Supporting and promoting Vancouver’s vibrant and emerging jazz scene

Rick Son is a Vancouver-based composer/pianist who will lead a trio at Frankies Jazz Club. The trio will be playing originals and interpretations of works by masters. Borrowing sounds from jazz and ECM, Rick invites the audience to engage in the detailed narrative the trio has to offer. For this Frankies After Dark Performance he […]

Tamas Balai, David Caballero, and Wesley Anderson are all currently attending Capilano University. This group was formed because of the groups collective love for the music of Sonny Rollins and the way that he approaches improvising. This chord-less trio will be preforming original compositions by the great Sonny Rollins, and standards in the style of […]

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 […]

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), […]