Trombonist, radio show host, and Artistic Director of the TD Halifax Jazz Festival, Andrew Jackson, is coming off a monster year at the Music Nova Scotia Awards. They saw him taking home the honours in 3 categories: Jazz Album of the Year for New Doors, his collaboration with guitarist Sam Wilson; the Media Arts Award for his work on his long running radio program The Outer Edge on Dalhousie University's CKDU; and perhaps the biggest of them all, Musician of the Year.

I chatted with him as he rounded the corner into the home stretch of the preparations for this year's edition of the Halifax Jazz Fest, running July 9-14th.

In our chat, we touch on his hopes for the future of the festival, his musical beginnings, his love of the Afro-Brazilian martial art Capoeira, what music he's listening to these days, how he finds it, and much more.

For tickets and information on the TD Halifax Jazz Festival visit halifaxjazzfestival.ca

When We Wake is written, produced, edited, and hosted by Andrew Shaver, originally for broadcast on CKVE-FM on the glorious South Shore of Nova Scotia.

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Andrew Jackson photo by Meghan Tansey Whitton.

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