The Cowboy Bebop Bebop Band features some of Vancouver's finest young jazz players interpreting music from the 90s cult classic Japanese anime Cowboy Bebop, a futuristic, neo-noir space western about a ragtag group of bounty hunters. Taking on well-known and obscure numbers from Yoko Kanno's jazzy, funky, and incredibly catchy original soundtrack, The Cowboy Bebop […]
The ReViberators are an instrumental surf rock trio from Vancouver featuring guitarist Noah Walker and drummer Jodie Ponto (aka Kitty & The Rooster), plus bassist Joseph Lubinsky-Mast. Since the death of surf legends Dick Dale and The Ventures, The ReViberators have stepped up to keep this wild, raucous music alive by taking a deep dive […]
Formed in late-1970s Vancouver by percussionist Mandido Morris, Dido & The Handpeople were a trailblazing group dedicated to the cultural expression of Afro jazz fusion. For this performance, bassist Feven Kidane and her band—including original Dido & The Handpeople saxophonist/flutist Graham Ord—recreate the band’s energetic 1980 album Spirit Dance in its entirety. With infectious grooves, […]
To connect, transform, inspire and nurture artists and audiences through the joy, passion, and power of jazz.
The Coastal Jazz & Blues Society recognizes that we are privileged to work, live and create art on the unceded, ancestral, stolen, and traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.
