Fredrik Ljungkvist joins me during his residency at the 2026 Vancouver International Jazz Festival. Fredrik is a Swedish saxophonist who has played with Talking Pictures and other ensembles already at the festival. He is the featured artist with Dean Thiessen's Stranger Friends Orchestra (of which I'm a member) tonight at Performance Works.

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Hosted by Chris Fraser. Edited and mixed by Will Chernoff. A Chernoff Music podcast. Theme music: "Lutin" by William Chernoff.

Wendy Eisenberg joins me (Will) for a conversation in front of a live audience at Tom Lee Music Hall, downtown Vancouver, recorded on June 30th, 2026 as part of the Vancouver International Jazz Festival. Later in the episode, Wendy sings and plays a song, and we take a couple audience questions.

Wendy is one of my favourite artists active today. Their new self-titled album is out now. Their big show as an artist in residence at the festival is on Friday, July 3rd at the Revue Stage, playing the music of their album Viewfinder with JP Carter, Nebyu Yohannes, Cat Toren, Sean Cronin, and Dan Gaucher.

(0:00) Intro

(1:05) Conversation

(38:43) Song

(43:44) Transition to Q&A

(44:51) First question

(49:31) Second question

(51:57) Last question

I was called (and paid as a festival artist) by the Coastal Jazz & Blues Society to host this event, and in doing so, to pop up again on the RCP in relief of the show's current host, Chris Fraser. Chris will return with a new episode of his own. Thanks again to Coastal Jazz and Tom Lee for having us.

The interview I mention that Wendy did in 2020 is here.

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Hosted, produced, edited, and mixed by Will Chernoff for the Coastal Jazz & Blues Society, co-presented by Tom Lee Music, at the 2026 Vancouver International Jazz Festival. Theme music: "Lutin" by William Chernoff.

John Lee joins the show between his two nights at Frankie's Jazz Club at the end of February. He talks about playing organ, how he developed a personal language on multiple instruments, the positions of learning music in different generations, and hosting educational drop-in sessions in his home city of Victoria. John grew up in Nanaimo and is known for his prowess on four rhythm-section instruments in jazz: drums, keys, bass, and guitar.

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Hosted by Chris Fraser. Edited and mixed by Will Chernoff. A Chernoff Music podcast. Theme music: "Lutin" by William Chernoff.

Mike Rud comes through town to play Frankie's Jazz Club (last Friday, Feb. 20) and talks about guitars, teaching at Selkirk College, studying with Jim Hall, the sources of the stories you tell in your artistic projects, and more. Mike is a guitarist and composer-bandleader who won a Juno Award in 2014 for his album Notes on Montréal, featuring Sienna Dahlen. His latest album is The Paranormal Adventures of Uncle Mike, recorded across the years 2022 to 2024 in Paris, Montreal, and Edmonton.

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Hosted by Chris Fraser. Edited and mixed by Will Chernoff. A Chernoff Music podcast. Theme music: "Lutin" by William Chernoff.

Ron Samworth talks about "fearless" artistry and "playing for the song", drawing on a lifetime of creativity, improvisation, hangs, and initiatives. Ron is a guitarist who has played on the Vancouver scene since 1979. He is known for playing in many groups from Talking Pictures (going back through the 90s) to Electric Miles (active today), his long tenure in John Korsrud's Hard Rubber Orchestra, and his work for the NOW Society and the Barking Sphinx Performance Society. He was an instructor at Capilano University's jazz program for 28 years, retiring in 2024.

Ron's audiovisual project The Etiquette of Dying, featuring his music in collaboration with filmmaker Melissa Hubert, is available to watch in full on Vimeo and as an audio release on the Infidels Jazz label.

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Hosted by Chris Fraser. Edited and mixed by Will Chernoff. A Chernoff Music podcast. Theme music: "Lutin" by William Chernoff.

Harry Bartlett talks about the left hand versus the right on guitar, bluegrass, jazz, and more. Harry is a Nashville-based guitarist originally from BC who has also spent time in Toronto.

Harry is playing an early show at Tyrant Sudios on Friday, November 21st with his Mountain Air project, featuring Evan Snoey and James Meger. His latest release is Ontario, a solo guitar EP.

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Hosted by Chris Fraser. Edited and mixed by Will Chernoff. A Chernoff Music podcast. Theme music: "Lutin" by William Chernoff.

Jason Winikoff talks about Broadway songs, Zambian music, and more. Jason is a percussionist and ethnomusicologist known for playing in trad-jazz scenes and other music traditions. He first came to Vancouver from the U.S. in 2018 but moved back stateside earlier this year.

Jason recently played the annual Rocky Horror Music Show and has upcoming shows while in town at Guilt & Co. on Wednesday, Nov. 5 with his Hot Five; and Zameen Art House on Saturday, Nov. 8 with his Broadway Jazz Revue.

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Hosted by Chris Fraser. Edited and mixed by Will Chernoff. A Chernoff Music podcast. Theme music: "Lutin" by William Chernoff.

On the Rhythm Changes Podcast, Nick Peck talks about coming from England to BC, machine learning and the textures and forms that technology produces in collision with the arts, and guitars versus keyboards. Nick is an English composer, pianist, and computer programmer among other things. He is known on the scene for playing in bands with Len Aruliah, Jared Burrows, Nick Hempton, and more diverse artists while being based on Vancouver Island.

Bill Coon talks about his solo guitar album Standard Elegance releasing on Cellar Music October 3rd, the nature of music education, learning from Jim Hall, playing at O'Doul's, and what it means to be happy but not satisfied with your artistic work.

Bill is one of our scene's long-tenured and treasured guitarists, known for his playing in groups like Triology with Miles Black and Jodi Proznick, who also released an album on Cellar this year, The Slow Road featuring Scott Hamilton; Two Much Guitar, with Oliver Gannon; and his own trios.

Bill was previously a guest on the show alongside Laura Crema for episode 63, hosted by Will Chernoff in 2022.

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Hosted by Chris Fraser. Edited and mixed by Will Chernoff. A Chernoff Music podcast. Theme music: "Lutin" by William Chernoff.

Ardeshir Pourkeramati talks about meeting your heroes, staying hungry to learn more from mentors and friends in the music, practicing, confronting the raw truth of your playing by recording yourself, stories from coming up in the 2010s scene, and studying at the University of Oregon and the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music.

Ardeshir plays tonight (Saturday, Sep. 6) at Frankie's as part of the "Sonny-fest" billed as Vancouver Celebrates Sonny Rollins, where he'll play the music of Saxophone Colossus.

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Hosted by Chris Fraser. Edited and mixed by Will Chernoff. A Chernoff Music podcast. Theme music: "Lutin" by William Chernoff.