Supporting and promoting Vancouver’s vibrant and emerging jazz scene

The Ramdas Brothers featuring Arvind Ramdas, Arjun Ramdas, Jimi James, and Steve Kaldestad. Since parting ways 4 years ago in order to study music, Arvind and Arjun Ramdas finally reunite to serve as a rhythm section for a quartet featuring Canada's finest in Steve Kaldestad and Jimi James. To find out more, be there at […]

Gordy Li is a Chinese-Canadian saxophonist, synthesist, and aesthetician residing on unceded Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō, Səlilwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) lands who has been turning heads with an artistic voice […]

Max Huberdeau is a Vancouver-based jazz pianist, drummer and composer. He has performed extensively around western Canada with a variety of artists, including many of Vancouver's finest jazz musicians. His […]

Jon Bentley is one of the most respected tenor players on the Canadian scene. He pleased to bring his new quartet to Hero's Welcome, featuring: Jon Bentley - tenor saxophone […]

This ensemble is excited to perform Franche-Nolan’s latest suite of music entitled Orbits. The suite is a musical and thematic exploration of inter-related cycles. Noah Franche-Nolan is a Canadian pianist, improviser, and composer. He leads his own trio, is the pianist for Indo-Jazz Fusion band Raagaverse, writes for film. Andrea Wong is a sound designer […]

Shruti Ramani is one of the most talked about Jazz singers in Canada right now. From her forthcoming album with her band Raagaverse to her live concerts with the Ostara Project, Shruti seems to be having a zeitgeist moment in her adopted city of Vancouver. For this special performance, Shruti will be bringing her unique […]

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 Flute, Viola and Harp. Each of the three contrasting instruments are meant to fill every role of the ensemble at different points, and in this […]

“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 […]

Jordy McIntosh is one of the most talked about young Jazz drummers in Vancouver right now. For his Infidels leader's debut, he's put together a selection of some of his favourite Bill Stewart/John Scofield tunes, and has formed a fantastic quartet to do that with: Erika Chow: Tenor David Caballero: Bass Jake Kostachuck: Guitar Pass […]