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SUMMARY:Song Form // Less: Amina Claudine Myers // Peggy Lee
DESCRIPTION:Throughout her six-decade musical journey\, pianist\, organist\, vocalist\, and newly minted NEA Jazz Master Amina Claudine Myers has consistently defied conventional boundaries while drawing from her rich roots in Baptist and Methodist church music\, gospel\, and rhythm and blues. Her album Solace of the Mind is a deeply personal exploration of musical evolution\, and an exceptionally expressive dialogue between tradition and modernity: “this is a musical language distilled to its essence\, with Myers conjuring whole worlds from just a few perfectly chosen notes” (The Wire). \nEqually adept in far-out free improv\, classical rigour\, and the arcing melodic textures of her detailed\, empathic compositions\, cellist/composer Peggy Lee exudes mastery in both quietude and fire. A defining figure of the Vancouver creative music scene since the 1990s\, and currently based in Melbourne\, Peggy Lee builds sound worlds where “melodies slide in and out of abstraction; skewed marches butt up against folk songs; chamber music niceties crumble under the assault of funk and psychedelia” (Georgia Straight). \nSolo sets will be followed by a short duo collaboration and artist talk about form in music\, presented in association with IICSI at the University of British Columbia.
URL:https://www.coastaljazz.ca/event/song-form-less-amina-claudine-myers-peggy-lee/
LOCATION:Zameen Art House\, 1515 Anderson St\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6H 3R5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival
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SUMMARY:Song Form // Less: Sean Cronin // Patrick Shiroishi
DESCRIPTION:Sean Cronin is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who lives in Catskill\, NY. His dad played with Ian Tyson and his mom worked for Parks Canada. He enjoys other singer/songwriters such as Harry Partch\, John Prine\, and Jelly Roll Morton. His current band\, Gory Dove\, is an anagram of his former band\, Very Good. In each performance he integrates his loves of dada and small-town Canada with equal aplomb. \nForgetting is Violent\, saxophonist Patrick Shiroishi’s latest solo album\, is his most immediate release yet\, expanding the scope not just of his music but of his extramusical considerations. Where his past releases on American Dreams reckoned with racism against Japanese Americans\, Forgetting is Violent considers racism as a whole\, historical and ongoing\, with the urgency it deserves. The constant\, as ever\, is Shiroishi’s patient\, probing musicality\, marrying heaviness and lightness\, acceptance and defiance\, both packing a punch and welcoming new listeners into the fold. \nSolo sets will be followed by a short duo collaboration and artist talk about form in music\, presented in association with IICSI at the University of British Columbia.
URL:https://www.coastaljazz.ca/event/song-form-less-sean-cronin-patrick-shiroirshi/
LOCATION:Zameen Art House\, 1515 Anderson St\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6H 3R5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival
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SUMMARY:Song Form // Less: Steve Gunn // Karen Ng
DESCRIPTION:Steve Gunn is a New York-based guitarist and songwriter who’s been at the vanguard of guitar-oriented experimental\, psych-folk and indie rock for over a decade. On 2025’s\, Daylight Daylight\, his first singer-songwriter release since 2021’s Other You\, Gunn uses negative space as effectively as he uses loping melodies and quietly observational lyrics. “Listening to it can feel like staring into an expertly arranged terrarium; it’s remarkable how so much beauty can take up so little space” (Pitchfork). \nToronto-based improviser and saxophonist Karen Ng has established herself as a unique musical force both nationally and internationally\, performing with some of Canada’s most prized artists such as The Weather Station\, Andy Shauf\, Do Make Say Think\, and many more. One of Canada’s leading improvisers\, “with a breathtakingly wide musical scope” (Musicworks)\, she also collaborates regularly with ad hoc ensembles in the wider improvising scene across Canada\, in Europe\, and in the US. \nSolo sets will be followed by a short duo collaboration and artist talk about form in music\, presented in association with IICSI at the University of British Columbia.
URL:https://www.coastaljazz.ca/event/song-form-less-steve-gunn-karen-ng/
LOCATION:Zameen Art House\, 1515 Anderson St\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6H 3R5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival
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SUMMARY:Song Form // Less: Wendy Eisenberg // Lisa Cay Miller
DESCRIPTION:Wendy Eisenberg has spent the past decade as a fixture of independent music and an artist of inspired multiplicity. As a singer-songwriter\, improviser\, and virtuoso guitarist\, the coordinates of their artistry are ever-shifting\, from art-rock to jazz to blistering free improv and eloquent folk. The poetic\, formally daring folk songs of her new album Wendy Eisenberg comprise their most certain vision yet\, creating a quietly euphoric atmosphere while examining “happiness\, love\, and memory with a forensic curiosity (Pitchfork). \nA master of extended technique and ardently cerebral composition\, pianist Lisa Cay Miller is “making some of the most intricate and beautiful music that can be heard in Vancouver today” (The Georgia Straight). Her recent recording 682/681 documents her work in duos and trios with some of the Amsterdam improv scene’s greats\, including Ig Henneman\, Anne La Berge\, John Dikeman\, and Wilbert De Joode. The album perfectly encapsulates Miller’s artistry: intense\, diverse improvisations\, and an uncompromising focus on using timbre\, texture\, form\, and function in the service of brilliant abstraction and passionate expression. \nSolo sets will be followed by a short duo collaboration and artist talk about form in music\, presented in association with IICSI at the University of British Columbia.
URL:https://www.coastaljazz.ca/event/song-form-less-wendy-eisenberg-lisa-cay-miller/
LOCATION:Zameen Art House\, 1515 Anderson St\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6H 3R5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival
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SUMMARY:Song Form // Less: Caley Watts // Kevin Romain
DESCRIPTION:Caley Watts is a singer/songwriter who grew up along the riverbanks\, mountain ranges\, and ancient conifers that fill the Great Bear Rainforest\, and her blend of folk and roots draws heavily on the pace and beauty of her home. Spotlighted by CBC Music as one of 5 Indigenous musicians to know in 2025\, they praised the “understated magic” of Caley’s music\, saying “it’s easy to imagine oneself whisked far away from the insularity of daily life\, to somewhere wilder and grander.” Watts’ debut album\, River’s Daughter\, was just released this spring. \nEmploying unorthodox polyrhythmic vocabulary\, drummer\, improviser\, composer and researcher Kevin Romain’s Autopoietic summons an illusory and paradoxical embodied sensation of movement through space on multiple simultaneous temporal planes. These improvisations are miniature explorations of the phenomenology of polyrhythm and the complex affective states to which it gives rise. \nSolo sets will be followed by a short duo collaboration and artist talk about form in music\, presented in association with IICSI at the University of British Columbia. Thanks to Talking Stick Festival.
URL:https://www.coastaljazz.ca/event/song-form-less-caley-watts-kevin-romain/
LOCATION:Zameen Art House\, 1515 Anderson St\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6H 3R5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250630T210000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250630T220000
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SUMMARY:Kahil El'Zabar & Isaiah Collier
DESCRIPTION:Chicago Jazz legend Kahil El’Zabar has been performing all over the world for over 50 years with luminaries such as Stevie Wonder\, Paul Simon\, Dizzy Gillespie\, Anthony Braxton and many more. He is a true icon of spritual and free Jazz. On June 30\, this percussionist/vocalist/composer will be performing two rare concerts with one of the most dynamic up and coming saxophonists in Jazz–Isaiah Collier. In a relatively short period of time\, Collier has performed with people like William Parker\, Chance the Rapper\, and William Hooker\, and released several critically acclaimed album with his band\, the Chosen Few. \nFor one night only\, they will be performing two concerts together at the Zameen Art House\, an intimate performance space on Granville Island\, as part of an Infidels Jazz Showcase taking place during the Vancouver International Jazz Festival. \nPresented by Infidels Jazz. \nNote: This is an Infidels Jazz production\, and Jazz Festival artist\, staff\, or volunteer passes are not applicable.
URL:https://www.coastaljazz.ca/event/kahil-el-zabar-and-isaiah-collier-2/
LOCATION:Zameen Art House\, 1515 Anderson St\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6H 3R5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250630T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250630T200000
DTSTAMP:20250611T175445Z
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SUMMARY:Kahil El'Zabar & Isaiah Collier
DESCRIPTION:Chicago Jazz legend Kahil El’Zabar has been performing all over the world for over 50 years with luminaries such as Stevie Wonder\, Paul Simon\, Dizzy Gillespie\, Anthony Braxton and many more. He is a true icon of spritual and free Jazz. On June 30\, this percussionist/vocalist/composer will be performing two rare concerts with one of the most dynamic up and coming saxophonists in Jazz–Isaiah Collier. In a relatively short period of time\, Collier has performed with people like William Parker\, Chance the Rapper\, and William Hooker\, and released several critically acclaimed album with his band\, the Chosen Few. \nFor one night only\, they will be performing two concerts together at the Zameen Art House\, an intimate performance space on Granville Island\, as part of an Infidels Jazz Showcase taking place during the Vancouver International Jazz Festival. \nPresented by Infidels Jazz. \nNote: This is an Infidels Jazz production\, and Jazz Festival artist\, staff\, or volunteer passes are not applicable.
URL:https://www.coastaljazz.ca/event/kahil-el-zabar-and-isaiah-collier/
LOCATION:Zameen Art House\, 1515 Anderson St\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6H 3R5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250622T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250622T193000
DTSTAMP:20250620T152217Z
CREATED:20250505T202357Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250620T152217Z
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SUMMARY:Asef
DESCRIPTION:The name Asef has its origins in Arabic and Persian cultures. The members of the group bring to the stage many years of experience playing a variety of music from around the world including Balkan folk\, Tango\, Klezmer\, Flamenco and Bebop. Their compositions embrace this vast range of musical sounds taking the audience on a truly unique musical journey. The band members hope this music will help us all to come together peacefully despite our differences. On June 22\, they will be performing at the Zameen Art House\, an intimate performance space on Granville Island\, as part of an Infidels Jazz Showcase taking place during the Vancouver International Jazz Festival. \nSaul Berson saxophones\, Itamar Erez guitar\, Sam Shoichet bass and Liam Macdonald drums/percussion. \nPresented by Infidels Jazz. \nNote: This is an Infidels Jazz production\, and Jazz Festival artist\, staff\, or volunteer passes are not applicable.
URL:https://www.coastaljazz.ca/event/asef/
LOCATION:Zameen Art House\, 1515 Anderson St\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6H 3R5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250621T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250621T193000
DTSTAMP:20250606T185551Z
CREATED:20250505T201722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250606T185551Z
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Scott & Rene Worst Play Carla Bley
DESCRIPTION:This show has been cancelled. All ticket holders will be refunded. \nJennifer Scott & Rene Worst are two of Vancouver’s most prolific & talented Jazz luminaries. They’ve been entertaining audiences in our city for decades\, both together & in various projects. \nOn June 21\, they will be performing the music of legends Carla Bley & Steve Swallow at the Zameen Art House\, an intimate performance space on Granville Island\, as part of an Infidels Jazz Showcase taking place during the Vancouver International Jazz Festival. \nJennifer Scott vocals/piano and Rene Worst bass. \nPresented by Infidels Jazz. \nNote: This is an Infidels Jazz production\, and Jazz Festival artist\, staff\, or volunteer passes are not applicable.
URL:https://www.coastaljazz.ca/event/jennifer-scott-rene-worst-play-carla-bley/
LOCATION:Zameen Art House\, 1515 Anderson St\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6H 3R5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250620T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250620T200000
DTSTAMP:20250620T152126Z
CREATED:20250505T200108Z
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SUMMARY:Ru & Harmeet Quintet
DESCRIPTION:Ruthie Ha & Harmeet Kaur Virdee are two of Vancouver’s most talented young Jazz musicians. On June 20\, they will be performing together at the Zameen Art House\, an intimate performance space on Granville Island\, as part of a special Infidels Jazz Showcase taking place during the Vancouver International Jazz Festival\, \nThey will be leading a special Quintet that will perform their own original music. \nFeaturing: Ruthie Ha tenor saxophone\, Harmeet Kaur Virdee bass\, Noah France-Nolan piano\, Parmela Attariwala violin/viola\, and Karl DeJong drums. \nPresented by Infidels Jazz. \nNote: This is an Infidels Jazz production\, and Jazz Festival artist\, staff\, or volunteer passes are not applicable.
URL:https://www.coastaljazz.ca/event/ru-harmeet-quintet/
LOCATION:Zameen Art House\, 1515 Anderson St\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6H 3R5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival
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