Percussive Compassion
An international consortium of percussive-oriented musicians will be performing for a worthy cause on June 13th at the Cultch. Themba Tana will be my guest on an special extended edition of the A-Trane on CFRO 102.7 FM, Friday June 4th from 2:30 to 6:30 to play some music, remember the late South African Jazz musician [...]
CJBS appoints new executive director
Coastal Jazz & Blues Society, producers of our annual jazz festival and other events throughout the year, has named Fatima Amarshi as executive director. Fatima succeeds Julie Smith who stepped in to fill the post when Robert Kerr, founding director, left to head the cultural olympiad.
great day in vancouver
In celebration of their fiftieth anniversary, and inspired by Art Kane’s ultra-famous Harlem jazz photo (coincidentally also fifty years old) CODA magazine commissioned photographers in Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver to assemble their respective jazz musicians and others involved in jazz locally, for group portraits. Vancouver photographer, Steve Mynett, produced the shot you see above. That [...]
Neil Ritchie retirement party
Neil Ritchie, producer of CBC Radio One’s Hot Air since 1980 has retired. A party celebrating the twenty-eight years he devoted to presenting and recording the best of Vancouver’s jazz groups will be held tomorrow (Saturday August 16, 2008) from 7:00pm to midnight at: The Billy Bishop Legion (Upstairs) 1407 Laburnum Street (1 block east [...]
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 [...]
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