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Concert Series
Club 2010 will serve as a hub for music aficionados during select evenings of the Winter Olympics. It’s an opportunity to catch some of the very finest national and international jazz and world music practitioners.
About the Artists
Named after the Japanese word for fantasy, this Vancouver group began its life as an Art Blakey tribute band and has since become one of the country’s finest original ensembles. Co-led by drummer Bernie Arai and saxophonist Jon Bentley, the group’s repertoire features compositions by all of its members as well as jazz classics. With a hard-bop front line of trumpet, tenor sax, and trombone, this band smokes! With Brad Turner trumpet, Rod Murray trombone, Ross Taggart piano, André Lachance bass.
