Gadabout Ghosts | Outside the Changes, Q2 2025
My new favourites from the rest of the world: Brandee Younger, Charlie Ballantine, Ches Smith, Mary Halvorson, and more
Steven Zhu (Cowboy Bebop Bebop Band), is UBC taking over? | RCTV 002
Steven talks about his UBC Jazz Club roots, closing down the jazzfest, and selling out the Fox, Hero's Welcome, and more
Local original bands at the jazzfest: 2025
Feven Kidane Sextet, Julian Jayme’s City Folk, Dean Thiessen’s Stranger Friends, Chris Fraser’s quartet, & more of our own
The jazzfest in 10 songs: 2025
Cedar Walton, EWF, traditional blues, Bacharach, Spanish & Brazilian pieces, Sly Stone, jamming with Joel Ross, and more
Ernesto Cervini, what made you a storyteller? | RCTV 001
Ernesto is a Juno-winning drummer, the owner of Orange Grove Publicity & TPR Records, and a podcaster at Canadian Songbook
My long twenties are over
buckle in this'll probably be the most self-indulgent thing I ever write here but it’s time to put it to rest
Fresh Five | June 2025
Kimmortal "I Just Wanna Know"; Emily Steinwall "Programs"; Solo Picnic "Syllables"; Clara Lin "You and I"; Isobel "adjusting"
The festival before the festival | 10 Things, June 2025
Gibsons, White Rock, The Shorties, Krauss / Horvitz / van der Schyff, WCMAs, VJO, Kate Wyatt, Dean Thiessen, big birthday
Cole Schmidt: Guitar, Jazz Festival Co-Artistic Director
Cole talks about the upcoming 40th Vancouver International Jazz Festival, presented by the Coastal Jazz and Blues Society
Karl DeJong: drums, records, friends, flow, bandleading
There’s something egoless and subtle about the way Karl seems to approach music. I can’t help but be drawn to that energy
Curtis Nowosad, how do I let myself be? | RCTV 000
On emotions, healing, ADHD, fatherhood, Joey Landreth & Joanna Majoko, and pacing the tracklist with instrumentals & songs
Jessica Hawkes: Songwriter, Vocalist, Engineer, Nashville
From Winfield, BC, the vocalist, songwriter, and engineer has split her time between Vancouver, New York, and Nashville