Jazz Jam Sessions at Hero’s Welcome with Sharon Minemoto Trio
2024-05-19 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Vancouver) | Hero’s Welcome, 3917 Main Street, Vancouver, BC, V5V 3P2, Canada
Infidels Jazz is proud to announce a new bi-weekly Jazz jam session which will take place Hero’s Welcome at 3917 Main Street, starting in April at 2PM.
Sharon Minemoto is the perfect musician to host the house band for the first few months, as she led the jam sessions at Pat’s for years. Joining her in April and May will be some of the city’s finest bassists and drummers, including Darren Radtke, Bernie Arai, Nino DePasquale, Conrad Good and Dave Robbins.
These will be open jam sessions, which means that everybody from professionals to high school students will be welcome. Helping us in making sure that the jam is accessible to those younger members of our community will be the Fraser MacPherson Jazz Fund, who has signed on as a sponsor of the Jams. If you’re under the age of 19, just make sure you have a guardian of legal age with you. You can use the instruments of the house band, but please be respectful of them.
First few dates and personnel are listed below:
April 07 – Sharon Minemoto, Darren Radtke, Bernie Arai
April 21 – Sharon Minemoto, Darren Radtke, Nino DiPasquale
May 05 – Sharon Minemoto, Conrad Good, Dave Robbins
May 19 – Sharon Minemoto, Conrad Good, Dave Robbins
Sundays at Hero’s Welcome (3917 Main Street) is a bi-weekly jazz series presented by Tim Reinert of Infidels Jazz. The concept is to provide an affordable way for jazz lovers of all ages to gather and celebrate this music we love.
Admission for the jam sessions are only $5. Please note the new time of 2PM

Jam Session with Sharon Minemoto | Hero's Welcome
2024-05-19 14:00 - 16:00 | Hero’s Welcome, 3917 Main Street, Vancouver, BC, V5V 3P2, Canada
Infidels Jazz is proud to announce a new bi-weekly Jazz jam session which will take place Hero’s Welcome at 3917 Main Street, starting in April at 2PM.
Sharon Minemoto is the perfect musician to host the house band for the first few months, as she led the jam sessions at Pat’s for years. Joining her in April and May will be some of the city’s finest bassists and drummers, including Darren Radtke, Bernie Arai, Nino DePasquale, Conrad Good and Dave Robbins.
These will be open jam sessions, which means that everybody from professionals to high school students will be welcome. Helping us in making sure that the jam is accessible to those younger members of our community will be the Fraser MacPherson Jazz Fund, who has signed on as a sponsor of the Jams. If you’re under the age of 19, just make sure you have a guardian of legal age with you. You can use the instruments of the house band, but please be respectful of them.
Dates and personnel are listed below:

May 05 – Sharon Minemoto, Conrad Good, Dave Robbins
May 19 – Sharon Minemoto, Conrad Good, Dave Robbins

Sundays at Hero’s Welcome (3917 Main Street) is a bi-weekly jazz series presented by Tim Reinert of Infidels Jazz. The concept is to provide an affordable way for jazz lovers of all ages to gather and celebrate this music we love.
Admission for the jam sessions are only $5. Please note the new time of 2PM

Cowboy Bebop Bebop Band at Hero's Welcome
2024-05-23 20:00 - 22:30 | Hero’s Welcome, 3917 Main Street, Vancouver, BC, V5V 3P2, Canada
Fresh from their sold out show at Tyrant Studios, the Cowboy Bebop Bebop Band (Led by Steven Zhu) returns, featuring some of the hottest young Jazz musicians in Vancouver playing the music from your favourite anime ever.
Nikolaj Hansen – Trumpet
Gordy Li – Sax
Afu Keteca – Bari Sax
Patrick Kao – Guitar
Rick Son – Guitar
Piyotr Kao – Bass
Steven Zhu – Drums
May 23rd
Hero’s Welcome – 3917 Main Street, Vancouver, BC
$15 in advance, $20 at the door.
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John Lee Trio | Frankie's After Dark
2024-05-24 23:00 - 2024-05-25 01:00 | Frankie’s Jazz Club, 755 Beatty St, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6B 2M4, Canada
The sound of the John Lee Trio bridges the gap between the past and the future of modern jazz; A collective true to the “straight ahead” sound with a fresh improvisational approach on concise musical arrangements. The trio rarely features original compositions and the most prominent vessel for expression is the interpretation of a song from the Great American Songbook or a composition by a Jazz giant born in the early 20th century.
For this Frankie’s After Dark Performance John will be joined by Kosma Busheikin on bass, and Graham Villette on drums.
Frankie’s After Dark takes place every Friday and Saturday at Frankie’s Jazz Club in downtown Vancouver and is curated by Tim Reinert of Infidels Jazz. Shows start at 11:00PM and tickets are $10.

Dante André-Kahan plays John Abercrombie | Frankie's
2024-05-25 23:00 - 2024-05-26 00:30 | Frankie’s Jazz Club, 755 Beatty St, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6B 2M4, Canada
Dante André-Kahan is a Vancouver-based guitarist and percussionist originally from the Saanich Peninsula on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Having grown up playing in school wind and jazz ensembles, writing music, and studying musicology and classical guitar at the University of Victoria, Dante is now emerging from a creative hiatus into the Vancouver jazz scene. His eclectic approach to guitar playing and composition is informed by many techniques and musical traditions, but above all Dante strives to play every note with meaning, feel comfortable with space and silence in music, and bring people together in his community.
Dante first conceived of this tribute project to the music of John Abercrombie at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, listening to Abercrombies albums while working in his grandparents garden. He sees the potential for this music to complement the pastoral landscapes of southwestern British Columbia and is excited to bring it to his part of the world.
For this Frankies After Dark performance Dante will be joined by Gabriel Dubreuil on violin, David Caballero on bass, and Dan Gaucher on drums.
NO RESERVATION REQUIRED Walk-in only.

Quatuor André Lachance at Hero's Welcome
2024-05-26 14:00 - 16:00 | Hero’s Welcome, 3917 Main Street, Vancouver, BC, V5V 3P2, Canada
Drawing on jazz, rock, and electric improvisation, one of Canada’s top bassists André Lachance switches to guitar for this dazzling mix of cool tunes, pulsing grooves, and cosmically compelling sonic excursions. His Quatuor features fellow Renaissance men Chris Gestrin – Moog/Keyboards, Jon Bentley – Saxophones, and Brad Turner – drums.
Sundays at Hero’s Welcome (3917 Main Street) is a weekly jazz series presented by Tim Reinert of Infidels Jazz. The concept is to provide an affordable way for jazz lovers of all ages to gather and celebrate this music we love.
Please note the new admission cost of $10. Also please note the new start time of 2PM

Rick Son Trio at Frankie's After Dark
2024-05-31 23:00 - 2024-06-01 01:30 | Frankie’s Jazz Club, 755 Beatty St, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6B 2M4, Canada
Rick Son is a Vancouver-based composer/pianist who will lead a trio at Frankies Jazz Club. The trio will be playing originals and interpretations of works by masters. Borrowing sounds from jazz and ECM, Rick invites the audience to engage in the detailed narrative the trio has to offer.
For this Frankies After Dark Performance he will be joined by Piyotr Kao on upright bass, and Todd Stewart on drums.
NO RESERVATION REQUIRED Walk-in only.

Mini Maze with Feven Kidane & Andromeda Monk
2024-06-01 23:00 - 23:30 | Frankie’s Jazz Club, 755 Beatty St, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6B 2M4, Canada
two electronic minds fusing into one neurohighwaydungeon synth sisters with an 8bit spinacoustics (horns) meets the tech world (synths)dots and loops
For this Frankie’s After Dark Performance, Mini Maze features Feven Kidane on trumpet & Andromeda Monk on synthesizers.
Frankie’s After Dark takes place every Friday and Saturday at Frankie’s Jazz Club in downtown Vancouver and is curated by Tim Reinert of Infidels Jazz. Shows start at 11:00PM and tickets are $10.

Tamas Balai Plays Sonny Rollins
2024-06-07 23:00 - 2024-06-08 01:00 | Frankie’s Jazz Club, 755 Beatty St, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6B 2M4, Canada
Tamas Balai, David Caballero, and Wesley Anderson are all currently attending Capilano University. This group was formed because of the groups collective love for the music of Sonny Rollins and the way that he approaches improvising. This chord-less trio will be preforming original compositions by the great Sonny Rollins, and standards in the style of Sonny Rollins.
For this Frankie’s After Dark performance the trio features Tamas Balai on Alto Sax, David Caballero on Bass, and Wesley Anderson on Drums.
Frankie’s After Dark takes place every Friday and Saturday at Frankie’s Jazz Club in downtown Vancouver and is curated by Tim Reinert of Infidels Jazz. Shows start at 11:00PM and tickets are $10.

Taras Luka Trio with Dean Thiessen & John Nicholson
2024-06-08 23:00 - 2024-06-09 01:00 | Frankie’s Jazz Club, 755 Beatty St, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6B 2M4, Canada
Taras Luka is an Ukrainian jazz and classic accordionist, composer and arranger. He graduated from the Odesa National Music Academy (Ukraine). He received a master’s degree in music. During his musical career, he wrote a lot of original music for the accordion and more. The last of the works is a jazz album for accordion and jazz quintet called “Part of the Journey”, which was released in 2023. Also, worked as a composer, conductor and music director in the theater for several years. He created music for two musicals, one dramatic play and worked on sound design for the theater. One of his last works was “Choral of Freedom” for symphony orchestra, choir and soprano solo (dedicated to all the children who died as a result of the war in Ukraine). The world premiere of which took place in Bologna (Italy) in Teatro Comunale de Bologna. After moving to Vankouver he actively continues the musical career as an artist and composer. His piece has been selected for the “Hugh Davidson Composer Readings 2024” (Victoria Symphony Orchestra). In 2021, his works were nominated for two composer prizes of Ukraine(B. Lyatosshinsky and L. Revutsky). Over the past few years, he played many concerts in Europe in the cities of Germany, Italy, Poland, Greece, Moldova and Romania.
For this Frankie’s After Dark performance the trio features Taras Luka on accordion, Dean Thiessen on piano, and John Nicholson on saxophone.
Frankie’s After Dark takes place every Friday and Saturday at Frankie’s Jazz Club in downtown Vancouver and is curated by Tim Reinert of Infidels Jazz. Shows start at 11:00PM and tickets are $10.

Ben Millman Trio at Frankie's After Dark
2024-06-14 23:00 - 2024-06-15 01:00 | Frankie’s Jazz Club, 755 Beatty St, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6B 2M4, Canada
Benjamin Millman is a pianist, producer and multi instrumentalist hailing from Vancouver BC. The son of two musicians, he’s been playing and creating in the Vancouver scene since he was a child, and recently completed his bachelor’s degree in Jazz Performance/Composition with a major in Jazz Piano from Capilano University. Specializing in a large range of genres and instruments, Benjamin’s performance credits are vast – you may have heard him leading RnB, Funk, Pop or Jazz groups at countless Vancouver venues such as the Vogue and the Fox Cabaret, singing in choirs to sold out crowds at the Rogers Arena and PNE Forum Stage, or touring with a variety of different acts on the keys, guitar or percussion around Canada and the US. His mission is to make honest, artful, and groovy music, and to pay homage to the great legacy of the Black American and African Diasporic Music he loves!
For this Frankie’s After Dark performance the trio features Benjamin Millman on piano, Wynston Minckler on bass, and Karl DeJong on drums.
Frankie’s After Dark takes place every Friday and Saturday at Frankie’s Jazz Club in downtown Vancouver and is curated by Tim Reinert of Infidels Jazz. Shows start at 11:00PM and tickets are $10.

Erika Chow Trio at Frankie's After Dark
2024-06-15 23:00 - 2024-06-16 01:00 | Frankie’s Jazz Club, 755 Beatty St, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6B 2M4, Canada
Erika Chow may be small in stature, but she’s big in her ideas and her passion for music. That’s why she’s one of the most talked about young saxophonists on the Vancouver Jazz scene.
For this Frankie’s After Dark performance the trio featured Erika Chow on tenor saxophone, Raphael Agustin on bass, and Jordy McIntosh on drums.
Frankie’s After Dark takes place every Friday and Saturday at Frankie’s Jazz Club in downtown Vancouver and is curated by Tim Reinert of Infidels Jazz. Shows start at 11:00PM and tickets are $10.

Jazz Jam Sessions with David Sikula Trio
2024-06-16 14:00 - 17:00 | Hero’s Welcome, 3917 Main Street, Vancouver, BC, V5V 3P2, Canada
Infidels Jazz is proud to continue our new bi-weekly Jazz jam session which will take place Hero’s Welcome at 3917 Main Street, two Sundays a month at 2PM.
David Sikula is the perfect musician to host the house band in June, knowns for his work with his own Quartet and the Nightcrawlers. Joining him in June will be some of the city’s finest bassists and drummers, including David Caballero, Dan Howard, and Arvind Ramdas.

These will be open jam sessions, which means that everybody from professionals to high school students will be welcome. Helping us in making sure that the jam is accessible to those younger members of our community will be the Fraser MacPherson Jazz Fund, who has signed on as a sponsor of the Jams. If you’re under the age of 19, just make sure you have a guardian of legal age with you. You can use the instruments of the house band, but please be respectful of them.

On June 16, David will be joined by Daniel Howard on bass and Arvind Ramdas on drums.

Sundays at Hero’s Welcome (3917 Main Street) is a bi-weekly jazz series presented by Tim Reinert of Infidels Jazz. The concept is to provide an affordable way for jazz lovers of all ages to gather and celebrate this music we love.
Admission for the jam sessions are only $5. Please note the new time of 2PM

Kahil El'Zabar & David Murray at Pyatt Hall
2024-06-20 21:00 - 23:00 | Pyatt Hall, 843 Seymour Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6B 3L4, Canada
This is the very first Vancouver duo performance of Kahil El’Zabar & David Murray. These Jazz legends have been collaborating together for over 40 years, and have performed together all over the world to sold out audiences.
Sir Kahil El’Zabar, was Knighted by the Council General of France for his Global contributions to the Arts. He has performed with luminaries like Dizzy Gillespie, Cannonball Adderley, Pharoah Sanders, Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, Archie Shepp, Eddie Harris, Donny Hathaway, Paul Simon, Ntozake Shange, Nona Hendryx, Neneh Cherry, Lester Bowie, Hamiet Bluiett, Malachi Favors, Billy Bang, Gene Ammons, to name a few. He is also the former chairman of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), and has recorded on over 100 acclaimed projects, and founded and leads the legendary Ethnic Heritage Ensemble and Ritual Trio.
David Murray is considered to be the most influential tenor saxophonist of his generation. He has recorded more than 300 acclaimed projects. He has worked with many of the giants, such as Max Roach, Charles Mingus, Cecil Taylor, Jack DeJohnette, Chico Hamilton, Elvin Jones, Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders, and Randy Weston, He is co-founder of the World Saxophone Quartet, and leads the famed David Murray Quartet, David Murray
Octet, and the David Murray Big Band. Dr. Murray was awarded a PHD in the Arts from Claremont College, and is also a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fulbright Scholar. Mr. Murray has won 2 Grammys and is the prestigious recipient of the Jazz Par Award from the country of Denmark.
In addition, there will be an opening set by Juno-winning Vancouver guitarist Gordon Grdina.
This performance is presented by Infidels Jazz, with the support of the VSO School of Music.
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Jesse Cahill Trio with David Sikula & Chris Gestrin
2024-06-21 23:00 - 2024-06-22 01:00 | Frankie’s Jazz Club, 755 Beatty St, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6B 2M4, Canada
Frankie’s After Dark takes place every Friday and Saturday at Frankie’s Jazz Club in downtown Vancouver and is curated by Tim Reinert of Infidels Jazz. Shows start at 11:00PM and tickets are $10.
The Jesse Cahill Trio presents the organ group not simply as a momentary phenomena or musical novelty of the past but as an updated vehicle for contemporary musical expression. For this performance the groups explorations will include music from George Dunning, Dimitri Tiomkin, Ferde Grofe, Neil Young, and perhaps others.
For this Frankie’s After Dark performance the trio features Chris Gestrin on organ, David Sikula on guitar, and Jesse Cahill on drums.

Aquiles Navarro & Tcheser Holmes at Frankie's After Dark
2024-06-22 23:00 - 2024-06-23 01:00 | Frankie’s Jazz Club, 755 Beatty St, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6B 2M4, Canada
Afro-Caribbean improvisational trumpet-and-percussion duo Aquiles Navarro & Tcheser Holmes, are longtime friends, collaborators, devotees of New York City’s creative music scenes, and members of celebrated free jazz collective Irreversible Entanglements. In September of 2014, Navarro and Holmes self-released an album of improvisations that they’d recorded in Panama earlier that summer. The following spring, they were invited to perform at The Silent Barn in Brooklyn, an event organized by Musicians Against Police Brutality as a benefit for the family of Akai Gurley (a Black man who was killed by a NYPD officer). The duo took the stage immediately before a formalizing performance by Camae Ayewa (aka Moor Mother), Keir Neuringer and Luke Stewart, a trio that would soon adopt the name Irreversible Entanglements, as well as Navarro and Holmes themselves.
In the Fall of 2019, Navarro and Holmes went into the studio again, booking two after-hours sessions at Brooklyn’s S1 Studios. The resulting album – Heritage of the Invisible II – reveals Navarro and Holmes stepping firmly into the limelight of progressive music-making.
Aquiles Navarro on Trumpet & Tcheser Holmes on Drums
Frankie’s After Dark takes place every Friday and Saturday at Frankie’s Jazz Club in downtown Vancouver and is curated by Tim Reinert of Infidels Jazz. Shows start at 11:00PM and tickets are $10.

Tyson Naylor Trio
2024-06-28 23:00 - 2024-06-29 01:00 | Frankie’s Jazz Club, 755 Beatty St, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6B 2M4, Canada
Vancouver-born, Berlin-based keyboardist Tyson Naylor has performed internationally in very diverse musical settings, from Free Jazz to Soul to chamber ensembles. He’s played with Destroyer, Frazey Ford, and Dan Mangan, as well as larger groups such as the Warsaw Improviser’s Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, and Turning Point Ensemble, and in venues across Canada, the US, Germany, Poland, Czechia, and Türkiye. Other artists Naylor has collaborated include Aram Bajakian, Peggy Lee, Tristan Honsinger, Dylan van der Schyff, Tobias Delius, Gord Grdina, Kenton Loewen, Tony Wilson, Axel Dörner, Mats Äleklint and Lina Allemano. His debut trio recording was released on Songlines Records.

For this set at Frankie’s, he’ll be joined by longtime musical colleagues Kenton Loewen on drums and Tommy Babin on bass. The trio will freely interpret Naylor’s compositions, which draw on influences as wide ranging as Misha Mengelberg, Wayne Horvitz, Louis Moholo, Ornette Coleman and Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou.

Frankie’s After Dark takes place every Friday and Saturday at Frankie’s Jazz Club in downtown Vancouver and is curated by Tim Reinert of Infidels Jazz. Shows start at 11:00PM and tickets are $10.

Junk Story | Frankie's After Dark
2024-06-29 23:00 - 2024-06-30 00:30 | Frankie’s Jazz Club, 755 Beatty St, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6B 2M4, Canada
Junk Story channels the gritty elegance of 70s and 80s jazz into their own distinctive sound. With a nod to the lost generation of jazz musicians, they capture the spirit of an era when the music was unapologetically raw.
For this Frankie’s After Dark performance Junk Story is Chad Makela (saxophone), Brad Turner (electric piano), James Meger (double bass) and Bernie Arai (drums and cymbals).
Frankie’s After Dark takes place every Friday and Saturday at Frankie’s Jazz Club in downtown Vancouver and is curated by Tim Reinert of Infidels Jazz. Shows start at 11:00PM and tickets are $10.

Star System Plays Sun Ra
2024-07-04 19:00 - 22:30 | Hero’s Welcome, 3917 Main Street, Vancouver, BC, V5V 3P2, Canada
On July 04, Star System makes their long-awaited return to play the music of the legendary Sun Ra at Hero’s Welcome. Led by Dan Gaucher & featuring 13 (!!!!) of the city’s finest creative musicians, Star System invites you to an evening of Outer Space Music! This group has performed only sporadically since it’s formation over a decade ago, and every show is a unique event. This is their first show in six years, and tickets are available now.
Doors open at 7PMShow starts at 8PM$25 in advance$30 at the door.
Featuring: Dan Gaucher, Colin Cowan, JP Carter, Tyson Naylor, Feven Kidane, Andromeda Monk, Gordy Li, Josh Zubot, Adrian Avendano, Tom Wherrett, Lee Hutzulak, Jen Bjom, and Lyra Higgs.
This performance is a presentation of Infidels Jazz.

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Adam Thomas Trio at Frankie’s Jazz Club
2024-07-06 23:00 - 2024-07-07 01:00 | Frankie’s Jazz Club, 755 Beatty St, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6B 2M4, Canada
Adam Robert Thomas is a JUNO Nominated performer from Vancouver, Canada. He was introduced in the US as the feature vocalist and bassist of the critically acclaimed Dan Brubeck Quartet. His 2018 self-titled debut album spent 12 weeks in the top 50 of R&B and Soul radio charts for Roots Music Report, as well has holding at #9 for two months on Jambands.com radio charts.Adam’s music is soulful, melodic, funky, and feel-good; clearly reminiscent of Ray Charles, Donny Hathaway, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, and Stevie Wonder. He performs a broad range of well-loved songs from classic jazz to current contemporary.
He’ll be playing guitar and singing, joined by André Lachance on upright bass and Julian MacDonough on drums.
Frankie’s After Dark takes place every Friday and Saturday at Frankie’s Jazz Club in downtown Vancouver and is curated by Tim Reinert of Infidels Jazz. Shows start at 11:00PM and tickets are $10.

Ardeshir Quartet at Hero's Welcome
2024-07-07 14:00 - 17:00 | Hero’s Welcome, 3917 Main Street, Vancouver, BC, V5V 3P2, Canada
One of the finest tenor players in the country makes his return to the Hero’s Welcome stage! Ardeshir will be joined by by Winston Matsushita, David Caballero & Graham Villette!
Sundays at Hero’s Welcome (3917 Main Street) is a weekly jazz series presented by Tim Reinert of Infidels Jazz. The concept is to provide an affordable way for jazz lovers of all ages to gather and celebrate this music we love.
Please note the new admission cost of $10. Also please note the new start time of 2PM

Cowboy Bebop + The Cowboy Bebop Bebop Band
2024-07-12 08:00 - 17:00 | BC
Get your tickets at the early bird price of $18 before August 5. Regular tickets will be $25.
Here’s the double whammy of the season! Fresh from their sold out shows at Tyrant Studios & Hero’s Welcome, the Cowboy Bebop Bebop Band (led by Steven Zhu) returns, featuring some of the hottest young Jazz musicians in Vancouver playing music from the seminal Cowboy Bebop anime.
This special performance will be paired with a screening of the 2001 Cowboy Bebop: The Movie.
RJ Abella — trumpet; Gordy Li — sax; Afu Keteca — bari sax; Patrick Kao — guitar; Rick Son — keys; Piyotr Kao — bass; Steven Zhu — drums
Live Music: 7:30 pm
Movie: 8:45 pm

The year is 2071. Following a terrorist bombing, a deadly virus is released on the populace of Mars and the government has issued a 300 million woo-long reward, the largest bounty in history, for the capture of whoever is behind it. The bounty hunter crew of the spaceship Bebop; Spike, Faye, Jet and Ed, take the case with hopes of cashing in the bounty…
Known in Japan as Cowboy Bebop: Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door, this visually thrilling expansion from the ever-popular anime series more than stands the test of time — in fact it feels more timely now than it did back in 2001.
A brilliant feature-length anime that’s good enough to deserve mention in the same breath as Akira, Ghost in the Shell, and Spirited Away.
Jamie Russell, BBC
Honors the affectless beauty of the original anime art and maintains the outlaw boppiness of the series concept.
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
Even with its slow-moving observations of its recreation of the modern world and its characters’ introspections about the meaning of their lives, the film defies the idea that a feature-length episode of Cowboy Bebop would be anything less than thrilling. It simply rocks as an action movie.
Kambole Campbell, Thrillist
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MRD3 at Frankie’s Jazz Club
2024-07-12 23:00 - 2024-07-13 01:00 | Frankie’s Jazz Club, 755 Beatty St, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6B 2M4, Canada
MRD3 aka Mad Riddim Dub Trio, features the engine room (Richard Brown – drums, Matt Reid – bass and Cuyler Biller – guitar) of popular Vancouver reggae group Mad Riddim.
Forming prior to the pandemic as a way to explore classic reggae albums via a heavy, minimalist and fully improvised dub aesthetic, the group continue to evolve, using their varied musical influences as the foundation for unrelenting grooves and lush soundscapes.If Sly & Robbie met Khruangbin for a spliff at a party in liminal space, MRD3 would be the band playing.
Mad Riddim features Richard Brown, Matt Reid, and Cuyler Biller
Frankie’s After Dark takes place every Friday and Saturday at Frankie’s Jazz Club in downtown Vancouver and is curated by Tim Reinert of Infidels Jazz. Shows start at 11:00PM and tickets are $10.

Suin Park Quartet at Frankie’s Jazz Club
2024-07-13 23:00 - 2024-07-14 01:00 | Frankie’s Jazz Club, 755 Beatty St, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6B 2M4, Canada
Suin Park is a talented piano player and composer from South Korea. She loves music and has a master’s degree in jazz performance in Korea. She decided to move to Vancouver, Canada, all by herself, looking for new adventures, even though she didn’t know anyone there and wasn’t good at English. Suin believes that music helps people understand each other better. She thinks music is like a language everyone can speak, no matter where they’re from. Playing the piano and making music , Suin hopes to connect with people and make them feel something special through her music.
For this special After Dark Performance Suin’s band will featuring Feven Kidane on Trumpet, Wynston Minckler on Bass, and Kevin Romain on Drums.
Frankie’s After Dark takes place every Friday and Saturday at Frankie’s Jazz Club in downtown Vancouver and is curated by Tim Reinert of Infidels Jazz. Shows start at 11:00PM and tickets are $10.

Jazz Jam Session with Jimi James Trio
2024-07-14 14:00 - 17:00 | Hero’s Welcome, 3917 Main Street, Vancouver, BC, V5V 3P2, Canada
Infidels Jazz is proud to continue our new bi-weekly Jazz jam session which will take place Hero’s Welcome at 3917 Main Street, two Sundays a month at 2PM. In July they will be held on July 14 & 28.
Jimi James is the perfect musician to host the house band in July, known for hosting countless jam session at Marpole’s famed Jazz House, and for his work with VEJI and John Gross. Joining him in July will be Brad Pearson & Jamison Ko.
These will be open jam sessions, which means that everybody from professionals to high school students will be welcome. Helping us in making sure that the jam is accessible to those younger members of our community will be the Fraser MacPherson Jazz Fund, who has signed on as a sponsor of the Jams. If you’re under the age of 19, just make sure you have a guardian of legal age with you. You can use the instruments of the house band, but please be respectful of them.
Sundays at Hero’s Welcome (3917 Main Street) is a bi-weekly jazz series presented by Tim Reinert of Infidels Jazz. The concept is to provide an affordable way for jazz lovers of all ages to gather and celebrate this music we love.
Admission for the jam sessions are only $5. Please note the new time of 2PM

Happiest Big Band On Earth
2024-07-14 19:00 - 21:30 | The Pearl, 881 Granville St, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6Z 1L1, Canada
Infidels Jazz Present
Happiest Big Band On Earth
Sunday July 14, 2024
The Pearl
Vancouver, BC
18 Person Big Band Plays Disney & Pixar Classics
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“Some Hip Drum Sh%t” ft. Julian Ferrer & Daniel Marmer at Frankie’s After Dark
2024-07-19 23:00 - 2024-07-20 01:00 | Frankie’s Jazz Club, 755 Beatty St, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6B 2M4, Canada
Montreal based drummer Julian Ferrer and guitarist Daniel Marmer became inspired to explore the rich repertoire of jazz drummers throughout history under the mentorship of Ira Coleman and Darrell Green, musicians who have studied and played with legendary drummers Max Roach, Tony Williams, and Elvin Jones. These drummers were at the forefront of the genre in their time, pushing to explore West African, Fusion, and contemporary jazz influences. Their impact is seen to this day through contemporaries Makaya McCraven, Marquis Hill, Joel Ross, and many more.
Filling out the band are trumpeter virtuoso Owen Chow and grooving bassist Raphael Agustin, long-time collaborators from Vancouver and classmates during their studies at McGill University. Marmer and Ferrer have gained recognition recently, awarded the 2023 Oscar Peterson Grant and Fraser MacPherson Scholarship respectively. Transcendent collective interaction and intense story telling are at the centre of this group’s core values. Visit at Frankie’s After Dark on July 19th at 11pm for an action-packed night to remember!
This band features Julian Ferrer on Drums, Daniel Marmer on guitar, Owen Chow on trumpet, and Raphael Agustin on bass.
Frankie’s After Dark takes place every Friday and Saturday at Frankie’s Jazz Club in downtown Vancouver and is curated by Tim Reinert of Infidels Jazz. Shows start at 11:00PM and tickets are $10.

Chad Galpin Trio at Frankie’s Jazz Club
2024-07-20 23:00 - 2024-07-21 01:00 | Frankie’s Jazz Club, 755 Beatty St, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6B 2M4, Canada
This is Vancouver bassist Chad Galpin’s bandleading debut, featuring Madeleine Elkins on guitar and Carson Tworow on drums. Open-ended improvisation will collide with modern contemporary and electronic repertoire as this trio performs unexpected arrangements and original compositions.
For this special After Dark, Chad Galpin will be joined by Madeleine Elkins on guitar and Carson Tworow on Drums.
Frankie’s After Dark takes place every Friday and Saturday at Frankie’s Jazz Club in downtown Vancouver and is curated by Tim Reinert of Infidels Jazz. Shows start at 11:00PM and tickets are $10.

Chad Makela Plays Elvin Jones Live at the Lighthouse
2024-07-21 14:00 - 17:00 | Hero’s Welcome, 3917 Main Street, Vancouver, BC, V5V 3P2, Canada
For this special performance at Hero’s Welcome, critically acclaimed saxophonist Chad Makela will be leading a band of Vancouver’s best as they perform Elvin Jones’ 1973 masterpiece on Blue Note Records: Live at the Lighthouse.
Chad Makela – SaxophonesJon Bentley – SaxophonesJames Meger – BassDave Robbins – Drums
Sundays at Hero’s Welcome (3917 Main Street) is a weekly jazz series presented by Tim Reinert of Infidels Jazz. The concept is to provide an affordable way for jazz lovers of all ages to gather and celebrate this music we love.
Please note the new admission cost of $10. Also please note the new start time of 2PM

Ron Samworth, James Meger, and Omar Amlani at Frankie's After Dark
2024-07-26 23:00 - 2024-07-27 01:00 | Frankie’s Jazz Club, 755 Beatty St, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6B 2M4, Canada
Covering a wide range of material from traditional jazz standards, interpretations of rock and folk songs as well as original compositions, expect to hear music that is dynamic, thought provoking and always feels good.
Featuring Ron Samworth on Guitar, James Meger on Double Bass, and Omar Amlani on Drums.
Frankie’s After Dark takes place every Friday and Saturday at Frankie’s Jazz Club in downtown Vancouver and is curated by Tim Reinert of Infidels Jazz. Shows start at 11:00PM and tickets are $10.
