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Having lots of fun on this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program ! The first part of the show will be dedicated to the Centenary today of the great composer, arranger and alto saxophonist Gigi Gryce! Then we'll have a number of previews - The Nightcrawler and  Ale Avery Nunez at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts tonight, Paul Pigat at Frankie's Jazz Club tonight and next weekend Doug Web...

Building tributes to three great musicians around live performances on this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program ! The legendary Coleman Hawkins celebrates his birthday today and we'll hear a number of live performances including the 1940 performance of Body and Soul from the Savory Collection. Sheila Jordan 's Celebration of Life took place earlier this week on what would have been he...

Special Autumn Airlift Membership Drive edition of The A-Trane Radio Program featuring the music of Pharoah Sanders this afternoon. The last few years have seen a number of reissues and archival releases featuring the music of "Little Rock" and we're going to do a bit of a survey across them. We'll hear from Izipho Zam (My Gifts) on Strata-East Records , the Alice Coltrane 1971 Carnegie Hall Conce...

Special Edition of The A-Trane Radio Program this Friday Oct 31st to kick off this year's Vancouver Co-op Radio CFRO Fall Membership Drive! I'll be joined in the studio by fellow broadcasters John Orysik , Rob McGregor and Marc Lindy to reflect on the Jazz that Made Us - the players and performances that got us into the music and kept us there! Of course, we'll do some previews, classics and defin...

Vancouver Jazz audiences are lucky to have three of Canada's finest saxophonists in town this weekend - Ryan Oliver at Tyrant Studios tonight and La Fabrique tomorrow, Phil Dwyer with his trio at Frankie's Jazz Club tonight and tomorrow and Chet Doxas with the Capilano University Jazz students at the BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts at Capilano University tonight! We'll have feat...

Mixing it up on this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program : Previews for Pj Perry , Rudresh Mahanthappa , Madeleine Elkins , Chet Doxas , Rachael & Vilray , and Jocelyn Gould with the VJO; new releases from Mike LeDonne , Jerry Weldon , Kate Wyatt , Saku Mantere , and the west coast all-star group Motivation; sad passages of Will Scarlett and D'Angelo; birthdays for Ray Anderson ,...

This afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program is mainly split into 3 parts - first we'll celebrate the birthday today of the great Thelonious Monk with a sampling of his performances at the Newport Jazz Festival between 1958 and 1975 including his guest appearance with the Duke Ellington Orchestra in 1962 and his final public performance at Newport in New York in 1975. I was spurred to inc...

Two principal features on this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program , first up is the great Gary Bartz who turns 85 years old today and we'll hear him in a number of settings from Max Roach's group, Miles Davis, & Ntu Troop through to Maisha & Jazz is Dead. Then an extended feature for the late British double bass player Danny Thompson who brought a jazz sensibility to each of...

On this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program saying goodbye to two stellar musicians who both passed on the same day this week: the Hammond B3 player Akiko Tsuruga and the Brazilian wizard multi-instrumentalist Hermeto Pascoal! Also a preview for George Garzone 's sold-out Tribute to John Coltrane performance at Tyrant Studios on Tuesday Sept 23rd to celebrate their shared birthdays -...

Mostly previews and birthdays on this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program . Oliver Jones takes in the theme - he turned 91 yesterday and is still participating in some of the Oscar Peterson centenary celebrations happening across the country. Other birthdays observed today are Leo Kottke, Mel Torme, Texas Alexander (I don't know what the hell is that!), Cat Anderson and Baby Face Will...

The focus is on Saxophones on this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program ! Vancouver is celebrating this weekend's birthday of Sonny Rollins with a series of concerts recreating albums from his amazing career culminating in a screening of Robert Mugge 's documentary at the VIFF Theatre this Sunday (Sonny's actual 95th birthday!) We'll sample from the albums in that tribute series and in...

In these waning days of summer just taking it easy on this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program with preview features and birthdays! An extended feature for the great Esperanza Spalding will take a sweep across her multi-faceted career, collaborations and recordings to preview her highly anticipated performance at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts tonight! Other previews include...

This afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program is completely in celebration of the Centenary of the great Oscar Peterson born 100 years ago today. We'll celebrate Oscar the pianist, the accompanist and collaborator and the composer with a mix of requests, career highlights and rarities spanning his 60+ year career! Solo, in duo and his many working trios as well as collaborations with Leste...

A few extended features on this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program starring with an early celebration of Art Pepper's Centenary with a 1980 weekend starting at Ronnie Scott's going into An Afternoon in Norway at the Kongsberg Jazz Festival released earlier this year. It seems as though every day brings bad news about great musicians we have lost and we'll have tributes to two wonderf...

Kicking off this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program with an overdue celebration of the centenary of the great James Moody with a sweep across his varied career of over 60 years. He takes in the theme with one of his last Grammy-winning recordings and we'll hear him with Renee Rosnes doing Giant Steps (!), Dizzy Gillespie, Eddie Jefferson, Roberta Gambarini , Cheryl Bentyne , and a st...

Hellos and Goodbyes on this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program ! Goodbyes to Cleo Laine (who takes in the theme), Chuck Mangione, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, and an extended retrospective of the late Hal Galper . Some previews of upcoming performances from Siobhan with her tribute to Aretha Franklin at the Fort Langley Jazz and Arts Festival tomorrow and Frankie's Jazz Club next month, and...

Music from around the world is the focus of The A-Trane Radio Program this afternoon - we'll start with a couple of birthdays, Brian Auger takes in the theme, he's 86 today. Then an extended feature on the great South African saxophone player Dudu Pukwana who would have been 87 today! But most of the show is handed over to the eclectic lineup for this weekend's Vancouver Folk Music Festival with m...

The A-Trane 2025-06-20 - Vancouver International Jazz Festival 2025 Week 2: As in time immemorial, the second A-Trane of this year's Vancouver International Jazz Festival features the artists performing the last weekend through the end of the festival on Canada Day! Kahil El'Zabar takes in theme with the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble and then we'll hear features for Christine Jensen , Nubya Garcia , Ma...

The A-Trane 2025-06-20 - Vancouver International Jazz Festival 2025 Week 1: Continuing the tradition of featuring music upcoming in first week of the 2025 Vancouver International Jazz Festival (Coastal Jazz) on this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program! We're as eclectic as the festival itself with featured performances by Gerry Hemingway (WHO takes in the theme!), Izumi Kimura, Franço...