Tuesday Night Jazz at the Church proudly presents the Brent Jarvis Trio featuring Scott White and John Lee!
Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2026
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: James Bay United Church, 511 Michigan St.
Admission: by donation ($20 suggested donation, but all are welcome)
The brilliant, introspective pianist (composer, recording engineer, photographer, microphone builder, and mathematician) Brent Jarvis is something of a musical enigma. Brent possesses a deep love of the romantic classical composers, the lyrical touch and aesthetic of jazz innovator Bill Evans, a love of bebop, forward-leaning contemporary jazz, and Cuban music — to name a few!
In this special concert, the Brent Jarvis Trio brings together renowned virtuoso bassist Scott White and acclaimed multi-instrumentalist John Lee to explore the classic sounds of bebop. Bebop distilled the swing and swagger of earlier jazz into a hard-swinging, intellectually rigorous music that echoed the spirit of the time. The trio will celebrate the music of early innovators Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, and James Moody, as well as later practitioners such as pianists Ahmad Jamal and Mulgrew Miller.
Join us for a special, swinging concert featuring three of the brightest lights in West Coast jazz!
Artist Bios:
Brent Jarvis follows in a tradition of lyrical, dynamic, and rhythmically complex piano players. His work has been described as “captivating... a collaboration between the sensual and the intellectual... music that sparks the senses and transcends genres” (Laura Fernandez, JAZZ.FM91 Toronto), and “romantic but never cloying” (Katie Malloch, CBC Jazz Beat).
Brent studied jazz at the University of Toronto and musicology at the University of Victoria. He has taught at the Victoria Conservatory of Music, the University of Victoria, and Vancouver Island University, where he served as Head of Jazz Piano and Department Chair.
Scott White is a virtuoso and multi-faceted bassist. He has performed with many of Canada’s most renowned musicians, toured much of the world in various bands, and served as music director for a Cirque du Soleil show in Germany. Scott brings an enormous diversity of sound to any performance and approaches music collaboratively, with an appetite for discovery.
John Lee is a respected and acclaimed young jazz musician. In addition to his academic training at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Lee was mentored by world-renowned jazz educators Dave Santoro, Terri Lyne Carrington, Ralph Peterson Jr., and John Clayton. As an artist, John Lee is known for his incredible proficiency as a multi-instrumentalist, as well as his ability to connect with audiences through his music and charisma.
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