Will Chernoff

William Ross Chernoff—known as Will to friends and colleagues—is a musician who started Rhythm Changes in 2020.

Recordings

Holly Burke & Bill Runge with Linda Lee Thomas: Dreamride

Holly & Bill have co-composed 20 short piano pieces, recorded by pianist Linda Lee Thomas

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Live music

The Return of the Thing & Hero's Welcome with Tim Reinert

Tim talks about Jen Yakamovich's New Thing and the next show there, plus a new series

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Lore

The elephant in the room: how well am I doing with it?

Reacting to, and opening up about, the meaning of burnout for artistic people like us

Podcast

Jocelyn Gould: Guitar, International Touring, Bandleader

Jocelyn joins us in the middle of a big tour; she played around BC in late January 2023.

Live music

The Chris Davis Concern: a two-trumpet project After Dark

Chris goes into what he and Brad Turner will play, plus the tension around self-promotion

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Live music

Connor Lum, back from the ships, starts Jazz at the Bolt

The saxophonist's chordless trio is the first set on Saturday; he tells us where he's at

Recordings

Jim Head - Prismatic

Calling Jim Head the Canadian answer to mid-career Kurt Rosenwinkel isn't far-fetched.

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Opinions

6 hard lessons

From the first 6 months "in the business"

Podcast

Noah Franche-Nolan: Piano, Within the Stream, New York

Noah talks about his debut as a leader: a piano trio album to be released on Cellar Music

Live music

Tanika Charles plays the Shadbolt with a band of locals

Despite her Edmonton / Toronto roots, the vocalist's band is "the Vancouver boys"

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Opinions

The Vancouver Folk Music Festival looks at dissolving

The 2023 festival is canceled, and the non-profit is thinking to dissolve for good.

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Resources

A complete guide to my FACTOR Artist Development grants

Here's my guide to both grants I wrote and received, now that they're fully complete

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Podcast

CD Baby, what are you thinking? Re: DIY Musician Podcast

All 5 of the DIY Musician Podcast 2023 predictions are misses; also, I make a prediction

Lore

2022 wrap-up: reaching 10,000+ people with the gig list

Big thanks to Rory Hislop, Tim Reinert, Nou Dadoun, and everyone who made it possible

Podcast

Ben Frost: Trumpet, Quartet, Pixies, Copyist, Climbing

Ben talks about his quartet album Pixies, released exclusively to Bandcamp on Dec. 2

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Lore

Top 10 Updates of 2022: gig reviews, launches, interviews

Is it fun and insightful? Can't get it anywhere else? Does it bring you local artists?

Live music

A jazz jam session for the Greater Vancouver Food Bank

The Infidels Jazz and Coastal Jazz will co-present a fundraiser for the local charity

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Live music

Table for six, please

From a gig, a story about "online presence": a term that sanitizes the concept to death

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Live music

Juno Hamilton on playing at Frankie's After Dark & Tyrant

At After Dark, a trio with Jesse Cahill & Ethan Birnie; at Tyrant, Juno is the leader

Recordings

That feeling of post-apocalyptic vintage radio transmission

Eva Schubert releases her fourth album as a vocalist-songwriter, The Feel of Your Love

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Live music

Teighan Couch, welcome to Vancouver (at 2nd Floor Gastown)

The Ottawa-born, VIU-studying vocalist plays with Sharon Minemoto for Saturday brunch

Podcast

Will Stroet of Will's Jams: Amis avec tout le monde album

Will's story reveals that kids' music is surprisingly correlated with all arts careers

Recordings

Alvaro Rojas, the restless guitar & string quartet master

His latest record, Music for 22, is full of genre-bending and collaborative adventure

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Books

You're too old for this, part 2 featuring Rollie Pemberton

The no good, very bad Cadence Weapon tour outcome; tour economics is a trending topic

Recordings

Mama Danced: LJ Mounteney sings the Basement Suite Blues

LJ's blues / roots album has great range and features several Vancouver jazz musicians