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 [...]
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 [...]
Karin Plato’s Q&A with James Danderfer and Paul Rushka
Thanks to Karin Plato for sending us the following interview. Karin is one of Canada’s finest jazz vocalists. Visit her website at karinplato.com Karin’s Q&A with James Danderfer and Paul Rushka (both appearing at The Jazz Cellar this December). Note at time of posting Paul Rushka was still meeting deadlines at McGill so for now here are [...]
Bill Smith’s 1976 interview with George Lewis
In anticipation of George Lewis’ return visit to Vancouver in January, Bill Smith has added his 1976 CODA interview with Lewis (Lewis’ first major interview) to his ongoing series of online reissues of historic conversations with seminal improvisers. It includes a foreword newly written for the occasion by Lewis. Read it here.
James Danderfer interview
Vancouver clarinetist James Danderfer left for Montreal about a week ago to participate in McGill’s Jazz Studies Program. Guy MacPherson interviewed Danderfer a few days before his departure. James Danderfer interview Comments in the jazz forum
Cecil Taylor in conversation with Bill Smith
When soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy visited Vancouver in March 1976 for his solo performance at the Western Front, we spent an afternoon eating, drinking, and talking at a little restaurant on Robson St. He was one of the brightest, most erudite and articulate men I’d ever met. So it meant something to me when, among [...]
Paul Bley interviewed by Bill Smith
Jazz writer and musician Bill Smith has not been posting regularly on his blog as he’s been devoting his time to a book project over the last couple of years. However, in honour of Paul Bley’s having been appointed to the Order of Canada just a few weeks ago Smith has just added his interview [...]
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