On the unceded slave-raiding
lands of the Euclataw people
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You Can’t Say That
Vancouver Zeitgeist
muses on music
A brief and random survey includes Canadian country music, Vancouver jazz, precocious Nanaimo talent, bluegrass, R&B, truly awful blues festivals and Bob Dylan’s harmonica playing.
Survival stories
Chris Wong’s jazz biographies relate Vancouver
perseverance as well as talent. Read more...
Salvation in Svalutation
Searching pop music for truth and transcendence,
and stuff. Read more…
Lionel “Mitch” Mitchell
An early Vancouver jazz talent.
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Just off Broadway
The Cellar co-op left Vancouver jazz
a lasting legacy. Read more…
R.I.P. R&B
Was rhythm and blues already dead
or did Aretha Franklin’s funeral kill it?
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Misunderstood, still
A Nobel for literature leaves Bob Dylan’s
greatest gift unrecognized. Read more…
Jazz City, pop. 84,000
Does Nanaimo’s teenage talent represent a local
phenomenon or a precocious generation? Read more…
Whither the blues?
The music lives on, but not necessarily at blues festivals.
Read more…