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Evan Arntzen
Canadian-born clarinetist, saxophonist, vocalist and educator Evan Arntzen is both a powerful soloist and a keenly attuned musical collaborator with ears for days. He has developed a uniquely expressive sound as an improviser on his instruments that Grammy Award-Winning writer Ricky Riccardi calls “the very definition of timeless.”
Evan was born and raised in East Vancouver, Canada, about as far away from New Orleans as one can be in North America, and yet it is the music of the Crescent City that sparked Evan’s musical journey. A third generation musician, Evan began learning New-Orleans-style clarinet from his grandfather, Lloyd Arntzen, at the age of seven. The first melodies he learned to play were blues, all from great Black American composers, such as Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Duke Ellington and Jelly Roll Morton.
Treasury, Volume 2
By Terry Waldo
Label: Turtle Bay Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Guess Who’s in Town; Snake Rag; Wabash Blues; Muscle Shoals; Smiles; Get Out and Get
Under the Moon; The Smiler; Sweet Sue; Since My Best Gal Turned Me Down; Original Rags;
Viper Mad.
Swingin' Uptown
By Eyal Vilner
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Chicken an’ Dumplings; Bumpy Tour Bus; Swingin’ Uptown; Tell Me Pretty Baby; I Want
Coffee; Is You Is or Is You Ain’t; Tea for Two; Lobby Call Blues; Blue Skies; Don’t You Feel My
Leg; I Love the Rhythm in a Riff; I Don’t Want to Be Kissed (By Anyone Else But You); Swing
Brother Swing; Coffee Bean Stomp Jubilee; Hellzapoppin’; Afternoon at Smalls.
From The Pen Of...
Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2022
Track listing: Night Spot; Queen's Pawn; It's A Human Race; Rabbit's Habit; Up In Steve's Room; Why Am I
Blue?; Waltz For Willi; Our Blues; For Your Love; Ol' Bill's Blues; Theme.
Fraser MacPherson: From The Pen Of...
by Jack Bowers
The late tenor saxophonist Fraser MacPherson was well-known in western Canada and elsewhere for his brilliance—but as player, not a writer. In fact, according to MacPherson's son Guy, who wrote the excellent liner notes to From the Pen of..., his father wrote barely a dozen or so original compositions, almost all of which are included on ...
Past Grapplin'
by Patrick Burnette
Since the seventies, it's arguable that most jazz musicians work in “old" idioms (even if they mix and match them in new ways), but this episode's artists each take on aspects of jazz's past that seem, well, more past than most. Sometimes the commitment to the older idiom is complete, sometimes it comes and goes, but ...
Eyal Vilner Big Band: Swing Out!
by Jack Bowers
Eyal Vilner's fourth album as leader of his impressive New York-based big band is a throwback to the kind of concert dates audiences no doubt derived great pleasure from during the storied Big-Band Era well over half a century ago when groups not far removed from this one in spirit traveled cross-country by bus, car or ...
Eyal Vilner Big Band: Hanukkah
by Jack Bowers
Although a goodly number of seasonal big-band albums have passed through these portals over the years, this is the first one to our recollection devoted to Hanukkah, the eight-day-long festival of lights that commemorates the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem during the time of a successful Maccabean revolt against the Seleucid Empire. As leader ...
Cellar Live Records: The Finest in Live Jazz Recordings
by Mike Oppenheim
Cellar Live Records is a contemporary jazz label located in Vancouver, British Columbia. Jazz saxophonist and producer Cory Weeds founded the label in 2001, one year after purchasing The Cellar Restaurant and Jazz Club (later renamed Cory Weeds' Jazz Cellar). Since that time, Cellar Live Records has released over seventy albums. Performers at Cory ...
