Happy Birthday Jeni LeGon!
Singer and tap dancer Jeni LeGon, who has lived in Vancouver for almost forty years celebrates her 92nd birthday today. Born Jennie Ligon on August 14, 1916 in Chicago, Illinois, at age thirteen she successfully auditioned for the Count Basie Orchestra’s chorus line. A year later, LeGon was already a cutting edge professional dancer. In [...]
New feature: Gary Barclay’s “Vancouver Jazz Profiles”
Gary Barclay has been involved in the Vancouver jazz community for almost forty years. From 1971 to 1985 he hosted Vancouver’s only all-night jazz show on CHQM AM/FM. He’s conducted hundreds of interviews with local and international jazz performers. Among his current activities is a regular column in VLM: Vancouver’s Lifestyle Magazine featuring profiles of [...]
Galaxie “Rising Star” award
Every year since 1998, CJBS (producers of the Vancouver International Jazz Festival) and Galaxie, (the continuous music network of the CBC) has awarded a $2000 prize to a selected group of emerging Vancouver jazz artists who are performing at the festival. The nominees this year are North/Mann/Pennell, Umph Trio, Shannon Scott Band, The Grand Trine, [...]
The End of IAJE
Originally posted by Jeremy Hepner Hey everybody, IAJE Seattle 2009 Cancelled I have posted IAJE and IAJE Canada news here in the past. It is with deepest regret that I must now bring this bad news to the Vancouver Jazz community. It would seem that the end of IAJE is upon us with the cancelling [...]
Pender Harbour Jazz Festival lives
In November we wrote about what looked like the demise of the Pender Harbour Jazz Festival. A couple of weeks ago The Pender Harbour Music Society confirmed the appointment of Barry O’Hara as the new manager and artistic director of the Jazz Festival and the Society has announced the dates of September 19-21 for the [...]
A big thank you to the musicians and jazz fans of Vancouver
I usually save these kinds of thank yous for when The Cellar is celebrating its anniversary in September. I did however want to run this now as we are in the middle of our 5th sellout in a row and are expected to be sold out for the rest of 2007. 2007 has been the [...]
Canada Council, NEA honours Oscar at IAJE conference
Ottawa, December 17, 2007 – The Canada Council for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts – the national arts funding agency in the United States – will join forces to pay tribute to Oscar Peterson when the International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE) holds its annual conference in Toronto in January. The [...]
New book from Mark Miller
The release of a new book by Mark Miller is always cause for celebration. Miller was for many years the jazz critic of Canada’s national newspaper, The Globe and Mail, and the author of seven previous books of Canadian jazz history and biography. This time out, Miller has moved father afield, taking on the life [...]
Jodi Proznick, Tilden Webb, and Cory Weeds featured in CODA
The November/December issue of CODA Magazine is out. Always worth checking out, the current issue will be of special interest to Vancouverites for the major-length stories on three of our finest jazz players, Jodi Proznick, Tilden Webb, and Cory Weeds. The Weeds profile focuses, aside from his musicianship, on his significant role here as the [...]
Future of Pender Harbour Jazz Festival in doubt
We received the following email from Monty Rolston, former Chairman of the Pender Harbour Jazz Festival. After twelve years as the volunteer founder and Chairman of the Pender Harbour Jazz Festival, I have decided to step down and pursue other activities. The majority of the volunteer festival committee have also tendered their resignations. The Pender [...]
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