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 [...]
CBC launches new video-on-demand initiative
A new initiative at CBC to provide video of some of this country’s most respected musicians has been launched. In this case the focus is on a set of new jazz videos recorded in CBC Studio One during the TD Vancouver International Jazz Fest. The Phil Dwyer Septet featuring Laila Biali videos are now online. [...]
Vancouver International Jazz Festival Diary – Day 10 / Sunday, July 3, 2011
The end… No matter how much you deny it, this day always comes. I always wake up on Day 10 with a heavy, sad heart. Heavy both with its fullness from the extravaganza of the previous nine days’ packed full with music and great hangs, and, of course, sadness that all the rest of the [...]
20 Questions for…. LISA CAY MILLER
While the Jazz Festival is over for another (great!) year, we all know jazz is a 365-day-a-year happening in Vancouver. Lisa Cay Miller, another very active musician (aren’t we lucky?) on the Vancouver scene, takes the 20 Questions Quiz. At what age did you start playing [...]
Vancouver International Jazz Festival Diary – Day 9 / Saturday, July 2, 2011
Magnus Broo & Paal Nilssen-Love @ Roundhouse – Performance Centre Paal Nilssen-Love listens awfully closely to Magnus Broo Bummed bummed bummed to have missed this. Came into Performance Centre during last piece; very quiet, very spare, very not what I expected, but with no idea what [...]
Vancouver International Jazz Festival – Diary Day 8 / Friday, July 1, 2011
Granville Island/Nation’s Birthday There is absolutely nothing that could get me to leave the mainland and take a boat to a small island so overcrowded it felt like half the country was on it and it might actually sink, with virtually no means of escaping quickly when one needed to. Except jazz. And the birthday [...]
Vancouver International Jazz Festival Diary – Day 7 / Thursday, June 29, 2011
Day 7 – Thursday, June 30, 2011 Erik Truffaz 4tet @ Venue Erik Truffaz rings it out One of the great surprises of this fest was this sneaky 4tet lead by minimalist trumpeter Erik Truffaz. Sneaky because, even though my ears were open and ready to receive, I [...]
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