Supporting and promoting Vancouver’s vibrant and emerging jazz scene

Vancouver-based Róisín Adams’ visionary work combines ethereal, textured melodicism with an underpinning of intellectual rigor. An imaginative and prolific composer, pianist, bandleader and educator, Adams is also an astute collaborator in a range of projects. She founded the improvisatory instrumental jazz quartet Hildegard’s Ghost in 2013, and also performs with contemporary electro-acoustic trio Beatings Are […]

Clyde Reed is a pillar of the Vancouver improvised music scene. He is one of the founding members of the NOW Orchestra and has performed with Barry Guy, Leo Smith, George Lewis, Bobby Bradford, Vinny Golia, Peter Brotzmann and many leading Canadian musicians. He has performed at the Vancouver Jazz Festival, Toronto Jazz Festival, Ottawa […]

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 […]

Will Clements is a Vancouver-based performer, educator, composer, and arranger. With three albums to his credit, he is described by CBC Music as a "fantastic and easy voice...". Some of his musical highlights include performing at the World Symposium on Choral Music in Istanbul with the Vancouver Youth Choir (2023), being featured as 'the best […]

Julian Jayme is a Vancouver-based guitarist, vocalist, bassist, composer and teacher. Spending nearly half his lifetime studying music, he has attended Capilano University, Berklee College of Music and McGill University and has had the opportunity to perform and collaborate with many different types of musicians as well as study with some of his heroes such […]

Celebrating Guy MacPherson's new book FRASER MACPHERSON: I DON'T HAVE TO GO ANYWHERE, I'M ALREADY HERE, with music by the Cory Weeds Quartet. Buy tickets today

An active fixture in Vancouver’s music scene as an acclaimed guitarist and studio musician, Tristan Paxton has worked with many distinguished artists and producers including Shad, Hey Ocean!, Potatohead People, Brad Turner, Phil Dwyer, Jodi Proznick, Kevin Dean, Michel Donato, Ingrid Jensen, Hugh Fraser, Joe Lovano, Oliver Jones, Seamus Blake, Bernard Fowler, Wanting Qu and […]

Théo Girard is one of the most critically acclaimed bassists in all of France, known for his work with Antoine Berheaut, Seb Rochford and Nick Lyons. In 2022, he was the recipient of a Jazz & Creative Music Grant from FACE Foundation, which supports French musicians. This will be his first time playing in Vancouver. […]

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 […]

Vancouver-based Taiwanese jazz guitarist Patrick Kao interprets the music of jazz grandmaster pianists Barry Harris, Wynton Kelly, and Bud Powell for a night of soulful swing music. The soft sound of the guitar adds a subtle intimacy to these pianistic arrangements without sacrificing the excitingly moving energetic swing. For this special After Dark performance he’ll […]