Jazz'n'theviolin

11/25/2025

We will survey the ‘Great American Songbo...

11/25/2025

I'm teaching A NEW course at SFU starting in February, BUT sign up starts Dec. 3. Sign up NOW:
https://www.sfu.ca/continuing-studies/courses/lib/537-great-american-songbook.html

Review the influence of The Great American Songbook on jazz and vice versa lots of great listening!

We will survey the ‘Great American Songbo...

10/10/2025

HAPPY Birthday Thelonious Monk! He would've been 108 today, but his music is TIMELESS. And I'll be playing some of it tonight with a killer band including Miles Blak on piano and Dan Howard on bass - and it all takes place TONIGHT at Tyrant Studios - get tickets HERE: https://seven-tyrants-theatre.square.site or just show up at 9 pm!

08/06/2025

Got a new show coming up at VIFF introducing the Terry Zwikoff film, Louie Bluie. An HOMAGE to Howard 'Louie Bluie' Armstrong and the contribution of Black Violinists to early jazz.

Special guest John Reichman on mandolin along with John Lyon. guitar and vocals, and Brent Gubbels on bass.

Kit Eakle's 'Jaz'N'theViolin' String Band pay tribute to Louie Bluie, one of many fiddle players who gave birth to the new sounds of jazz and blues at the beginning of the twentieth century, followed by Terry Zwigoff's documentary portrait.

06/29/2025

Playing a free show on Canada Day with Gerry Teahan, pno; Ben Henriques, saxes; Gary Wildeman, percussion; and Dan Howard, bass, and MOI (Kit Eakle, violin). 2 pm at Labyrinth Park, corner of Union and Hawks Streets in Strathcona.