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
Recordings Melissa Pipe: Of What Remains, bassoon plus baritone sax The Montreal reedist explores the traversing of time, time and transience in chamber jazz
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
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
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
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
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
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
Recordings Jacob Wutzke: Show Yourself, with BC-raised Lucas Dubovik Popular young drummer Jacob completes the Montreal band with Gentiane MG and Levi Dover
Recordings Rachel Therrien and her Latin Jazz Project album Mi Hogar Rachel's sweeping project reflects her decade-plus journey through Cuban music and more
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
Recordings The Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra, Voices: A Musical Heritage WJO's new release executes an ambitious concept celebrating multiculturalism in Manitoba
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
Recordings Jim Head - Prismatic Calling Jim Head the Canadian answer to mid-career Kurt Rosenwinkel isn't far-fetched.
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"
Recordings Heyday: RJ LeBlanc's fusion of math rock, shoegaze, and groove Montréal bassist Rémi-Jean LeBlanc's fun fourth album, Heyday, does jazz and indie rock
Recordings Harry Bartlett taught me something about Charlie Haden Review by Chris Fraser of BC/Toronto guitarist Bartlett's second trio album, Wildwood
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
Recordings The highly-anticipated Ostara Project album: our review 10 months ago, we covered the supergroup at their launch. Now, their debut album is out
Recordings That feeling of post-apocalyptic vintage radio transmission Eva Schubert releases her fourth album as a vocalist-songwriter, The Feel of Your Love
Recordings Alvaro Rojas, the restless guitar & string quartet master His latest record, Music for 22, is full of genre-bending and collaborative adventure
