Aaron Shragge: Cosmic Cliffs
In his Whispering Worlds project, he plays special trumpet and shakuhachi in a quartet
Matthew Ariaratnam & Adrian Avendaño: Novel Echopath
The live album captures their guitar-drums duo, one half recorded professionally at the jazzfest and the other at Tyrant
Rachel Therrien Latin Jazz Project: Mi Hogar II
The trumpeter’s second album under the Latin Jazz Project billing and her eighth as a leader; she plays Frankie's April 3
The Jamie Lee Trio: Introspective at 5
The drummer embarked on a seminal Vancouver jazz album release of the 2020s, then reinvented both her music and her career
Shruti Ramani: Juno Nominated with Raagaverse - Jaya
Shruti’s band Raagaverse is up at the 54th Junos in Vancouver this weekend, with Jaya under Jazz Album of the Year - Group
Colin Sankey: Colin Response
He did that thing I wondered about
1000th show in 2026?
10 Things: Infidels hits 500, Cole Schmidt weekend with Ginger & Bruno, Alice in Wonderland, Hear and Now, Renee on podcasts
Ben Frost: What is a Composition?
On Ben’s second podcast appearance, the nature of composition, the composer's identity, and where new material comes from
2 jazz accordionists walk into a strip club
Our own man on that rare jazz instrument came down to Tyrant after his gig at Zameen and sat in with the Nebula Project
Reacting to the Straight “Vancouver’s scrappy music scene”
Nerding out in search of a relevant, substantive question via yesterday’s Georgia Straight piece on local artists and venues
Ben Rosenblum Nebula Project comes to town
With trumpeter Wayne Tucker, reedist Xavier Del Castillo, guitarist Rafael Rosa, bassist Eduardo Belo, & drummer Ben Zweig
“Few can match my ancient nerd-dom”
10 Things: Gordy Smurf 4, Allison Burik solo, Devlin & Hong, DRMHS single, Putumayo, jazzfest funding, noise policies