Sharon Minemoto has been a cornerstone of the Vancouver Jazz Community for decades. For this special jam session, Sharon invites the city’s great jazz singers to come down and perform with her and her trio. Piano: Sharon Minemoto Bass: Wynston Minckler Drums: Dave Robbins Frankie's After Dark takes place every Friday and Saturday at Frankie's […]
Bill Clark (EWI), John Gross (Tenor), Ron Samworth (Guitar) & Kenton Loewen (Drums) are legends of Vancouver’s creative music and Free Jazz scenes, and are delighted to be performing at Frankie’s After Dark for this special one-time performance. Frankie's After Dark takes place every Friday and Saturday at Frankie's Jazz Club in downtown Vancouver and […]
For the first time ever, two of BC's most in-demand Jazz musicians team up with two of New York's heaviest heavy hitters. Steve Kaldestad (Tenor), John Lee (Bass), Sarah Hanahan (Alto) and Joe Farnsworth (Drums) will be performing as part of the Sunday Jazz series at Hero's Welcome for one show only, in a special […]
Pressley Murillo is a Vancouver-based Mexican-American vocalist and band leader in her fourth year of the Capilano University Jazz Studies program. With deep love and respect for the tradition of Black American Classical music, she draws inspiration from Iconic Jazz artists such as Sarah Vaughan, and Betty Carter and Latinx artists like Celia Cruz and […]
Canadian jazz pianist, composer, and vocalist Jillian Lebeck is one of the most dynamic and exciting voices on the Canadian Jazz scene. Her debut recording "Living in Pieces" (MaximumJazz/Universal) spent several weeks in the number 1 position on the national Chart Attack radiocharts. She is an alumni of the prestigious Berklee College of Music. Her […]
Brad Shigeta and his swinging trombone will be featured in a quartet featuring Oliver Gannon (guitar); Noah Gotfrit (bass) and Buff Allen (drums). Brad has spent the last four decades performing, recording and touring internationally with such artists as Rob McConnel, Dave Holland, Joe Williams, The Duke Ellington Orchestra and the Lincoln Centre Jazz Orchestra. […]
This special concert will celebrate the release of two new albums on Infidels Jazz by Darren Williams & Bruce Freedman respectively. Darren Williams is a musical performance graduate from Toronto where he studied contemporary improvisation at York University with Professor Casey Sokol. Since 1997 Williams has been active as a performer devoted to musical improvisation […]
Born in January, 1924, Maxwell Roach would become one of the defining percussionists of his era. A pioneer in bebop, he played with game-changers like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Mingus, Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis, led a sublime quintet with Clifford Brown in the 1950s, and kept reinventing his sound, exploring free jazz and […]
Biboye Onanuga is a British-born Nigerian-Canadian drummer, and imaginative composer based in Edmonton. A recent MacEwan University Music graduate, Biboye quickly became a sought-after player and has made meaningful contributions to the local scene through his instrumental hip-hop/jazz band, Good information, and 2-year-tenure weekly music series, New Standards. In 2019, Biboye's dedication to the craft […]
