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 [...]
Vancouver International Jazz Festival: 20 Questions for… KEVIN ELASCHUK
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 you [...]
Vancouver International Jazz Festival: 20 Questions for… AMANDA TOSOFF
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 you [...]
Vancouver International Jazz Festival: 20 Questions for… MICHAEL BLAKE
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 you [...]
Vancouver International Jazz Festival: 20 Questions for… CORY WEEDS
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 you [...]
Vancouver International Jazz Festival: 20 Questions for… ANDRÉ LACHANCE
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 you [...]
South Delta Jazz Festival & Jazz Workshop
It hardly seems possible, but another year has flown by and preparations are well underway for another South Delta Jazz Workshop and Jazz Festival, our 8th annual event held July 5-9. The Workshop is a summer music program focused on jazz improvisation and small ensemble playing. The Festival provides a variety of jazz concerts and [...]
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