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JAZ’N’theViolin Concert Series returns for FALL 2023

The 2023 Fall Series – BEGINS October 1 — SEASON TICKETS are available HERE & NOW! AND WILL FEATURE a concert by Regina Carter AND Kenny Barron! SUNDAY Dec. 3 + 2 more concerts:

– Blaine Dunaway – Oct. 1 with Miles Black, piano individual tics HERE

and – Kit Eakle’s DjangoSphere – Nov. 12 with Miles Black on multiple instruments

Individual tics HERE

PAST CONCERTS in this Series:

Jaz’N’theViolin – Oct. 23,2022 at Kay Meek Arts Centre’s McKuen Theatre

Lenny Solomon and his Hot Club All Stars – Nov. 13, 2022 at Kay Meek Arts Centre’s McKuen Theatre

Cameron Wilson and the BBC Trio with Bill Coon and Brent Gubbels – Jan. 15, 2023 at Kay Meek Arts Centre’s McKuen Theatre

Cameron Wilson and the BBC Trio with Bill Coon and Brent Gubbels – Jan. 22, 2023 at The Post Theatre in Nanaimo, BC

Kit Eakle’s Jaz’N’theViolin – Feb. 12, 2022 at Pyatt Hall in downtown Vancouver

Lache Cercel and his Roma Jazz Ensemble – March 19, 2023 at Pyatt Hall in downtown Vancouver


MADS TOLLING with TRIOLOGY – May 8, 2023 featuring: Miles Black – piano Bill Coon – guitar,Jodi Proznick – bass

Jazz Violin History & Jazz Violin Concert Series / Performing Groups: DjangoSphere & Jaz’N’theViolin / Publications / Lessons and Classes

find out MORE about the History of Jazz Violin at…

Discover the Artistry of Playing Jazz on the Violin

Kit Eakle’s ‘The History

of Violin Jazz’…

@ FiddleJazz.com

Kit Eakle’s performing

Groups

DjangoSphere

music of Thelonious Monk & Django Reinhardt

Performed in MANY combinations from solo to Quintet

Jazz’N’the Violin

THe Music of the Violin in Jazz

Eakle Bros Quartet

Flute player Matt Eakle & Violinist Brother KIT EAKLE

Kit EAkle’s

DISCOGRAPHY

with Howard Alden…

Kit Eakle’s ‘DjangoSphere’ with Howard Alden

Kit Eakle’s ‘DjangoSphere’ recording with Guitar Great, Howard Alden. Don Bennett, bass; Rory Judge, drums. Recorded in 2018.

The original DjangoSphere CD with Kit Eakle, violin; Mark Holzinger, guitar; Alex Baum, bass; and John Waller drums. ORDER NOW

2015

DjangoSphere

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Kit Eakle is a teacher with 40 years of experience...

He is currently presenting a course on The History of Jazz Violin at West Vancouver Memorial Library. Register NOW at https://westvanlibrary.ca/event/music-talks-history-of-jazz-violin-with-j-kit-eakle/all/

He also teaches courses on

— The History of Jazz Violin and Black Violinists Matter;

— ‘What Makes It Jazz’ a course that explores the genre of Jazz and what is unique about it. What IS and ISN’T Jazz?

— Thelonious Monk – His Wisdom. Humour and Music

MUSIC!

“Where words fail, music speaks.” — Hans Christian Andersen

“Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.” — Kahlil Gibran

“Where words leave off, music begins.” — Heinrich Heine

“Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.” ― Edward Bulwer Lytton

“Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can’t.” ― Johnny Depp

“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.” ― Confucius

“Music is the universal language of mankind.” ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow