Supporting and promoting Vancouver’s vibrant and emerging jazz scene

Vancouver-based clarinetist and saxophonist Geoff Claridge has been fascinated for years by the bluesy folk-jazz of the early Jimmy Giuffre 3, a clarinet/guitar/trombone trio inspired by Claude Debussy's Sonata for […]

“There's everything you think you know about big band, and then there's Space Elevator” (Vancouver Jazz Fest) Composer and bandleader Mike WT Allen, who's portfolio includes performances by the Hard Rubber Orchestra, Redshift Music, and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, formed the 20 person jazz-metal powerhouse Space Elevator as a vehicle to deliver Mike's ideas of […]