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Jessica Hawkes: Songwriter, Vocalist, Engineer, Nashville

From Winfield, BC, the vocalist, songwriter, and engineer has split her time between Vancouver, New York, and Nashville

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Dean Thiessen: Composer, Piano, Stranger Friends Orchestra

Dean's large ensemble plays the Fox May 31 and will release a live EP on the Infidels Jazz label; he also plays the jazzfest

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Biboye Onanuga: "It's happening here, it's cool."

Biboye just played Monk at the VIFF Centre and an After Dark, billed as "Low and Slow". He'll return around jazzfest time

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Shruti Ramani: Juno Nominated with Raagaverse - Jaya

Shruti’s band Raagaverse is up at the 54th Junos in Vancouver this weekend, with Jaya under Jazz Album of the Year - Group

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Ben Frost: What is a Composition?

On Ben’s second podcast appearance, the nature of composition, the composer's identity, and where new material comes from

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Bellbird: Claire Devlin, Allison Burik, Eli & Mili return

For our only 5-person episode ever, Montreal-based reedists Claire Devlin and Allison Burik join Eli Davidovici and Mili Hong

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Jacob Wutzke: Drums, You Better Bet, Tour, Montreal, NYC

Jacob talks about his new album You Better Bet and his first bandleading tour; the drummer plays Jazz at the Bolt this weekend

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Kevin Romain: Drums, DIY Spaces & Scenes, Autopoietic 1

Kevin talks about his longtime creative residence in our scene including a solo drum record forthcoming on the Infidels label

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Jodi Proznick: Bass, Jazz at VSO School, Ostara Project

Jodi talks about becoming the Director of Jazz Studies at the VSOSOM, her values as an educator, and Ostara’s next album

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Jason Winikoff: Drums, Percussion, NOLA, Ethnomusicology

Jason Winikoff talks about playing here since his arrival at UBC in 2018, though he’s about to move back to the US

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Chelsea McBride & Thomas Houlden: Sax, Trumpet, Grad School

Chelsea & Thomas talk grad school, composition, favourite Christmas songs, and this week's Holiday Spectacular

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David Sikula: Guitar, Audio Engineer, Organ Jazz & More

Dave’s playing covers straight-ahead to improvising; he records out of Demitone, Monarch, & more