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, François Houle, Gordon Grdina, Bill Frisell, Richard Bona, Corey Harris, Makaya McCraven, Immanuel Wilkins (with a side excursion with the Lutoslawski Quartet and a commission from the Jazztopad Festival), Tyler Henderson, Cory Weeds, Betty Davis (celebrated by Mary Ancheta's MAQuestra), Kneebody (and a recent release by Ben Wendel), the New Jazz Underground, Peggy Lee & Cole Schmidt, Sharon Minemoto with Jon Bentley, musicmusicmusic Oversize!, Joshua Zubot & Strings, Dean Edward Thiessen & Stranger Friends, Eve Risser and a greasy finish with the Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio.

Pick up a program and get out and check out some of the great music happening at this year's festival, let the A-Trane be your guide at 100.5FM or coopradio . org starting at two pm pacifically!




If you want to follow along, here's the playlist!

The A-Trane Radio Program with your host Nou Dadoun
on every Friday afternoon from 2pm to 5:30 pm Pacific
Celebrating jazz & creative music in Vancouver since 1986
100.5FM or coopradio.org  Check it out!