]
The Godmother of Rock & Roll: Sister Rosetta Tharpe
As part of Black History Month, the Vancity Theatre is presenting a new documentary about a Gospel Legend whose guitar playing turned out to be an influence on Chuck Berry: Sister Rosetta Tharpe During the 40s, 50s and 60s Sister Rosetta Tharpe played a highly significant role in the creation of rock & roll, inspiring [...]
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 [...]
The music of Hank Mobley.
Gonna be a fun weekend of music with PERFECTLY HANK doing the music saxophone legend Hank Mobley. The quartet features HAMMOND ORGAN VIRTUOSO MIKE LeDONNE from NEW YORK along with locals CORY WEEDS tenor saxophone, OLIVER GANNON guitar and JESSE CAHILL drums. The band will be performing some of Hank’s lesser known gems as well [...]
Jazz at Presentation House Studio Returns for 3rd Year!
Yes, we’re doing it again. Jazz at Presentation House Studio returns September 21 for our 3rd year of weekly concerts! I hope to see lots of people out to enjoy the music and support the scene. If you haven’t come out to the venue yet, you can look here or here or click the links [...]
Vancouver Independent Music Centre
A coalition of musicians, music presenters and managers is supporting a needs assessment for a culturally diverse music centre for world, jazz, folk, chamber and other music in Vancouver. They’re conducting a survey to assess what the music community and concert audiences value most in venues for live acoustic and amplified music and to determine [...]
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