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 [...]
Vancouver International Jazz Festival Diary Day 6 – Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Day 6 – Wednesday, June 29, 2011 Day 6? Day 8? Where am I… As I write this, it’s Day 8, and before us lies three days of incredible music to behold, absorb and inspire and I’m jonesing to get to it and not be sitting in a room writing about two days ago. But [...]
Vancouver International Jazz Festival Diary Day 5 – Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Day 5 – Tuesday, June 28, 2011 Day 5….? It’s Day 5 already! How did that happen, and so fast? Halfway there, halfway over, depending on your perspective. It’s also almost July. Which is just nuts. How can days be so long and yet still fly by? Things to ponder when being carried away on [...]
Vancouver International Jazz Festival Day 4 / Monday, June 27, 2011
Day 4 – Monday, June 28, 2011 Jonas Kulhammar Quartet @ Roundhouse – Performance Works (7pm) I’m really gonna hafta lay some of the blame for this Euro fixation on the programming of this Festival. I go to a show by an amazing Euro group like Sweden’s Jonas Kulhammer Quartet and I immediately want to [...]
Vancouver International Jazz Festival 2011 Diary – DAY 3/Sunday, June 27, 2011
Day 3 – Sunday, June 27, 2011 Sun @ Gastown Waiting for the sun no longer as it finally appeared over Vancouver, if not in time for the start of Big Outdoor Weekend #1, at least in time for Gastown Day 2. It appears we’ll take what we can get these days, and [...]
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