Live music A Giving Way at the Fox: the bounty of the Peggy Lee Band Peggy’s eight-piece band plays the Fox Cabaret Saturday; A Giving Way is their new album
Paid-members only Opinions Surviving my theatre gig: I almost completely messed up This dream concert ended up being a huge source of stress; let’s look at how it went down
Paid-members only Recordings Nicky Schrire: Nowhere Girl, folk & vocal jazz, belonging The South African-British singer will release her third album, made in Canada, on June 9
Recordings Melissa Pipe: Of What Remains, bassoon plus baritone sax The Montreal reedist explores the traversing of time, time and transience in chamber jazz
Paid-members only Live music Inside the Inlet Theatre Music Series with Darlene & Bill Darlene Cooper and Bill Sample’s Port Moody series featured the Vince Mai Quintet May 6th
Recordings The Composers Collective Big Band: The Toronto Project What’s the sound of Toronto? What’s the Toronto sound? Two related but distinct questions
Paid-members only Recordings Brad Turner Trio w/ Darren Radtke, Bernie Arai: North Star All compositions, produced, mixed, & mastered by Brad: recorded at Monarch by Dave Sikula
Live music Casey Thomas-Burns: Leading Ladies Little Big Band Tour The trombonist-bandleader brings the group to Frankie's May 21 and then out on a BC tour
Live music Jen Hodge is back in town: All-Stars, Big Bang Jazz Band The bassist is at Guilt, Frankie’s After Dark, and more in her band plus a bigger ensemble
Recordings Emily Braden: Cannon & Sparrow, jazz & soul trio + guests The former Vancouver Island vocalist, now in NYC, has a powerful, personal new project
Paid-members only Recordings Flicker: Chad Makela Quartet album, more from Paul Rushka Following up on my interview with Paul: a scene from the “director's cut” of the interview
Podcast Robyn Jacob: Only a Visitor, new album Decay, Mint Records Robyn talks about her band Only a Visitor's new album Decay, released on Mint Records.
Live music Paul Rushka: Present Past, Kenny Wheeler, April gig week The bassist returns to town next week with several gigs, including one as a bandleader
Paid-members only Live music Full breakdown: William Chernoff Trio Maybe Eventually era 10 gigs, 1 grant, 1 album, 3 bandmates, many friends; here’s how I ran my 2022-23 trio
Live music Jill Townsend on Jazz Orchestra show with Sharon Minemoto The Jill Townsend Jazz Orchestra and Sharon Minemoto Trio share a bill on Sat, Apr. 15
Recordings Drummer Sanah Kadoura's second album: Duality Kadoura's second album blends jazz and neo-soul with melodies inspired by Arabic music
Podcast Allison Au, Jodi Proznick, & Mili Hong on Take Note Muzewest Concerts and The Infidels Jazz co-present the trio in Dunbar on Saturday, Apr. 1
Paid-members only Live music How was month one with The Infidels at Hero's Welcome? Sunday afternoon jazz at the Main Street neighbourhood pub launched in March with 2 shows
Recordings Mike Allen Trio, with John Lee and Carl Allen: To A Star Three tracks are recorded at the Warehouse, the rest live at Frankie's: all are top-shelf
Paid-members only Live music Inside the Jazz at the Anvil series with Tom Keenlyside The next event in Tom's series at New Westminster's Anvil Theatre is Tuesday, March 21
Recordings Pianist-composer Anthony Tan on susurrus, his new solo work Anthony was born in Alberta and now lives in Victoria, but he made this music at McGill
Paid-members only Podcast The first 20 Rhythm Changes Podcast cold opens, in order I'm getting sentimental about the show, now that it's in its lame-duck session
Podcast Teresa Marie: Vocalist, Quartet, Winner Winner, Europe Teresa talks about her recent gigs at Jazz at the Bolt and with the band Winner Winner
Recordings Jacob Wutzke: Show Yourself, with BC-raised Lucas Dubovik Popular young drummer Jacob completes the Montreal band with Gentiane MG and Levi Dover
