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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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), […]
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 […]