Jennifer Scott Trio @ Apollo's on Commercial Drive

Name: Jennifer Scott Trio @ Apollo's on Commercial Drive
Start: 2024-10-26T19:30:00-07:00
Location: Apollo's Restaurant

Schedule

Sat Oct 26 2024 at 07:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Apollo's Restaurant | Vancouver, BC

JENNIFER SCOTT
Considered the finest Jazz Vocal Improviser in Canada by her peers, her fans and by the musicians who work with her, Jennifer Scott is an important Jazz Voice. She has sung with such Jazz Greats as: Gene Bertoncini, Clark Terry, Tommy Banks, Paul Horn and Kenny Wheeler to name a few. She has been nominated for Juno and Jessie Awards with ‘Mythos’ and theatre production ‘War of the Worlds’.
Jennifer Scott has performed to sold out crowds from San Diego to Vancouver to Whitehorse on the West Coast of Canada and has begun a major foray onto the world stage including performances in Amsterdam, Milan and Rome. Recent lauded performances have included Main Stage shows at the 2009 Vancouver Island Music Fest sharing the stage with artists as diverse as Jane Bunnett and Jerry Douglas. She received a lengthy standing ovation reception for her duo set with bassist Rene Worst at the same festival. Jennifer was also featured with Jon Batiste at Stanford University performing at the Miles Davis tribute concert for their Concert series in tandem with The Jazz Museum in Harlem.
More recent studio works have seen her align her vocal talents with the piano brilliance of Miles Black in the CD release Storybook and with American drummer Jud Sherwood for the Jazz Project release “Where or When”.
Her most recent release is “Music for Bigs and Smalls” May 2022.
Scott’s newer releases are “Sonho Meu” recorded with her outstanding sextet – Brasileira featuring Bill Coon & Cory Weeds. Jennifer Scott also has recorded Duets and Pairings, intimate, virtuosic recordings with Canadian bass legend Rene Worst. Both CDs have made the Canadian (and American) jazz charts and have been lauded by anyone who has reviewed them.
Recent performances include Monterey Jazz Festival, performances with Jon Batiste (Stephen Colbert) in NYC and San Francisco and festival dates in Canada, the US and France.
RENE WORST

Having worked with a diverse group of musicians such as Gene Bertoncini, many jazz legends, Chet Baker, David Bowie, Freddie Hubbard and Aerosmith, Rene Worst is a virtuoso on both electric and acoustic basses.
As a producer and session artist, he has worked with Juno award nominated Skywalk (a band he co-founded), Mythos and jazz singer JenniferScott.
Rene is an in demand workshop facilitator, teaching worldwide.

BERNIE ARAI
Bernie Arai’s musical career as a performer, educator, composer and recording artist spans styles through jazz, improvised music, traditional Japanese, and electronic and computer music. On drum set, percussion and electronics, he works with some of Canada’s most accomplished musicians. Born, raised and based in Vancouver, Bernie has performed across the country with various ensembles, and has also toured across the United States, Japan and Europe.
A graduate of Capilano University Jazz Studies program, Bernie has amassed a great debt to the educators who helped shape his musicianship during the course of his studies , including Fred Stride (UBC); Brad Turner, Ken Moore, Dave Robbins and Dylan VanDerSchyff (Capilano); Ian Froman (NYC).
Bernie's own ensembles include his most recent quartet featuring Skye Brooks (also on drum set), Tommy Babin on bass and Chad Makela on saxophone, a reunion of an electronic/acoustic trio with Chris Gestrin and Jon Bentley (on keyboards, woodwinds and electronics) called New Diversions. Electonic and acoustic ensemble Densabi features Bernie using digital sound synthesis and feedback with Chris Gestrin and shakuhachi master Alcvin Ryuzen Ramos to create improvised ambient music. Along with saxophonist Jon Bentley Bernie co-led a hard bop sextet called Ugetsu for over 15 years.Thanks to Vancouver’s supportive scene, Bernie also works with many of the country’s finest musicians as a member of ensembles such as: the Brad Turner Trio, Bill Coon's bc double quartet, the Bill Runge quartet, the Hard Rubber Orchestra, the Jennifer Scott Trio, the Ihor Kukurudza Trio, Fred Stride Jazz Orchestra, Sharon Minemoto Quintet and Quartet, the Paul Keeling Trio and Quintet, Tommy Babin's Sendero Luminoso, Altered Laws, Mimosa, and many others. He remains in demand as an accompanist and band member for many legendary musicians from across Canada and around the world, appearing in concert at numerous music festivals worldwide, and on CBC radio jazz shows. He has had the opportunity to guest host CBC's long running radio show Hot Air on two occasions, once to spotlight the powerful musicianship of Claude Ranger, and once to explore the influence of Canadian jazz on Canadian jazz musicians.
7:30PM downbeat!
Apollo's (formerly Tangent Café) hopes to start hosting regular weekly evening jazz shows, and we need your help to get the ball rolling!!