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Steve Kaldestad

Since moving to Vancouver in 2008, Steve Kaldestad has become one of the most in-demand saxophonists on the scene, performing as a sideman with Jesse Cahill’s Nightcrawlers, Jodi Proznick’s quartet, and many other groups. Steve has released 4 CDs on the Cellar Live label to great acclaim including Straight Up featuring the Mike LeDonne Trio,  New York Afternoon with the Renee Rosnes Trio, and his latest release, Live at Frankie’s Jazz Club.

Meets Brian Charette

By Brian Charette

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2026
Track listing: Equestrian Interlude; Don’t Call Before 10; Lado a Lado; As Luck Would Have It; The Sorcerer; Shimmy!; Oh Brother; Colour Contrast; Honeymoon Phase; The Same Old You with the Same Old Blues.

Introducing Ardeshir

By Ardeshir Pourkeramati

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2026
Track listing: Sketches of Cedar; East of the Village; Blues Up and Down; My Shining Hour; All About; Introduction to Darn That Dream; Darn That Dream; Just One of Those Things; Silver Tones; The Eternal Triangle; Midnight Paradox; BU’s Message; The Theme.

Vancouver Jazz Orchestra Meets Brian Charette

By Brian Charette

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2026
Track listing: Equestrian Interlude; Don't Call Before 10; Lado a Lado; As Luck Would Have It; The Sorcerer; Shimmy !; Oh Brother; Colour Contrast; Honeymoon Phase; The Same Old You With The Same Old Blues.

Ardeshir: Introducing Ardeshir

by Jack Bowers
July 9, 2026

For more than 35 years, starting in the mid-1950s, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers set the gold standard for small-group hard bop jazz in the U.S. and around the world, a benchmark at which Canadian tenor saxophonist Ardeshir Pourkeramati's charismatic quintet/quartet takes dead aim on the leader's superlative debut recording, Introducing Ardeshir. This ...

Vancouver Jazz Orchestra: Vancouver Jazz Orchestra Meets Brian Charette

by Pierre Giroux
January 21, 2026

The Vancouver Jazz Orchestra's debut album arrives with a sense of purpose that feels both timely and reassuringly traditional. Formed to showcase the city's rich pool of jazz musicians while creating a platform for composers and arrangers, the VJO proves itself not through rhetoric but through sound. This release features a confident, well-rehearsed ensemble playing music ...

Vancouver Jazz Orchestra: Meets Brian Charette

by Jack Bowers
January 17, 2026

Through the years, Canada has produced an impressive number of world-renowned big bands including Rob McConnell's peerless Boss Brass, the Toronto and Winnipeg Jazz Orchestras, those led by trombonist Dave McMurdo, pianist Jill Townsend and trumpeter Steve McDade, and one of the world's foremost undergraduate bands, Montreal's McGill University Jazz Ensemble. On its debut recording, Meets ...

Home Cookin'

By Cory Weeds

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2024
Track listing: Home Cookin'; Corner Kisses; Blossoms in May; Power Station; Thedia; Lullaby of the Leaves; Metamorphosis.

Cory Weeds: Home Cookin'

by Jack Bowers
January 17, 2024

On Home Cookin', his second recording with an eleven-piece “little big band," tenor saxophonist Cory Weeds is doing the best he can. Really. As Weeds writes in the liner notes, the plan was to rehearse the band for two nights at Frankie's Jazz Club in Vancouver, Canada, home to Weeds and most of the band's personnel, ...

Cory Weeds: Home Cookin'

by Pierre Giroux
November 26, 2023

Cory Weeds, a prominent figure in the contemporary jazz scene, has made a remarkable statement with his Little Big Band's latest album Home Cookin'. The session showcases a vibrant collection of compositions/arrangements carefully curated to resonate with his personal journey, including those by Horace Silver, Thad Jones and Oliver Nelson, which are essential to him for ...