Ken Pickering (1952-2018) is a Founder of the Coastal Jazz and Blues Society and the Vancouver International Jazz Festival. His music tastes were catholic, but the hard-core of his life’s work established the clear link between the improvisors of Europe, Vancouver, Canada and the rest of North America. The execution of his artistic . . . → Read More: 360 Degrees of Jazz: Reminiscences of Ken Pickering
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Photo Courtesy of Arnaud Boubet On the evening of Monday July 27, 1959, Thelonious Sphere Monk took his working quartet (Charlie Rouse, Sam Jones, Art Taylor) and guest saxophonist Barney Wilen into the Nola Penthouse Sound Studios at 111 W. 57th St., New York City. There he taped eight compositions for the . . . → Read More: Thelonious Monk: Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 CD and Movie Review “Folk songs transcended the immediate culture” -Bob Dylan ©Laurence@Ssvirchev.com Give or take a few hundred, two thousand seven hundred years ago there was a blind man who rambled through kingdoms, mountains, and plains, probably swayed to the rhythm of waves on the Mediterranean Sea. He earned his bread, vegetable, . . . → Read More: Bob Dylan & The Nobel Prize for Literature Moderne: Georg Graewe at the 2016 TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival (I) Rimbaud: “il faut être absoluement moderne.” Richard Feynman: “Poets do not write to be understood” from Six Easy Pieces.
Georg Graewe’s invitation to the 2016 TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival was felicitous: he had not been . . . → Read More: Moderne: Georg Graewe at the 2016 TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival (I) 
At the 2010 Vancouver Festival, Eric Boeren’s 4Tet of Michael Moore (reeds), Wilbert deJoode (bass), and Han Bennink (drums) glided through an early Ornette Coleman (1930-2015) repertoire segmented into six pieces. Each piece contained multiple compositions and interpretations that made the difficult music seem as easy to execute as understanding the elegant explanation . . . → Read More: Eric Boeren: All Ellington and 4Tet at the 30th TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival 
Special Notice: Sheila Jordan and Cameron Brown in Concert on Tuesday March 3 at the Ironworks, Vancouver, sponsored by the Coastal Jazz & Blues Society: http://www.coastaljazz.ca/sheila_jordan_and_cameron_brown On August 27, 1962 a thirty-four year old Sheila Jordan stepped into Riverside’s New York Studio for the recording session of composer/pianist George Russell’s . . . → Read More: Book Review: Jazz Child, A Portrait of Sheila Jordan by Ellen Johnson In an exemplary display of programming fortitude, the TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival began its with a musical equivalent of the Big Bang: the opening set at Performance Works with 20 musicians in John Korsrud’s Hard Rubber Orchestra followed by 17 musicians in Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society. The Hard Rubber Orchestra played . . . → Read More: TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival Concert Review: John Korsrud’s Hard Rubber Orchestra June 20, 2014 Part I 
Essays by Stuart Broomer, Brian Morton, and Bill Shoemaker about Musicians Appearing at Jazz em Agosto 1984-2012 Publisher: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon Portugal, www. musica.gulbenkian.pt/jazz
Becoming Knowledgeable about Jazz Becoming knowledgeable about jazz is a sly proposition. You have to hear . . . → Read More: Commentary & Book Review: Arrivals/Departures – New Horizons in Jazz 
There are times when we wish for what could be and mourn for what is lost. It takes time to become reconciled with the loss of a person who so personified the spirit of making the music come alive. When we lose an important person in our lives, their memory lingers on so strongly that . . . → Read More: Looking for Carl 
An Essay on Randy Weston and Billy Harper’s Roots of the Blues, a CD on SunnysideRecords.com by Laurence Svirchev To get an idea of the breadth and depth of Roots of the Blues, take a look at a map of Africa. Geographically, the compositions cover the rivers Nile and . . . → Read More: The Roots of the Blues: Randy Weston & Billy Harper |
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