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Kevin Romain’s Salience NetworkSalience Network is a modern jazz ensemble led by drummer/composer Kevin Romain. Dramatic, spontaneous creation and razor-sharp precision come together on stage with Romain’s longtime collaborators Jeff Gammon bass, John Nicholson tenor and soprano saxophones, and Feven Kidane trumpet. Through dense polyrhythms and snaking melodies, they explore Romain’s hyperfixations on the neuroscience of emotion, circadian biology, coffee extraction theory, cool animals, and anti-colonial resistance. The Salience Network’s debut album, recorded to tape at Vancouver’s Afterlife Studios and released in November 2023 on the Infidels Jazz label, is a somber document punctuated by moments of humour and hope.
Brodie West Quintet
Toronto-based saxophonist/composer Brodie West is a tireless creative force—both within jazz spheres and well beyond them. He’s one of those rare artists whose practice encompasses tremendous breadth but whose singular, eccentric voice is irrepressible. West’s quintet features two drummers – Nick Fraser and Evan Cartwright – along with pianist Tania Gill and Josh Cole on bass. The group plays West’s rhythmically charged compositions, presenting an intricate rhythmic matrix at times meditative, buoyant and wrapped with lyrical melodicism and virtuosic improvisation.
This is a 19+ event.
Presented in collaboration with the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival.
For 21 years, the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival has been grounded in the Downtown Eastside and focused on listening and learning from the community’s cultural practices. The Festival works with, for and about the Downtown Eastside community to weave our community’s stories, ancestral memory, cultural traditions, lived experiences, and artistic practices to create a fabric of resistance and resilience.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Ironworks, 235 Alexander Street,Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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