The Happiest Big Band on Earth had their first show on April 27th, 2018, and was born through Matt Grinke’s love of jazz and Disney. Since then, the Happiest band has continued to morph and shift into many different sounds and sizes, anywhere from a trio to the full 17-piece big band, including this quintet! […]
Returning to the VIFF stage, Biboye Onanuga, presents: ’The Music of Monk’. Get Tickets The Edmonton-based drummer is joined by an iconoclastic ensemble of Vancouver musicians Quincy Mayes (piano), Jodi Proznick (bass), and John Nicholson (tenor) for an evening of Monk tunes and arrangements before the 1988 documentary Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser. “The key […]
Early bird tickets are available now! There are a limited number of early bird tickets available, so don’t wait! Get Tickets If you don’t know the Betty Davis, prepare to be blown away. With her deep, raw, earthy voice, a knack for stringing together funky riffs, and sexually super-charged lyrics, Davis shook and shocked American […]
Four of Vancouver’s best jazz musicians come together as BC’s Blue Note Legacy Quartet! Get Tickets For 85 years, Blue Note Records has been the gold standard for recorded Jazz music all over the world, with icons like John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter, Ornette Coleman, and literally hundreds of others having recorded […]
Presented with an original live score by acclaimed pianist and composer Chris Gestrin, the first signature Hitchcock movie is based on the Jack The Ripper murders (here renamed “The Avenger”). As the suspicion that a neighbour may not be all he seems, the cat- and-mouse tension reaches almost unbearable proportions. Get Tickets Made in 1926 […]
After selling out multiple venues across Vancouver, Jeffery Chen’s Chen Baker band is back (and bigger than ever) to present a set of city pop and jazzy J-pop before the […]
Jesse Zubot is one of those unique musicians whose praxis spans multiple genres and transcends contextualization. Get Tickets Known mainly as a violinist, Zubot is also a multi-instrumentalist and tends […]
The Jimi James Quintet is honoured to be paying tribute to what might be the most impactful development in jazz history: the emergence of bebop. Get Tickets The Method era […]
A joyful celebration of the legendary Louis Armstrong. Get Tickets Experience the magic of Armstrong’s timeless tunes as Bonnie Northgraves and her band brings his music to life, capturing the […]
Early bird tickets are available now! There are a limited number of early bird tickets available, so don’t wait! Get Tickets Cory Weeds is an expressive saxophonist with a warm […]