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Vancouver International Jazz Festival unveils full Granville Island Jazz programming

Another 30 concerts will take place at Performance Works, Ocean Artworks, and the Revue Stage from June 20 to July 1

MUSIC, FESTSJanet SmithApril 24, 2025granville island, Vancouver International Jazz Festival, Coastal Jazz & Blues Society, Coastal Jazz & Blues, Coastal Jazz

Vancouver International Jazz Festival announces free outdoor programming for summer 2025

Offerings include Downtown Jazz concerts on June 21 and 22, Bentall Centre happy-hour shows from June 23 to 27, and a day-long July 1 celebration

MUSIC, FESTSStir VancouverApril 15, 2025Partner Content, Coastal Jazz & Blues Society, Coastal Jazz & Blues, Coastal Jazz, Vancouver International Jazz Festival, Spring 2025

Vancouver International Jazz Festival reveals Revue Stage events at 40th edition, June 25 to 29

Innovation Series features five concerts from June 25 to 29, while the return of Time Flies brings three free late-night shows to Granville Island

MUSICStir VancouverApril 8, 2025Partner Content, Coastal Jazz & Blues Society, Coastal Jazz & Blues, Coastal Jazz, Vancouver International Jazz Festival

Saxophonist-composer Immanuel Wilkins and the Lutosławski Quartet to hit Vancouver International Jazz Festival

Coastal Jazz also announced the second year of the New Improvisers Studio

MUSICJanet SmithApril 1, 2025Coastal Jazz & Blues Society, Coastal Jazz, Vancouver International Jazz Festival, Western Front

An MF DOOM tribute and R&B influences as Vancouver International Jazz Festival unveils Granville Island series

Artists hitting the Performance Works stage include New Jazz Underground, Nubya Garcia, and more

MUSIC, FESTSJanet SmithMarch 25, 2025Vancouver International Jazz Festival, Coastal Jazz & Blues Society, Coastal Jazz & Blues, Coastal Jazz, Jazz Fest, Spring 2025

Wayne Horvitz plays ringmaster to new Electric Circus project’s celebratory sonic adventure

Vancouver International Jazz Festival’s closing act layers, stacks, and twists pre-existing songs in its own brilliant form of live sampling and improvisation

MUSIC, FESTSJanet SmithJune 25, 2024jazz, Vancouver International Jazz Festival, Coastal Jazz, Coastal Jazz & Blues Society, Summer 2024

Coastal Jazz offers Journeys to the Bandstand—A Conversation with Author Chris Wong on June 21

The free talk focuses on Wong’s first book, a collection of 30 long-form portraits of musicians who have helped shape Vancouver’s jazz scene

MUSIC, READ, FESTSJanet SmithJune 17, 2024Jazz Fest, Vancouver International Jazz Festival, Chris Wong, jazz, Coastal Jazz

In punk-inflected jazz group The Messthetics, guitarist Anthony Pirog flies above Fugazi's rhythm section

The Washington, D.C. trio will be joined by saxophonist James Brandon Lewis at the Vancouver International Jazz Festival for an evening of genre-blurring virtuosity

MUSIC, FESTSJanet SmithJune 14, 2024The Messthetics, Anthony Pirog, Brendan Canty, Joe Lally, James Brandon Lewis, Jazz, Vancouver International Jazz Festival, Jazz Fest, Coastal Jazz, Coastal Jazz & Blues Society, Summer 2024, Homepage feature

Vancouver International Jazz Festival unveils free jazz shows around the city, June 22 to 30

Jazz drummer, rapper, and producer Kassa Overall and rapper-DJ Odario to headline Downtown Jazz series outside the Vancouver Art Gallery

MUSICStir VancouverMay 26, 2024Partner Content, Coastal Jazz & Blues Society, Coastal Jazz, Vancouver International Jazz Festival, Summer 2024

Vancouver International Jazz Festival hosts Artists in Residence Shahzad Ismaily, Sakina Abdou, and DJ O Show

Coastal Jazz & Blues Society will present the artists in a variety of festival events, including public talks, workshops, performances, and more

MUSIC, FESTSStir VancouverMay 13, 2024Partner Content, Coastal Jazz & Blues Society, Coastal Jazz

Wayne Horvitz Electric Circus to play closing night at Vancouver International Jazz Festival, June 30

Programming announcement includes Artists in Residence Sakina Abdou, Shahzad Ismaily, and DJ O Show hosting performances, artist talks, and workshops

MUSIC, FESTSStir VancouverApril 29, 2024Partner Content, Coastal Jazz & Blues Society, Coastal Jazz, Coastal Jazz & Blues, Vancouver International Jazz Festival, Jazz Fest

Revue Stage returns as host of Innovation Series at Vancouver International Jazz Festival, June 26 to 30

Ten concerts highlight both local and international improvisational musicians as part of Granville Island Jazz program

MUSICStir VancouverApril 15, 2024Partner Content, Coastal Jazz & Blues Society, Coastal Jazz, Vancouver International Jazz Festival, granville island, Jazz Fest

The Messthetics, Irreversible Entanglements, and more as Vancouver International Jazz Festival announces June's Granville Island series

Lakecia Benjamin, We All Break, and aja monet among other names on Performance Works roster

NEWS, MUSICJanet SmithMarch 25, 2024Vancouver International Jazz Festival, Coastal Jazz & Blues Society, Coastal Jazz

Wynton Marsalis reflects on the way time flies, as Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra plays a program full of his work

Fifteen musicians at the peak of their profession help arrange their decidedly nostalgia-free bandleader’s four decades of music

MUSICJanet SmithOctober 3, 2023Coastal Jazz, Coastal Jazz & Blues Society

Wynton Marsalis leads Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in a Coastal Jazz & Blues Society concert, October 10

Ensemble of 15 New York City-based musicians is guided by nine-time Grammy Award-winning music director and trumpeter

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 21, 2023Partner Content, Coastal Jazz & Blues Society, Coastal Jazz

The one and only Molly Johnson hits North Shore via Vancouver International Jazz Festival, June 24

The Toronto-based singer-songwriter has fans around the globe

WHAT'S STIRRING, MUSICGail JohnsonJune 12, 2023Vancouver International Jazz Festival, Coastal Jazz, jazz, Molly Johnson, Summer 2023

Coastal Jazz and the NOW Society present Robin Holcomb, solo piano, with a style all her own

The singular artist has been praised by the likes of The New York Times and Rolling Stone

MUSICStir VancouverDecember 8, 2022Partner Content, Coastal Jazz

Coastal Jazz offers a concert of sonic exploration via Ken Vandermark and Not for Proper

Alvaro Rojas’s Music for 22 opens the highly anticipated show at The Ironworks

MUSICStir VancouverNovember 18, 2022Partner Content, Coastal Jazz

Ayelet Rose Gottlieb evokes the awe of the moon with 13 Lunar Meditations

Show’s large, eclectic cast of musicians—including jazz legend Jay Clayton—will spread from Music on Main’s Modulus Festival over to Coastal Jazz’s improvised IronFest III series