Popular jazz venue O’Doul’s Restaurant & Bar closing after 40 years
From today’s Georgia Straight: After more than 40 years on Robson Street, O’Doul’s Restaurant & Bar (1300 Robson Street), located at the Listel Hotel, is closing its doors after dinner service on June 2. Read the entire article. The article doesn’t explain that the restaurant will be undergoing a major renovation and reopen under a [...]
2012 Juno Awards Winners
Congratulations to the winners of the 2012 Juno Awards, handed out earlier today in Ottawa. Winners in the Jazz categories: Contemporary Jazz Album Of The Year Changing Seasons, Phil Dwyer Orchestra feat. Mark Fewer (Alma/Universal) See Changing Seasons – Phil Dwyer In Conversation with Nou Dadoun Traditional Jazz Album Of The Year Verge, David Braid (Independent) [...]
Vancouver International Jazz Festival announces more 2012 concerts
Trombone Shorty/Preservation Hall Jazz Band (New Orleans Double Bill) Friday, June 22 @ 8pm The Centre for Performing Arts Balkan Beat Box plus special guests Geoff Berner Wednesday, June 27 @ 9pm Vogue Theatre The Cookers with George Cables, Billy Harper, Billy Hart, Cecil McBee, Eddie Henderson, Craig Handy and David Weiss Friday, June 22 [...]
Coastal Jazz announces some headliners for this year’s Vancouver Jazz Festival
Vancouver’s signature festival celebrates its 27th edition June 22 – July 1, 2012. The Festival is pleased to announce that tickets will go on sale Saturday, February 18 at 10 AM at www.northerntickets.com for a selection of major artists performing at this summer’s ten-day event. More major artists to be announced later. George Benson Saturday, [...]
RIP, Arni May
Vancouver drummer and restauranteur Arni May, originally from Ottawa, passed away on December 13, 2011. May was better know locally as a restauranteur than musician, having owned Rossini’s in Kitsalano for 18 years till it closed in August 2010. Rossini’s featured jazz nightly, mostly resident musicians but also presented internationally known players regularly. Linton Garner had a regular [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Jazz Journalists Association honours Bill Smith at jazz fest opening gala
On behalf of the Jazz Journalists Association, the Vancouver Jazz Festival’s artistic director, Ken Pickering, presented Bill Smith with the JJA’s “A Team” Award for lifetime achievement at the jazz fest’s opening gala at the Vancouver Art Gallery last night. Almost from the day he arrived in Toronto in 1963 from his birthplace in Bristol, [...]
McGill Alumni jazz night
Thursday, May 27th marked the McGill Alumni Association of Vancouver’s 9th annual Jazz Night at Hycroft Mansion. Performances featured bassist Jodi Proznick, pianist Tilden Webb, and vocalist Melody Diachun. More at: McGill Alumni Portal
Shrek & Steig
When the final installment of the Shrek franchise opens this week, there is apparently a new character named The Pied Piper who makes people (and ogres) do crazy things with his flute playing. The music is taken from a piece called “Nightmare” from a classic release on the ENJA label called Outlaws with Jeremy Steig [...]
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