Experimental music bible The Wire noted that “one reason why Canadian clarinetist François Houle’s compositions roar with such fierce and indefatigable energy lies in the personnel and instrumentation he’s assembled to play them”, and with his new RECODER 4tet, he's brought together an absolute dream team. Drummer Gerry Hemingway first captured Houle’s ear on the […]
DAWN PEMBERTON Vibrant, honest, and powerful, Dawn Pemberton’s voice beats a soulful path from gospel and R&B to jazz, funk, and a whole world of music. A collaborator with The Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer and Khari Wendell McClelland, her deep musicality, "honey-soaked pipes” (Vancouver Sun) and irresistible verve make Dawn the new queen of […]
SAM TUDOR The Georgia Straight calls guitarist/vocalist Sam Tudor “a gem with a penchant for everything left field.” From hushed, confessional tones to cathartic intensity, Tudor’s psychedelia-tinged pop is “beautifully self-aware, sonically interesting, and masterful” (Beatroute). The core group of Tudor, Jasper Wrinch bass, and Yunjin Claire Lee synthesizer is rounded out by a shifting collective […]
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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.
