Ches Smith's June 2025 release on Otherly Love Records, Clone Row, debuts an adventurous new quartet featuring guitarists Mary Halvorson and Liberty Ellman, and bassist Nick Dunston. Smith finds endless possibilities in this seemingly limited instrumentation, weaving together varied threads from his divergent earlier projects in ways that sound not quite like any of them. […]
Frankies Jazz Club presents SOLO, a concert series featuring today’s premiere pianists in the intimate confines the beautiful Pyatt Hall at the VSO School of Music. Grammy Award winning pianist, Bill Charlap has performed with many leading artists of our time, ranging from Phil Woods and Tony Bennett to Gerry Mulligan and Wynton Marsalis. He […]
Frankies Jazz Club presents SOLO, a concert series featuring today’s premiere pianists in the intimate confines the beautiful Pyatt Hall at the VSO School of Music. As a piano-playing prodigy, Philadelphia native Eric Reed performed gospel music in his father’s church at age 5. By 7, he began formal study at Philadelphia’s Settlement Music School, […]
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.
