Featured · Jazz Festival · Photo Gallery
The 2014 Saskatchewan Jazz Festival wrapped up last weekend, and what a festival it was. Sometimes rainy, but always jazzy, funky, and swingin’, there was something to satisfy all the tastes. Re-live the fun with a collection of our favourite shots from the festival here.
Jon Ballantyne is always on his toes. Whether he’s being challenged by the jazz legends he grew up listening to, his old peers at school, or contemporary artists and colleagues, there’s always a better musician out there to inspire him. And that’s just how he likes it. “It’s a life long thing.”
Featured · Jazz Festival · Preview
How many festival concerts have you been to that let you carve out a piece of the setlist? Canadian pianist, singer, and composer Laila Biali is putting her own modern twist on this old concept with REQUSTOMATIC.
Good news for festival goers who missed their chance to get tickets to this year’s first batch of sold out shows: the festival is releasing a limited number of extra tickets on Monday, June 9, at 10:00 a.m.
Featured · Jazz Festival · Take Five
Jazz bassist legend Christian McBride answers our Take Five questions and talks about who would be in his ultimate fantasy trio.
