Acrpost: A Project of the Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres

Event Description

Juno Award Winning Composer, pianist, leader and Toronto's National Jazz Awards 2008 Trombonist of the Year, Hugh Fraser's Jazz Masters is the next installment of his concerts series at Hermann's jazz club after the sold out standing ovation crowd witnessed Purple Haze, the music of Jimi Hendrix arranged by Canadians Gil Evans and Hugh Fraser. The Jazz Masters is Hugh's gathering of 6 musicians from across B.C. that represent almost 400 years of international recording and performing in the North American Improvised Concert Music tradition called Jazz. In the spirit of Norman Granz's Jazz at the Philharmonic series that raised American awareness that indeed a new Classical music had been born on this continent, Hugh wants to create a forum in which some of the most experienced ... more...