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 [...]

Vancouver International Jazz Festival 2011 Diary – DAY 2 / Saturday, June 26, 2011

Day 2 – Saturday, June 26, 2011 What do you do when your ears are full after Day 1 and you’re maybe a bit of an obsessive personality and can’t stop listening to the discs by the earth-shattering kaboom artist you heard the previous night? Shake it off and hope like hell. The experience of [...]

Vancouver International Jazz Festival 2011 – 20 Questions for… JON BENTLEY

Everyone knows by now it’s only 10 questions.Here’s the latest in the 20 Questions installment, for your informational pleasure, a little history, a little observation, some reminiscences about Vancouver International Jazz Festivals past, and maybe just a thing or two you didn’t know about some of our most treasured Vancouver musicians. JON BENTLEY (tenor saxophonist) [...]

Vancouver International Jazz Festival 2011 Diary – DAY 1 / Friday, June 25, 2011

Day 1 – Friday, June 25, 2011 If the Festival ended now, I would be hungrily satisfied with that. Hungrily, of course because when you find musical bliss, you can’t help but want more more more… all the time, more. Satisfied because, the amazing music that filled these ears, mind and soul (unexpectedly, though there [...]

Vancouver International Jazz Festival: 20 Questions for… PEGGY LEE

Ok, so it’s only 10 questions. But to some busy Vancouver -and Vancouver-connected- musicians about to embark on Jazz Festival season, it might have felt like 20. So, here, for your informational pleasure, a little history, a little observation, some reminiscences about Vancouver International Jazz Festivals past, and maybe just a thing or two [...]