Coastal Jazz — Articles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Coastal Jazz's IronFest III will match local talent with global performers for three nights at The Ironworks

SICK BOSS hits the IronWorks stage on November 3, while Modulus Fest artists mix with local jazz names on November 4 and 5

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 19, 2022Partner Content, Coastal Jazz, Coastal Jazz & Blues Society

With ES:MO, Elizabeth Shepherd and Michael Occhipinti forge telepathic camaraderie

Whether singing Bruce Cockburn and Leonard Cohen covers or composing their own trippy creations, the pair build off a close friendship

Stir Q&A: Lucinda Williams chimes in on the Delta blues, protest songs, and mortality

Released just as the pandemic was taking hold, the Nashville-based singer-songwriter’s 20th studio album, Good Souls Better Angels, seems especially timely now