A 2014 graduate of Capilano University's Jazz Studies program, saxophonist John Nicholson has lived in Toronto for over two years, where he is a working musician, playing all over the city with many of the country's top musicians. His playing and writing takes much influence from the hard bop era with an eye on the present and future of jazz. He has just finished his first year of the Masters in Jazz Performance at the University of Toronto, where he studied with Kelly Jefferson, John MacLeod and Mike Murley. With Brad Turner piano, David Blake guitar, Eli Davidovici bass, and Mili Hong drums.
8 pm
$15