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Vancouver's vibrant jazz scene is celebrating the greats with packed performances all over town
Legendary tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins turns 95 on Sept. 7. Vancouver’s jazz scene is celebrating the date with the Vancouver Celebrates Sonny Rollins on his 95th Birthday concert series, running Sept. 3-7.
With a total of 11 concerts, each show is dedicated to an iconic album by the artist, dynamically interpreted by both established players and young lions making names for themselves on the local scene.
5 things to know about the Infidels, a new Vancouver record label
The host of the Infidels weekly podcast is well aware that there are more than a few grains of truth in that tired joke. But that isn’t stopping the Vancouver-based jazz head from taking his dream to the next level.
The well-researched and entertaining show logs in its 100th episode next week. This week, the Infidels record label launch was announced. Its debut recording, It Becomes Us, is a duet album featuring drummer Kenton Loewen and trumpeter J.P. Carter performing a program of free improvisations as well as “classics” from jazz music’s outer reaches such as guitarist Sonny Sharrock’s As We Used to Sing and Wayne Shorter’s Orbits.
Over the edge of rock: Bill Orcutt plays two Vancouver shows (including one tonight) thanks to Infidels
Tim Reinert is one of the hardest-working promoters in Vancouver, with his agency-cum-label The Infidels Jazz being behind most of the edgiest jazz shows our town sees.
He’ll tell you straight up that he’s “not a rock guy,” but occasionally there is some overlap between the shows he books and the world of rock, as when Joe Baiza (best known for Saccharine Trust) and Mike Watt (of the Minutemen, fIREHOSE, and many, many other projects) played Hero’s Welcome last October with fiery improvising drummer Chris Corsano—one of two gigs Reinert has booked with Corsano in recent memory…