Samples, etheral vocals, turntables, and beats. Andrew McPherson heads up Eccodek whose sound can be driving, sometimes hypnotic and even mysterious - especially when paired with the Juno award-winning Kiran Ahluwalia's vocals. They're making a splash internationally and Canada Live has a performance from the 2008 Vancouver International Jazz Festival.
The Los Angeles Times called the virtuoso bassist Renaud Garcia-Fons "a bassist with astonishing technique" - and that's just for starters. For Garcia-Fons, his bass is but a medium for communicating musical ideas from his fertile mind. Get swept up in his journey that melds musical cultures and styles. A night of "virtuoso world-jazz" recorded at the 2008 Vancouver International Jazz Festival.
Celebrated Canadian guitarists Rene Lussier and Kevin Breit have played with everyone under the sun -- Rene as a film score composer and founder of label Ambiances Magnetiques in Quebec, and Kevin as sideman for k d Lang, Norah Jones, and his own projects - the Tallboys and Sisters Euclid. But Rene and Kevin had never played together until the Guelph Jazz Festival invited them in for a night of improvisational fun. Often surprising, frequently humourous and always masterful, Kevin Breit and Rene Lussier play a set of wild, on-the-spot tunes.